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Happy Birthday Troy !! Have a good one

Thanks Stormy and Koach it was a nice day with the family and a great meal cooked by my daughter so I didn't have to do much but just enjoy myself

LOL love it

Mine was very similar but it was red - and we all know red ones go faster !!

She is doing so well, and you never know but she might be faster and feistier when she's home Big hugs for her next time you visit

LOL -- as I know absolutely nothing about baseball, I had to think about it for a while

Ooohhhkkkaayyy - so it's baby fern soup !!

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That's my kind of bulldozer lol

Looks interesting, but what are Fiddleheads ?

Isn't something like insulin covered under some sort of pharmaceutical benefit scheme ?

She is very pretty and looks like a nice cat I hope she enjoys her new home.

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As some know, I lived with my family in Papua New Guinea for many years and it was an experience I will always remember with great affection. Some of you might not even know where it is, so google it It's a beautiful country just north of Australia that is home to the Melanesian people. A country of diverse landscapes, from jungle and beautiful coastlines, to the high mountains (a few that get snow in winter) where the climate is similar to spring, all year. As I come across some interesting photos from our years there, I will post them here now and then. Hear are some photos of a ceremony that took place on 13 May 1979 at a little place called Bena Bena which is in the mountains near the main city of Goroka. We lived there for several years. I can't remember what the compensation was for, perhaps someone from one clan had a relative who died due to an accident by a person from a different clan. They met, they talked and discussed and then an amount of money (in this case $25,000) was presented to the family receiving the compensation. The money in notes is attached to a very long pole (called a money pole) and presented to the family.

Good that it is over and Ryan is ok. Appendicitis is awful, I had mine out at about age 9. Give him a hug from me xx

When I was younger, my father put a b&w tv in my bedroom for me, very similar to the one above, he also wired it with headphones so I could lie in bed and watch tv without keeping my parents awake lol .. it also had a swivel base so I could turn it around to face the bed

LOL good one !!

What a wise mother

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Sorry to hear it Dawn, I know you were looking forward to the challenge. I think you've done the right thing, and maybe as Koach said, there will be something else that you might like to study. Being a parent takes up a lot of time and mental energy too and we change. I know that once I was a parent I was far too busy in that role to have undertaken any serious study.

One that I would correct is "Morning Tea" - it is not called "mornos" as the guy says, I've never heard of that before. It is called "Smoko" and applies to morning and/or afternoon tea

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The only thing I don't remember is Howdy Doody ... it must have been a character or "thing" specific to the USA. I still own a metal ice tray with a lever and only this morning I was looking at the test pattern on a tv (at the museum where the IT guy was setting it up with some new video footage) When we were in New Guinea our phone was not only a party line, but it was a radio phone with a little button on the handset so you could hold it in to talk, and release to listen to the person at the other end.

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Good one !!!!!