bitsandbobs
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posted on August 31, 2000 04:02:12 PM new
Today Downunder is the first day of Spring!
This is just to say Hello to you all wherever you are.
The sun is shining, my garden is blooming, the birds are singing and all is well with the world. I'm feeling good. 
I'm off to play a round of golf and enjoy the day.
Here's hoping that you all have yourselves a good day.
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kitsch1
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posted on August 31, 2000 04:11:48 PM new
Well it was over 105 here AGAIN today. Not many birds chirping, see an unusual amount of them dead lately. From the heat? Not sure, but it's a bummer. I cannot wait for autumn I envy you your spring.
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jamesoblivion
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posted on August 31, 2000 04:12:40 PM new
Wow, that's really cool. Happy Spring to you!
James.
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njrazd
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posted on August 31, 2000 04:35:21 PM new
After a few days of unseasonably cool & cloudy weather in So. California, we finally had wonderful warm sunshine & cool ocean breezes. So I guess it feels like a new season here as well!
bitsandbobs...is this your official 1st day of spring or does it actually fall on September 21st? Labor Day Weekend coming up is the unofficial end of summer, but it doesn't really end until the 21st.
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That's Flunky Gerbiltush to you!
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gibsongal
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posted on August 31, 2000 05:19:02 PM new
Enjoy your spring, bitsandbobs.
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snowyegret
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posted on August 31, 2000 06:33:26 PM new
Happy first day of Spring!
[ edited by snowyegret on Aug 31, 2000 06:54 PM ]
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tegan
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posted on August 31, 2000 06:59:10 PM new
Bitsandbobs:
Spring!!!!!!!!!!!
How wonderful for you. It's 105 degrees here and sweltering. I'm so looking forward to fall.
Contrary to current posts we are not all sitting around in our underwear in the deep south.
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kitsch1
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posted on August 31, 2000 07:12:44 PM new
Well, some of us are. 
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fritzdick
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posted on August 31, 2000 07:18:20 PM new
Sorry about that 105 degrees for some of you. I had to turn the furnace on this morning, and then it didn't get above 75 degrees today.
Oh well, that what I get for living in New Mexico in the spring.
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pareau
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posted on August 31, 2000 07:27:05 PM new
I like that picture, snowyegret. Is it for sale?
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pareau
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posted on August 31, 2000 10:21:16 PM new
Snowy, snowyegret! Hours have passed and I still like that painting! Can you tell us anything about it?
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mybiddness
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posted on August 31, 2000 10:27:01 PM new
Pareau If you want that picture you'll have to bid against me... I WANT IT!
According to the local bank it was 108 in my part of Texas today - I think I'm living in an oven. Can't wait for a change of season - or a drop of rain.
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pareau
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posted on September 1, 2000 12:32:26 AM new
But I REALLY want it, mybidness. I have art want. I've tried and tried but I can't get around the sense that it's "Monet on a Lake in Hell"--the most serene and lovely vision of hell I've ever seen. Those yellow spectres encamped on the little island (that's what I see, anyway) bring to mind the indolent quality of Manet's figures in Le Dejeuner sur L'Herbe. The atmosphere conjures up the same feeling I've gotten from some Native American ghost paintings.
I hope snowyegret at least comes back and tells us about it, even if it's not for sale. (Sob.)
- Pareau
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spazmodeus
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posted on September 1, 2000 12:42:51 AM new
Hot in the city tonight, Pareau?
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mybiddness
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posted on September 1, 2000 12:44:03 AM new
This is just too funny. You're seeing hell and I'm seeing angels. That white light at the top left is God. The pinkish form to the upper left is an angel. The figures in the boat are our bodies in spirit form ascending. And the blue in the lake and sky swirl together to represent a joining together of the spirits.
I can't believe you don't see that!
I really, really want that picture! 
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spazmodeus
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posted on September 1, 2000 12:49:56 AM new
I was going to edit my message above to point out that it was just a simple straightforward question, LOL, because I get in such a habit of asking pointed questions in these threads that after awhile even the innocent ones start sounding like they have a subtext. But it seems the edit feature is broken. Whenever I try it I get lagged for about two minutes, then the universal search screen comes up.
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pareau
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posted on September 1, 2000 12:59:00 AM new
Don't sweat it, Spaz. I thought it was funny, double entendre intended or not. (BTW, I only got back to the Barbie thread mid-evening and much enjoyed your post on the Ken doll, and your banter with Cheyenne. Sorry it wound up a PC chest-beating session, but it was fun while it lasted. There are lots more dolls in the world, anyway.)
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pareau
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posted on September 1, 2000 01:08:29 AM new
mybiddness,
I really, really, REALLY want that picture. I can see what you mean re heaven, but I can't budge my vision of hell--and let me suggest that any hack can churn out a picture of the celestial playground and pearly gates, but one that makes a picture that shows hell as a refuge, an oasis--that's something else entirely. I think such an artist is entitled to--no, NEEDS--patrons who can appreciate the depth and power of the image, even if the viewer's impression and experience is completely unlike the artist's vision.
I wonder how big it is, and whether it's done in oil pastels. How are your sniping skills, mybiddness?
- Pareau
[ edited by pareau on Sep 1, 2000 01:10 AM ]
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pareau
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posted on September 1, 2000 02:32:03 PM new
No snowy, no egret, deeply sad.
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jt-2007
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posted on September 1, 2000 02:39:01 PM new
That is a beautiful picture.
It has been anywhere from 105-112 in Central Mississippi and yesterday we had a lightening show. Everywhere it struck fires started. There were no less than 5 that I could see from my house. They were extinguished but that is unnerving, especially living in an old wood frame home surrounded by now dead vegetation. We haven't had rain in several months.
I long for fall and at the beginning of October the coming of the state fair.
HAPPY SPRING AUSTRALIA!
T
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Muriel
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posted on September 1, 2000 04:46:25 PM new
Happy Spring! It's getting towards Autumn in NW Ohio, and today it was 85 degrees and very muggy. It's not the heat... it's the humidity. That's the big saying in NW Ohio. 
Muriel aka Doofus Gerbiltushie 
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toomanycomics
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posted on September 1, 2000 05:42:03 PM new
 95 here in Michigan
I take a few steps and I'm sweating buckets!
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