Bit tired right now so ..... thanks for checking in y’all "
Boida - have got a full plaster on my foot now and hoping this will work this time " feels kinda weird right now " heavy.... i feel heavy " tired. Using crutches is exhausting too.
Bathy - yep, kids a? They are a blessing " but there’s no rule books and each day’s a whole new learning curve, no matter what there age. I know I still cause my folks concern and I’m 44! My ex-hub and I are dealing with kid stuff right now too " he’s little " but he’s in a whole heap of trouble. Hope you can sort things thru. (Plaster= foot surgery " no worries).
Vegemite " did you get my messages girlie - hope you are feeling much better today. Maybe FB is passing cyber germs " so many of A2K have been and are sick right now. Better soon. Enjoy your weekend.
BEAgle " good news for the lake " haven’t had a chance to read the blurb " out of focus " will check it tomorrow. Thanku for taking the time to post it. Loved you pics of the boids too. I would be in pic shot heaven in Oz.
Stormy " nice! Good onya gal " take care. ((RH)) thanku " I feel hungry! Mmmmmmmmmmm x Djjd " hey- hope all’s good with you.
mismi wrote:
I think the other three just went downstairs to have a war with their fly launchers.
Ha... now..... where did the Prof put that whiskey! Bless their cotton socks! Posivibes for snow on Sunday " I remember your pics of snow angels last year with the twins. That would be good a?
Sounds like the Dixie household may have some adult plastering going on a? " ENJOY!!!!!!!! You deserve it Dixies. Hope the kids have the best time. You sound great mis.... really great.
Dev " get better soon gal " go get those cold meds. Sleep.
Blue -... just ((Blue))
Apols if I missed anyone.... i got the fuzzies with hot chocolate. Exciting a: Dunno if I will get upstairs tonite... to difficult. may have to crash on the sofa.
mismi, your husband came home with whiskey and the kids are funny? You didn't let them drink it did ya?
Hope you are enjoying baseball! We are due to get another two snowstorms back to back...the fields here will never be ready.
At least Red Sox preseason games started Wednesday. It's something to watch while we wait on the weather. To you know what with Try's smart A** remarks!
had a much awaited 'drinking night' yesterday..oh god the weather here makes me want to build my world under water!! i wanna be soaked in ice-cold water..oh and we havent gt a fridge!! oh ok...im the brain behind it....till now i thought we could live without it..you knw channelling the money to much more necessary thngs..but ya now i regret should say!!
Bathy - there are certain relations like that..i can understand each word of urs..dislike, unpardonable feelings would just increase the hurt..in my case..I just loved and watched from across the miles..smiled at the successes that i could see...and am moving on as if nthng else could happen or would happen..it hurts..only when you admit it to hurt..and trust me...loving sure does soothe..thnking that sme point of life when they look back nething to regret is all theirs. Im sorry if ive professed too much..but i knw how bad it is to lose a bond and really feel bad when i see such things recur.
If only people could realize we are only here for a while and make use of life the most while we are here..thngs would have been much more easier!
Now when certain people are beyond our reach..i wish i had expressed my love, had my patience much better when they were around..but i dnt and ive lost them..
with the ones i have and could hold on to..im clinging on with fervour..lest tomorrow i may not regret..
Hello Verby - I'm so glad you got to kick back and enjoy your evening...nice to do every so often huh?
We didn't get smashed last night...I was kidding. There were too many children running around here - got to stay pretty sharp to keep up with them all. It was a great night - they had a wonderful time and went to sleep around 2:00am and woke up at 6:00am - I kid you not. I am beat. I got up and made pancakes and bacon and then sent them out to play football. It is quiet for a bit until they get back! I actually would do it again. A great bunch of kids...they really did have me laughing...
Apparently ^ this is what kids think is funny these days - I will say their imitation of Fred was funny.
I will be taking a nap this afternoon - so tired.
I haven't read back...I will be back later to catch up...
oh.............. too much excitement! all this............... rugby! mud! writhing bodies!............. oh...... all flushed!
oh my!
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Sat 28 Feb, 2009 01:16 pm
Hey family; stop kickin’ my burro!
Sport can be a great unifier, especially a game that's grown up with us. In these times where we -- as families and as a nation -- disagree about so much else, it's wonderful that there is the common vernacular of baseball and an accepted response to any discussion of a team's fate: "If they could only get some pitching." (This useful phrase has elicited many a knowing nod, solving numerous uncomfortable silences.)
Even better, there is an entire community of dedicated people devoted to studying whether or not this old canard is, in fact, true. Not because finding the answer will make them a profit, mind you, but just to see to know, to learn and to share that learning with others.
Then there's the lore of the game, those charming and occasionally apocryphal tales. Like the one about when Yogi Berra was introduced to Ernest Hemingway, he didn't ask about what deep and complex matters drove him to put words on a page. He asked "What paper you write for, Ernie?"
I love baseball because the Suquamish Indian Tribe sent a team to tour Japan in 1921 -- and is still so proud of those guys that they've got a photo of them hanging in the tribal center's entry hall.
This team was made up of high school students. Suquamish seems to have had a rough time of it on their tour of Japan; they lost their games badly, their reserve pitcher was hit by a train and seriously injured, and their agent abandoned them and stole their gate money. The American Consul in Kobe helped get the team home.
Ryoichi Shibazaki - “Seattle and the Japanese-United States Baseball Connection, 1905-1926.”
Baseball, jazz and the U.S. Constitution are the best things our culture has ever produced. The movie Bull Durham reminds us that a baseball has as many stitches (108) as beads in a Catholic rosary. Amen to that.
String Babe Ruth, Roger Maris, Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa and Barry Bonds together in the same sentence, and any fan will know you're talking about the single-season, all-time home-run record.
For all of its questions and issues, baseball remains a great show because it breaks down into so many tantalizing, easily understood confrontations. You have pitcher vs. batter, fielder vs. ball, slugger vs. slump, teams vs. expectations or even curses. The playoffs always magnify these duels.
When baseball recently returned to Washington, D.C., after a 33-year absence, the news was greeted with cheers and choruses of Take Me Out to the Ballgame. From John Fogerty's Centerfield to the soundtrack for The Natural, no sport can wake up the echoes like our national pastime. Even politicians appear more cuddly with ball caps on their heads.
In one fell swoop, we were reminded that a hot dog at the ballpark is always better than one out of the microwave. That even though so few of the game's stars live in our neighborhoods anymore, we can dare call them our own.
I love baseball because it reminds me of what I could be, and what I am trying to become. I write about it because it reminds me which of my motives are base, and which of my motives baser. I just love baseball. I love watching it -- whether it's Little League, Minor League, Major League, Industrial Leagues... I loved playing it, talking about it, coaching it... I simply love those baseball mom’s.
On the theory that everyone gets to name their own version of Heaven, mine is that you get to play baseball every day and they don't care if you have a girl in the team. I live a monastic life based on that theory (and also on the theory that if there is a Hell, which in my version; Boston beating the Yankees every day (SHUDDER).
Bless their cotton socks! Posivibes for snow on Sunday " I remember your pics of snow angels last year with the twins. That would be good a?
sheesh....
