"YABBER-LINER" - ALL ABOARD

BREATHE.....

now jump up and make us giggle like schoolgirls!

oh.....major freudian before the edit

Nice one Dutchy...Gerat minds and all that!

I think the girls have gone in to hiding try, frightened of your masculinity.

Sometimes when I look in the mirror, I frighten myself…

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmyyyyy...... word! BEAgle - a fine specimen - would have to take photos of that fella....

too many rippling muscles tho! and a big vein in his leg!

oh now him.................well..... he'd be covered in icrecream! mmm mmm good! Still a bit sixpacky tho!

do snakes grow out of your head!!!!

now here's a cutie petookie







tho not sure what magazine he's reading I bet it's blue!

Oh sure; but for this diet …





I would look like that!

Dem bones, dem bones...

HA - you're just ribbing me!


Nite Blue.... Nite crew.... long day tomorrow

wishing the crew, wherever, whatever a safe and good day tomorrow

smooches xox

Good night Izzie, sleep tight. Hugs.xx

Hi, all. Long time no see! Just popped on deck for a bit of fresh air! And to see your smiling avatars! Sorry I haven't been online. Super busy with too many things! Volunteering at the counseling center for one. Anyway, hugs all around. I miss you guys! & I'll try to come around just a tad more often. Still trying to work the kinks out of my schedule! Oy!

Hi Dev. Nice to see you after a little lapse, had some idea you've been a busy girl, hope things are turning out well for you. We're always here for you, have a great weekend. (((Dev)))

There she is.... how happy is that!!!!!

Good onya with the counselling girlie...you are taking much longer steps these days. We miss you too but know you can't do everything ... hope hubby is coping - I guess no word a? Love ya gal - will try and get on yahoo later if ya wanna yabber there. xxxx

BEAgle.... good evening to you - smooches to you - I'm off to see another doc - ack - must be getting withdrawal from not seeing hospital walls for a few days - hey ho - onwards and upwards! Saw Tulip last nite - she's coco - little fella borrowed her son's army dress up blazer and hat for "Children In Need" day at school (huge charity event)....more on that later too!

oh holey schmoley - gonna be late.... arrrrrrrrrgh... get a grip....

laterrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr xxxx

Good good morning. A Friday.
Hello Izzie. How are you? Do you celebrate the Harvest Home in England?
Thank you for the decor opinion in regards to one wall. I disagree with you two, ..
If you run in thirty degree temperature, with pajamas on, you know where the holes are. Usually the rubbish service is a day late on a holiday week.
My regards to all the yabbers. Celebrate every moment.

Hey Alex

We celebrate Harvest Festival in September...

Harvest Festival UK

Harvest Festival is one of the oldest known festivals. In the UK it is traditionally held on or near the Sunday of the Harvest Moon. This moon is the full moon around the time of the Autumn Equinox in September. Unlike the USA and Canada, the UK does not have a national holiday for Harvest Festival.

The celebration of Harvest in Britain dates back to pre-Christian times when the success of the crop governed the lives of the people. Saxon farmers offered the first cut sheaf of corn to one of their gods of fertility, in order to safeguard a good harvest the following year. The last sheaf was thought to contain the Spirit of the Corn, and its cutting was usually accompanied by the ritual sacrifice of an animal - often a hare caught hiding in the corn. Later, a model hare made from straw was used to represent the continuity of the Spirit. This practice eventually led to the making of plaited 'corn dollies', symbolising the goddess of the grain. These were hung from the rafters in farmhouses until the next year. When the harvest was in, a celebratory supper was held to which the whole community was invited.

These traditions continued after christianity arrived in Britain, sometimes in a slightly different form, and there were ceremonies and rituals at the beginning as well as the end of the harvest and church bells were rung on every day of the harvest. A corn dolly was made from the last sheaf of corn harvested - a figure made of plaited straw, which was held aloft and carried with great ceremony to the celebrations - and it often had a place of honour at the banquet table, and was kept until the following spring. The horse bringing the last cart load was decorated with garlands of flowers and colourful ribbons. A magnificent harvest feast was held at the farmer's house and games played to celebrate the end of the harvest.

The tradition of celebrating Harvest Festival in churches began in 1843, when the Reverend Robert Hawker invited parishioners to a special thanksgiving service at his church at Morwenstow in Cornwall. This led to the custom of decorating churches with home-grown produce for the Harvest Festival service.

The traditional ways of celebrating the harvest still survive today in rural communities. Nowadays, children also take gifts of fruit and vegetables to church and present them during the harvest service whilst the harvest hymn 'We plough the fields and scatter the good seed on the land, But it is fed and watered by God's almighty hand' is sung. After the service, these gifts are distributed to the elderly and needy of the community.

Many schools also have a Harvest Festival assembly and the gifts of fruit and vegetables are distributed in the local community.

Of course, the BigBoy is American born... so Thanksgiving was a big event for us also when we lived in the US. A wonderful time for all. I know yours will be special. I can envision your Pickles and Pumpkin Pie already atop your table.



Thanku for asking...Long week. I am.... trying to find a space in my head that is not filled with “stuff to deal with”. I will be fine " when I can say things out loud. Right now " I’m distracting my every thought. All will be coco. No worries.




HA...........................I think you may be painting one beautiful, passionate, warm burgundy wall when the "one" asks you nicely! What do you think!


Oh..... solution: wear not PJ’s!

Evening crew, spending a quiet Saturday night at home with Mrs. Beagle, I'm being spoiled with freshly percolated coffee and Apple Strudel cake with cream.
Two ladies, who shall remain nameless, are thrashing me in the word games at the moment. You are really hurting my ego you know.
Captain nice to have caught up with you again but sorry to have kept you up so late. That reminds me, crew please read the following thread and see if you can make a contribution. Izzie would be most appreciative.
http://able2know.org/topic/125564-1

I came, I saw, I took my logs and made a fire. I have food and wine aplenty; come rest awhile and make merry.