Seafair

Today July 30th is the beginning of the final week of Seattle’s big summer celebration, Seafair.

The Torchlight Parade is the official kick off to the final week. It consist of Floats illuminated by Christmas lights, marching bands, mounted horse patrols, Seafair Pirates, Seafair Clowns and Unlimited Hydroplanes being pulled on trailers through the streets of Seattle.

All trough the final week, the Unlimited Hydroplanes test out and qualify on Lake Washington for next Sunday’s Seafair Gold Cup Race, which is the grand finale to Seafair. Also during the week the Navy’s Blue Angels acrobatic team of F-18 Hornets practices their routine for their Air Show on Saturday and Sunday. Many people who live along the shores of Lake Washington, hate the noise that the Blue Angels make as they fly over their houses.

There are many other community Parades, Carnival, music, arts and crafts shows that start out in early July, that lead up to the final week of Seafair.

Seafair began as a plan to celebrate Seattle’s centennial in 1951-52. The festival was designed to attract tourists and stress marine events in keeping with Seattle’s boast as the "boating capital of the world."

The Hydroplanes reach speeds of 160.32 mph (258.01 kph) and can flip when too much air gets under the boat, which has proven fatal on many occasions. Some famous winning Hydroplanes are: Slo-mo-shun IV,
Gale V, Miss Thriftway, Hawaii Kai III, Maverick, Miss Bardahl (The Green Dragon), Miss Century 21, Tahoe Miss, My Gypsy, Miss US, Atlas Van Line, Circus Circus, and Miss Budweiser to name a few.

As a kid, my friends and I would fashion crude Hydroplanes from wood. We would tie a string to them and drag them behind our bikes in a race. I don’t remember if I won any of the races. Some times we would run down to Stan Sayer’s pit on Lake Washington, and look at the Hydroplanes and collect souvenir pins, banners, photos and stickers.

History of Seafair
http://www.seafair.com/x566.asp

Hydroplane Museum
http://www.thunderboats.org/

Pretty Thing 3

We bought this in Kuranda, North Queensland, I love green.
Sue

Pretty Thing 2

This is the mouse that I purchased when I was 15, how it has survived all these years is a miracle.
Sue

Pretty thing 1

Rob bought this brooch about 4 years ago, I thought it was really pretty, and dainty.
Sue

Sue's 50 things she forgot earlier.

Another 50 things OR The bits I forgot earlier – Sue

1. In the past I have been 35lbs overweight.
2. I am very sentimental over ‘things’.
3. I’m learning to play the mandolin.
4. I can keep a secret. (Don’t tell anyone).
5. I hate driving.
6. I am not a confident outgoing person.
7. My eldest son made me a small wooden dish when he was at school, and I still have that.
8. My other son made me a wooden pot stand, I still have that too.
9. I never, but never wear makeup. Never have done.
10. I wear nail varnish.
11. I don’t varnish my toe nails.
12. I don’t eat veal or lobster.
13. I hate the dentist.
14. I dislike the doctors, and only went to see one out of necessity.
15. I am a very patient person, and will take a lot of rubbish from people, but if I’m pushed and pushed, I will eventually explode.
16. When I was about 5 or 6, I rode my little scooter onto some scaffolding to the upstairs floor of a house, and fell to the ground. Truly, I did. Naturally I had to have stitched in the back of my head, where my head was cut. Tough old skull I have.
17. Don’t know if I should tell you this one, but when I was in the infants, I always used to forget to put my knickers on.
18. I lived along the south coast for 23 years, with a break of 2 when I lived in Bradford in Yorkshire. In all that time, I never visited the Isle of Wight, until last year. It was a regular school outing at that time, but I never went. We went last year.
19. One of my favourite films is “Strictly Ballroom”.
20. The film I always put on when I’m upset or miserable is “Shirley Valentine”.
21. I like Dr Who.
22. I like Star Trek.
23. I am a big reality TV fan.
24. I said I would not watch Big Brother, but here I am for another year, glued to the TV.
25. I don’t like little children sitting on the conveyor belt or the other end of the till where your shopping slides down, in a supermarket. I think it is so unhygienic.
26. I don’t like it when people are on the mobile phones while being served in a shop.
27. I disagree with children having expensive mobile phones.
28. I think the mothers who top up their children's phones with £10 and £20 of chat time, are as daft as brushes.
29. I think kids should wear peaked caps if they want to, mine wears one.
30. It worries me that I am the wrong side of 50. (Will I live another 50 years).
31. Had my glasses altered today, and I now have one thin lens, and one thick lens. It really looks odd. (I wonder if anyone will notice. So much with trying to be fashionable, perhaps I’ll set a trend all of my own.)
32. I’ve been looking for a jacket for months and months, I found it today, 7.45 this evening, there it was on the rack, just what I wanted.
33. I hate not being able to get the washing dry, we do need some rain though.
34. I don’t like that predictable text on mobiles.
35. I don’t like phones that can take pictures, and no one knows the picture has been taken, unless, of course, I am taking the picture (that’s different).
36. I have to have my ears syringed now and again. When I first had them done, a few years back, I could not believe how much I could hear. I went out of the doctors, being able to hear everything, every click of the car door, everything, it was wonderful.
37. I class myself as British.
38. I don’t class myself as European.
39. I would rather keep the Pound than go to the Euro.
40. I hate cricket.
41. I hate football.
42. I like gymnastics. (Spectator of course).
43. I like being a woman.
44. I like to have the door opened for me.
45. I like where I live.
46. I like the New Forest.
47. I used to horse ride when I was younger, but haven’t done so for about 34 years.
48. I haven’t rode my bike for a couple of years.
49. I’ve walked along the Champs-Elysées.
50. And finally, I’ve been totally lost in Brisbane.

