The 83rd Save Rain Forest Thread

Gosh, that smiling bird is awesome!

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Rainforest habitat supported: 2,635,695.8 square feet.
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I see Santa hbg with little elf ehBeth. I bet Mr and Mrs Hamburger are under a lot of snow!!!!! I wish them well and hope all is good.

sue, Hail Chico. I've been looking at the news down there for months now. It's mostly good news for Rain Forest. That's great.

Keep those clicks coming Wildclickers!!!!!!

Photographed in Columbia, the species hadn't been seen for 40 years!


http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/06/070626-smiling-bird.html

Have a good day all ~


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Great, Stradee. It looks like a Crow or Raven with an upside-down beak. Ahh, the wonders of Nature.

Here's a funny for you all.

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The Love Story of Ralph and Edna...

Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't
mean they don't love you with all they have. Ralph and Edna were both
patients in a Mental Hospital. One da
y while they were walking past the hospital
swimming pool. Ralph suddenly jumped into the deep end.

He sank to the bottom of the pool and stayed there. Edna promptly jumped in to
save him. She swam to the bottom and pulled him out. When the Head Nurse
Director became aware of Edna's heroic act she immediately ordered her to be
discharged from the hospital,as she now considered her to be mentally stable.

When she went to tell Edna the news she said, "Edna, I have good news and
bad news. The good news is you're being discharged, since you were able to
rationally respond to a crisis by jumping in and saving the life of the person
you love. I have concluded that your act displays sound mindedness. The bad news
is, Ralph hung himself in the bathroom with his bathrobe belt right after you
saved him. I am so sorry, but he's dead." Edna replied, 'He
didn't hang himself, I put him there to dry. How soon can I go home?'

Happy Mental Health Day!

It's getting close to Christmas Eve here.

It is definitely going to be a white Christmas here. Apparently it is the first time in about 30 years that all of Canada will be having a white Christmas!

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Merry Christmas to all of my WildClicking friends. I hope you are all able to spend some time with people you love - or at least be in touch with them - it's a big busy world with a lot of weather going on!

to funny

beth, marvelous!

we're expecting weather also - for the foothills and the bay as well.

Clicked.
Good morning.
Christmas Eve. I can remember back, early nineteen seventies, being a kid, gathering at my uncles, sitting on the bean bags with family, waiting for the weatherman to state "santa has been spotted".

Stradee, sumac danon5, ehBeth. Merry Christmas...and God Bless.

Good morning, Alex.

Many years of wonderful Christmas memories - the kids when they were babies, now grown and raising families of their own - little tots faces sparkling with awe at decorated packages...

Wishing all the Wildclickers a safe and happy holiday.

Merry Christmas

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Forty Years ago today, the crew of Appolo 8 took the first photo of Earthrise from the Moons orbit.





http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7797439.stm

It looks so shy, peeping around the corner like that.

Merry Christmas and Peace to all WildClickers, their friends and families, furry, feathered and hooved.

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The Wildclickers have supported 2,923,907.8 square feet!

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Thanks all for your good wishes and kindness - ehBeth, don't forget the trees. They need good will also.

Alex, thanks for your good wishes. Just a kid during the seventies, huh? Damn, I'm getting old.

One more tree saved today.

I would say Merry Christmas to you all, but, then I'd have to say it all again tomorrow. Oh, I just did. Well, tomorrow's another day. Grin

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A CHRISTMAS MEMORY


We were living in a new home in the South among the pecan trees.
After our first Christmas with mistletoe and pine cones I
gathered and displayed in a basket by the fire place, I felt a thrill
in our home for the special Celebration.
But the next year I realized that our relatives all lived up
north and I wanted so badly to return to the snow and loved ones for
Christmas.
My parents had purchased a cottage on Lake Michigan about the
time we moved south and they would be celebrating an old fashioned
Christmas there. Steve and I knew it would be a long trip with three
young children but it would be great to be with my brother and family
and mom and dad. We went easy on the gifts that year and had things
packed and set out for our trip.
The cottage was nestled off a main road and down a couple of
dirt roads, and the drive back was on a small lane flanked on each
side by all kinds of trees. Ahead, we spotted the cottage,
overlooking Grand Traverse Bay.
There was a fire in the living room and all kinds of goodies on
the table. They had waited for so we could all go into the woods to
find the perfect Christmas tree.
I remember seeing more trees than I could ever imagine, and the
five grandchildren chose the one they wanted. It looked a bit
straggly to me but I think in their eyes it was beautiful. We placed
it on a sled and located the right spot inside and went to work.
With popcorn, and homemade decorations from the woods and
cranberries, the tree looked lovely when we were done.
Walks along the beach covered with snow and sliding down a
nearby hill were fun activities for the kids, ages 4 to 8. We made
Christmas cookies and frosted them, and on Christmas Eve after the
stockings were hung, my hubby gathered some very attentive children
around him who were eager to hear the Christmas Story -- the only
light in the place was a blazing fire.
Unbeknown to me, my brother had arranged for our neighbor, an
older man named "John" to become Santa that night.
With a glowing fire and five little sleepy children, suddenly
there were bells heard outside. My brother exclaimed, "Everyone
hide! I think it's Santa, and he won't leave gifts if he sees you."
As fast as I've ever seen, those kids hit the floor and hid
under the game table, behind chairs and sofas and waited to watch
Santa.
Through the front patio sliding door came Santa, with his bag of
gifts that were placed around the tree. Santa spoke about each child
by name and then he spotted the cookies and milk. He ate a few and
then talking with himself decided he must be on his way. I couldn't
hear even a soul breathing.
But all of a sudden our youngest who was four, said, "Don't
forget the reindeer, Santa!"
And ignoring the voice, Santa said, "Oh, ho, ho, here are some
carrots for the deer." And with the bells jingling and more ho-hos,
Santa left through the slider.
The children all understood why Santa couldn't come down the
chimney, we had a fire going and he would have been burned!
It wasn't hard to get those five kids up the ladder and into
their bedrooms that night. And what dreams they had I can only
imagine.
It was something in a child's life that would remain a memory forever.
That Christmas Eve, thirty years ago, is often talked about. We
never had another one at the cottage, and now the rustic beginnings
have turned into a beautiful home. A stairway replaces the ladder
that went into the bedrooms and "John" is having Christmas in heaven
with dad.
The youngest of the grandchildren is 34 and married, as are
others, and another generation of grandchildren enjoy activities at
the cottage.
We won't forget that special time so long ago when we saw the
magic of Christmas take place In the heart of each child.

-- Diane Dean White

Stradee, what a nice and comfy story. That is one Hell of a nice neighbor, too.

MERRY CHRISTMAS ALL GOOD WILDCLICKERS!!!

Well, it's Friday, and we have sooooo many left-overs.

Good clicking, all..........

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Yep - a great day!

Dollar Tree sale! Spent $10.oo and got $20.00 worth of stuff.

Hope everybody had a good Boxing Day. The shopping was serious here today.

I took the dogs down to the beach yesterday.





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