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Chrissy, the wedding looks lovely! May they have a long and delightful life together.
I've reconnected with old friends and some cousins on FB - I'm finding it a lot of fun though I don't post that often.
Leah
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Chrissy, The bride's dress is gorgeous and SIL's goes perfectly. Beautiful wedding.
I mainly use Facebook to keep track of grands and old friends from work. I'm a lot older, so they're all still slaving away.
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Chrissy, I was at a wedding yesterday,too. It was great fun to be with family. Also not much responsibility. They had the reception at a grand old Florida villa. There was a full moon and we sat outside. The temperature was perfect.It was like a fairy garden.
Today we had lunch with 3jays and her husband. So wonderful to meet her face to face. Felt like we've been friends forever.
Now we are on our way up the coast a bit to Cape Coral. I am not missing all the snow they got at home.
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Nancy, I'm so glad you got to spend time with 3jays! She's one special lady.
Chrissy, love the wedding pictures here and on FB! Looks like everyone had such a good time and the couple look sooo happy. What a great beginning for them.
I use FB primarily to keep in contact with friends and also to see pictures of the grandchildren. (Even though all 3 grands are close by, their parents post pictures for their friends which I get to see.) I've especially liked it for reconnecting with old childhood friends.
Kathy
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Gee, I've only had this one about 8 years.
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Saw this on my walk today
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Another thing I like about FB is SoCalLisa's Flower of the Day.
Leah
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Hi all
Love Lisa's flowers on FB and I too can see my little ones who are in Canad. I do miss them so much.
Good docs report today. Hard to believe its 7 years and just so thankful.
Nancy it was lovely that you could get to meet 3jays. It is wonderful to meet our BCO friends.
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Oh yeah! Lisa's Flower of the day is just great! Lisa you sure do take some fantastic pics!
Nancy I'm so glad you got to have face time with 3jays.........she is such a wonderful, plucky, funny lady! I loved the time I got to spend with her when I came to the USA in 2011. Weddings are such fun when you are just a guest......lol......no stress. Hope you had as much fun at your as I did at mine!
Aly Yay for a good report!!! and congrats for the seven years up!!! Breathe easy for the next twelve months......lol......if you can.
Must have slept well last night because I was up at a reasonable hour and actually got quite a few things done! The best of being up early is that the parcel delivery guy could actually deliver my new bluetooth speaker for my phone instead of leaving it at the post office. I'm so happy that the speakers have arrived, now I can listen to internet radio which is as clear as a bell instead of something that was full of static.......yay!!!!
Then this afternoon my DH arrived home with another parcel from the posty and it was my new teapot with a tea light warmer.......it feels like christmas all over again!!
Have a great day all!
Love n hugs. Chrissy
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Hello to everyone. I'm back home from our wonderful trip to AUS and NZ. This was our first tour. The company was Collette and everything was well-planned. We had a very good guide for the entire trip. We flew to Brisbane and from there to Cairns, which the Aussies pronounce "Cans." The high points there were a visit to the Great Barrier Reef and taking the Skyrail Rainforest Cableway to experience the rainforest. It was SO humid that we could have been back home in Louisiana!
Next a flight to Ayers Rock or Uluru. Other flights took us to Alice Springs, Melbourne, Tasmania, and Sydney. From Sydney we flew to Queenstown, NZ, which is a gorgeous place. We went to Milford Sound from Queenstown and took a cruise on the fjord. Next to Mt. Cook National Park. A bus ride through the beautiful southern Alps brought us to Hammer Springs. Next to Wellington, where we learned a lot about the Maori culture. Next to Rotorua, where we stayed overnight with a host family. Finally to Auckland where the tour ended.
Fourteen flights in all! And I had not flown for at least 20 yrs. After a while it became ho-hum. The trip was fast-paced with lots of sight-seeing and side trips. Australia is such a diverse interesting country. I found the wild life fascinating and the people were so friendly and helpful. New Zealand is incredibly beautiful, especially the South Island. I loved riding through the countryside and seeing all the farm animals grazing in the pastures, some of which were on mountainsides.
The hotels were all nice but internet was quite limited. We usually had 30 min. of free internet, which I let dh use with his new notebook. So I was pretty much not "connected" on the trip. I didn't check in with bc.org at all. Alyson, we were travelling with another couple and our time in Auckland was hectic. By then we were also somewhat fatigued and facing the long travel home.