Pretty Picture No.1 The Crab pot.... Bit rusty now...but I gave my daughter $20 on a school camp to magnetic island when she was 9 so she could buy herself something..I spotted her walking down the boat ramp as I was picking her up a few days later and she presented me with this crabpot...On mainland $8.00...on Magnetic Island $16.00.....she bought herself something with the remaning $4.00..To me a very pretty picture..I was so deeply touched.. 

No.2 A collectors Item The Full bottle was given to me by my wife back in 1989 for my birthday...bottle is somewhere in my shed...she used to fill it for my every birthday...2 litres... 

No.3 "The Hitchiker" This was given to me a few years ago by my Mother in Law a few years ago...a piece of driftwood she found in a store...I was touched 

Nursery Rhymes for Big People

Nursery Rhymes for Big People

MARY HAD A LITTLE PIG She kept it fat and plastered; And when the price of pork went up, She shot the little bastard.

MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB Her father shot it dead. Now it goes to school with her, Between two hunks of bread.

JACK AND JILL Went up the hill to have a little fun. Stupid Jill forgot the pill and now they have a son.

SIMPLE SIMON met a Pie man going to the fair. Said Simple Simon to the Pie man, "What have you got there?" said the Pie man unto Simon, "Pies, you dumb #$%!"

HUMPTY DUMPTY sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the kings' horses, and all the kings' men. Had scrambled eggs, for breakfast again.

HEY DIDDLE, DIDDLE the cat took a piddle, all over the bedside clock. The little dog laughed to see such fun. Then died of electric shock.

GEORGIE PORGY Pudding and Pie, kissed the girls and made them cry.
And when the boys came out to play, he kissed them too 'cause he was gay.

There was a little girl who had a little curl right in the middle of her forehead. When she was good, she was very, very good. But when she was bad........
She got a fur coat, jewels, a waterfront condo, and a sports car.

Here is my Grandfather, in 1935 when he graduated from high school. The woman to the left is my Great Grandmother (native Cherokee) who I had the great pleasure of knowing. She passed away when I was about 10 or 11.  

New Toy

I'm off to get a new toy today...printer/copier/fax/scanner...

woo hoooo!!!!! I'll be scanning 'bits' as well, Paul!!!

100 things - Sue

Here are my 100 things. Hard to think of things to write.

