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TIME TO CIRCLE THE WAGONS GIRLS

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  • newvickie
    newvickie Member Posts: 2,941
    edited August 2006
    ok...
    the stinking horse are loose...
    Bruce won't sing without a crowd...
    I'm starving...
    I'm hearing strange noises in the woods...Bruce won't check it out...only has a guitar, no gun...what kind of man is that!
    Coyotes are circling and I know there's bears out there and I'm pretty sure Carrie's hiding buffalo chips under my wagon to use later for reasons unknown!

    Where is everybody...did you all run off to Lini's hoe-down...? Geez. Sorry NS...bored silly here so I'm taking Bruce for a bit.
  • AlaskaDeb
    AlaskaDeb Member Posts: 1,159
    edited August 2006
    Good afternoon ladies. My wagon is large and warm. Instead of the traditional white, mine is covered in Tie-dye colors. The back is beaded to catch the light and covered with bells. I guess I’m just a gypsy at heart. Inside you will find warm fluffy blankets and cushions and music playing all the time. It smells of sweet grass mats and a quick whiff of the seashore. You will always find the cupboard in the back filled with great food: fresh baked bread, berries ripe form the vine and chocolate…always chocolate! There is always room for a sister who is weary and needs a safe place to rest, or one who wants to sit up all night and chat…I’m always up for an all-nighter with good friends. I’m off for a walk before supper. While I’m walking be assured I am thinking of all of you and saying a prayer for peace and healing.

    Deb C.
  • newvickie
    newvickie Member Posts: 2,941
    edited August 2006

    Dang...it's getting cold too...oh wait...never mind, Bruce will take care of it but I really wish someone would come along and build a fire!

  • Deese
    Deese Member Posts: 50
    edited August 2006
    Mena sweetie, last night I slept in a hammock in my backyard. I filled it with blankets and pillows, listened to the crickets and stared at the stars. I felt like my little yard was filled with all these sisters in tents, or sleeping bags or whatever it took to be there with me. I feel so much love I could burst (but hopefully not an artery) HeeHee! I apologize! That's how I handle stess.

    Honestly Mena, feel us with you always, always, always.

    Cookie, (oops) I mean NS, dinner was scruptious!!!

    Love,
    Denise
  • newvickie
    newvickie Member Posts: 2,941
    edited August 2006
    Hope all our circled sisters sleep well and know that we are keeping them safe.
    Night all.
    Vickie
  • Mena
    Mena Member Posts: 263
    edited August 2006
    Oh man, God is definitely with me tonight. My BF just walked in with his guitar...acoustic...one of my all time favorite sounds in the world...we've got some Nirvana, Chili Peppers, Pink Floyd, Fleetwood Mac omg...I had no idea he was this good!

    Please, gather 'round...he even sings hahaha...I had no idea...this is pure joy. Really I am joyful! Wow...the simplest things...

    Last night the cheesecake, tonight this...what's next?

    Love to all of you and rest well...I wish you could all feel the way I do right now. God knows, you've helped me get here and for that I am forever grateful...Mena...xo
  • MargaretB
    MargaretB Member Posts: 771
    edited August 2006
    NS, dinner was great, as usual, and I've finished washing all those dishes. I'm ready for some music by the campfire.....Vickie, I built the fire for you. I'll take over watch for now.

    Margaret
  • csp
    csp Member Posts: 119
    edited August 2006
    I have a after dinner song for you all
    get you hanky out it's a tear jerker


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    Buffalo** Buffalo**Watch your step**
    Buffalo, Buffalo**Watch your step**...

    (Phone Voice: Whoo, that smell is makin' me sick!)

    There's buffalo chips to your left side, to your right side, and all over outside! (Y'know it!)
    There's buffalo chips to your left side, to your right side, and all over outside! (Uh-huh)
    There's buffalo chips all over outside!**
    There's buffalo chips all over outside! (Y'know it!)
    There's buffalo chips all over outside, over outside
    There's buffalo chips all over outside, over outside
    So watch out where you step in!

    **what you step in**what you step in is below**
    **3 buffalo chips**3 buffalo chips**

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    (Rap)
    I went to the local dairy
    To get the milk from Bossie
    I took a look on the ground, and then I said "Uh-ohhhh!"
    Yeah
    It's the buffalo chips!
    Yeah
    The milkmaid was very pretty
    And Farmer Brown was friendly
    But then, there was the buffalo!
    I gotta say "oh no!"

