A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....06-01-05....Another Finest Play Day

Mama_Bear

[Mama_Bear]

A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day

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We're having fun and hope you are!
~ Billie, Mama_Bear, Dutchess, Aquamarine, DollyCali ~

Yes, FRiends, it's another
Finest "Play Day"!

We should be visiting another state today, but the 'Finest Tour Bus' is in the shop for repairs (again!). So, we will be staying home and having a play day instead.

For those of you who have your heart set on traveling, you are welcome to re-visit any or all of our Finest states below..... :-)

05-23-03 Alabama 06-27-03 Maryland 07-11-03 Vermont 07-25-03 Utah 08-05-03 Texas 08-22-03 Nevada 08-26-03 Wash DC 09-05-03 Tennessee 09-17-03 Florida 09-19-03 Minnesota 10-03-03 New Mexico 10-14-03 Georgia 10-17-03 Louisiana 10-22-03 Michigan 11-04-03 South Dakota 11-14-03 California

01-09-04 South Carolina 02-06-04 West Virginia 02-20-04 Oregon 03-09-04 Pennsylvania 03-30-04 Wyoming 04-13-04 Mississippi 04-27-04 Missouri 05-25-04 Indiana 07-21-04 Virginia 08-18-04 Colorado 09-29-04 Idaho 10-20-04 New Hampshire 12-07-04 Hawaii 02-09-05 Maine 03-09-05 North Carolina 04-13-05 Arizona

...the rest of us will
stay here and









Being 8 Years Old Again

I am hereby officially tendering my resignation as an adult. I have decided I would like to accept the responsibilities of an 8 year-old again.

• I want to go to McDonald's and think that it's a four star restaurant.
• I want to sail sticks across a fresh mud puddle and make a sidewalk with rocks.
• I want to think M&Ms are better than money because you can eat them.
• I want to lie under a big oak tree and run a lemonade stand with my friends on a hot summer's day.
• I want to return to a time when life was simple. When all you knew were colors, multiplication tables, and nursery rhymes, but that didn't bother you, because you didn't know what you didn't know and you didn't care. All you knew was to be happy because you were blissfully unaware of all the things that should make you worried or upset.
• I want to think the world is fair. That everyone is honest and good.
• I want to believe that anything is possible.
• I want to be oblivious to the complexities of life and be overly excited by the little things again.
• I want to live simple again. I don't want my day to consist of computer crashes, mountains of paperwork, depressing news, how to survive more days in the month than there is money in the bank, doctor bills, gossip, illness, and loss of loved ones.
• I want to believe in the power of smiles, hugs, a kind word, truth, justice, peace, dreams, the imagination, mankind, and making angels in the snow.

So, here's my checkbook and my car-keys, my credit card bills and my 401K statements. I am officially resigning from adulthood. And if you want to discuss this further, you'll have to catch me first, 'cause...

"Tag! You're it!"

And have a wonderful Wednesday!

03-29-05 ~ Hall of Fame #11

THIS WEEK'S THREADS 05-27,28,29,30-05 Remembering Them Then ~ Honoring Them 05-31-05 Military Monday on Tuesday

Opinions by our own 'King of Ping' Every Thursday at the Finest The guy's good, folks!

[snugs]

Interesting cleaning up afterwards I would think LOL

[WVNan]

Remember how much fun it was to shampoo Rover?

[WVNan]

Seems I've heard of the Ready Reckoner, but I don't recall using it. But then, I don't recall a lot of things LOL.

[snugs]

Whilst not a tomboy I find on the whole I prefer doing guy things like going to soccer and much rather work with men than women whilst I do have women friends my best friend is male.

[WVNan]

Oh, I know that you love the great outdoors, Dolly. I really do too and don't get to be out very much any more.

[Aquamarine]

Have left frozen pizza in over 3 hours. You can imagine how "interesting" that was.

LOL
Please Dolly, don't burn your house down. I've scorched a few pans myself.

[snugs]

The ready reckoner was the book that a lot of shop keepers use to calculate the total cost of an order before the days of tills (cash registers) that added up.

It was like the times table but in a money format.

[DollyCali]

Clean ups for that kind of disater is all goes into garbage. Pans are too far gone & require much more time than feasible to get them usable again. Going back outside. Have done some inside domestic goddess items..

[DollyCali]

Nan! I have a pan outside like that for Oliver.got it at yard sale a couple years ago.. Some of his baths are in it.. many are at lakes / rivers.. deep water. I take shampoo & rinse him off the easy way. In winter he is in my tub.

[WVNan]

Hi Aqua. Long time. How are things down your way?

[WVNan]

Dolly, that is called a "tub". It was called that before indoor bathtubs were invented. LOL. That is the kind of tub I bathed in when I was a kid. Usually it would sit behind the wood stove in the kitchen in the winter, so you didn't freeze to death as you bathed. Then in the summer time it could be on the back porch or even in the yard and that was much more fun. Life was pretty primitive.

[Billie]

YIKES! Lori, I got *0*, too - it said that was a shameful performance. I don't get, I guess! Nan, how did you do it?!!!

[anonymoussierra]

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[Aquamarine]

Hi Nan. It's cold - 59 degrees. Never seen anything like it this time of year.

How is it up there?

[Billie]

I have added your nephew to my prayer list, too, Socratic. Please let him know how very much we appreciate him, and that he will be in all our prayers to return home safely.

[Billie]

Just skipping around, playing on today's thread! ;) Very neat pledge graphic, Sistah! ('04? Hadn't seen it before!)

[anonymoussierra]

"did you ever hear or see tape of Dean Martin doing it?" I do like good total classic music thank you"DollyCali"

[Mama_Bear]

Lori, I got *0*, too - it said that was a shameful performance. I don't get, I guess!

Pssssst.......Billie, it's because we didn't follow directions. LOL. Hey, that's okay, I don't feel bad now that I know you did the same thing. ;-)

[Mama_Bear]

('04? Hadn't seen it before!)

It's been uploaded to domania for quite awhile, but I don't know that I have ever used it before. I think I forgot it was there.

[Aquamarine]

Meant to type 56 degrees.