1. I’m a quarter of an inch shorter than 5 ft.
2. I have brown eyes.
3. I dye my hair to cover the grey.
4. I hate the aging process.
5. I’m at the point where all the policemen look far too young to be in their jobs.
6. I like jewellery.
7. I like doing crafts, I do cross stitch, I’ve made dolls houses, and I make jewellery, necklaces made from silver plated wire and beads, and I love wearing them too, as well, also.
8. I collect Teddy Bears.
9. I still have my teddy from when I was two.
10. I collect elephants.
11. I love animals.
12. I couldn’t kill a thing.
13. I love Bassett Hounds, and have had two that lived to 13, and the next one was nearly 17 when she died. The little dog we have now is a Collie Cross, (crossed with what, I do not know).
14. When I was a child I was scared of spiders, but I find now that I love spiders (as long as it doesn’t run too quickly towards me).
15. I hate going out, to pubs or restaurants, too many people.
16. I like going on days out, yesterday we went to Poole and Bournemouth, there are lovely sandy beaches there.
17. I hate sitting on a beach surrounded by loads of people (and will only sit there for five minutes while Rob has a swim), but can appreciate being on a deserted beach looking out onto the ocean.
18. I like Brighton, there are a lot of little unique shops there, interesting to look around.
19. I like different architecture.
20. I can see the beauty in Art Deco buildings and furniture.
21. I have been married for 33 years in September.
22. I think I am a snob.
23. When we were first married we lived in a flat above a greengrocers.
24. We lived in this flat for 3 years.
25. I hate my job. I work in a supermarket. It totally bores me.
26. I love my Mother and sister dearly.
27. I phone my Mother every day.
28. I wear glasses.
29. I was born in Plymouth in England.
30. I nearly drowned when I was a child. Hence, I can’t swim, and will not even paddle in the water.
31. We moved to Bradford when I was about 8 years old. I loved it there, we used to play on the Red Reck, or so we called it.
32. I had Hooping Cough when I was 9.
33. I have been to eight schools.
34. When I was 10 we moved back to the south, Gosport, and had to loose the gorgeous Yorkshire accent I had, really quick, because of the mickey taking.
35. I hated school, with a vengeance.
36. I had a Saturday job in Woolworths.
37. I had Asian flu when I was 18.
38. I did shorthand and typing, but my shorthand speed was not good because I am so heavy handed when writing, and so precise, I just couldn’t get the speed up. I can touch type a treat, and at a fair speed, and I used to do wonderful tabulation, quite large ones too, and would take pride in doing them.
39. Rob and I were married for three years before we moved from Gosport to Didcot.
40. When we were first married we lived in a flat above a greengrocers.
41. We lived in this flat for 3 years.
42. When I first moved to Didcot, I worked in a Dart Board factory. I made the metal edges to go round the dartboards.
43. I had a room to myself in the hospital, when I gave birth to my eldest boy, because I had an infection. (It was wonderful).
44. With my second boy, I was in a ward of four beds. One of the mothers and myself snored, rather loudly I think. The third girl went home, but the fourth disappeared one night. She was put into another ward, because she could not get any sleep, because of myself and this other woman that snored. Ooops.
45. I love the computer, mobile phones, and my little PDA.
46. I love Satnav.
47. I love poetry, and loved reading children’s poetry to the children when they were little.
48. I do not read a lot, but what I have read in the past are Isaac Asimov and Aldous Huxley. More recently I have read a book called Black and Blue and one called Before Women had Wings. I can not sit down and read a book, too boring.
49. I love the summer.
50. I love the Bluebells in summer
51. I love an open fire in the winter.
52. I hate Christmas.
53. I love the colour of the leaves in Autumn.
54. I love the yellow daffodils in Spring.
55. I love my camera, I love to take pictures, and even if I only get one good picture, I am happy.
56. I love my little Ford Ka. (I know what your thinking, it’s just me. Ford Ka, me.) If you had to match the car to the person, you would pick the Ford Ka for me.
57. I love colour, I love green and purple and orange, I love maroon, and yellow, and that lovely damson colour, but not blue, although that is the colour of my bathroom walls (which I thought was aqua).
58. I love flowers, their colours and their smells, and their beauty.
59. I went to Paris when I was fifteen.
60. I went to Australia when I was fifty.
61. We met my mate Patty when we were in Australia.
62. I hate flying. (When we went to Australia, it was the first time that I had flown.)
63. I hate war; I do not understand the mentality of anyone who would want to inflict pain on others.
64. I can’t stand cruelty to animals, children, anything, anyone.
65. I can cry at just about anything.
66. I prefer to watch a film rather than read a book.
67. I like Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, and Danny Devito.
68. I don’t listen to a lot of music, but if I do it would probably be Barbara Streisand, Robert Palmer, Paul McCartney, although I like Eric Clapton and various others that my husband listens to.
69. I don’t like Robbie Williams the singer, or Madonna; I think they are rather overrated.
70. I can’t stand the way the farmer near us thinks he can just shoot things, whenever he likes.
71. I can’t stand guns.
72. I do not like fox hunting, think of the stress it puts on the fox.
73. I do not like animals fighting, for money or otherwise.
74. I do not like bull fighting.
75. I do not like any bird shooting. I do not understand what pleasure people get in shooting birds, ask the bird whether they are enjoying it.
76. Sorry about this one, but I don’t like fishing just for fun.
77. I love my boys.
78. I’m not a sporty person. I really don’t like playing sports.
79. However, I did like going to the gym, as long as there isn’t any one else there. I get a bit embarrassed. Consequently, I don’t go.
80. The Iris is my favourite flower.
81. I have kept a china mouse for 38 years. His head wobbles.
82. I hate ironing.
83. I hate having wet washing hung all round the house.
84. I hate cucumber.
85. I hate prawns.
86. Don’t ask me to eat a slipper lobster, they look like giant woodlouse. Yuk.
87. I don’t like gooseberries.
88. I have two little Love Birds.
89. I have a Pale Headed Rosella. He looks just like a big budgie.
90. I would hate to be put into an old peoples home.
91. I wonder about life, and what is the meaning of it all. The answer can not be 42, surely.
92. I wonder where I would be now, if, when I was younger, I took the other path. Would I have ended up exactly where I am now.
93. I worry about my boys, was it wrong to bring them into this terrible world.
94. I love the hot sun.
95. I hate magazines for the over 50’s. What a cheek!
96. I hate it that a person is supposed to dress a certain way at different ages.
97. I really am shy.
98. I enjoy having my Blog friends on the web.
99. I started German classes years ago, but found it embarrassing when the teacher asked me questions, and I had to stand up in front of everyone.
100. Staying power, to finish these one hundred things.

