Posted on 04/21/2002 11:15:37 PM PDT by acnielsen guy
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In Nixon's biography, it was told that, in the summer, he had the staff turn the air conditioner on at all hours just so that the fireplace could be going as he liked a fireplace. At the very same time, he was publicly urging the public to conserve electricity by not opening the refrigerator so often. What a schmootz (if that's not a word, it SHOULD be - LOL).
Whats really funny is that the guy across the street from us, also works at the 'trusty' post office, and his schedule is exactly opposite of my husbands...When my husband starts to pull out for work at 3 in the afternoon, the neighbor has just pulled in from work...when the hubby returns from work at 5 in the morning, the neighbor is just pulling out for work...they are like two ships passing in the night...
In our little sleepy neighborhood, most everyone is a day worker, night sleeper, and me and the hubby are just the opposite...being night workers, and day sleepers...I guess that explains why we dont know a whole lot of people in our neighborhood....I guess I am ranting on about this, as I dont want my friends here, to think I am a lazy slug, sleeping 12 hours a day, and getting to the 'Dimensional Door' so late each day...
Grannie...loved the 'snow' pictures...reminds me of my days in Chicago, days full of tons of snow...altho I never want to return to those frigid winters, still is a wonderful memory to see all that snow and remember the fun we used to have in the snowy winters...
Palo, you are so funny talking about cars, and the hubby buying that car, because he thought it would be type of car Frank Sinatra would drive...a 'gangster' car...
When one of our cars was kaput many years ago, we needed to buy another car...we never buy new cars...both the hubby and I hate to spent so much money on a brand new car...so we always buy good used cars...we hate to take out loans, so we always just buy whatever car we have enough cash for...
So this one time, my hubby bought a used, navy blue 'cop' car...well, it was really an undercover cop car, and it had a nifty spotlight...hubby joked that he was like the 'Blues Brothers' with his cop car...
We had that car for several years...then one time on his way to work up the freeway, the hubby stopped off at some store which was having something he wanted, on sale...so he figured it was near to work in Tacoma, he would just stop off on his way to work....so he got out and went into the store, got his sale item, bought it, and left the store
When he started into the parking lot, he saw a huge ball of smoke, and a roaring fire...Yikes, the 'cop' car was on fire...soon the fire dept appeared, but it was a lost cause...the car was completely burned, gutted and demolished...
The fire dept hauled it away...at first my hubby thought some disgruntled felon had deliberately set the car on fire, and ran, but the consensus seemed to be, that there was some sort of a leak of oil, onto something hot in the engine, and rarely, but sometimes, this results in a fire...
Oh well, just an excuse to buy another car...
I am glad the other egg finally hatched, and all you observant folk saw this..so I checked onto the Eagle cam...did not see the new babe, but did see the older chick, and was amazed to see that is does indeed now look yellow...these birdies sure do change and grow day to day...
Palo...what is 'Killer' Lulu up to?
I just got this from my son Gary.. He said it was my new Grandchild.. I was all excited..this is what I got when I downloaded.. I didn't know it was born yet. I hate that kid... lol
Who is it? Does anyone know? Looks like William F Buckley to me..
When my mom and dad were ill, and I moved down to Redwood Valley, California, temporarily, to take care of them, I encountered some of that blasting heat...If you look on a map, you will see that Redwood Valley is inland California, tho just fifty miles over the mountains to the ocean, where its cool...but Redwood Valley is right near the desert, and the heat there in the summer is really stifling...
I remember one day, I was mowing the lawn(What was left of it in that heat), and it was really fairly early in the morning..by the time I came in, I was wringing wet, and felt so hot...did not realize till the next day, when we got the newspaper, that the temp that day had been 117...Yikes...and then it was 10 days straight of temps of 110 and more....hard for a gal like me, from the temperate climes of the Pacific Northwest, to endure...
Of course mom and dad had a swamp cooler, and it sure did a great job of keeping the house cool...that was the first time I had ever heard of or saw a swamp cooler...they really are great, better to my mind that central AC(Which we had when we lived in North Carolina)...Swamp coolers are much cheaper to install, cheaper to fix if they break, and use less energy, than the central AC...I am also told that swamp coolers, are more healthy, tho dont know if that is really true or not...
But truly I did learn, while living down in Redwood Valley, that if I wanted to do anything out of doors in the summer, I should get it done before 10am or wait until the sun went down...because like Arizona, California, gets really chilly once it gets dark...
Your description of Lulus coloration sounds much like Helga...she was mostly brown and black, except for her big white tummy, the white point of her tail, and the white of her chest...Helga and Lulu are soul sisters, not only in spirit, but also in looks as well....
I had my second boy with induced labor...I was spotting, open 3 centimeters, baby was all the way, my uterus was like tissue paper, and the doc says to me "Are you sure you are not in labor?" I assure him I was not, and he sent me home, telling me to go straight to bed, and he was sure that I would soon go into labor...if I did not go into labor, I was to check into the hospital very early the next day , have the hospital call him, and he would induce labor, and get things over with...
He told me to go straight home, because he knew me well, and figured I would be out shopping, and would have to have the baby in the store...
But of course, I disobeyed him and did not go straight home...hubby and I stopped off for a huge plate of tacos at our favorite taco restaurant, and then I went shopping for some pretty new nighties to wear in the hospital...
Finally we arrived home, and still no labor...so puttered around, and waited all night to go into labor, which I did not...
So bright and early we arrived at the hospital, checked in, and they brought us up to the maternity floor....my doc stood there with his hands on his hips, in awe that I had not yet gone into labor...
But once they hooked me up to whatever it was in that IV bottle, I was off to the races, and had my second boy in just a few hours...
Of course my husband was always mad at the doctor for inducing labor...because our Andy was born on July 2, and my husband figured that if the doctor had left me alone, he would have been born on July 4th, and then he would have been a 'Yankee Doodle Andy'...of course, the hubby was not the one hauling around that large load in his tummy...I was just as glad to get it over with, the sooner the better...But we still call him our 'Yankee Doodle Andy'..
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