pharlap
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posted on July 14, 2001 05:38:42 AM
Nettak - what do you mean by "putting a car sideways up a street"?
I have to go and get some shut eye so I'll say goodnight for now. I'll read your answer tomorrow 
Night!
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nettak
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posted on July 14, 2001 05:45:41 AM
Well I personally have never done it. I mean put a car up a street sideways.....He was doing burnouts or something and put it in a spin and the car went sideways up the street. Scary stuff if you ask me, I would have had a heart attack just watching it happen let alone being in the car, and even though my son did not say so I know he would have been sh!t scared because he still has not gotten over being in a car that rolled last year and he had his leg badly cut to the bone on his knee. He was so affected by that incident that he still has not even gone and gotten his learners permit yet, and he will be old enough to go for his licence in a few weeks when he turns 17. But he is not about to tell me that he was afraid. He knows that I will take any opportunity to keep him at home safe and sound. LOL 
Goodnight Pharlap, I will see you later.
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gravid
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posted on July 14, 2001 04:53:05 PM
pharlap - Well good for you to quit if you felt you were at a dead end. Since they would not switch you to the other job you applied for you are probably right. Tell us what kind of courses look good to you after you see the catalog.
My wife works at the Oakland University here in Rochester MI in the History department and
There are always students clamouring to be let in after the classes are all full and even after they have meet a time or three.
Getting signed up way ahead makes it easier for everyone. Sometimes if you are too close to the cut off date it makes more sense to aim at the next semester and give your self time to consider everything carefully and not be fighting everything being last minute.
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MouseSlayer
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posted on July 15, 2001 03:55:34 AM
Ok, do you guys remember my bougainvillea bush that fell over? Well, it's coming back. not only is it coming back, but it's growing like crazy! I've been taking pictures of it to watch it grow, the dates are on the pics. Here they are
I need to take a new one because after that last pictures we got one of our famous dust storms and it knocked over about 5 of the shoots already.  But the tallest one is almost at the roofline now!
~^~  Hippy wannabe  ~^~
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nettak
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posted on July 15, 2001 04:25:41 AM
Hi Mouse are you still around??
Don Burke would tell you that you need to trim back some of that new growth so that you plant thickens and spreads out.  Now I know you are not going to have a clue who Don Burke is, but he is a gardening guru here in Australia, and I doubt that there is an Australian alive that does not know who he is. LOL
Here is a little link to our gardening guru's fact sheets full of information.
http://www.burkesbackyard.com.au/facts.html
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MouseSlayer
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posted on July 15, 2001 04:30:18 AM
Hi Netta! I know, Mom already told me I need to trim some off the top so it bushes out. I've just been having fun watching it grow like a weed with no help and little water! I still need to get a trellis or stakes for it too.
Want to see what our monsoon storm looked like today?
~^~ Hippy wannabe ~^~
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nettak
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posted on July 15, 2001 04:33:54 AM
Now Mouse you know you should always listen to you mother.
Yep show away.
If I disappear every so often it is just that I am still getting some auctions ready, and if I don't do it now the time runs away from me.  I won't be gone for too long at a time.
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MouseSlayer
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posted on July 15, 2001 04:39:28 AM
Here's the clouds rolling in:
Here's the rainbow and the bulk of the storm. It never got to our part of town, but another part got hit with a microburst. It knocked over several telephone poles, one of which landed on a car and killed someone. About 3000 people lost power too. If you look at the rainbow area, you can see like a thick white area. I think that was the microburst. I took these about the time it hit and it's in the right direction. I didn't know about how bad it was until the news later...
~^~ Hippy wannabe ~^~
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nettak
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posted on July 15, 2001 04:50:43 AM
Your monsoon is a bit like our Cyclone I think. It is sad that someone died, I always hate that part of the cyclone season here, people always get caught out in them for some stupid reason, and someone always dies.
It is funny that you posted these tonight, because this morning as I was driving down the road to go to the Sunday morning market, I was thinking I should have had the camera with me to take some pictures to post and show everyone what a winters morning looks like for us in my part of the world. It was cool and crisp with a lot of low fog lying about a foot or two above the ground. Frost was visible in some areas, just a very light icing across the ground, and the river looked like something medievil with a swirling mist rising off it. I might remember to take a picture one day and show you.