Eight Words with two Meanings

Eight Words with two Meanings

1. THINGY (thing-ee) n
Female... Any part under a car's hood.
Male..... The strap fastener on a woman's bra.

2. VULNERABLE (vul-ne-ra-bel) adj.
Female.... Fully opening up one's self emotionally to another.
Male.... Playing cricket without a protector.

3. COMMUNICATION (ko-myoo-ni-kay-shon) n.
Female.... The open sharing of thoughts and feelings with one's partner.
Male... Leaving a note before taking off on a fishing trip with the boys.

4. COMMITMENT (ko-mit-ment) n.
Female... A desire to get married and raise a family.
Male...... Trying not to hit on other women while out with this one.

5. ENTERTAINMENT (en-ter-tayn-ment) n.
Female.... A good movie, concert, play or book.
Male...... Anything that can be done while drinking beer

6. FLATULENCE (flach-u-lens) n.
Female.... An embarrassing byproduct of indigestion.
Male...... A source of entertainment, self-expression, male bonding.

7 MAKING LOVE (may-king luv) n.
Female...... The greatest expression of intimacy a couple can achieve.
Male.. Call it whatever you want, just as long as we do it.

8. REMOTE CONTROL (ri-moht kon-trohl) n.
Female.... A device for changing from one TV channel to another.
Male... A device for scanning through all 75 channels every 5 minutes.


AND;


He said . . . I don't know why you wear a bra; you've got nothing to put in
it.
She said . . . You wear pants don't you?


He said . . .... Shall we try swapping positions tonight?
She said . . That's a good idea - you stand by the ironing board while I sit
on the sofa and fart!

He said. What have you been doing with all the grocery money I gave you?
She said . ....Turn sideways and look in the mirror!

