Topic: SHALL WE DANCE? (Read 33601 times)

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #30 on:** September 04, 2005, 11:04:29 AM »

Quote from: Cillaliz on September 04, 2005, 10:55:16 AM

I found this about pet rescue after Katrina
Subject: Hurricane Katrina Animal Relief Update

Another clip from the same newsletter:

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There are still many animals that are left inside homes that need to be rescued. We are putting out a SPECIAL ANIMAL BOLO ALERT and are asking anyone that may know someone that had to evacuate the disaster areas that had companion animals that they had to leave behind to please have them contact Pets & Animals in Distress at:contact@petsandanimals.org or call (954) 202-9991. We are compiling a list of animals that need to be rescued to pass on to affiliate relief organizations, rescue groups shelters and volunteers in those areas who are already on the ground rescuing stranded animals.

Glad to see somebody's doing something!

der Brucer

Danise · « **Reply #31 on:** September 04, 2005, 11:06:02 AM »

Afternoon all!

A belated “Happy Birthday” to DR Matt!

I’m just spending a lazy day at home. I’ve got a pot of home made spaghetti sauce on the stove.

I hope to get a picture of the squirrels for you all. They are sooo cute. One has decided that the box of food on the tree is his and his alone. When he’s not eating out of it, he lays on top of the box with his little arms over both sides as if to say, “MINE!”

We have another one that just goes into the box and stays there.

DearReaderLaura, you are a treasure.

I also have a request for the walking tour, only if it won’t take us out of the way and only if it is possible. When we go through the China town part, is there a tea store? I love Jasmine Green tea and would like to pick some up from the area. I’ve also heard about Rose Green tea and would like to try a cup.

bk · « **Reply #32 on:** September 04, 2005, 11:13:22 AM »

I see people on the forum. This bodes well for a live chat, and let me tell you, with thirty posts at eleven o'clock, we need all the good bodes we can get.

All the Astaire/Rogers numbers are swell, but for my money, a few of them enter an entirely different stratosphere - they are: Pick Yourself Up - one of the most perfect numbers in the history of the musical film, Let's Face The Music and Dance - ditto, and Never Gonna Dance - perhaps the finest number they ever did, one that is high art and as beautiful as anything I've ever seen.

Danise · « **Reply #33 on:** September 04, 2005, 11:15:47 AM »

I feelso sorry for the poor animals. I read about them killing the zoo animals and it broke my heart.

I said from day one that I worried about all the dogs and cats and other animals that would be left behind. I agree that they should let people take their pets with them.

bk · « **Reply #34 on:** September 04, 2005, 11:16:09 AM »

One of the benefits of having a nice long sleep until ten-thirty is that I get to eat very soon. I'll be making cheeseburgers here at the home environment, along with an ear of corn or two - a completely dietetic meal. What's fascinating about the pre-formed hamburger meat one buys from Gelson's is that they have the caloric and fat count on the package - each patty is 166 calories (can't do better than that), and each patty's fat grams are 8, which isn't so bad if you have two of them. Corn, of course, is only 75 calories per ear, and I've been learning not to drown them in butter.

Danise · « **Reply #35 on:** September 04, 2005, 11:21:12 AM »

I caught the end of Big Brother last night. I've never seen it before. So what is the idea behind it? Be the last person left in the house?

bk · « **Reply #36 on:** September 04, 2005, 11:21:25 AM »

I "won" three soundtrack CDs on eBay in the early morning hours. I made the bids just before I went to sleep at two. One auction ended shortly thereafter, and the others ended four hours later. I normally would use eSnipe, but I figured I was safe. I ended up being the only bidder on the second one, but on the third one some yokel came in and tried to snipe ten seconds before the auction end. He didn't outbid me, but he did get the price up to within two dollars of my top, which means he cost me an extra twelve bucks. This guy has a whopping six feedbacks - he's bid on and won exactly six items in two years, his last being last May. So, I've got to get this guy going up against me, and not exactly on a soundtrack anyone is clamoring for - Alexandre Desplat's score for Philipe de Broca's Amazone. Go know. I did "win" the marvelous Philippe Sarde score to Le Bossu, which I didn't even know existed.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #37 on:** September 04, 2005, 11:28:45 AM »

I love finding things on EBAY....and winning. It was even more fun when I had money!