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MouseSlayer
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posted on July 15, 2001 05:07:35 AM
Our monsoon season is our summer rainy season where we get moisture coming up from Mexico. It's usually lasts about 3-4 weeks and it's really the only time it's humid here, unlike the rest of the country. We can get awesome thunderstorms, flash flooding and huge walls of dust a mile high blow through the valley. The dust walls are an incredible sight to see! I'd love to get some good pictures of that some day, but you usually need to get up high to get them. That's why it's usually the helicopters that get them.
The biggest problems are the lightening (a firefighter got struck by it a couple weeks ago, he's ok though) and the flash flooding. Here in the desert, when a mosoon storm rolls through, it usually dumps a bunch of rain in a short time. Normally dry washes fill up fast and flow. We now have a law for stupid people who try to cross a closed road that's flooded and has to be rescued. They now get to pay the rescue bill! 
Even though it's icky and sticky, I love watching the storms...from inside! I almost got hit by lightening twice as a kid and I'm still a bit skiddish when it comes to thunder/lightening storms. 
~^~ Hippy wannabe ~^~
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bitsandbobs
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posted on July 15, 2001 05:15:44 AM
hi mouse, great pics!
It's strange that you should post them tonight. I've just been watching a documentary about storms and tornadoes in your part of the world!
You get some scary weather doen your way.
Bob, Downunder but never down.
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pharlap
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posted on July 15, 2001 05:21:11 AM
Hey Guys!
Sorry I'm late - I've been listing a few auctions and Ebay has been painfully slow for me tonight.
Gravid - I've been saying for years that if I could go back and do things over I would have liked to study Psychology. (it's always facinated me) If I had done it when I first started talking about it I could have been finished by now... So that's what I'll be looking into.
Mouse - Great pics! And your plant looks like it's really healthy now
Nettak - Ok, now I get what you mean I thought it might have been something like that but I wasn't too sure...
Edited to wave hi to Bob!
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nettak
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posted on July 15, 2001 05:21:43 AM
For us our cyclone season is around Christmas and during Jan and Feb. we are usually aware that a cyclone can pop up at any given time. The worst places to be during cyclone season is in Far North Queensland, and The Northern Territory because they seem to cop the brunt of the cyclones every year. Western Australia get a few as well, in fact a cyclone can pop up in most parts of Australia, but the worst places are the one's I named.
Christmas Eve 1974 saw one of the worst cyclones that Australia has ever seen, it destroyed Darwin completely, and a lot of people lost not only homes and clothing ect, but there were a lot of lives lost that day as well.
If I know there is a storm warning I make sure that everything is sercure, because a flying chair ect can kill as easily as a tree branch.
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nettak
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posted on July 15, 2001 05:23:03 AM
Hi Bob & Pharlap
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pharlap
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posted on July 15, 2001 05:47:27 AM
Have I scared everyone off?
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MouseSlayer
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posted on July 15, 2001 05:47:57 AM
Our storms are pretty mild in comparison to other parts of the country. We very rarely get tornados here, but they have been know to pop up here & there! Oh, and I forgot that we get heavy winds when these storms roll in. That's why my bougainvillea and hibiscus fell over. Those cyclones sound realy nasty though. The east coast here get hurricanes and they can be very destructive too. Then over on the west coast they have earthquakes. That's one part I like about where I live, it's pretty tame here!
So did anyone watch Friday the 13th, the movie, in honor of Friday the 13th? We did, what a hoot! It was so scary and gory when I was a kid, now it seems tame compared to films of today. Plus I didn't even realize Kevin Bacon was in it!
~^~ Hippy wannabe ~^~
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pharlap
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posted on July 15, 2001 05:58:26 AM
There you are!
I didn't even realise that it was Friday the 13th I hate to say!
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MouseSlayer
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posted on July 15, 2001 06:00:58 AM
LOL, that's ok. I don't usually realize it either unless someone says something about it.
~^~ Hippy wannabe ~^~
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pharlap
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posted on July 15, 2001 06:02:58 AM
I know that Halloween is a big thing over there. Is Friday the 13th the same?
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MouseSlayer
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posted on July 15, 2001 06:09:44 AM
No not really, except for paranoid people. Some people think the whole day is bad luck. I usually have better luck on a Friday the 13th!
Did we lose Netta & Bob & Gravid already??
~^~ Hippy wannabe ~^~
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pharlap
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posted on July 15, 2001 06:12:48 AM
That's what I was wondering.
Maybe we smell bad or something?
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MouseSlayer
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posted on July 15, 2001 06:17:47 AM
Hey, speak for yourself!
