I was thinking of you as I said it was dustbin material
I found a 128meg one in a desk drawer a few weeks ago
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I found a 128meg one in a desk drawer a few weeks ago
I've found it easier to just not go grocery shopping.
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Maggie Cummings
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Well group guess what I did today........
Santa doesn't know how to hold a tortoise
I wonder if my parents ever took me to sit on Santa's lap. I sure don't remember if they did, and I've never seen a picture.......Maybe that's why I have to take my animals every year. It makes for a much better picture if the tort is big like Bob was tho. I didn't have as much fun this time, as last week end, too many dogs and not enuf kids. It's the kids that like tortoises. And that comes from a grumpy old lady who does not like children. BUT....
just as I was about to leave this maybe 6-7 yr old, hard to tell, came over to me, and as she asked if she could touch him I was struck by her beauty; blonde with green eyes, just a beautiful face, then when she talked I realized she has Downs. But she had a knowledge of tortoises, she asked what species he was I said he was a gopher tortoise, so she says, "then he's an American from mostly the SouthWest." I ended up talking to her for about 15 minutes. God may have given her Downs, but he also gave her an amazing brain. I see a great future for her. It's funny, the older and more ill tempered I get, the more I like kids instead of disliking them so much. I've never liked people. Kids aren't people just yet. Not tainted or evil yet.
Santa doesn't know how to hold a tortoise
I wonder if my parents ever took me to sit on Santa's lap. I sure don't remember if they did, and I've never seen a picture.......Maybe that's why I have to take my animals every year. It makes for a much better picture if the tort is big like Bob was tho. I didn't have as much fun this time, as last week end, too many dogs and not enuf kids. It's the kids that like tortoises. And that comes from a grumpy old lady who does not like children. BUT....
just as I was about to leave this maybe 6-7 yr old, hard to tell, came over to me, and as she asked if she could touch him I was struck by her beauty; blonde with green eyes, just a beautiful face, then when she talked I realized she has Downs. But she had a knowledge of tortoises, she asked what species he was I said he was a gopher tortoise, so she says, "then he's an American from mostly the SouthWest." I ended up talking to her for about 15 minutes. God may have given her Downs, but he also gave her an amazing brain. I see a great future for her. It's funny, the older and more ill tempered I get, the more I like kids instead of disliking them so much. I've never liked people. Kids aren't people just yet. Not tainted or evil yet.
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Maggie Cummings
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But they do dry well ...you just have to stick them upside down over a broom stick or the vacuum cleaner handle, I do it all the time.
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Maggie Cummings
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29 here....so quit bragging or you'll have a house guest for the winter.....
You'll have to sleep on the floor...
Yes, after they told me it was probably a memory card for my camera I remembered I took my camera with me last year up to visit my sister, and I was only able to take a very few pictures before it was full. Steven (bouaboua) who was there too, gave me another card with a bigger amount of memory. So that's the old one from my camera. I have now tossed it in the 'dustbin'!!!
But I have yet to train the tortoises to 'eat out.'
Well, I got the living room and my office all dusted and vacuumed. Not the best job, but it's at least done. I wish I could afford to have someone come in and do it for me.
I'm not so sure that was a popular thing to do with kids back when we were youngsters. There were no malls then, and we hardly ever went with our parents to the big department stores.
I remember a photo of me with Santa when I was about 3 in the 50s. My husband grew up in the late 40s and early 50s and he remembers visiting Santa. He said his mom used to drive him around town until they found a Santa he approved of. Some of them didn't look like the real one. His mom said those were helpers. Back then, stores did it for free; you didn't even have to pay for the photo. Even when my kids were little, it was free some places.
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Maggie Cummings
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I don't remember going any place with our parents except the junk yard with Dad. They weren't our friends they were parents who left us to grow up on our own I believe. Except when your mother used to hit me and Roger with a crutch.....ouch!
That's so sad.
and that would be where they would stay. Plus I never unpack all my groceries.
All of my pictures with Santa, have me crying
Nope, did not mean the train trip. I dislike driving in snow or on ice. With Jeff in the semi, I would go back and hide in the bed, fully clothed in case of accident .
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Maggie Cummings
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Then I bet you're very glad you didn't go to Michigan with him, and sorry he had to go. At least I think that's where you said he was going, and the weather was awful. I hope Jeff missed all those big pile ups. He needs to run the 10 in the winter......
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Nah....I had a good middle class Catholic up bringing and for some reason went bad at 12 yrs. My sister had a completely different experience.
In our childhood generations, parents were not your friend. It was their job to make you a good person. My father restored and showed classic cars, but I can not ever remembering him dropping me off at the movies or check this out; I grew up in San Francisco and was in speed club at the roller rink. I was 8 when I started I think, and I took 2 buses across the city alone to go skating and came home at 11 or midnight alone on the buses across San Francisco. Sure couldn't do that to a kid today. Not only would the 'parents' not allow it but today's kids wouldn't know how to do it, they don't know how to be independant or self reliant. We were told to go outside and play until we heard her holler for dinner, or until it was dark. We had to figure out how to entertain ourselves. We certainly didn't have the electronics then, that are making isolationists and idiots out of most kids. OK, off my soap box and out of the chat, ya'll can carry on, I'm gone.
He is playing in wind and snow in WY
Morning!
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