He said . . .... Why don't you tell me when you have an orgasm?
She said . I would but you're never there.

He said . . Why did the man cross the road?
She said. He heard the chicken was a slut.

He said . ..... Why don't women blink during foreplay?
She said .. . . They don't have time

He said . . How many men does it take to change a roll of toilet paper?
She said . . We don't know; it has never happened.

She said...What do you call a women who knows where her husband is every
night?
He said . . . A widow.

He said . .. . Why are married women heavier than single women?
She said . Single women come home, see what's in the fridge and go to bed.
Married women come home, see what's in bed and go to the fridge.

100 Things - Johnno's Secrets...Believe it or not!!!

Ok.....my turn

1. Real name John...do not call me Johnnie
2. Nickname at school was Porky....must have had the beef on...after school it was Hotshot...don’t know why
3. Born in Dungog...a New South Wales country town...But I don’t follow the blues
4. Religion...Hmmm....Got turned off it at a young age, as I was forced to go to church
5. Father died when I was about seven
6. Five of us kids at that stage
7. Two older brothers, a younger sister and a younger brother
8. Mum married my father’s brother
9. Then my youngest Brother was born...six of us
10. Sent to boarding school at eighth grade to settle my wild mind down...
11. Early days about 18-20 smoked too many drugs...Naughty boy
12. Did 3 years as a metalworker apprentice...did not finish 4th year...did not need it
13. When I left Job...I hitched from Sydney to Darwin with a good mate
14. Stayed in Darwin for 3 weeks at Fanny Bay
15. Hitched back to Whitsunday Islands
16. Got a job as a labourer on Hayman Island and lasted 3 months
17. Returned to Sydney and as soon as I got home…rang the Island to get my Job back...I stayed on the Island for another 6 months...then returned to Sydney
18. Real hair is Blond
19. Eyes are blue
20. I also smoke too much...working on it
21. A partner with my oldest and youngest brothers in a Truck parts business
22. Have had 3 dogs in my life...a kelpie...a kelpie Border collie cross...now a pure bred short haired border collie called nick
23. Only owned one cat...Gave it to my wife 2 years ago for her birthday...a Burmese named Jazzy
24. Which brings me to...Happily married...One wife...Two daughters...and I love them all
25. Married in Tamworth 20 years ago...Guests all travelled from Sydney and Brisbane...ect
26. First house was at Springwood in Brisbane
27. Second house we built at Tambourine...west of Surfers Paradise
28. Moved to Townsville in 1998 to run our Northern shop
29. Rented at Saunders Beach for Six months then purchased a quarter acre Beach-hut on absolute beachfront....hehehe!
30. Went to the Philippines for 3 weeks with a mate 25 years ago...first trip overseas.
31. A very stubborn Taurus
32. So I am told...lol
33. Drive a Toyota Landcruiser and a Toyota Hilux
34. First car was a Holden LH Torana...which I rolled in the bush with a mait at 16...survived.
35. Then had a Mini Minor,VW Beetle, Ford XB Falcon, HG panelvan...with curtains and mattress, then a Mini Moke, then a Toyota corolla panelvan…complete with mirrors...mattresses and curtains…then a Holden HD station wagon...then a HQ panelvan...no mattress...then a HQ V8 ute...Broke that one!...Then a Toyota Lexan...then a BMW 318i for 7 years...Toyota Parado...Holden Rodeo...now the Landcruiser
36. Parents live on 12 acres south of Brisbane at North Mclean
37. I love fishing
38. I love Golf
39. I ummm(!)…. do love Photography
40. First camera I purchased was an 8mm Canon video camera...I still have somewhere, with party movies from when I was 18...must dig it out
41. Second was a Canon AE1 programme...25 years old...still use it at times
42. Then a Canon A300...broke it, still in the glove box of my car...so I bought a Canon A75...My new Canon EOS350D XT Rebel arrives next week
43. My brothers and I bought a company plane about 10 years ago...a Beachcraft Duke...6 seater...sold it 3 years later
44. Love Tropical storms
