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Daddy's New Room

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I went to Memphis this past weekend. It was a 2 part visit. The Annual Zydeco Festival was on Beale St so there were lots of Zydeco bands, and friends from all over there to dance. Atlanta folks gave free dance lessons on Sat Afternoon. Dave and I had fun until about 10:30 when I started feeling really crummy. He was a very, very good sport about it even tho he had brought his harmonicas and had hoped to get to play along with some blues bands, etc... On Sunday, Stephen came up from Miss and Lisa and Henry so we all participated in getting things ready to set up Daddy's room over at the Alzheimer's Unit at Village of Germantown . Dave and Stephen put together a do-it- yerself 4 drawer storage unit for the bathroom, did all sorts of organizational stuff and I lay around almost totally worthless due to some mild bug I seemed to have picked up. Lisa and Henry found a TV and the perfect table for it out at their farm house and brought those in on Sunday. Dave and I hung some prin

Colored Pencil Tips Sculpture

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Interesting objects created by glueing together chopped up colored pencils. http://www.jennifermaestre.com/pencil_show.html

Mardi Gras Parades--FAT TUESDAY

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I am finally able to catch my breath and put a few pictures of our very own Gulf Shores (morning) and Orange Beach (afternoon) parades on the blog. I got an invite to ride the Chamber float and it was fun....a long day...but fun. I had to set the alarm for 6:00 a.m. , of course I hit snooze a few times. The Chamber president, my friend Mark , show here sporting some of Britney's hair that he ran across, picked me up and we had to meet up w/ the float over in Orange Beach at the Sports Plex. Then the float drove back to Gulf Shores and they all lined up along the street the post office is on. We got our beads out of the boxes and opened our cans of breakfast. I wore my tiara that Marti Choate had bought for us the week before, I put it on the straw hat that Perdido Beach Resort had provided. We all wore shrimp necklaces, as the Chamber is the sponsor of the Shrimp Festival. I already had another one that Joy got me a while back. There were big crowds as the parade turned the corne

Mardi Gras

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Went to the Orange Beach Mardi Gras parade on Fri Nite. There was anotehr on Sat night but I didnt go.

Photos Finally

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Well, the emails have just not stopped asking for photos of the red shoes. So to meet the demand, Dave took shots of my foot the other night. I tried taking them myself, ever tried to take photos of your own shoes at good angles? Pretty funny. and a photo of the dead RCA Stereo...... and maybe a few more, can't remember. Oh yea, we went out to Bon Secour last weekend. It is such a pleasant place. The piles of oyster shells are everywhere and the packaged oysters are shipped all over the nation right out of this spot. The brand is Nelson and comes in clear plastic containers w/ blue writing on the sides. Click to see the details on the shells. When Daddy and I were there a couple years ago I saw porpoises swimming along here.

Lost a computer today

In previous days I would have been having a a panic attack (not really, but close) ...my older (not old) computer would not power up today after I returned from Shrimp Fest meeting this a.m. Last weekend, I commented to Dave (as he worked on a laptp nearby ) that I smelled a strange smell, we sniffed around but came to no conclusion, Well, I now think maybe it was the power supply on this desktop. While I was at Shrimp Fest meeting a dawn this morning, the power went on and off(storm) ...well. my older (not old) desktop wouldn't power up after that. Hmmm. might-a-been that smell.... It is always sumpin' isnt it ? So Russ, Heather's husband, came over to my Lagoon house this afternoon to see if he could figure out what was at fault. AND, let me just interject here that if you have not gone to the Foxfire website and downloaded the new Foxfire 2 , then I hope you are a good speller. I'm not. So anyway, Russ came over and proceeded to disassemble my older ( but not real

Do I believe her, yes indeed

The wild wild web is a place of adventure and often unexpected shock. Read her story ...the way the web works now-a-days is that if you are 15 minutes behind the latest news, and i mean Digg, WIRED, Slashdot, and who can possibly keep up to the second.......then you are subject to all sorts of malicious devices....and Heaven help the school ( person) that has let it's anti-spyware or anti-virus software go unpaid. If this woman gets convicted, then I might lead a march. No , I take that back, I might lead a petition.

Clear as a bell, or "On Garbage"

Tonight's sky is pristine clear and the stars are so bright. So much for the TV weather guys. Wrong, WRONG, wrong...as usual....not cold, not raining, but springtime warm and clear as a bell. Where did that expression come from, clear as a bell ? I know this to be true because I am unpacking boxes in the Hardwood Dr garage and toting stuff to the street where my scavenger neighbors will snap it up tomorrow. And that is what I want. All the thrift stores drop-off locations are too far away, in Foley, so I make boxes for the sidewalk on non-garbage days. We are lucky, we still get 2 days a week pick-up, BUT, it means also that I have to be more strategic about placing my good-stuff boxes on the curb, so they are not accidentally mistaken for garbage by the real garbage company.... but, there really is little worry, as the friendly 3 man trucks disappeared after Ivan. The ones who would get just about anything you put on the curb; sacks, bags, boxes, etc. Now we have a guy on a cell

What do you get when....

you cross two people who sorta think alike and get tons of ideas to act on(most of them really brilliant or actually funny :o) ...you get no blog entries from Lundy . So now I am playing catch-up, or is it spelled ketchup, I could never remember. Yes, I am still alive and I have several new projects. One of them is clearing out my email. Gmail gives you so much space that part of their pitch is 'never delete an email again' ...well, I am up to 79% of my allotted space. And that is not counting spam or trash. Lots of it can surely be deleted, but tons of it was not deleted in the first place because it contained traces of good ideas, or good links, or good sites, or funny pictures I might want to sent to you. One project that is coming right long is getting a big chunk of my scrapbooking site translated into all these various languages, including a South African language and even Hebrew. I have this team of translators all over the world....great people. Heather and i have b

UK Pharm News

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Viagra sold over counter in UK on Valentine's Day in Boot's Pharms Whole Story

What I'm up to

Busy, busy, busy....and gone a lot. But, instead of my usual helter-skelter level of inefficiency, I think Ive accomplished a lot in the last week or so. I have done a hundred biz related tasks. (I am still not much on house-keeping :o) Now, to be honest, it is true that I spent a whole afternoon shopping for dressy black heels, bought 3 pair to try on w/ my outfit for Sat night and managed to arrive in P'cola w/ none of them....in fact, I have only been able to locate one pair, the pair I was going to return. I have no idea what happened to the other two pair. Oh, they are either here or at Hardwood house or in my car somewhere....they will turn up. And I did have my alternate killer red satin vintage platform, square toe pumps w/ big stiff stylized satin roses on the toes and ankle straps (straight from Italy) with me that I bought at Levy's when I was a sophomore in college. So I wore those (and lipstick that matched), and even strangers stopped and commented on my cool shoe

Autism

Discover the amazing videos and translations from a voice synthesizer and subtitles. You might find seeing this fellow's (and isn't he CUTE !) comments on the autism video first make the subject video a bit more comprehensible. Note, subtitles on second video start about 1/3 way into the film. (Comments) Re:In My Language: In My Language: More from the same person using the translator device: