I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

agggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GNOMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

must find chocolate...ward off evil gnomes. . . .

you peoples think the gnomes are cute little garden ornaments but they are NOT!! they are evil wicked creatures who will disable your ignore button and force you to read threads you don't want to read and then, whilest you is under their evil wicked spell, they will make you write mean argumentative hurtful posts. . . .

'Ware the Gnomes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Bren I hear you on the gin tonics but I am still thinking with these special gins, you would lose flavor to the tonic.  I am not sure  gin bubbles will work with anything other than fancy pants gin --- the gin flavor might be too strong. . . .With the Cascade Distillary Juniper gin, it was awesome.

Anne  Don't get me wrong, Bombay saphire is the perfect gin for martinis---extra dry (ie wave the vermouth at the gin to say "Hi"!), extra cold, straight up with two olives. . . . mmmmmmmmmmm but I don't think it works for gin bubbles.  Then again, maybe it does.  Do you want to research or should I?

Apple - I tried photobucket and couldn't get it to work.  I have a facebook page but can't remember my password as I never get on there.

One of my favorite poems, and very applicable today!

 Mending Wall
by Robert Frost

"Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun;
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
'Stay where you are until our backs are turned!'
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of outdoor game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbors.'
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
'Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it
Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offense.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down.' I could say 'Elves' to him,
But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather
He said it for himself. I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me,
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, 'Good fences make good neighbors.'"

Why would it be surprising to anyone, that a thread in the Forum: Growing Our Friendships After Treatment would, start to become a community, many with similar feelings about things in general.  So many people have added their posts, opinions, in the almost 450 pages of this thread, yet it is still being PICKED OUT as a place with a "pack mentality" - maybe that's another name for a growing community of women who respect each other, learn from each other, genuinely enjoy learning about what each person is doing in her daily life. How are things going?  Calls for support are instantly answered with kindness, compassion, and yes, even sometimes HUMOR, if that's appropriate.

No one here is calling the FIrst Lady of the United States by a trashy name.  No one is making fun of the President of the United States.  There is, happily, rarely a discussion of "politics" except when someone who doesn't usually post on this thread jumps in to attck with vile names.

Then, yes, many of the people who post here often laugh, remind others to use their ignore buttons, as the Moderators suggest, and generally laugh at the people trying to attack a groups of women with breast cancer.

OK, Jancie - now I'll       

Anne ... hoping Murphy comes home safe and sound (((hugs)))

Feeling bad for Barbara about the job stuff.  It really sucks because we spend so much of our time in the workplace.  I don't know anything about your field but it never hurts to update that resume and send out some feelers. 

Bren ... you have been out cutting tree branches in this heat?  Are you nuts?  Never mind   Now stay in and have a nice drink before you give yourself heat stroke.  Not to mention that such hard work on the part of others makes me feel like a lazy slug. 

What Sandy said!

rutabagas   and invitations to all who don't like what they read - to USE THE IGNORE BUTTON.

Gnomes - never thought of that...those cute little furry creatures....

AnnNY, I would love to meet you!!  My hubby and I will be there next week.  I am doing some research on walking tours of NYC, so I will PM you some info.  

Can someone give me some ideas about what to make for dinner?  I am out of ideas.  Anyone have a good chicken dish? 

Still waiting to find out what gin bubbles are........

I'm nothing if not persistent and single minded. 

Mary 

I thought we were moving on .. what the hell happened?  We were talking about cutting trees and lawn ornaments.

I'm gone ...

Bren

BarbaraA-You are also a conservative who doesn't feel the need to call Michelle Obama "Moo-moo" and the President "Barry".  Nor do you refer to people as "libtards". This is why I respect your opinions, even thought I might not always agree with them.

Mary 

3monst~

You crack me up!

We have always had a 2 bite rule.  The other kids learned to like good foods.  It is the middle one that will eat 2 bites of veggies probably for the rest of his life?

I will raise the 2 bite rule higher...

YramAL -- gin bubbles can be found in about the middle of the previous page (page 466) -- cheers!