A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day - Weekend...11-09,10-02

Billie and Mama_Bear

[lodwick]

Good afternoon GA!

Let's roll.

[ST.LOUIE1]

Oh Puleeze"

LOL!!! You're so cute! You're all so cute!

Morning, BillieBlue. : )

[lodwick]

Good morning MO!

W could end up equalling or hopefully even surpassing the Gipper's achievements imho.

A great day is wished for you and yours. ;-)

[dutchess]

Good afternoon everyone. We're racking leaves here! (I just ran in to get a bottle of water, LOL!) Oh darn...Mr. D. just road by on the lawn mower and waved at me...caught again!

Great graphic Billie. You are way to funny! Be back later!

[lodwick]

Why do we wear poppies of all things to commemorate those who died in battle?

Well, the poppy has quite a history of growing up in places where blood has been shed and lives have been lost in battle. This phenomenon was first noted during the Napoleonic Wars when the blood-red flower bloomed around the fresh graves of fallen soldiers. Then, during the First World War, poppies again rose up around soldiers' graves as they had a century earlier.

The scientific explanation for this symbolic recurrence is that poppies tend to flourish in soil that has been turned up and that is rich in lime. What does this have to do with war? Well, when land mines and bombs explode they tend to not only churn up the ground but they also create a lot of rubble as buildings and structures are destroyed and collapse (limestone used to be a very common building material as well as a common gravestone). Marry limestone to the earth in this manner and voila - poppies.

It was Canadian Dr. Lt.-Col. John McCrae who initially brought the symbolic significance of this flower to the world's attention after WWI when he wrote his enduring poem "In Flander's Fields".

[ST.LOUIE1]

Hi, Sis! Remember this? Haven't seen it for awhile.

Guess we've been pretty good kids lately, huh? LOL

[JustAmy]

There used to be red poppies sold every year. I wonder if they still sell them. Everyone used to work 'downtown' and poppies were being sold on every corner. With downtown being abandoned, I'm not sure if this tradition is still alive.

[ST.LOUIE1]

W could end up equalling or hopefully even surpassing the Gipper's achievements imho.

I think you're right on, lody. W has the right stuff to do major things for our country.

A great day is wished for you and yours. ;-)

Thanks, lody. Hope yours is a special one. : )

[JustAmy]

Time for a change!!!!



Billie has been getting by easy lately!!
Errr .... hi Billie.

[habs4ever]

A sister of mine lives not more than 100 yds down the road from John McCrae's home in Guelph, Ontario.It is now a National Museum and a very charming, modest clapboard Victorian home with well tended gardens and a very poignant collection of photographs and letters from WW1.

[lodwick]

More bears for MB

(The internet is lousy with bears. ;-))

[JustAmy]

Good Morning, Loddy!!!

How are thing in your neck of the wood?

[LadyX]

Ah, Captain - Thud is precious, and deserves to be front and center this day:

Just who is disturbing my slumber?!!

Okay - I will endure the 'oohs' and 'ahs' if I must....

Signed, THUD - the Phurst Cat aboard the Mobious Triangle
and at The Cabin in Colorado

(whur's muh milk, Cap'n? Warm it, pleez.)

[GailA]

Afternoon All..awe the weekend, it's overcast in Memphis..we are all laughing at congressfool ford JUNIOR for putting his hat in the ring with pelosi here in Memphis. What a joke. He's been up there 3 terms and thinks he has the senority for the job...beware just because he doesn't get in your face like pelosi will he's just a socialist hardcore left as she is.

Now for lunch

[LadyX]

Love the Cat Quotation, Loddy!!!

[blackie]

GWB Is The Man !!

Freedom Is Worth Fighting For !!

Let's Roll !!

Molon Labe !!

[blackie]

Finest Billie...Bump...Bump...Bump !!

GWB Is The Man !!

Freedom Is Worth Fighting For !!

Let's Roll !!

Molon Labe !!

[JustAmy]

Thanks for lunch ...... I'm weird but I like hot dogs. LOL

I didn't think anyone could be as socialistic as Pelosi. California probably has more socialists than all the other states combined.

[ST.LOUIE1]

Time for a change!!!!
Billie has been getting by easy lately!! Errr .... hi Billie.

Waaaaay too easy! Like she's on vacation or something. She's just too relaxed. LOL

[lodwick]

Chili, cheese, and onion dogs
on this tremendous day.