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  • lassie11
    lassie11 Member Posts: 1,500
    edited June 2013

    kam - which part of Canada will you be visiting? (maybe you already said but you know how it is).

    I saw the moon tonight.

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  • ananda8
    ananda8 Member Posts: 2,755
    edited June 2013

    The moon is lovely, slightly bigger and I think, much brighter than normal.  Since I can't sleep, I wandered around a bit outside.  Large or small, I love full moons.

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  • suzieq60
    suzieq60 Member Posts: 6,059
    edited June 2013

    Kam - even heard updates on the radio when I was driving around after work today - you're right about Canada being a Commonwealth country, but we get lots of news from everywhere here.

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  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited June 2013

    Monday morning chuckle!  Are these for real??????

    http://fb-troublemakers.com/the-best-or-worst-of-the-people-of-walmart-part-2-8459/

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  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited June 2013

    This, I believe!!!!!!!!!

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  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited June 2013

    And this one too!

    http://www.forwardprogressives.com/its-time-to-tell-the-truth-republicans-arent-christians/

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  • Alyson
    Alyson Member Posts: 4,308
    edited June 2013

    Even us folk at the bottom of the world get news of things such as the Calgary floods. Hear all about your Government in the USA so like Australia we get real world news. I suppose we are so far away, such a small country and so very young as a nation that we cannot be inwards looking. To get to any place we have to travel and as a people we do. It's 12 hours to LA and 28 to London. And just a question can you name all 50 US States and their capitals because I can and I bet most people in the States don't even know where New Zealand is.

    Actually have a friend in Calgary who had to get out of his appartment because they had no power.

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  • 1Athena1
    1Athena1 Member Posts: 6,696
    edited June 2013

    Alyson, nice to "see" you.

    Blue - LOL!

    Bartender, I am now happy to be able to partake of modest amounts of your heavenly libations. Still stupid on morphine, but less so than befpre.

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  • GatorGal
    GatorGal Member Posts: 2,550
    edited June 2013

    Have been traveling and out of the loop! Yeah, Mary, for great MRI's and E, absolutely gorgeous. Heading for Niagra today with 5 lovely family members and then on to Stratford on Thursday. Miss all the scuttlebutt here! It will take weeks to catch up!

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  • RetiredLibby
    RetiredLibby Member Posts: 1,992
    edited June 2013

    Hmm - I did see a couple of segments on NBC Nightly News on the terrible flooding in Calgary and Medicine Hat.  They even had a clip from a news briefing by a city official from Medicine Hat telling people they had to stay evacuated.  The flooding looked devastating!  I hope anyone who has near and dear ones there has received good news that they are OK -- and I hope that everyone is OK and the floodwaters recede posthaste.

    Still enojying retirement and not the least bit bored.  Little by little chipping away at putting away the boxes of "stuff" I brought home from the office and putting my work clothes (and other stuff) on eBay to sell.  Loads of things to do -- really, there aren't enough hours in the day to get everything done, even without working in the office anymore!

    We will be going to Wisconsin on Friday for a week for a mini-family reunion with DH's family.  His 87 (soon to be 88)-year-old father has lung and prostate cancer, although he's still very active.  It doesn't seem to have slowed him down much, but time is shorter than it was -- so it is a good time to go there to visit him while we can.  We are planning on retiring there (but 6 years is a long time), so we will be looking at neighborhoods and amenities, etc.

    Waiting with bated (not "baited," since I'm not catching fish or trapping animals!) breath for the Supreme Court decisions on marriage equality and the Voting Rights Act.  I sincerely hope we don't take a giant step backward into the 19th century ....

    Off for more coffee ... and starting to gather things to pack for Wisconsin.

    L

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  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited June 2013

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited June 2013

    tee, hee...US "international" media.  I remember many MANY years ago, a map of the world on the front page of the New York Sunday Times News of the Week in Review ( as it was called then) and there was NO NEW ZEALAND on the map.  A dear friend, from NZ living in New York was hysterical.

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited June 2013

    Blue -- waving my believer's hand as well at your graphic. 

    Wanted to go outside and see the moon last night, but it started pouring rain again.  Guess it is not meant to be. 

    Athena....glad you are a bit more in tune. 

    HL....I think the thing I noticed most about some of the retirees I used to know ,was that it was so easy to put some things off....because of course, work no longer being a factor you would have a GREAT time to fit it in.  That is unless you never wanted to have to do it no matter what....but it was always great to 'long' for retirement so you could get all those 'hanging' fire things done. 

    Dh will retire soon.....I think I going to have to be the gentle reminder person.  It may not be fun at all. 

    Jackie

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  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited June 2013

    hehehehehe!

