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  • sahalie
    sahalie Member Posts: 1,145
    edited June 2008

    Fernando visiting our beach.  What a dream. 

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    Numero 9

  • RobinTN
    RobinTN Member Posts: 466
    edited June 2008

    Good Morning to all my beach bum friends.Hope everyone is having a great morning.

    I love those quilts.Wish I had time to quilt.I have been studying all weekend and have to take a pathophysiology quiz tonite when everyone settles down here.Whew I dread it.My mind just aint what it used to be.To much dreaming about paradise.I read in the paper this weekend that ole jimmy buffett is starting to tour again this year and is playing to sold out crouds.

    Talk to all you ladies later.

  • sahalie
    sahalie Member Posts: 1,145
    edited June 2008

    I can dream of Fernando but here is my reality and I must once again back the guzzler

    out of the garage and mosey to my farm of peace and supreme tranquility, do some

    gardening, tend to the animals before the fog lifts and it gets hot.

    See you later Beach Babes.  Good day to All. K.

  • sahalie
    sahalie Member Posts: 1,145
    edited June 2008

    Hi Robin. 

    A quick HELLO as I walk out the door for a few hours.

    Stick around OK and the beach crew will wake up and wander onto the beach at

    any moment. 

    Love Jimmy Buffet.  Love his number one song jingle.

    Great to see you.

    XOXO

    Sahalie

    Adios.

  • RobinTN
    RobinTN Member Posts: 466
    edited June 2008

    Thanks Sahalie,you are such a sweet person,cant wait to get to know you.

    I love jimmy to my favorite song has to be Fins

    then there is Why dont we get drunk and S#$%w and then there is the altime favorite

    did you know you are an a** hole?

    Lots of great memories with the parrot head.Cant wait till we can jump in the beach.

    Who knows I just might end up there when I finish school if the money's right why not? can you imagine living on it or just close enough to drive to it every day? That would be paradise for me.

  • Unknown
    Unknown
    edited January 2009

    Good morning Beach Angels.  Sorry I'm so late with today's post but those Monday mornings have gotten busy these days.

    Robin == so glad to see you popping in again.  I would love to go to a Jimmy Buffet concert.

    Sahalie -- good morning to you our most wonderful cruise director.  I hope today finds the fires under control and the air much sweeter for you.

    Faith -- patience.  It will happen and you will be back to your life soon.  When does SIL get home to step in and help with the babeez? 

    Well, I have to run....catch you beach babes later today

    Surprise song of the day!

  • faithandfifty
    faithandfifty Member Posts: 4,424
    edited June 2008

    OK. Taking a deep breath....... realizing just how recently I was on the real beach, with nothing to do but unwind and enjoy.

    Here's the view every afternoon:

    Yes. I know I am fortunate. Yes. I know that "these" Mary Poppins days are limited....

    I gotta tell ya, they are just so exhausting, tho. It's a good thing I'm 51 and not 61.......

    Closing my eyes for a quick zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

    Robin, I'm glad you enjoyed the quilt images. The exhibit was soooo very inspiring. Now I just have to tap back into that feeling -- as I move back into my next project.

    Sahalie, glad to hear that you've had some restorative fog. Fog: the blessing kind. wave to those redwoods of yours for me.

    Celia: I just adore the images that you share..... still new to this posting images team, but I'm LOVING what you bring for my brain.

    hugs to the fliers-by, the peekers-in, the read only(s), the many friends......... A to Z

    nEEsie, this picture is for you -- even tho I never found an appropriate toe ring!

    jasmine, i got a super simple pie recipee yesterday that would have been perfect for your ribs

    Winger: got the cutest piece in the mail, made me think of you, I just love pinking sheers!

  • socallisa
    socallisa Member Posts: 10,184
    edited June 2008

    I was also so happy Spain won...we lived in Madrid for four years and one of my boys was born there..we still have many Spanish friends there..That  Fernando is something else..what team does he play for when he isn't on the National team.??

    Here is our city on the beach...

  • sahalie
    sahalie Member Posts: 1,145
    edited July 2008

     Helllllllllllooooooooooooooooo anyone on the beach?