45. I hate customers that waste my time...I can read them like a book as soon as they walk in
46. I admit ...I am a messy person...should see my shed
47. I love a Jack Daniels on ice
48. The Internet is the best item ever created.
49.Some people think I am a practical joker...lol
50. *sheesh...only half way
51. Blew up a few letterboxes as a kid on cracker nite...as you do
52. Weekends in Sydney used to consist of Pubs, Nightclubs or going to Thredbo skiing...which I was good at...but too bloody cold.
53.Was in a church choir for a couple of years...amazing what you will do to chase girls.
54. Love to read Wilber Smith Books, or any about Africa or early Australia
55. My wife got me a front row seat at a Tammy Wynette concert for my 30th B/day....so… I have taste in music
56. My grandfather taught me to fish with home made bamboo rods catching river perch and Mullet
57. And that is why mullet is my favourite table fish...*and they use it for bait!!
58. My favourite beer is XXXX gold
59. My favourite wine is Wolfblass cab sav Brown Label.
60. I think Barbra Striesand is gorgeous.... Much to my wife’s disgust
61. I cannot drink milk...I think it goes back to when I was milking cows at school.
62. Favourite subject at boarding school was wool classing...even went to a competition at Sydney Royal Easter Show...and got a place
63. Played Rugby Union for St George under 18 Colts
64. Stayed a virgin till 15...lol
65. Used to spend all my paper run money at Lunar Park in Sydney...until mum found out
66. Wagged school
67. I can cook fairly good...but don’t tell my wife
68. My wife and I have lived through her two mastectomies, hysterectomy and two breast rebuilds...so we can handle anything they throw at us now.
69. I love barbeques to the max
70. I cannot save money...live life and enjoy as you cannot take it with you
71. I was on anti depression drugs for a year a couple of years back...don’t know why
72. Was also anaemic...so was getting vitamin B injections every 3 months...It was all to do with too much stress...so they say
73. My youngest brother is our managing director...also a pilot and is building our 747b flight sim. His son will be swimming for Australia in 2012 Olympics.
73. Next oldest is on a pension as a wife carer...she has MS.
74. Next is my sister…they have a carpet cleaning business in Brisbane
75. Then me. *Nearly there!!!
76. Then there is mike my great mate...has a Thai restaurant on the Gold coast...he is a road designer and married to a Thai family.
77. Last is my oldest brother...also living in Brisbane and a partner in our business, prolly talk to him more now than when we were working side by side in Brisbane
78. I love to go to the beach...figures!
79. Get a great kick at going to dress up parties...ect!
80. I can water-ski and ice skate and snow ski...must be a balance thing.
81. I have six or more pushbikes in my shed.
82. Weekends at home is when I just like to sit back and relax with family and friends...always a party somewhere...
83. Once worked for The Sydney morning Herald newspaper...got caught up with the Union people...then left
84. Hate shopping...I don’t do that.... yuk!
85. Drink way too much coffee
86. I do not like gardening...I buy weedkiller in bulk...it works
87. Am always told that I will talk to anyone.
88. Went to a Liberal Party function at Beaudesert and shook John Howard’s hand just before he was voted Prime Minister. :-)
89. I don’t do Big brother or any sitcom TV shows.... sport or news, I can handle.
90. I don’t like doing surveys...is this one!!
91. I love to get my hair Dyed...just for the shock value...and the looks on peoples faces.
92. I can get very emotional...over the smallest of things
93. I don’t do funerals...if I can find a way out of it.
94. I don’t really feel 47...wonder what 50 is like.
95. Love to type people’s names in Google and to see what occupations come up all over the world.
96. Some people think I have ADD.
97. I can be anyone’s friend...but don’t cross me.
98. I love my friends
99. I love my relatives.... from a distance.
100. Most of all, I love my wife and kids.

London Bombing again?

