Sudokuaholics Anonymous 7

Better go and organise our Aussie shirts for tomorrow and may have an early night.

Nite SA7.

Happy Australia Day!

Good morning all! Don't have time to catch up. I have to pack, go to church, have hubby load the van and as soon as Brendan gets back from Boston, we're off to New Jersey to bring him back to school. Then I'm heading to Long Island to spend a couple of days with my mom. Then back on Wednesday in time for phys therapy.

Hope you all down under have a wonderful time celebrating! Have a great day! (I'm surprised Gath doesn't have an Australian smilie.)

Hello again lovely people. I sent a link by email to those of you whose addys I have - for those I don't have please look at this -
if you're an Aussie it'll bring a tear to your eye, if you're not an Aussie, you may just understand us better. I love it!!!
Check out this outstanding webpage I AM WE ARE AUSTRALIAN
http://veteransupport.net/tb002.html Very well worth a visit too, and sharing it with
friends.
Will post on Easy for 26/1

June - pleased to hear that Ken's leg is improving and not DVT.

Suzy - after tomorrow, I'm putting Billy's 'It's almost Sunner' back on my - it's my nostalgia trip. Holidays at the beach as a child, we had a house at Caloundra on the Sunshine Coast, all my cousins would be there and we ate watermelon all day and fresh fish we'd caught at night. We'd be brown as berries, swim all day etc etc. Then when I became a teenager, we'd load up the surfboards and do the whole Puberty Blues scene with our friends..... Oh, the joy, oh the bliss - it's almost summer.

Errrrr - that's 'It's almost SUMMER'

Happy my down-under pals!
Hope you all have a wonderful day of celebration today. Thank you Cyn for the link - loved the song!

June - I'm so pleased to hear about Ken's improvement...isn't that just how it goes? You finally get him to the doc and his leg gets better!
Suzy - had a great time with you guys at "Gail"...beautiful day for a picnic! Also loved the sand drawings - what a talented family you have!

Hope Tiptap continues to improve, Suzy.
I'll be spending watching the Open (doing that right now) and then I'm headed of to a "Gail" myself (with a high school girl I sponsor). We'll be going to a local production of Flower Drum Song after lunch. Love a good musical!

Well, heading off to do the jigsaws and then get more information put into my ipod touch...almost have it up to speed with my Palm that I'm retiring.
Blessings and hugs to you all!

VICI, lovely Australia Day graphics you found! You done good!



GOOD Maen Sudokuland! I may have to interrupt my valentines avatars for my sun avatars. That may be only place to see the sun for a WEEK if forecasts are true. Clouds and rain, rain and clouds for 7 days. OK rain is good, but not all at once! Let's save some for mid summer please.

I need to see if I can find more than a mention of what damage was gone to the Florida crops by that Arctic Air that made it's way through the state. Produce prices will soar if they were damaged, we get most of our produce and citrus from Florida.

TAMI, did you see any local news about the crops?

JUNE so glad Ken's leg is better, and hope it continues to improve. Enjoy your day at bowls.

Good morning everyone.
Happy Australia Day!
June ..so glad Hubby is on the mend.
At christmas time on the radio,I heard Rolf Harris singing "Six white boomers",it brought back memories of Mum dancing around the lounge with brother and I.Another one I liked was "Tie me kangaroo down sport"

STELLA, have a safe trip! Enjoy time with your Mom, too.

I am trying to sew. Friend introduced me to fabric gift bags, and if I start now, I might have some for Christmas! Make a few for Birthdays also, I plan to use "orphan blocks", those of you who do patchwork might know what I mean. A test block you did, or one that is not good enough for your quilt, a tad to large or small, but used individually as decoration on a bag, it is just fine!

Recycle those blocks!

Off to draft a pattern for these 2 bags.

NOLA, I actually have heard " tie me kangaroo down" song before, now that is stuck in my head hehehe

Wish I could do quilting or patchwork.I have a friend who makes some awesome things but I haven't the patience to get them perfect.
The only thing I have mastered is knitting.

Hubby still hasn't had a chance to get into the septic pipes with all this rain around.It feels a little cooler this morning but the humidity will pick up if the sun comes out.
Poor Broni will be pulling her hair out not being able to paint the boat.
Heidi..your new little black and white lamb sounds cute with those colours.

Happy Australia Day to all my down under friends. CynB, of course you could come over, there is always room for one more. The fondue was a hit. We had a lot of fun with our friends and it was a nice way to celebrate our anniversary. Thanks to everyone for the good wishes. I will be back later. We are taking the Beastie Boys to a movie this afternoon.

Hi Tami...enjoy the movie.

Gath is back!!!!! New avatars and smilies!!!

Just got up and haven't read any posts yet.
I'll get to it now.

CynB and June... GREAT VIDEOS AND SONGS!!!!! Thanks for sharing them!
Suzy.... it sounds like Tip Tap is back to his old cheerful self!
June... you know full well that if Ken HADN'T gone to the Hospital, the leg would have kept getting worse. A lot of it can be psychological. Once he made up his mind to get proper care, his outlook changed and his brain sent different messages to the leg and immune system. I know how that works with sheep. (quite a similarity to men) Their life and death depends on their outlook. Once they quit, they're doomed.

I'm alone here..... aren't I?

Just did some housework before heading off to work.Catch you all later.

Might as well CP.

2 and 1/2 days until my first finches arrive!

Avast, ye scurvy dog..... you wrecked my CP on the shoals!


Nola!

Morning All!

Happy Australia Day!!!

Vici, thank you for the comments on my pics. We had so much fun!!

Nola, I was looking at the times you posted your comments and could almost cope with them until I saw that you were doing housework in the middle of the night!!!

June, the bowling day sounds like fun...

Heidi, your smilies are great - love the avatar.

It's fitting. An Australian bird for Australia Day.

The colours are amazing....

A peewee just thought about walking through our back door but then it noticed me and did an about face!

I have been looking up the Order of Australia levels. I'm ashamed to say that I have never tried to remember which is the highest of the honours. For those of you who are slack like me.

Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) - eminent achievement and merit of the highest degree

Officer of the Order (AO) - distinguished service of a high degree

Member of the Order (AM) - service in a particular locality or field of activity or to a particular group

Medal of the Order (OAM) - service worthy of particular recognition

Which one is our dear Ian?

This year 3 people have been made AC, 26 people AO, 129 people AM and 405 people AOM. At least that's how many search results I got when I searched each of the awards. I looked that up because the news articles only mention the top awards and people we might know. For example, Marcia Hines AM...

Heidi, he said he was 'only' something, so I suspect either a medal or member... but I don't remember which. If I knew his last name I could do a search as I have the page up.

Suzy, should we turn the page? Just to protect Heidi, you know.

My upload time is getting long, so this is not a race, it is a slow shuffle to a TOPP.

SUZY? You waiting till I set this up nicely for you?

I have been sewing, and these 2 gift bags are gonna be cute. I will be glad when I can get back into my sewing room, when Al can make a new cabinet for my new machine.