USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Roman Gladiators ~ October 21, 2003

Roman Gladiatorial Games ^ | October 21, 2003 | LaDivaLoca

[Soaring Feather]

Oh you are so right there Jinx, I hate this stuff.

I say leave the clocks one way or the other. Stop changing the time.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Lucky you! Like dark early or late matters to us. LOL!!!

So, Grampa, gotta a picture of your grandbaby?

[HiJinx]

Lotsa pictures!

Nothin new on-line, though...

Lemme see what I can do.

[HiJinx]

This is a week old...she loves to sleep on her side with her hands under her chin!

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

What a beautiful baby!

[Soaring Feather]

My heavens angles keep watch
oer this littles one sleep
may stars in the heavens peek
in on her rest and always to bless
our littlest Freeper...Angel Baby

bentfeather©

[Kathy in Alaska]

I see you managed! LOL!! What a cutie you have there.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

From the men in the Military and the Canteen

[Kathy in Alaska]

Very pretty poem, ms feather.

[LifeIzGood]

BTTT

[Soaring Feather]

Thank You Kathy. :-)

[Soaring Feather]

Good Evening Tonkin!!

Thank you Military men and Canteen men for the lovely warm fire. The Canteen Living room can get a little chilly on these Fall evenings.......

At least in NY anyway. Burrrrrrrrrr!! Rainy and cold. No sun today. Ugh!!

[Soaring Feather]

Good Evening!!

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Good Evening!
I hope things are well with you are yours.

[Radix]

1914 Martin Gardner Scientific American math & puzzles columnist

 

Happy Birthday Martin Gardner.

 

I always thought of you as being much younger!

 

 

 

 

[Radix]

1520 Magellan entered the strait which bears his name

 

The first circumnavigator of the real world; born about 1480 at Saborosa in Villa Real, Province of Traz os Montes, Portugal; died during his voyage of discovery on the Island of Mactan in the Philippines, 27 April 1521.

 

 

 

 

[Radix]

1797 US Navy frigate Constitution, Old Ironsides, launched in Boston

 

Happy Birthday

 

Old Ironsides.

 

 

 

OLD IRONSIDES
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
September 16, 1830

 

Ay, tear her tattered ensign down!
Long has it waved on high,
And many an eye has danced to see
That banner in the sky;
Beneath it rung the battle shout,
And burst the cannon's roar;
The meteor of the ocean air
Shall sweep the clouds no more.

Her deck, once red with heroes' blood,
Where knelt the vanquished foe,
When winds were hurrying o'er the flood,
And waves were white below,
No more shall feel the victor's tread,
Or know the conquered knee;
The harpies of the shore shall pluck
The eagle of the sea!

Oh, better that her shattered bulk
Should sink beneath the wave;
Her thunders shook the mighty deep,
And there should be her grave;
Nail to the mast her holy flag,
Set every threadbare sail,
And give her to the god of storms,
The lightning and the gale!

[LaDivaLoca]

Good evening all. Popping in to see if the Canteen is still in one piece. I missed you guys and I missed all the ruckus here. Hope to catch up with everyone soon. *HUGS*

[Soaring Feather]

Hey, hey. Ladiva!! How goes it lady???

[LaDivaLoca]

And this wide-eyed little 3 year-old looked up at her mother and in her deepest voice replied, "Bud."

ROTFLOL! It took me awhile to figure out the punchline. I'm a bit slow today. Well the past few days anyway.