    I arrived home and it looks like everyone's on the beach in their hammocks swaying to the

    breezes and sounds of the ocean waves OR partying somewhere without me.

    Send out a smoke signal or a beach boy for me OK.  Please.

    Upon arriving back home I dropped off my doggies, took the el guzzler to the

    gas "bank" and filled it up before this next holiday weekend when it's s'posed to

    reach $5.00 a gal.

    It's 3/4's way there already. I then returned some neat new "Earth" Shoes that were

    earthy and cool but way to $ for my sensible kind of sometimes logic.

    Wandered over to "Whole lotta Foods" for a whole lotta $ and did a big shopping,

    came home put everything away and sat down to a yummy meatball and macaroni plate. 

    Poochies are napping and a gentle breeze is tickling the green leaves of the back yard

    foliage and trees.

    Jaz.  Your song this morning is super. 

    I love Alan Mr. Jackson and got to see him a year ago up at a concert at Clear Lake.

    He is so good looking it's almost criminal.  I go into a daze just thinking. 

    So thanks for that song.

    Robin, I don't know how Jimmy leaves his island to go do concerts.

    Must be to earn the money to pay for the island. 

    SocalMsLisa,  Fernando the other cute guy here on the beach plays for Liverpool

    during the season.  I think.

    He played for Spain during the European games.  Isn't he yummy.

    Not quite as yummy as Alan Jackson though.  Where's a fan.

    I need a fan and my lampshade.  Oxygen.  Anyone?

    Faith,  It is pretty difficult isn't it when we've been to paradise and have to come home.

    Wait till winter then book the trip again for next year.

    We love going in October/November. 

    Actually we hit the tail end of the high season in Polynesia before the trade winds

    become agitated and blow.

    I hear a party going on up the hill by Fernando's Hide Away so maybe I'll wander up the

    path to the food and festivities.

    Anyone catch Larry King tonight?  Phenomenal show with the CEO of Chevron, Robert F.

    Kennedy Jr.,  Ed Begley Jr., assorted governors and reps for the two Presidential candidates.

    Superb show.  Extremely informative. 

    I'll be in my hammock * 

  • winggirl2
    winggirl2 Member Posts: 117
    edited July 2008

    I have been busy getting ready for our July 4 beach festivities.

    Here is the beach van I decorated for the beach parade.

    Get your bikes decorated and join the beach parade.

    Wings

  • sahalie
    sahalie Member Posts: 1,145
    edited July 2008

    Beautiful ~ Wings.

    Perfection plus.  How are you doing?  Easier days I hope.

    I can't believe the 4th is just a few days away.   June flew.

  • sahalie
    sahalie Member Posts: 1,145
    edited July 2008

    g'nite beach babes Aloius. 

  • MargaretB
    MargaretB Member Posts: 771
    edited July 2008

    Hi girls, sorry I've been MIA.  Hope everyone is doing well.  Sahalie, weather is cooling down but is supposed to heat up again Sunday.

  • Unknown
    Unknown
    edited January 2009

    Good evening Beach Angels.  LOL@ Sahalie's 'gas bank'.  Ain't that the truth these days.  Its so unreal and it certainly doesn't look like its going to be stopping anytime soon.

    Wings -- so nice to see you popping in.  You have certainly been missed.

     Margo -- hello to you

  • Unknown
    Unknown
    edited January 2009

    Good morning Beach Angels.  Well, its July 1st already and it seems like this year is just flying by.  I can't believe its already half over.

    I've resolved to get back to my early morning exercising at the Community Center here.  I've let it lapse the last few weeks.  After my shopping expedition to try to find clothes that look good (thank goodness I wasn't planning to buy any) failed miserably, I really need to get some of this weight off.   The weird thing is that I could find some nice dress slacks to fit but finding a nice business casual top to go with them was ridiculous.

    Faith --  please post your pie recipe!!!  I found a really great hot chocolate recipe on Sandra's Semi Home made that I want to try as well but I may wait until it starts to cool off before posting it.

     Sahalie -- what does our most wonderful cruise director have lined up for today?  How are the fires in your area? 

