I am not a poster. I am a crispy critter.

[EsmeraldaA]

Ohhhhh

I think I'm hating you right now.

SHEEESH

[Alice au Wonderland]

I love cats and dogs. We'd have a whole passel of 'em if it were not for the facts that child #2 is allergic to anything with fur and that care and feeding would be another responsibility for me, not for everyone else.

[MNJohnnie]

2,200 posted on 11/07/2005 12:03:30 PM PST by Monkey Face

[Alice au Wonderland]

If you're happy, I'm happy.

Nice 00, BTW!

[Alice au Wonderland]

Be back in a minute. I have to solicit sponsors for the Swimathon....

[EsmeraldaA]

LOL!
My father had this rule "You don't hit a girl, not even with a rose petal".
Of course I had five older brothers.....

[MNJohnnie]

"...we can all start calling you Dr. Tulip." Actually, I have my J.D. already, so you can call me that now. ;-)

Actually her proper title is is:

The All High, Most Dreaded Sire, the Right Honorable Gentlelady Doctor Miss Tuliptree76.

[Monkey Face]

Hey! Thanks! I didn't even notice!

[Monkey Face]

Thanks!

[MNJohnnie]

Ohhhhh I think I'm hating you right now. SHEEESH

AH HA! So you DO listen to me!!!! I KNEW IT!

[MNJohnnie]

I have to solicit sponsors for the Swimathon....

ME! I be sponsor........Oh wait, it is for Girls in swimsuits right??????

[Alice au Wonderland]

Well, both my daughter and I will be in swimsuits as we are both participants. My three sons are also swimming in the swimathon.

[sionnsar]

What's Seattle like? I've never been there.

Mild climate; few houses have air-conditioning. It's beautiful in the summer and dark, grim and gray in winter: we can go months without seeing the sun. People often move away because they can't face another Seattle winter.

It rains here -- had you heard? Actually, it mists, spits, drips, drizzles, rains, driving rains, showers, pours, downpours (all modifiable with "light" and "heavy") -- with unpleasant winter variants such as freezing rain and freezing fog. In summer the rain is warm. In winter it is not. Running for cover in anything less than driving rain marks you as a Californian (this is a Bad Thing) -- so does a tan. You are allowed to walk fast in rain if you are not wearing a rain parka. In mist you are expected to turn your face up to the sky and smile.

Seattleites buy the most sunglasses per capita in the world. That's because they as soon as they lose them, Yellow Face comes out again to blind them. The best sunglasses to have are Polaroid; they reduce reflections from wet roadways.

Only foreigners use umbrellas. Seattleites wear rain parkas. It is acceptable to wear a rain parka over a suit. If it's raining or more, you can use the hood.

In Seattle, if you're not prepared to do it in the rain, you're not going to do it at all. Except for tanning (see above). The driest part of the year is the last weekend in July to the first weekend in August.

Sometimes it snows here. I think it snowed year before last. The snow doesn't stay more than a day but stops everything when it comes.

[sionnsar]

Hi, 'Face! Back in the office (sigh)...

[Monkey Face]

Yah...my late ex- had that pholosophy, too. The I saw what his daughter did to my son and I modified it: Never hit a girl...unless she hits you first, and then let her have it.

That ended the little "arrangement" my daughter had with her dad. When I caught her starting something with my son, I let her know it wasn't going to play very well in "THIS theater!"

[Monkey Face]

Wow. I don't recall Oly-Lacy being quite as dismal as you make Sea-Tac sound...I kind of enjoyed my time there. I wouldn't go back, but I enjoyed the time I was there. (13 months)

[Not A Snowbird]

Actually, it mists, spits, drips, drizzles, rains, driving rains, showers, pours, downpours (all modifiable with "light" and "heavy") -- with unpleasant winter variants such as freezing rain and freezing fog.

Not to mention the occasional rock slide that closes the pass when we get too much rain and the hillside can't hold the boulders. :-)

[Alice au Wonderland]

It sounds like a neat place to visit, but I'm sure I would be running for a sunnier climate within a year.

What is freezing fog? We had fog yesterday morning which made the drive to church spectacular (fog, golden early am sun, brilliantly colored trees). Just had to drive slower in order to spot wayward deer, wild turkey, and the occasional peacock.

[EsmeraldaA]

Did I mentioned that I'm hating you?

[EsmeraldaA]

I would never do something as obvious as hitting one of my brothers.
Besides they were 4 years older than I and up. all of them very tall.