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  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited June 2013

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  • gardengumby
    gardengumby Member Posts: 7,305
    edited June 2013

    Wow - stay away from the computer for a few days and look what happens!!!  Mary, so glad that you are boring, boring, boring!!!  Plan on staying that way!!

    E - what can I say?  First congratulations, of course, but have you agreed to marry him?  The two of you look marvelous together.  What are you going to do with Sampson?  I've often wondered how a liberal and conservative can manage living together.  Will you educate us?  Innocent

    The US population is abominably stupid about the rest of the world.  They simply chant the mantra of "we are the best in the world" and that's all they think they need to know.  Alyson - I can tell you the 50 states, but probably cannot say all of their capitols anymore.  However, I do know where New Zealand is, and Calgary, too.  Laughing  I love going to Canada.  When Bush was in office we went fairly often, as it was so #$%^ depressing down here.  Since cancer we've not gone as often, mostly because I'm simply more tired than I used to be, but it's only a couple hour drive for us - or a really great boatride, if we go to Victoria.

    Blue, those are the prettiest fish I've ever seen.  Do you know what they are?

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  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited June 2013

    https://www.upworthy.com/watch-a-smart-guy-stump-a-religious-bigot-with-her-own-religion?c=bl3

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  • QuinnCat
    QuinnCat Member Posts: 3,456
    edited June 2013

    GG - which is a better boat ride to Victoria - the ferry from downtown Seattle or Port Angeles??  I tentatively plan on going in September, but haven't decided if I'm driving or taking the train.  The train would necessitate going from Seattle, but if that ferry is a big hassle, expensive, or if one is faster than the other, less motion(!).....any opinions appreciated.

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  • crazy4carrots
    crazy4carrots Member Posts: 5,324
    edited June 2013

    Actually, my experience living in England and scouring the newspapers and telly searching for any news at all about Canada tells me the U.S. media really shouldn't be knocked too much!  We smaller countries (population-wise) are pretty good about looking outwards at the world around us.  My national newspaper devotes at least 2 pages to world news, and oftentimes more.  And our TV news networks still put large amounts of money into correspondents and news outposts across the globe.

    RL -- Looks as though you'll have to wait until tomorrow for those Supreme Court decisionsFrown.

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  • gardengumby
    gardengumby Member Posts: 7,305
    edited June 2013

    Kam - If you are taking your car - I think you have to do the Port Angeles run.  From Seattle we take the high-speed boat, but no cars allowed.  It's only a 2 hour (or thereabouts) run on the Victoria Clipper, so we'll go up just for the day sometimes.  We used to make a point of going to either Victoria or Vancouver for either Christmas or New Years, but lately that's changed to Hawaii.....

    The Port Angeles run (walk on) is something $20 each way, and I think it's around $70 for a car (and driver), the Seattle (Victoria Clipper) is a little over $100 round-trip.  It's been a long time since I've done the Port Angeles run, so don't remember the time it takes, but if you want to see any of the island, then it's nice to have your car.

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  • YramAL
    YramAL Member Posts: 1,651
    edited June 2013

    GG-isn't there also a ferry from Anacortes? Depending on where Kam is driving from, Anacortes is easier to get to from I-5 than Port Angeles is. 

    Edited to add-just got my own question answered. There is a ferry from Anacortes, but it doesn't land right in downtown Victoria like the Port Angeles ferry does. 

    Mary

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  • gardengumby
    gardengumby Member Posts: 7,305
    edited June 2013

    I didn't know there was a ferry to Vancouver Island from Anacortes Embarassed- I've only gone to the San Juans from Anacortes - and the last time we were stuck in ferry lines for six hours, so haven't wanted to make that trip again (unless we just walk on).  But, to be honest, most of the time we head for Anacortes we just get as far as La Conner, as I simply love that little town.

    There could be a ferry from Bellingham, too.  I'll have to check.  Nope - checked, they've been discontinued.

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  • QuinnCat
    QuinnCat Member Posts: 3,456
    edited June 2013

    Having my car in Victoria is optional, though probably would be nice.

    I'm making it so complicated!  My ideal would be to take a ferry with lots of runs a day, where I could safely park my car or take my car and also get my girlfriend to Bainbridge easily.  The Seattle ferry would be perfect except for leaving my car behind.

    Also, the Seattle ferry is not good for scheduling with train, but I'm thinking maybe it would be easier to coordinate by taking my car.

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  • QuinnCat
    QuinnCat Member Posts: 3,456
    edited June 2013

    Is it easy, safe, relatively inexpensive to leave car at Seattle ferry terminal (for Victoria)?  Also, I think the Bainbridge terminal is close to the Victoria terminal, but different?  Also, is there a ferry from the pennisula side to Bainbridge - then I could just head up to PA from there?