    Wings -- I'm so happy to see you pop in.  I love our new beach van and the decorations are supreme.  We are getting quite a collection of travel vehicles for our beach ladies.  We may need to see about building a large garage to store them.

    Good morning to Celia, FPAngel, Susan, Biker, Amy, SoCalLisa, Spar2, Deborye, MargaretB, RobinTN, Neesie and all other Beach Angels from A to Z.

    Surprise song of the day!   Here's a little Neil Diamond for you this morning.

  • faithandfifty
    faithandfifty Member Posts: 4,424
    edited July 2008

    Winger!! I LOVE the van. What an appropriate way to start the parade! I'd like to print that one.... no I think I'd like to use that plan and decorate my car. Love it. Love it. Love it. It's so good to see your lighthouse on the beach. Thinking of you always.

    Sahalie, that hammock looks like it's a double wide and I think I can see footprints in the sand. Just who popped outta there before those pictures were taken?

    Margo: glad to see you buzzing in and out.

    Jas: sounds like you've been havin' some great times lately.

    Celia: sweet, dear Celia of sharpie-fame, I'm just so grateful to have you as a beach buddy. What an amazing talent you have for picking me up and carrying me.

    Socal: it's just awesome to have a photographer in our midst. Get your camera ready.... we have some big festivities planned for the fourth

    Robin: have you gotten your assignment for our water skiing extravaganza yet? Be sure you get fitted for your glitter tutu.....

    Brain a bit fried. We moved the circus act back to Sarah's late yesterday upon hearing that the air conditioner parts had arrived via the USS Minnow..... they are to be installed this morning. Oh happy day!  My DH departs in a couple of hours for about 3.5 weeks to our northern address. Me choosing to stay behind till Scott gets home. (Can you see my pout?) This being a martyr thing is getting old -- I'm just not that good a person.

    Have two meetings this morning for consultations on my next book (am trying so hard to make some progress...... this is with a music notation specialist and a sign language interpretor -- to hammer out those aspects.)

    Tomorrow is the rescheduled photo shoot for the glossy promo to the TV people....... progress?

    So please forgive my not greeting everybody. nEEsie, just exactly what are you and Mario doing? Running a commune?

  • winggirl2
    winggirl2 Member Posts: 117
    edited July 2008

    Hi All,

    I have our pink hula tutus made for the parade. One size fits allCool

    Wait until you see our shoes.....LOL

    Anyone up to designing our tops?

    Have a good day!

    Back later

    Wings

  • sahalie
    sahalie Member Posts: 1,145
    edited July 2008

    July First.  How did thee get here so fast?

    Days and counting sweet beach birds until our flight of water fancy.

    We must bedazzle.  We must shine.  We must have plenty of Jaz's iced tea

    and ocean side refreshments ready.

    We must be outrageously beautiful and sparkly for all to see up and down the beach.

    July 4th Agenda is*

    1.  Organize your costumes both parade and water pyramid.

    (Wings.  Beautiful pink tutu's.  Thanks)

    2.  Wash old sand and crustaceans off designated flip flops.

    3.  Polish teeth* sunglasses* jewelry* toenails and fingernails with glitter and baubles.

    4.  Set out costume for last minute alterations and sequins.

    5.  Practice daily.  A jog on the beach* a swim now and then* huge prayers.

    6.  Be ready for Pyramid #1 at dawn.  More prayers.  Buffet. Ring toss game.

    7.  Parade in all our Glory.  Pomp and major circumstance to beat the band.

    8.  Afternoon snoozefest in red* white* & blue hammocks.  20 minutes.

    9.  Show of all shows under the stars before it gets really dark with our sparklers lit

    costumes lit* skis lit* Pyramid of all Pyramids off the shore line of our fabulous beach

    with all of us in perfect harmony and stance with twirlygigs and flashing battons while

    we balance each other through this show of shows for all the spectators to be in total

    awe of our Fourth of July water show.

    10.  Party on the beach* Up at Fernando's*  Each beach bungalow* all available huts*

    catered by our own Beach Patrol*

    entertainment provided by The Cabana Boys*

    Music by Hootie and the Blow Fish*  Dol & the Phins*  Finn of Sharks*   The Whalers*

    Hanks Turtle's*  Barnies Barnicles and Urchins of the Sea.

