RhettButler posted:

Rhett, thank you for the lovely card!!

Ya Happy Thanksgiving to all my American buddies too!!!!

Hope your well JC. Ya, it's unseasonally mild here in the Emerald Isle, about 14^oC, but getting cooler abit, but nearly December!

Our weather boffins here though we'd have snow in October (still not here yet!)...

vince, yes, I'm very well, thank you. I don't know, but I think the world's weather patterns might be changing. All this week we've had rain and it's been really cold (for us) as if it was winter still and not almost summer. Today started out cold and then warm and sunny. vince, I hope you guys get some snow soon, 'twould be nice to have a white Christmas.

ScarletSiren, you pretty lady you!!! Happy Thanksgiving to you too!! Thank you for your kind words. The way I see it, there's too much negativity in the world, so why not spread a little love around???

Well, people, I've just got a brand-new digital tv and personal video recorder all set up, the tv part is easy but it's going to be interesting figuring out the pvr... It's got a 320gig hard drive... not that I record anything from television or anything like that, you're not really supposed to do things like that...

So, what are all you wonderful people doing, apart from eating lots of turkey...



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Yes, we've had some extreme weather here. Last week Sydney was like winter, cold and very very wet. Now it's more like the weather we should be having. Today was 30 celsius and not too humid. In north-western New South Wales there have been floods and the people are getting emergency food and medical supplies flown in.


It is nice to respect other people's customs and holidays. It helps us all to be a bit more understanding of one another.


So, now is the time to start thinking about Christmas. Has anybody started Christmas shopping yet? I'll probably be buying the fruit for my Christmas cake later this week, I make a very delicious Christmas cake. I put all the fruit in a huge jar with a little bit of whiskey and seal it for three weeks, then when I make the cake the fruit is nicely flavoured and smells delicious. Apart from that, we have just a quiet celebration, picnic lunch, maybe a baked dinner in the evening. Not sure if I'll decorate the house much this year, my children are grown up and not too fussed whether I decorate the house or not.

Hi Joan!

Do you visit the beach on Christmas?

Hi everybody!!! Just wanted to wish all my friends at nin.com and their families the very best for Christmas and the New Year.

Merry Christmas, Joan!

Happy Holidays!

Here's a few pictures I took recently

These are some very acrobatic Galahs.




Every year at this time the Galahs, Sulphur-Crested Cockatoos, Rainbow Lorikeets and Corellas love to get in the pine tree in my front garden and eat it!! They're very bold and very cheeky, and they watch me taking photos of them eating my tree. The quality of the photos is not so good because I'm taking the photos through the upstairs bedroom window.

Colin, thank you!! Yes, he is handsome isn't he? My daughter and I were at a little town not too far from where we live, and in a cafe window was a sign "Free to good home: Border Collie cross, 2 months old, good temperament" and a mobile phone number and name. Took the details, the sign had actually been posted by one of the waitresses in the cafe, she told us a bit more about the dog and less than a week later we went and checked him out. We met his grandfather who is a very handsome pure bred Border Collie, his grandmother who is a beautiful very matronly pure bred Bull Arab, and his mother who is also a pure bred Bull Arab. I've never heard of the breed before so I googled. They're an Australian breed, a mixture of Greyhound, German Shorthaired Pointer, Bull Mastiff and one or two other breeds. Very very loyal dogs, quiet temperament. The vet I go to knows the breed quite well and said I could expect my young fellow to grow to be about 30-35kgs which is a bit smaller than Blackie was. But Jesse was the last of the litter to be born and the smallest, so maybe he won't be quite that big. He is a very fast learner and is settling in to our routine very well. The little bugger can tell the time!!! He knows what time dinner is... I haven't been taking him out walking yet, he got his kennel cough vaccination last Monday and the vet advised me to keep him away from other dogs for 10 days until the vaccine takes effect. I'm going to be walking him about 4 times a week and introducing him to all Blackie's old friends.

How are you Joan? It is still raining there? ^-^ It's Fall already there?
How's Jesse?

I MUST stop by to appreciate Joan because:
1 She rocks the NIN tees and tattoos.
2 She a really cool lady and...
3 She KNITS!!!!! (That's a win-win in my book)

cute_annie, thank you so much!! *hug* But I don't knit, I crochet. But that's OK, a lot of people make that mistake.

peacenin!!! Hi!!!

Well, yesterday my son got a replacement motorcycle for the one that was written off a month ago. For those who don't know, he was riding along quite happily and decided to pull over to the side of the road to push his hair out of his eyes. He saw a pothole but it was too late to avoid it and the bike went over with his leg underneath it. He was able to push the bike off him. He was wearing all his protective clothing and helmet so he was very lucky. The only injuries were some soft tissue damage to his right leg, and a wound where his house keys (which were in his inner jacket pocket) penetrated his abdomen. The worst part was at the hospital when he had a ct scan and they gave him iv contrast (iodine). About 10-20 minutes later his face swelled up, his tongue swelled up and he started to have difficulty talking. It was an anaphylactic (sp?) reaction and neither of us had any idea. It was really scary, but the doctors and nurses were very quick to react and administered adrenaline and put him on a adrenaline drip all that night to counteract the iv contrast.

So, he's back on the road again, and mummy worries again But he's a careful rider and always wears his protective gear (even when it's stinking hot), and I shouldn't worry about him.

He's going to the immunologist tomorrow to get a bracelet or pendant and chain necklace with all the information about the anaphylaxis reaction on it. He was talking about getting that info tattooed on his arm (his first tattoo!!!) as well. He might do that. He's not really one for jewellery and where he works, jewellery is not really a good thing to have because of occupational health and safety.

Hey,

Glad to hear that your son is doing okay.

sending lots of love and appreciation once again to the one and only joan!