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CarolM

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Good morning Carol!
Looks like a nice bright sunny winter morning there.
We're having quite a bit of rain this week but it's needed and keeps my neighbours indoors so I welcome it!
Lol, I am all for keeping pesky neighbours indoors whenever possible. Good Morning Lyn and Lola.
 

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Probably slightly less exercise for me... and more cheese and wine [emoji23]

We’re just off to get some bread and book a restaurant for tonight. Weather is much better than the UK
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Weather here is much better today unlike yesterday where it rained all day. Apparently it’s 21 degrees but the coastal wind makes it feel cooler.
 

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I wish our shops would all return to paper bags!
I agree. Here you can buy reusable plastic bags, but in my way of thinking they are worse than the ones 'they' did away with. These new bags will stay in the environment much longer than the old ones.
 

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Welcome back Carol!!

Surgery went well but he’s super cranky!! He’s getting on my last nerve!!

We also have two new deaths.
Sunday we found out our nephew passed away in his sleep suddenly
and our best friends son passed away in his sleep too. Not a good week at all.
Oh no! Were these youngsters?
 

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I agree. Here you can buy reusable plastic bags, but in my way of thinking they are worse than the ones 'they' did away with. These new bags will stay in the environment much longer than the old ones.

I agree. The stronger ones don’t get used anything like enough times to compensate for their heavier weight
 

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Not just Florida. I know South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi and even some of West TN has the.
I think all the southern states. I knew a cattle farmer in Louisiana and his property was fantastic for quail hunting. Since they lay their eggs on the ground. The fire ants devastated them.
 

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I saw this online and thought it was interesting enough to share with you all:

Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.

We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write, but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce, and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices?

Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends, but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down.... in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, and alarm goes off by going on?

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out they are invisible....

PS. Why doesn't "Buick" rhyme with "quick"....

Now ponder this:
There is a 2 letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other 2 letter word, and that is "UP".
It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP? At the meeting, why does a topic come UP? why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election...and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report?

We call UP our friends. And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car. At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, Work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is special.

And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP. We open UP a store in the morning, but we close it UP at night.

We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP!!! To be knowledgeable about the proper uses or UP, look the work UP in the dictionary. In a desk sized dictionary it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions. If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more. When it threatens to rain, we say it's clouding UP. When the sun comes out we say it's clearing UP...

When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP.
When it doesn't rain for a while, things dry UP.

One could go on and on, but I'll wrap UP. For now my time is UP, so.......its time to shut UP !!!!
 
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