All in all the trip was fabulous and I enjoyed the experiences in both countries. The food was very good and we sampled fish with unfamiliar names like barramundi and blue eye. The vegetables were delicious. I spent too much money on souvenirs like a beautiful opal ring. I discovered I couldn't afford black opal but could splurge to buy a ring with a "boulder opal" stone. DH bought a sweater in NZ made of possum and merino wool. It is incredibly soft. The possum is a bushy-tail variety, not like our possums here in the south.
It was a trip of a lifetime and it's good to be home.
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I caught up with all the back posts I missed while away.
AJ, your fall into the fireplace was a frightening accident. I'm so glad you're ok.
Chrissy, I love your cheery snowflake afghan. My preference is the red background!
Leah, my heartfelt condolences on the passing of your father. I still miss mine after 18 years.
SAS, congratulations on your cancerversary! In June I will celebrate 5 years after the dx.
SoCal, great photographs, as always. You would have a field day in Australia!
Sorry for missed responses. This thread has such a gentle caring atmosphere. It's comforting to come here.
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Carole, so freaky you mention merino and possum wool as Alyson had just posted about it on Facebook and I'd never heard of possum wool!!! I would have thought it very raspy...welcome home!
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Carole I'm so glad you enjoyed your trip 'down under'! Both Aus and NZ! Yes, Aus is a big country with plenty of diversity in weather, animal and plant life..........you are right, Lisa would have a ball here with her camera! I'll bet you'll need a holiday to get over your holiday.......lol.......but it's good to be home!
Barbe, possums here are so, so soft to touch and having the hair mixed with merino would be amazing! and very warm to boot!
Just relaxing today playing with computers.........a friend who is new to computing bought his laptop for me to sort out as he has downloaded about ten copies of the same program and all the search engines that go with them as well and all sorts of things that have just clogged his computer up to the wazoo. It's taken me a couple of hours but I think he now has a much more manageable file system and only single copies of each program.
Love n hugs all! Chrissy
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and there was a question about the possum on jeopardy tonight...
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The possum here is different to the ones in the US -we got ours from Aussie and they are a real pest here that's why we use the fur. They are protected in Aus but here they eat the bush.
They come in lots of colours from black to cream.
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thanks for the picture..it is much better looking than ours..
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Leah, I too love Lisa's Flower of the Day on FB! It's amazing that she's surrounded by so many beautiful ones while it's below freezing here! Everything Lisa posts is gorgeous.
Carole, so glad you had a happy and safe "trip of a lifetime"! It sounds fabulous!
Alyson, hooray for you---7 years!!! I'm so very happy for you!
Now I never ever thought possums could be used for making wool. We do have an abundance here, although many of them meet their maker on the roads. I think some people even used to eat them, but not this girl.
Kathy
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That's a cute possum. Ours are like big ugly rats. We have a cat who lives outdoors when it's warm enough & put his food on the porch. If we forget to bring it in at night possums come up on the porch to eat it - they do not scare away easily at ALL!
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Ziggypop, You're right. They hiss and bare their teeth and look quite fierce.
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Thanks everyone. So glad my pictures brighten the day.
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The fur is mixed with the wool Kathy and its very soft and extremely warm. We refer to them as little speed humps!!
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Zig, I remember seeing one at a friends house in California when I was over there.......it was walking along the top of the fence and when I got close I was preparing for it to skitter away but instead it stopped dead in it's tracks and stayed perfectly still for probably a good five minutes! Now I know where the saying 'playing possum' comes from.........lol.......except for the fact it was on it's feet, it could easily be taken for dead!
Lisa, you do indeed cheer us all with your lovely photographs.
Awe Aly........lol.
My shoulder and arm are killing me from spending way too long sorting my friends computer but he is very happy and understands a lot more now as I went through quite a lot. I told him to make a list as he finds things that baffle him and give me a ring so they can be sorted. Now it's time to settle back and watch a bit more of the Olympics.
Take it easy all!
Love n hugs. Chrissy
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Just about to close down for the night It has been really really humid here.
Goodnight and big hhugs
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Sleep well Aly!
Hugs and loads of love right back at you. Chrissy
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Chrissy, how do you permanently delete files? Aren't they always in the background? My PC's always start to bung up around 3 years in and get so much crap on them that I just buy another one....sigh.