    You guys are great travel agents! :)

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  • gardengumby
    gardengumby Member Posts: 7,305
    edited June 2013

    There is a parking garage nearby the Seattle terminal, I don't recall the cost.  The Bainbridge ferry is probably a 1/2 mile away on the same street.  I'm not real clear on your question regarding Bainbridge to the Penninsula - if you mean without your car - you'd probably have to bus it (and I don't think it's one bus).  With your car, there is a bridge from Bainbridge to the penninsula, and then another bridge across Hoods Canal.  It's probably a 1.5 to 2 hour drive from Bainbridge to PA.

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  • QuinnCat
    QuinnCat Member Posts: 3,456
    edited June 2013

    GG - that's it!!  I can drive to Bainbridge from the pennisula (on my way to PA).  Fantastic.  For some reason I feel better about leaving my car in PA over SEA.  I think the train, as much as I'd like to do it, won't work.  Thank you.

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  • CherrylH
    CherrylH Member Posts: 1,077
    edited June 2013
    • I had a very fun weekend. When we had our benefit in May, we had silent auction and raffle prizes. The grand prize in the raffle was a Downton Abbey style dinner for 8. It took place Saturday night. I was Mrs. Hughes. The staff and two board members of BAH were the kitchen help and footmen. We used two flats in a four flat that is very victorian and has the original hardwood interior restored. We served an 8 course meal, and Daisy and I kept running downstairs to do the dishes after each course. The "staff and Lady Granthan" met the guests outside the house. It was a total hoot, but I was exhausted yesterday.
    • First course: HorsD'oeuvres: olives, cheese biscuits,dry sherry. This was served in the drawing room.Second course: The guest moved to table. Soup: Cream of asparagus Sauvignon Blanc; third course: Poached salmon with Hollandiase, Chardonnay; fourth course: Chicken Tikka Masala, rice, peas,Pinot Noir; fifth course, sorbet; sixth course Hearts of Palm salad, Sienna red wine; seventh course, Cold dish: Pate, celery,toast, Siena red wine; eighth course: Sweets: assorted finger type cookies, Apple charlotte, dessert wine. Afterward the guest retired to the drawing room for assorted fruits and cheese , port and Drambuie. We split the cooking among all of us so no one was burdened with too much.
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  • Bren-2007
    Bren-2007 Member Posts: 6,241
    edited June 2013

    Hi Everyone,

    So far, it's been a quiet Monday.  Tim is still stuck in Kentucky without a truck.  I am beyond frustrated about this.

    Kam .. Sounds like you're planning a really nice trip.

    Chaplain .. The dinners sounds like lots of fun!

    Blue .. How's your right shoulder doing since the fall?  And the left one with the stimulator?

    Enjoyful .. Should we start posting pics of wedding dresses?

    hugs,

    Bren

    PS .. Was it Kam who asked what it was like living with a very right-wing Republican?  Well ... I've got one in my house and we agree not to discuss politics.  If he starts to lose his mind and make a comment to me while he's watching Fox news ... I have to leave the room!

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  • gardengumby
    gardengumby Member Posts: 7,305
    edited June 2013

    Cheryl - what a great sounding dinner, and wow a different wine with every course.  How fun!!

    I cooked all weekend.  Saturday I made a smoked salmon and mushroom souffle for lunch.  When I got ready to beat the egg whites I could not find the electric beater ANYWHERE, so did it by hand.  When I told hubby - he, of course, found it within minutes....  and then massaged my poor sore shoulder.

    But, since i was on a roll by then, I decided to make Indian food for Sunday - which meant I had to start the leb of lamb (Costco's deboned....) marinating on Saturday.  So it sat for 24 hours in a marinade of yogurt, onions, garlic, ginger, coriander, cumin, cinnamon, clove, garam masala, peppercorn and something else that I cannot recall).  Then on Sunday morning I made paneer (Indian cheese) for saag paneer.  So for dinner we had the leg of lamb (marinated and then cooked in the yogurt sauce), saag paneer and a coconut saffron rice concoction that I made up.  Why I thought I'd be able to eat saag paneer in the evening is beyond me - so after cooking all day, I threw up all night (milk products and I are NOT friends - I can do yogurt for some reason, but nothing else that has a whiff of milk about it).  Nonetheless, it all tasted good, and we'll have leftovers (NOT of the saag paneer) for a few days.

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  • kad2kar
    kad2kar Member Posts: 336
    edited June 2013

       I sincerely LOVE all of you gals!!! You make life interesting for a person that doesn't travel or cook. I can only burn meat and microwave rice or anything Not good for anyone. My MIL made the best pastries and cooked a variety of food, but taught my DH NOT to like anything but meat and goodies.  I am always here,listening, not responding or "chatting". I do want to reitirate YOU ALL are wonderful and I am Blessed to have found you-------kad2kar

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