Danise · « **Reply #38 on:** September 04, 2005, 11:32:07 AM »

I won some yellow and pink 4 o'clock seeds this morning. I'm slowing rebuilding my garden since they sprayed that weed killer next store.

I have a pure pink, pure white and white with pink flowers so far. I'm hoping one of the others will bloom and prove to be yellow or yellow and white.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #39 on:** September 04, 2005, 11:32:27 AM »

Quote from: Danise on September 04, 2005, 11:06:02 AM

I hope to get a picture of the squirrels for you all. They are sooo cute. One has decided that the box of food on the tree is his and his alone. When he’s not eating out of it, he lays on top of the box with his little arms over both sides as if to say, “MINE!”

We have another one that just goes into the box and stays there.

Add to the fun! Go to WalMart and buy a bag of dried ears of corn and the wood-feeder with a spike designed to hold them.

You can even do more - buy the large green wire baskets designed to hold Birdola Bird Cakes (6.5 x 7.5 inched) - nail it to a tree and watch the furry fellows have fun - they swing on the cage while they're nibbling the bird food.

While the squirrels are off eating the bird bar, the birds may well go gather up the crumbs under the squirrel box (they are sloppy feeders!) Blue Jays will also fly over and steal corn kernels from the ears of corn.

Anothe cheap feeding ploy - get the large bags of unsalted whole peanuts and scatter them under the tree.

der Brucer

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #40 on:** September 04, 2005, 11:46:08 AM »

Quote from: Danise on September 04, 2005, 11:32:07 AM

I have a pure pink, pure white and white with pink flowers so far.

Enough with the "pure" stuff, already! Give us some Sensuous Scarlet, Passionate Purple, Libidinous Lilac, Randy Red - let's have a phallic garden of Giant Mums and Galdioli (and if they droop, put Viagra in the water) - gardens alive with sexual vitality - floral pornography at its best!

der Brucer

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #41 on:** September 04, 2005, 11:53:07 AM »

Lord - these folks can't think beyond their chin!

Big crisis - many of the folks in the evacuation centers need prescription drugs. They are desparately hunting for people with cars to transport all these people to local drug stores! Think maybe we could gather up the prescriptions and deliver them en masse to a local pharmacy in the morning and do a mass pick-up the next day! I guess Barney Rubble and Homer Simpson have clones in disaster management.

der Brucer

Danise · « **Reply #42 on:** September 04, 2005, 11:53:58 AM »

Quote from: DERBRUCER on September 04, 2005, 11:32:27 AM

Add to the fun! Go to WalMart and buy a bag of dried ears of corn and the wood-feeder with a spike designed to hold them.

You can even do more - buy the large green wire baskets designed to hold Birdola Bird Cakes (6.5 x 7.5 inched) - nail it to a tree and watch the furry fellows have fun - they swing on the cage while they're nibbling the bird food.

While the squirrels are off eating the bird bar, the birds may well go gather up the crumbs under the squirrel box (they are sloppy feeders!) Blue Jays will also fly over and steal corn kernels from the ears of corn.

Anothe cheap feeding ploy - get the large bags of unsalted whole peanuts and scatter them under the tree.

der Brucer

Oh the birds have already discovered there is good eating under that feeder. We've already had several Blue Jays and both male and female Cardinals .

I know I will break down and get a proper bird feeder.

I've put parrot food in the box because it has peanuts and pumkin seeds in it. They LOVE it. What I just got a kick out was a little while ago the fella in the box spit out the red pepper.

I take it that wasn't to his liking.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #43 on:** September 04, 2005, 11:58:51 AM »

Quote from: Danise on September 04, 2005, 11:53:58 AM

We've already had several Blue Jays and both male and female Cardinals .

They love the peanuts in the shell!

der Brucer

PS Forget about a "proper" bird feeder - the squirrels will always win! (The critters all just have to learn to get long and share)

Danise · « **Reply #44 on:** September 04, 2005, 12:13:40 PM »

I'm trying to sneek out and get a picture but he's to fast for me.

This is the best shot I could get.

Jane · « **Reply #45 on:** September 04, 2005, 12:16:26 PM »

Cillaliz I loved the photos of a vibrant New Orleans.

