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[kanawa]

My sons thought your bear-slaying was the coolest thing ever!

I had planned to go away for 2 months
and before the trip I was jokingly telling my friends
that this was my Freedom 55 summer tour.
To me though it had a inner spiritual theme.
The best I could express it to myself was Nearer to Thee my God.
I had my plans but knew the Good Lord had His own
and His always trump my mine.
So I left trusting that no matter what happened
I was assured of God's love and ultimate protection
and was curious about what He had in store for me.
It only took four days to find out. lol

So tell your lads to trust in God but be sure to carry a big knife. ;~)

[tuliptree76]

That's a good movie. Kinda creepy in a way.

[rottndog]

So tell your lads to trust in God but be sure to carry a big knife. ;~)

Kind of goes with "God helps those that help themselves".

[Irish_Thatcherite]

My sister's boyfriend says our hard drive could buckle at any time! :-P

[fanfan]

It goes well with the Saddam video link I posted in foreign.

;-)

[fanfan]

Full Execution Video leaked from cell phone.

Graphic.

"The Video" graphic.

[tuliptree76]

I hope you get your hard drive fixed soon, IT. It's not fun having computer problems.

I have to log off for a while. Talk to you later!

[fanfan]

Nice to see you TT!

Happy New Year!

[Irish_Thatcherite]

I think I saw that one already on Google, but thanks! :)

[Irish_Thatcherite]

We'll have to replace the thing, actually! :-P

Seeya again, Tulip!! :)

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Goodnight everyone!! :)

[rottndog]

Goodnight I.T.

[kanawa]

Hi Tuliptree!

"The tulip-tree is one of two wild magnolia species found in Canada, and probably one of the most common `Carolinian Canada' symbols."

The native range of the tulip tree, a species of the Carolinian forest, extends as far north as the Niagara peninsula and lower Grand River valley. There are tall, broad specimens in the park alongside Niagara Falls. They are spectacular in flower. The leaves by themselves are interesting, each one appearing to have been chopped off square.

In 1897, a tulip tree seedling was planted in the national arboretum, then just being established. As the gardeners feared, the tree was frozen off to the ground the next winter. Ottawa's climate is too cold for the species.

This particular tree's roots survived, however, and in the spring of 1898, sent up a new sprout. A few months later, this sprout, too, was winterkilled.

So it went for the next twenty years. The tree would grow anew every spring, but die back to the roots before the next spring's thaw.

Then came the winter of 1920-21. For whatever reason, perhaps abnormally mild temperatures or less wind, the sprout from the previous spring was not killed off. It survived and grew taller the next summer. It has never looked back.

If you visit the Dominion Arboretum a couple of months from now, you can see that same tulip tree, 102 years old, in glorious full bloom. It soars skyward fifty feet, high enough for a crows' nest.

Back in 1910 or 1920, who would have predicted the triumph of that Ottawa tulip tree?

[sionnsar]

Well, my brother tried to reformat and install Win98 on my hard drive too - and his diagnosis is that it's officially fried.

Computers are a good thing, but they can be so troublesome when they decide to act up!

I've had a few (2? 3?) hard drives go south on me over the past decade and a half. And computers can be a WHOLE ot of trouble when they act up.

Not sure what will happen to this machine. All I've done on it for several years now is write and print letters to legislators. But it was full up with cruft from older applications and the hard drive was maxed out, so it was long since time for an offload and rebuild.

If she's interested it will go to an indigent young woman (with two little children) nearby who's come to our church's attention. Rebuilding and giving away machines to those who cannot otherwise afford them has been a fun (sometimes) and rewarding (always) project for us for some time now. Our stock of recycled OSes and applications (old versions of Office, for example) is beginning to get thin, though, and much of the free stuff (Linux desktops, OpenOffice) has become much too heavyweight for older machines.

[sionnsar]

Any ideas on a viable target thread for the UT's continued voyage?

Yup.

[sionnsar]

The tulip-tree is one of two wild magnolia species found in Canada

Great posting: I had never even heard of a tulip-tree (other than our own lovely Profette Dr. Tulip Tree the 76th) until now.

[rottndog]

Learn something new everyday, I always say.

[tuliptree76]

Wow! I'm impressed, kanawa. You are one of the few people who I've encountered online who knew what a tulip tree was before I explained it. When I was little, my parents planted a tulip tree in our backyard, and that's where I picked up this screen name (A friend had asked me shortly before that time, "If you were a tree, what type of tree would you be and why?").

[tuliptree76]

much of the free stuff (Linux desktops, OpenOffice) has become much too heavyweight for older machines

I had heard that Linux works well on machines with older hard drives and processors. Is it too big of a program for them to handle?

[Tax-chick]

Remarkable!