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Posted on 09/19/2004 9:25:02 PM PDT by Mo1



TOPICS: Dimensional Doorway; Freeoples
KEYWORDS: relaxingatmosphere
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To: .38sw
I'm just a young thing, you see.

Sigh ...

4,561 posted on 10/18/2004 7:43:30 AM PDT by catpuppy (Kerry-Edwards: When hair is all that matters)
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To: null and void

The flu shot is necessary to ward off the diseases associated with the bitterly cold winters here in the frozen south. Today's high 81.


4,562 posted on 10/18/2004 7:48:20 AM PDT by catpuppy (Kerry-Edwards: When hair is all that matters)
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To: catpuppy

Morning Pup... glad to see the temps are coming down for my visit! ;)

Keep em low, so we can go...

Driving down this year..gak! I'm hoping Al's new glasses will keep us alive. I'd better check his reflex's too. Any idea how I can do that?


4,563 posted on 10/18/2004 8:03:40 AM PDT by grannie9
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To: Conservababe

Twice ?? ... That is way cool

Morning Y'all


4,564 posted on 10/18/2004 8:11:10 AM PDT by Mo1 (Terri Kerry's remedy for arthritis - soak white raisins in gin for 2 weeks)
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To: Mo1

Morning Mo.. did you get any sleep?

I just heard from my daughter, that the link I sent you earlier was posted on breaking news early this morning. I don't know why it disappeared.


4,565 posted on 10/18/2004 8:16:47 AM PDT by grannie9
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To: grannie9

Morning Gran .. yes I slept .. but I didn't get enough

It might be because it's not really breaking news and was put in the general discussion area

Well gotta take Carly to school .. BBL


4,566 posted on 10/18/2004 8:34:37 AM PDT by Mo1 (Terri Kerry's remedy for arthritis - soak white raisins in gin for 2 weeks)
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To: Mo1

Morning, PhillyGal.


4,567 posted on 10/18/2004 8:44:19 AM PDT by lodwick (He that meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.)
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To: lodwick

Morning Loddy .. hope all is well down your way

The weather here finally warmed up a bit .. not as windy has it was yesterday


4,568 posted on 10/18/2004 9:10:48 AM PDT by Mo1 (Terri Kerry's remedy for arthritis - soak white raisins in gin for 2 weeks)
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To: Mo1

Shorts & tees down here - all is good. ;-)


4,569 posted on 10/18/2004 9:52:12 AM PDT by lodwick (He that meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.)
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To: grannie9

It's back in breaking news ... apparently there's been a response to the complaint and it's not good news for Kerry


Breaking - SEN. JOHN KERRY “EXCOMMUNICATED,” ACCORDING TO VATICAN RESPONSE

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1248843/posts


4,570 posted on 10/18/2004 10:17:07 AM PDT by Mo1 (Terri Kerry's remedy for arthritis - soak white raisins in gin for 2 weeks)
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I'm in, for now.
Unless I stumbled over something, in which case I'm laying on the threshold shaking the cat's paw...


4,571 posted on 10/18/2004 10:21:28 AM PDT by Darksheare (Ganags of epopel shall stune your beeber with "UNNNGH!")
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To: lodwick

Wild Parakeets Splash Color on Seattle's Gray Skies

Mon Oct 18, 9:13 AM ET

By Elaine Porterfield

SEATTLE (Reuters) - They fly through the park shrieking and squawking, their chartreuse feathers flashing. Nobody in Florida, Mexico or another tropical place would give them a second look.



But under the Pacific Northwest's lead-gray skies, a feral flock of colorful parakeets flies around Seward Park, a 300-acre island of green in southeast Seattle where they have taken up residence.


Needless to say, they're not natives.


"They're such an anomaly here. You can have the quietest, most peaceful morning, and suddenly they're squawking and talking," said Christina Gallegos, a Seattle Parks and Recreation Department naturalist at Seward Park, who estimated the flock to be 20 to 24 strong.


The birds first showed up in Seward Park some time in the early 1990s. They're generally agreed to be crimson-fronted parakeets, native to Central America. Marked with red patches on their faces, the green parakeets are bigger than the typical pet budgie most people are familiar with.