Jason yours were nice too.

Jane · « **Reply #46 on:** September 04, 2005, 12:17:43 PM »

Danise that is darling.

bk · « **Reply #47 on:** September 04, 2005, 12:24:02 PM »

Well, no quorum on the forum means no live chat and that's that. Perhaps later. You'd think it was a Sunday on a Labor Day weekend.

bk · « **Reply #48 on:** September 04, 2005, 12:25:16 PM »

I went to put a couple of CDs away, and realized that the entire "A" section of soundtracks was mis-alphabetized. Well, we can't have THAT, so I just spent an hour redoing it. It's no wonder I occasionally can't find things and end up buying two copies of the same fershluganah CD.

Danise · « **Reply #49 on:** September 04, 2005, 12:27:03 PM »

We just had a second squirrel come down the tree while the first was in the box. Needless to say, they scared one another! Ha, Ha!

I think I could market it as "Squirrel-In-A Box". Hours of family entertainment and all for the price of a bag of peanuts!

Jane · « **Reply #50 on:** September 04, 2005, 12:42:20 PM »

I just shared the squirrel photo with Keith and he had a nice chuckle for it.

Sandra · « **Reply #51 on:** September 04, 2005, 12:58:30 PM »

Oy! Homework!

Oy!!

Danise · « **Reply #52 on:** September 04, 2005, 12:58:43 PM »

I'm glad Keith liked it, DR Jane. Gotta go for now but I will try to be back later.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #53 on:** September 04, 2005, 12:59:56 PM »

Great photos. Yes, MR BK, I think everyone is being a little lazy and crazy today. It's just one of those days!

Jrand74 · « **Reply #54 on:** September 04, 2005, 01:00:29 PM »

Great photo, DRDANISE. I usually wait until the weather gets a bit colder before feeding the critters.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #55 on:** September 04, 2005, 01:07:06 PM »

Quote from: Jennifer on September 04, 2005, 06:04:46 AM

Big Brother Live Feed Spoilers

Okay now this is for the spoiler fans. Looks like they've had the nom ceremony and veto comp already. Obviously the 2 outcasts were nominated. But great news, my fav (janelle) won veto. I am wondering if they can convince any of the friendship to join their team. Any ideas who would go?

I don't think ivette would. Perhaps janelle could convince april that mag was going to turn on her (she was). Or since maggie always wants to back out of deals, maybe they could convince her to side with howie/janelle.

April is ripe for the plucking.

She's already had Maggie favoring Ivette over her. She has heard Maggie say it would NOT be strategic for her to save April for the final two.

Trouble is, only Maggie and April are there for the nominating. And Ivette won't replace Janelle with Maggie. My guess is that April will be put on the block to replace Janelle.

Then, there's one vote for April (Janelle) and one for Howie (Maggie) and Ivette is the "tiebreaker."

She could probably have a stupid moment and choose to evict April...but I don't think Maggie will let her.

Can you believe Maggie's comments about how Janelle kept her from talking with Howie last night...saying Howie can't think for himself...and then proceeded to tell her own group "what to think."

She's a hypocritical bitch, that one. She and Ivette are cut from the same coarse cloth.

As for Janelle winning the veto, I can well imagine the s**t fit Ivette must have thrown when she was once again thwarted by Janelle!

bk · « **Reply #56 on:** September 04, 2005, 01:09:54 PM »

April Is Ripe For The Plucking - that's the title of my next novel.

bk · « **Reply #57 on:** September 04, 2005, 01:10:28 PM »

Listening to music and puttering around. Will now make the cheeseburgers, and then watch a DVD perhaps.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #58 on:** September 04, 2005, 01:14:32 PM »

Quote from: bk on September 04, 2005, 01:09:54 PM

April Is Ripe For The Plucking - that's the title of my next novel.

I'll buy THAT book, BK.

Matthew · « **Reply #59 on:** September 04, 2005, 01:16:45 PM »

Speaking of eBay, I lost an auction recently in which I was the highest bidder up until the last second, in which i was sound asleep. I was bidding on an LP of ALW's "Song and Dance" starring Sarah Brightman. It was never transfered to CD (for obvious reasons) If anyone has a lead on that recording, feel free to pitch it my way.

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