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WHEEEEEE!!!!

Um... Shosho... changeover time is 10 am Eastern time zone. It changed 3 hours ago.

Time to pick up the other golfers, the tournament doesnt start till 2:00 pm, but they need aiming fluid before they hit the course. Have a gread day everyone!

Jeb. We have a favorite Yoda quote here at the Plum household that goes: "Do or do not. There is no Try."
Could you, perhaps, be a jedi?
(Would that make you a "jebi"?)
I think the organizers meant Try as in "experience something new to see More...

Plum--congratulations to your daughter-- what a wonderful effort and congratulations to you to for encouraging her in this endeavor-- at 8 they still need a fair amount of direction from Mom in order to complete that type of event-- good job!!

Shosho - your changover time is 7 am! It's 10 am on the East Coast!

Little Plum is thrilled with all the messages from the U.S. and abroad. Keep them coming. She's looking all of you up on the globe.

Shosho's still on Eastern time!

Tell Little Plum I live near Bergerac which is east of Bordeaux, which she will find on the west coast of France just above Spain.

Mymare - Good work! I, too, bike whenever I can. I only use my car when I go to the mainland. So now I only fill up the tank about once every 6 or 7 weeks (and I usually only need 8 or 9 gallons). I'll be biking to the beach later today for my daily swim. My only regret is that I can't bring More...

Shosho, is the word pedantic and pedagogue from the same root meaning? I think so. Being pedantic about some things is often called for, in others, not. Without turning into a grammer nazi on these free wheeling pages, there are times when one has to trip over improper usage. For the sake of a More...

Jeb, you must get very frustrated with your local newspaper. The Times-Union (out of Jacksonville, FL) has a great policy of requesting readers to alert them of spelling and grammatical errors. And we do! It really keeps the reporters on their toes!

One of the more common errors that used to appear regularly in our local paper was the expression "different than" which, of course, should be "different from". Alert readers have just about eliminated that grammatical faux pas!

Alert readers here just shake their collective heads in frustration. Our publisher considers himself an elitist intellectual. He is, afterall, a small town Kansas boy, Harvard educated. Doesn't that make him special? But he has an elastic grip on what is 'real'.

Hey Linda - Swing on over this way with the adult malted beverage cart. My mug is runnin' low.

My personal hate is the word 'that' in improper places. 'she was that excited!'
We do however have to accept thet English is a living language & subject to change & additions at any moment. (not to mention cultural specifics - now there is a whole new can of worms!)

Re The "try thing" --- In my younger days, (a long time ago) Little League Baseball held tryouts. If one was good enough, he made the team. If not well too bad work on your skills and try again next year. Now we have "sign ups". Everyone gets to play. We wouldn't want to hurt the "little darlings" feelings and self esteem, would we...

Good afternoon to all! This photo made me start humming "Starry, starry nights..."

A song that seems to sum up the support folks have been getting and giving on this site, enjoy listening to Bill Withers performing "Lean on Me."

Ok - Time for a little levity.

An Irish priest was transferred to Texas ...

Father O'Malley rose from his bed one morning. It was a fine spring
day in his new Texas mission parish. He walked to the window of his
bedroom to get a deep breath of the beautiful day outside. He More...

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BAPTIST DINNER FOR EIGHT

A group of country friends from the Cottonwood Baptist Church wanted to get together on a regular basis to socialize, and play games. The lady of the house was to prepare the meal.

When it came time for Al and Janet to be the hosts - More...

The 'try' discussion and follow-up comments to it remind me of the following...
A young girl who was writing a paper for school came to her father and asked, "Dad, what is the difference between anger and exasperation?"
The father replied, "It is mostly a matter of degree. Let More...

Happy Birthday Benny & JulieK

CG, my most heartfelt thanks for ah-ha moment received in the parable of your last post. I see now that I have been, figuratively speaking, asking the correct question, just not necessarily at the right time. I shall try to do better in the future.

And shall also try to make sure all the necessary words wind up in the sentence where they are needed most.

I've been gone for a few days, and it's taken awhile to catch up on the posts.

for you, Little Plum!!

July 14th is Bastille Day.
The French have started celebrating in many towns and villages across the country tonight(13th) with dances, dinners and fireworks. The 14th is a national holiday which will end with the biggest fireworks in all the major towns. Have a lovely day all you sudokuists in France.

Janet from Sydney
pao from chile
Triple L from Montreal
Hope you find friends, fun, fabulous time, fine ideas,some flattery, foolisfness as much as necessary and frequent relaxation ...Enjoy this wonderful sudokuland!

Good day to all. The grandchildren are napping and Grandpa and I are getting some much needed rest!

Jerry, I have to disagree on the tryouts thing, up to a certain age anyway, and it has nothing to do with self esteem. I think kids should be encouraged to be active in whatever way possible and blocking access to 'popular' sport at 7 years old has the opposite effect. Kids don't play baseball More...

Having company from down south - taking in the concert tonight at Britt:

U-tube: Average White Band - "A LOVE OF YOUR OWN" .

A little hazy today and hot again. I want to thank those countries that are sending fire fighters to California: Australia, Canada, Greece, Mexico & any others that I don't know about.

Yo Hoo,, Linda from page 1 -- can you drive your cart over here !!!!I'll take a little something

what a beautiful day in my neck of the woods. I picked up some pottery pieces fromt the fine arts faire -- little spoon rest and a small jar for my new bamboo shoot -- just wondering if I can cut it down a bit -- it's rather tall -- has anyone cut a bamboo before?? I'm sure it's just like a shoot off a plant - Thanks

France, Français et Françaises du monde! Il y a une célébation Bastille Day en Australie!!!!! C'est à votre tour de vous laisser parler d'amour! Bastille Day celebration in Australia!

benny from england
JulieK from Melbourne,
May your special day be full of ggod surprises, fun and joy...

I won't be celebrating Bastille Day in Australia! That would be silly as celebrating the 4th of July in Australia! I wouldn't expect anybody from Frane to even know the DATE of Australia Day!

I was going to write a post agreeing with Jeb re professional journalists using incorrect grammar, but found I got all confused about what was correct and what wasn't....

Frane? Where the hell's Frane??

Congratulations Little Plum!
G'day all......Have to go to work soon...

And there is one too many hands in the picture for my liking.