"For us, it's just fun," said avian devotee Fred Bird, a past president of the Washington Ornithological Society who studies the little band of parakeets.


The flock usually call Seward Park home but have been known to migrate 5 miles north to another park in Seattle for part of the year.


The flock of parakeets undoubtedly began as pets who escaped from their owners, Bird said. Such escapees are relatively common wherever pet birds are kept.


"But usually, they don't live that long," Bird said.


AGAINST THE ODDS


These parakeets seem to have beaten the odds for several reasons: They live in noisy flocks, which helps them stand guard against enemies who would eat them, such as hawks, and they can tolerate a wide range of food.


"They're very opportunistic," Bird said. "They're omnivores, and can eat anything, cedar tree seeds, fruit, things like that, apples."


Changing weather patterns and warmer temperatures in the region have likely helped the tropical birds survive, Bird said..


"The climate is comfortable for them," Bird said. "Whether they could have survived here 100 years ago when the climate was substantially cooler, I don't know."


Certainly, they're not the only exotic bird escapees living wild in the Northwest. Vancouver, Canada is home to some well-known Crested Mynahs.


Gayle Peters, the owner of Just Parrots, a shop near Seward Park, said the feral parakeets are reasonably intelligent birds, which likely helps them survive an alien environment.


"We don't have extreme temperatures here, extreme hot or cold," Peters said. "In winters, they're probably in trees, nesting together. They do adapt very well."





Birders in the area say that the parakeets will visit home bird feeders from time to time.

"I would think in this area, they would eat anything and everything they could find," Peters said.

But do you have parakeets in CenTex???
.......Westy......







4,572 posted on 10/18/2004 10:24:09 AM PDT by westmex (To he!! with it all)
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There was a flock of lime-green ones out at Bergstrom AFB before they converted it to our current airport...I don't know how the birds fared during the conversion, but they were a trip to watch.

Sounds just like your flock in Seattle.


4,573 posted on 10/18/2004 10:33:49 AM PDT by lodwick (He that meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.)
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CORDELE, Ga. -- A Georgia man facing arson charges for burning his own home is blaming nine or 10 beers, and a disaster movie.

Charles Adams told Crisp County authorities he had been drinking while watching the movie "Day After Tomorrow."

Adams allegedly told deputies that after watching the special-effects extravaganza depicting deadly natural disasters caused by global warming, he decided to set fire to pillows on his bed.

The flames destroyed his doublewide mobile home.


4,574 posted on 10/18/2004 10:46:13 AM PDT by lodwick (He that meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.)
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To: grannie9
I'd better check his reflex's too. Any idea how I can do that?

gran, you sly foxie lady, I'm sure you can figure out something ... ;>)

4,575 posted on 10/18/2004 10:47:19 AM PDT by catpuppy (Kerry-Edwards: When hair is all that matters)
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To: lodwick

Thanks Loddy. Just got out of court a little while ago. Case got held over for hearing on the 12'th because of the number of witnesses. There was no time to hear all the testimony today. Meanwhile, we have the boys back in foster care and the family is seriously PO'd. Of course, it never once occurred to them that maybe THEIR behavior is the problem.


4,576 posted on 10/18/2004 10:49:39 AM PDT by sweetliberty (Proud member of the Pajama Posse!)
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To: lodwick

Happens to me every day. So many pillows, so many double-wides ...


4,577 posted on 10/18/2004 10:49:53 AM PDT by catpuppy (Kerry-Edwards: When hair is all that matters)
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To: catpuppy
"The flu shot is necessary to ward off the diseases associated with the bitterly cold winters here in the frozen south. Today's high 81.

You poor dear. I do hope your delicate constitution can take another brutal Florida winter.

4,578 posted on 10/18/2004 10:52:09 AM PDT by sweetliberty (Proud member of the Pajama Posse!)
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To: grannie9
Driving down this year

Come this way and you can stay at the empty condo

4,579 posted on 10/18/2004 10:52:53 AM PDT by catpuppy (Kerry-Edwards: When hair is all that matters)
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To: grannie9
"Any idea how I can do that?"

Get nekkid and dance on the table?

4,580 posted on 10/18/2004 10:53:35 AM PDT by sweetliberty (Proud member of the Pajama Posse!)
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