10.45pm dont know what is happening but seems like bombs ....bloody hell

100 Things - Leigh

**sigh** here we go...

1. Leigh is actually my middle name.
2. My father is American, my mother is British.
3. I went to school in the UK as a child and being from the south, the kids teased me relentlessly because of my accent (which I soon learned to modify, now I have no accent.)
4. I was born one minute and one year to the day after my brother died from leukemia.
5. My younger brother died at age 25 from a horrendous motorcycle accident.
6. My dad resembles Kenny Rogers (the singer) and they were classmates at high school.
7. I've only ever really had one job, staying for 14 years and then taking early retirement when offered, post 9/11 because the airline industry was in such bad shape after those events. I took the early-out option to prevent others from being made redundant (plus I didnt want/need to work anymore, wanted to be at home with my family).
8. I have two sons, one is 19 from my first marriage and one who is 10, from my second marriage. They are both the center of my universe.
9. I have discovered that I really dont care for children...I prefer the company of my own.
10. I still consider my first husband to be the love of my life (I was so bloody young)
11. I have always had auburn hair and when I was in school I used to sit on it because it was so long. My Mom took me to get it all cut off when I was about 9, into a cute little page boy style and my Dad refused to speak to my Mom for a week afterwards.
12. I used to go squirrel hunting with my Grandpa when I was a kid.
13. I love to go fishing with my Dad. It's not the fishing I enjoy, its the time being spent with my Dad.
14. My Grandpa was a millionaire.
15. I absolutely hate housework but my family deserves a clean home to be proud of so I do it, or I get someone in to do it for me.
16. I live to go to the spa, facials, manicures, pedicures...love it love it love it.
17. I hate having a cell phone.
18. I love having email.
19. I prefer hot weather to cold.
20. I love being from Texas. We are a sturdy, proud bunch of folks.
21. I think I look like a potato with legs..and short legs at that.
22. I am 1/16th Cherokee Indian and dont have to shave my legs and wax my eyebrows as much as most women.
23. My favorite color is green, no blue, no red, no orange...hell..I love color..lots and lots of it.
24. I hate large, cheap jewelry on women.
25. I love my husbands hands.
26. I have an irrational fear of big blue mailboxes. (We've discussed this ridiculous subject before, so I won't elaborate)
27. I have two dogs, two cats, and four fish and everyone has a name.
28. I love big blue skies and no clouds in the winter time.
29. I love to be squished on the tube in London during rush hour and imagining where each person is going and what their desks must look like.
30. I only ever fly first class and pout when I have to sit in the back.
31. I have no respect for silly sloppy drunk people that you have to babysit all evening. I prefer to be the designated driver (you get free cokes that way).
32. I hate spending alot of money on necessities but love spending frivolously on things that are not important.
33. I only use Clinique makeup.
34. I always wanted to run for public office.
35. I don't think I am as pretty or as nice as my younger sister. They used to call us salt and pepper..she is tall, thin, blonde and blue eyed. I used to think my Mum preferred her to me. Sometimes still do....
36. I am selfish
37. I am grumpy at times.
38. I am moody..(once a month)
39. I have a bad temper.
40. I enjoy fundraising for deserving groups.
41. I enjoy donating my time to organizations.
42. I really really disliked my youngest sons teacher last year.
43. Sometimes, I sign my checks with my maiden name (duh...)
44. Sometimes, my sister calls me by my full name (maiden name).
45. My sisters husband is a Homicide Sargeant detective with the police department and she is the one family member with a criminal record.
46. I love it when my husband tells the kids, "Just let Mom have her way".
47. I felt very very small in a big big world after the 9/11 incidents.
48. I have long fingers.
49. I have funny looking toes.
50. I love the way the sun feels thru my shirt on my back.
51. I love to get dressed up for formal events.
52. I love to wear vanilla oil behind my ears.
53. I like to smell old books.
54. I like to peel my sons' backs when they get sunburnt.
55. I scrub my kitchen sink with cleanser every morning.
56. I hate coffee.
57. I have never broken a bone in my body.
58. I am a cancer survivor. I was diagnosed when I found out I was pregnant with number two son.
59. I have had 1 miscarriage.
60. I would love to write a novel.
61. I love biographical type films, books, tv programes.
62. I am a reality tv junkie.
63. I never ever kill bugs in the house. I am catch and release kinda gal.
64. I was in a car accident once trying to avoid hitting a squirrel (see the irony to number 12?)
