Posted on 11/03/2005 4:18:09 AM PST by DollyCali
Why, you're just a kid. Thanks for the Happy Birthday and Happy Birthday to you too!
Since I'd been up very late and was asleep, my husband registered me as LadyX, so when I rose I was a bona fide poster, able to answer you and others!
It has opened a most delightful world, for which I am eternally grateful.
{{{ Hugs }}}
I'm just seeing this ping now. Thank you so much Deadhead!!
Love your profile page!!!! Not sure I had been there since you put up the "new project" you are working on.
I guess I had noted the composite that Billie made before but your posting on the thread with it separate for all else made it really stand out.
You should "borrow" the background for the Military Monday for your profile page. do you know how to do that? we could help you if not. Would look good.
I hope to do work like that on mine eventually
well, we must both be kids! after all we DID twist together at the Inauguration less than a year ago!!!
some days I feel like I am 15 and other days like Methuselah
Pineapple upside cake is one of my favorites. My mom made it over the years & I should make it more.. well, maybe not as I would eat most of it, myself! Glad you had a nice birthday & that Chris took you out.. but what on earth is Teppanyaki????
Teppanyaki is a Japanese restaurant, where they cook your food right at your table, or, rather, the diners sit around the grill while it's being cooked. Lots of flames, smoke and fancy work with knives and salt and pepper shakers, etc. You get a great meal and a great show.
Well this birthday kid is plum tuckered out. Time to hit the hay. Goodnight.
you are just going to bed????
wow.. you sure got your "money's worth" of time out of that birthday!
sleep well Friend. and the Japanese restaurant.. ah, they are nice. I haven't been in years but would like to go back
Howdy Amy!
Did you hear this: "Otanjou-bi Omedetou Gozaimasu!" last nite?
That squirrel story was great!
Thank you G... did you help Jim Rob celebrate his birthday?
This article refers to post #12 on the hippo/tortise. My friend John just sent it to me & I thought I would include it. Here is the url (which may or may not be around in days ahead.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4152447.stm
Odd couple make friends in Kenya - Mzee and Owen
Mzee and Owen have become firm friends despite the age gap . A baby hippo rescued after floods in Kenya last week has befriended a 100-year-old tortoise in Kenya.
The one-year-old hippo calf christened Owen was found alone and dehydrated by wildlife rangers near the Indian Ocean.
He was placed in an enclosure at a wildlife sanctuary in the coastal city of Mombasa and befriended a male tortoise of a similar colour.
According to a park official, they sleep together, eat together and "have
become inseparable".
"Since Owen arrived on the 27 December, the tortoise behaves like a mother to it," Haller Park tourism manager Pauline Kimoti told the BBC News website.
"The hippo follows the tortoise around and licks his face," she said.
The tortoise is named Mzee, which is Swahili for old man.
Ms Kimoti said that if the 300kg hippo continued to thrive then in the next few weeks they would allow the public to see the unlikely pair together before they are separated.
The sanctuary, which is on the site of a former cement factory, plans eventually to get the help of the Kenya Wildlife Service to place Owen with Cleo, a lonely female hippo in a separate enclosure.
This is the latest in a series of unusual bondings in the wild that have surprised and delighted zoologists in Kenya.
In 2002, a lioness at Samburu National Park adopted a succession of baby oryx.
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