    **Promenade!Promenade!Promenade!**

    There's buffalo chips to your left side, to your right side, and all over outside! (Y'know it!)
    There's buffalo chips to your left side, to your right side, and all over outside! (Uh-huh)
    There's buffalo chips all over outside!**
    There's buffalo chips all over outside! (Y'know it!)
    There's buffalo chips all over outside, over outside
    There's buffalo chips all over outside, over outside
    So watch out where you step in!

    Step in**buffalo**step in**buffalo**step in**buffalo...

    Step in where no buffalo!
    (That stuff won't come off my shoe!)



    Buffalo Chips ... sweet moist chewy coconut macaroons dipped in dark dense thick chocolate!

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  • Sige
    Sige Member Posts: 334
    edited August 2006
    Just stopping in to lend my support *mentally*...having a rough day, can't stay, just wanted to lend a heart.

    Hugs
    Peggy
  • christineK
    christineK Member Posts: 735
    edited August 2006
    Peggy I am sorry you are having a bad day. I am at home cooking dinner, I will join everyone in the circle later. I am listening to my ipod and believe it or not John Denver just came on this one is for Peggy...


    Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy
    Sunshine in my eyes can make me cry
    Sunshine on the water looks so lovely
    Sunshine almost always makes me high

    If i had a day that i could give you
    I'd give to you a day just like today
    If i had a song that i could sing for you
    I'd sing a song to make you feel this way

    Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy
    Sunshine in my eyes can make me cry
    Sunshine on the water looks so lovely
    Sunshine almost always makes me high

    If i had a tale that i could tell you
    I'd tell a tale sure to make you smile
    If i had a wish that i could wish for you
    I'd make a wish for sunshine all the while

    Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy
    Sunshine in my eyes can make me cry
    Sunshine on the water looks so lovely
    Sunshine almost always makes me high
    Sunshine almost all the time makes me high
    Sunshine almost always

    Alright, I used to and still do get all sappy over JD songs.
  • 2up
    2up Member Posts: 944
    edited August 2006
    me too........

    "rocky mountain high.......colorado"

    oops thats a beer commercial lol!

    peggy.......we've got your back too!
  • fancy2
    fancy2 Member Posts: 14
    edited August 2006
    Quote:

    Mena sweetie, last night I slept in a hammock in my backyard. I filled it with blankets and pillows, listened to the crickets and stared at the stars. I felt like my little yard was filled with all these sisters in tents, or sleeping bags or whatever it took to be there with me.


    Deese, darlin' you are MY kind of woman. What a wonderful idea. I live in the country, and I keep my windows open so I can hear the night sounds. The crickets sing the most lovely lullabies!
  • fancy2
    fancy2 Member Posts: 14
    edited August 2006

    Not to mention both sides. Sleep well tonight, sister. We're watching over you--all of you.

  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 282
    edited August 2006
    Carrie, I needed a hanky all right...and it was a tear jerker..I think it's the "fumes" from yer Buffalo Chips girl!!

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    Maybe you could sing, "Buffalo Girls Won't You Come Out Tonight"...and take it to the "other" side of the camp fire..
  • Naniam
    Naniam Member Posts: 586
    edited August 2006

    I am like Peggy, just checking in. Can't stay. It is warm here and there is love. There is lots going on and I am not myself and AlaskaDeb I would come into your wagon and but it is one of those days you would think you were in the middle of a river. Have fun. I will continue to wrap all of you in love and prayers. Brenda

  • susanmcm
    susanmcm Member Posts: 699
    edited August 2006
    Carrie, Buffalo chips???? eeew
    sorry I haven't been around more. I'm busy planning a trip to disneyland. woohoo. I'll take you all with me if you want. My favorite place. I don't think they allow cancer in disneyland. It has to wait outside.

    s.
  • nosurrender
    nosurrender Member Posts: 737
    edited August 2006
    Quote:

    Yes I am a Jersey Girl. Go to the shore almost every weekend. Bruce was supposed to marry me way back when. Then that Julianne Phillips took him from me..
    But now that he may be back, we can fight over and then share him. Isn't that what sisters do??