~^~ Hippy wannabe ~^~
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pharlap
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posted on July 15, 2001 06:23:29 AM
Now now Mouse. BO is a problem that effects everyone at sometime. Nothing to be ashamed of! Besides, we're all friends here - we understand!
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MouseSlayer
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posted on July 15, 2001 06:24:58 AM
ROFL! Well, it is rather hot and sticky here right now. You know, 3 shower kind of days. I only had one today, sorry.
~^~ Hippy wannabe ~^~
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pharlap
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posted on July 15, 2001 06:30:59 AM
That's ok. Just think yourself lucky that I'm all the way on the other side of the world so the smell is very minimal
Well, I'm going to go and get some sleep. Take care and I'll talk to you soon
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MouseSlayer
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posted on July 15, 2001 06:36:08 AM
Goodnight Pharlap. I'm off to bed too, I think I'm coming down with something. I've had a sore throat all day and generally feel yucky.
Goodnight all!
~^~ Hippy wannabe ~^~
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nettak
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posted on July 15, 2001 06:37:30 AM
Oops sorry, I did tell you I would be in and out tonight.......and I can promise you the smell is not too bad, so I won't call you ponky or anything bad like that. LOL
Goodnight Pharlap.
I have been taking some pictures for my auctions and I had a couple of emails come through that I had to answer because they were about auctions that are about to end in a matter of hours. I still have not finished but I will come back as soon as I have put some pics on this auction that I have just written up.
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nettak
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posted on July 15, 2001 06:57:10 AM
Okay I see I was not the only one to disappear, Bob has gone AWOL as well.
I am falling asleep here at the desk so I am off to bed. We have truck loads of soil arriving bright and early in the morning, so I will have to be up to pay for it, and as I did not get any sleep last night I had better get some tonight.
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MouseSlayer
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posted on July 15, 2001 06:58:57 AM
Ok, one more post and then I'm really going to bed!
Did I tell you guys that one of the cats got out the other night? It was K.D. and she hasn't let us get near her yet. She's done this a couple other times. She goes and hangs out at the neighbor's house, I think her boyfriend is over there. I just hope she doesn't come home pregnant this time! So far we've been lucky the other times she got out. As soon as my paychecks get regular again and we get caught up a little, she's off to the vet post haste!!
Also, the mortuary delivered Dad's ashes the other day. I had a weird mixed reaction when they came. First it was relief, dad was home finally (I was getting a bit worried since it's been over a month and a half). Then it was like the reality that he's gone hit me all over. When hubby & I get to a place we feel we'll stay forever, we'll plant a tree or something in Dad's honor and put his ashes in with it. That's what we did with my grandmother (Dad's mom) at my cousin's house. We put her in with a lemon tree because she was famous for her lemon meringue pie.
I'm going to leave with some happy images. I love my digital camera! 
Here's a sunrise on the 4th of July:
Here's my happy dog Gunther being cute and playing with Daddy
~^~ Hippy wannabe ~^~
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gravid
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posted on July 15, 2001 05:52:26 PM
You take nice pics.
Pharlap - I might join the working again tomarrow. We had a lady from Ford call today asking me to come in first thing Monday for a job interview. They have to be really hot to get a warm body to be calling us on a Sunday so I figure I will have to not bath and dress all in black leather and pick my nose if I don't want it.
They are having me go straight to the proving grounds in Dearborn and apply there instead of at corperate headquarters so it would not surprise me if they have me taking a physical in the afternoon. They want me for a test driver which may sound easy but it is a fairly responsible position.
They have a lot of trouble getting hot dog drivers that get carried away and have even left cars up in a tree where it took a crane to get what was left down.
They like mature people who if told to go around at 100 mph all day don't get bored and see if they can do one lap at 120 in the hand built half million dollar test car that would take 6 months to replace.
There is also a long history of test drivers supplementing their income by industrial espionage. One driver at GM was given $25,000 for one photo of a production car two years from release and got caught because they could computer enhance the reflections in the photo enough to recognize him. So one of the benifits of the job besides the excellant health care and retirement pay is that they are not cheap with the base pay. I figure I will take it because right now I am not making enough ahead to retire well and 4 or 5 years at this would set me up with enough money to pay my condo off and buy a second place down on the west coast of Florida. My Dad had a place both North and South and migrated with the seasons and I always hoped to do that. B&B - He was a practicing member of the cult of Golf also.
Hope to still say hi however no matter what the hours turn out to be.
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