I use gmail, which is Google mail and have found Contacts' emails missing!!! Makes me wonder if people can take away their own emails from everyone's computers....crazy I know. But how do they disappear from my lists????????
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Barbe every couple of months I spend an hour or two going through my files and things that I no longer want I delete them. When I have cleaned them all out I defrag (defragment) my system which reorganizes the used, unused and now empty files so they are then available to be re used. It optimizes the system and keeps it running at the best speed possible. I also uninstall all programs that I no longer need or use which also frees up memory. I download a lot of movies and then put them onto an external memory so I can watch them on the tele which then keeps the memory free. My last computer lasted me 12 years and actually literally wore out......lol.
Things like gmail (Google) are automatically updated and upgraded.....when this happens there are some subtle changes and some contacts can get 'lost'. They are still actually there but have gone to a different area you just need to keep looking until you find them again.
I like playing with the computer and exploring it's capabilities.........it can be frustrating at times particularly with a new operating system like now as I have gone from XP to Windows 8.1.........a huge leap and I am still learning about it and I'm always discovering new things......it's fun!
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Hi Gals! Morning is almost over, looks like!
I'm usually not around these parts, but I know all you guys, and run into a lot of you in my "travels"....Ha!Yes, I broke my damn hip..... and man, that will lay you up faster than anything I have ever done! I've been home since Sunday afternoon, and moving around pretty good with a walker, but it is just hard.... not to mention sort of REALLY painful, but I'm taking Oxycodone.... and Tylenol, and it helps me to be up awhile, and sit in a chair....
Chrissy, I have Norton, and a Malwarebytes program, and Aro..... both are free.... but you always wonder if "things" just hang around in the back-ground. Then I'm afraid to delete something I'm not sure of! So many programs you download and install, like to put their own little "riders" with them, and they REALLY fill your system up!
I finally got rid of Firefox... because of this.... I now just use IE and AOL.... Bing is my homepage on IE, just because I love the home page....
Okay gals.... xoxooxxoxoxo
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Damn!!! Chevy found us!!!!
OMG, did I say that out loud!!!!!?????
Chevy, sweetie!! Make sure you are taking Sennokat-S which is a stool softener and a natural laxative and is NOT addictive to your system. Oxy will bung you up in 36 hours if you don't stay on top of it!!! Glad to see you up and typing away...but then, you are probably lying in bed with a lap top. Do those things still over heat if you have them on your lap???? I'm in the process of trying to figure out if I should just bite the dust and get my PC cleaned up professionally....
Chrissy, my computer is SO bad (how BAD is it?) that it freezes and crashes when I try to defrag it. I came from a DOS programming position and it was very hard for me to accept icons and drop-down menus. My worst fears about pretty coloured screens have come to reality on every computer I've ever owned!!! I had one repaired so often that they put a permanent sticker on it....sigh.
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Chevy I also run a Security program and a Malaware/spyware program and scans are set to run automatically but I also do them manually if I've been surfing a lot. I use Chrome and don't seem to have any trouble with it so stick to the same one. On my iPad it's Safari and that's not too bad either. We all seem to like and use different things but I guess that's just the diversity of the human race......lol......I don't think we would be so interesting if we were all the same.
Please take care of yourself and don't go doing too much while you are healing.........yes I know you have to use your hip but there is such a thing as over use so just be careful and don't push it!
Barbe I can't believe that your computer gets into such a mess! and as for getting a permanent sticker well that is just hilarious! I bet your techs want to run the other way when they see you bringing in your computer......lol.
My first encounter with a computer was when I was working and the boss decided to go point of sale.........scared the pants off me!!!! I was so scared that I would touch a wrong button and wipe out the system! I must admit the installer was very patient with me and once I got my head around that wiping the system was not that easy I picked it up very quickly.......in fact, the boss got me to train all the others and I ended up being the trouble shooter.......That program was of course doss based. When we got computers for our own business a few years later, they had gone to windows so that was another learning experience.
I must be a bit of a nut but I really like learning new things whether it's to do with computers, photography, art, craft, sewing or cooking I just like to be busy and keep my mind active even if the body can't do what it used to, my mind sure can and then some! I'm not happy unless I learn.
Well got to go to the pharmacy to pick up some more pills so I don't run out while I'm in Canberra visiting my brother. Have a great day all!
Love n hugs. Chrissy
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Chrissy, My life long moto has always been "A day without learning is a day wasted!"
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