65. I have really really thick hair that I used to hate but now I love.
66. I am very insecure about whether or not people like me and feel that people were just talking about me before I entered the room.
67. I love being an EMT. I love the lights, sirens and driving thru stopped traffic and helping people that truely are ill and need my help. The way they look at you is unbelieable rewarding. Knowing that I do it for nothing makes me feel even better.
68. I love the way my car smells in the hottest part of the day just as the air conditioner comes thru.
69. I listen to the radio almost all day, even though the telly is on and volume turned all the way down.
70. I used to be afraid of being alone and now I covet singular lives. How nice it must be to put something down and it actually being there when you come back.
71. I love being a firefighter because it is so unexpected. When people see me in my turnouts they sort of look at me and wonder, "just who is this rolypoly woman in that gear and does she know what she is doing" ...
72. I absolutely deplore conflict but I have a very venomous tongue and can cut you down in an instant and then completely cut you out of my life forever with no remorse.
73. My favorite smell is in late spring early morning just as it is getting hot and then laying in a mound of red topped clover. The smell is sweet and moist and takes me back to my childhood in a split second.
74. I am turned on more by a man's intellect than his outward appearance.
75. I think that cheating starts in the mind and not with the physical act.
76. I am a very good cook.
77. I always have lights up on the house at Christmas and we always put up at least two trees.
78. When hubby retires, we are going to buy a large RV and travel the country and have sex in every one of the lower 48. We are up to 16 states so far (including Hawaii..ha ha..sorry...too much information).
79. I dont like to talk to the person seated next to me on a plane.
80. I prefer wooden floors to carpeted ones.
81. I always wear shoes..whether it's flipflops, heels, or slippers.
82. I love spending entirely too much on shoes and handbags.
83. Summer thunderstorms at night are the best.
84. I hate doing the laundry.
85. My Nanna met the Beatles, once. She also got in David Nivens face at Heathrow airport once and repeated, "You're David Niven...You're David Niven" to which he replied very softly, "Yes, Madam...yes.." and tried to slope off unnoticed by the rest of the standers-by. She adored him. She also sold Roger Moore and his young daughter a pair of little girl wellies at Dolcis shoe store in Slough High Street.
86. I met MacGyver, Lyle Lovett, Jaclyn Smith, Tracey Ullman, Michael Caine, Brooke Shields, and some smalltime soap actors while working for the airline.
87. I have never been to a rave.
88. I love to embarrass my kids.
89. My husband says I snore.
90. I am a Daddy's girl but see and go to lunch with my Mom more often.
91. I want my ashes scattered at Lake Tahoe when I die. It is my absolute favorite place in the world.
92. I miss my paternal Grandmother very much. She was a kind, loving and wise woman.
93. I like to garden in the back while I am topless.
94. I have never cheated on my taxes and have been audited three times.
95. I love to gamble. Casinos, horses, dogs, football games...
96. I love to go on long walks in any weather.
97. My second toe is longer than my first toe (on both feet)
98. I still have a pencil lead in my right thigh from an accident when I was 7 yrs old.
99. I would like to have a boob lift.
100. Artichokes are my favorite vegetable.

Oh...To have a beautiful dark suntan...Lol 

Happy First Birthday Pattycam Watchers Blog.....and to all the bloggers...what a wonderful year! 

Congrats!!!!!

Congratulations Patty on one great year! Here's to many more blogs and great pictures! Loved every minute of it!!! It's so nice to be part of it. Teddy

Some Amusing jokes for those that are bored

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The changing faces of Johnno..lol 

Sad nite

My Mait Inch....That came to the state of origin football game in Brisbane...well he was on top of the world as his Daughter was 13 weeks pregnent with her first baby...Grandad...Grandma...Aunties...Uncles...well I called in to see him on the way home tonite and he told me and she has lost it....what do you say...what do you do...we had a wine...we talked...we hugged around the fire...it is all just so damn sad...but life goes on!!!

London

All transport halted in London. 2 people reported dead so far. Many injured.

Bombs in London

London has been hit by bomb explosions, underground stations and the main line stations.

I have to phone my son, because he could be effected this evening trying to get home. The train he gets would be from Paddington. Click on the link in the title to read more.

The rock...My friend took this last year of "Uluru"...It is to go with the song of the day