    Gratuities expected.

    It will be a fest like no other. 

    Get your party on and practice the steps we talked about before in the planning stages.

    Where are my flopper's.  And my eye liner.  Let's all go try on our costumes.

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    Get ready Amazing Gorgeous Beach Babes extraordinare.  You are each a Star!

    *

    Snorkel and Bruiser are the  Ticket Masters.

  • socallisa
    socallisa Member Posts: 10,184
    edited July 2008

    With my chemo brain, I can't remember if I

    put these pix I took of a beach here????

  • sahalie
    sahalie Member Posts: 1,145
    edited July 2008

    *

    WE ARE FAMILEEEEEE* ALL MY SISTERS, BROTHERS AND ME!

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    OUR SONG.  TODAY* ON THE 4TH AND EVERY SINGLE DAY OF TIME!

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    We are family
    I got all my sisters with me
    We are family
    Get up ev'rybody and sing

    Ev'ryone can see we're together
    As we walk on by
    (FLY!) and we fly just like birds of a feather
    I won't tell no lie
    (ALL!) all of the people around us they say
    Can they be that close
    Just let me state for the record
    We're giving love in a family dose

    Living life is fun and we've just begun
    To get our share of the world's delights
    (HIGH!) high hopes we have for the future
    And our goal's in sight
    (WE!) no we don't get depressed
    Here's what we call our golden rule
    Have faith in you and the things you do
    You won't go wrong
    This is our family Jewel

    Thank you SisterSledge.

  • sahalie
    sahalie Member Posts: 1,145
    edited July 2008

    Yes.  You did Lisa.  A few pages back. 

  • sahalie
    sahalie Member Posts: 1,145
    edited July 2008

    Crowd Control back up for the 4th*

  • sahalie
    sahalie Member Posts: 1,145
    edited July 2008

    Air patrol for wayward fire works*

  • sahalie
    sahalie Member Posts: 1,145
    edited July 2008

    Party favors all set*

  • sahalie
    sahalie Member Posts: 1,145
    edited July 2008

    Practice is Looking Good!

  • sahalie
    sahalie Member Posts: 1,145
    edited July 2008

    In Honor of all our Beach Lovelies here who have been through so much and those

    who continue the battle.

    Special thoughts of FootprintsAngel who is truly an inspiration with all you are going

    through Foots. 

    Love and Sparkles to you brave girl.

    *

    Faith* Jasmine* Wings* Amy who is dealing with so much* Celia* Neesie getting ready

    for her annual trek to New York* Robin new kid on the beach* Flyby Margo* BikerJanny*

    Vacationers Spar and deboreye

    To an Angel on a beach on another island who should be here. 

    Her friend and ours who is dealing with so much and should be here for support. 

    Always Remember.

    We Are Family!

  • faithandfifty
    faithandfifty Member Posts: 4,424
    edited July 2008

    oh beachettes.......... i feel the first wave of enthusiasm, reaching my brain and heart at the same time.

    i come on to let you know, that if i squint, i can see a light at the end of the tunnel... (no cynical references to oncoming trains. please) and i find decorations, the agenda & my hula skirt!!

    both of my meetings were so productive & have relit my embers! whoooooohooooooo

    ANDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

    sarah has air conditioning again: one happy island, one happy island -- indeed!!

    hang the flags, stir the lemonaid, light the sparklers

    get footie's skooter charged -- sahalie's got a full agenda

    Iris: i went to Target today & thought how fun it would be  to shop there together..........

    flags flying @ one of my fav galleries:

  • faithandfifty
    faithandfifty Member Posts: 4,424
    edited July 2008

    Let's start eating our cyber cake........ no calories what-so-ever:

  • faithandfifty
    faithandfifty Member Posts: 4,424
    edited July 2008

    Limbering up for our BIG finale:

  • faithandfifty
    faithandfifty Member Posts: 4,424
    edited July 2008

    Beach brigade boys, trying on costumes -- not happy, yet some prefer over last years speedos:

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