    Ok- always wanted to go Bruces jersey shore.. and I don't live that far! So you used to date him??
    Then he wrote about you-
    Are you Mary, Sandy, Terry or Rosalita?????
    be still my heart.
  • nosurrender
    nosurrender Member Posts: 737
    edited August 2006
    Quote:

    ummm...here's Bruce...not wanting to start a catfight though.
    NS...now that I've rounded up Bruce can I pleeeese have Kevin back?!?
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    YES!
  • nosurrender
    nosurrender Member Posts: 737
    edited August 2006

    Peggy, Sorry you are having a rough day. I just opened a bottle of Cuervo.. come on in and set a spell.

  • marla13
    marla13 Member Posts: 100
    edited August 2006
    Hit me with some of that, NS! I could use it. My nerves get messed up when I read the nonsense going on 'round my sisters!!! And I'm not kidding about that!

    We got back from our hike - this is what's on the other side of those mountains...

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    Beautiful, isn't it? Thought you ladies would like the view. Didn't find the end of that darn rainbow!!! I was hoping to run into some leprechans and a pot of gold!

    Are there any leftovers? I'm getting some rumbly in my tumbly.
  • marla13
    marla13 Member Posts: 100
    edited August 2006
    Oh yeah...for all you that have played in the buffalo chips while we were gone...I can smell you!!! I brought you something to freshen up with! Head on down to the creek and use it, please!?

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    Notice it's this year's model (2006) LOL!
  • nosurrender
    nosurrender Member Posts: 737
    edited August 2006
    I saved you plenty Marla!!
    But I have to tell you something.
    My 36 pound cat has a nickname for your teacup poodle.
    Wanna hear it?
    "LUNCH"
  • marla13
    marla13 Member Posts: 100
    edited August 2006
    Well, I'm gonna fetch some leftovers and curl up in a warm blanky...I'm pooped! Gonna catch some zzzzz's. NS - keep the ammo nearby and don't be afraid to use it!

    Peace out, sisters!
  • marla13
    marla13 Member Posts: 100
    edited August 2006
    OH MY!!! 36 pounds ey? Yeah...Keep your cat in your wagon, and I'll keep my little KUJO at bay...deal?

    LOL
  • csp
    csp Member Posts: 119
    edited August 2006
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    Would some one pleeese hand me the soap so I can go eat !
    geez try to utilize the natural resources around here and all I get is grief!
  • nosurrender
    nosurrender Member Posts: 737
    edited August 2006
    Oh so now you are toying with me???
    All: please note that Carrie is my little darling's groomer...
    do you know how hard it is to be in NY and have a long hair cat and a groomer who lives in OHIO???

    All I can say is - he is starting to look like Bob Marley.

    CARRIE! HELP!!!
  • straykat
    straykat Member Posts: 26
    edited August 2006
    I wasn't going to join you on the wagon train cuz' I hate dirt and dust and bugs and stuff. Then I went back to the OP, and read this thread's purpose; circling the wagons around our sisters who need us now during troubling times. I can take it all - but please! Guarantee that there won't be mosquitos!

    Emotions are high right now so please, please let's not lose any more of our more prolific/funny/informed/caring sisters. We need one another more than ever.

    Awwww. Anyone up for a group hug?
  • JoanofArdmore
    JoanofArdmore Member Posts: 19
    edited August 2006
    When my daughters were in high school, we went to Asbury Park one summer.It was completely awesome!Quite ethnic, but still the shore.Pink clowns of cement which blew bubbles out over the beach.A boardwatrlk, arcades, and all over, Bruce, Bruce, Bruce(his music, being played on the boardwalk PA)!
    We had our fortunes told by Madame Marie.
    Bruce & the E Street were gone, but not very long gone.

    Rosalita come out tonight!
  • JoanofArdmore
    JoanofArdmore Member Posts: 19
    edited August 2006
    We are now having some VERY wild storms:bright trees of lightening,sounds like huge explosives under metal ashcans.
    I'll be here, but not online.Goodnight and love to all!
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Member Posts: 2,728
    edited August 2006
    Wild storms? Oh they scare me. Thats why I was huddled in my wagon and slept through it all. But Im awake now. Back on watch, making sure all of my sisters are safe.

    Ahh! The smell of coffee first thing in the morning. What could be better.

    Yuupers! So I'm sitting here thinking of all my friends. Im stomping my foot and waving my Italian finger. Not gonna let anything bad cross this circle.

    As I sit here and contemplate. We are strong. We take care of each other. We are invinisible. We are women.

    Nicki

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