Sudokuaholics Anonymous 7

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Just popping in to let you all know we came out pretty good from the storms last night. The winds didn't die down until after 3 am. A couple of trees were uprooted in the neighborhood along with signs and siding blown off buildings. A motel a couple of miles away burned to the ground.

Now off to clean up all the debris in our yard while thanking our lucky stars nothing worse happened.

so glad you got through that unscathed becky! so no tornados i guess?
my head is better today. now i need to do everything that didn't get done yesterday. my mom is coming in from seattle on fri. morning. she got free basketball tickets and skiing passes for the everyone. she works for pepsi, so has some very lucrative connections. the kids love it when she comes to visit! i just need to hide that i drink coke products when she is here! huh? what? diet COKE? now way! this is a pepsi!

I can see it now, mariana asking for her fountain diet coke in a plain brown wrapper!

find you some brown paper bags, mariana, like the skid row occupants do, to hide whatever it is they are drinking hehehe.

I don't think you'll fool your mother for long, Mariana. Maybe you should switch to Diet Pepsi while she visits.

The calf total is 9, so far. 3 males, 6 females.

I need to feed hay as soon as I finish my breakfast. The cows do like to eat.

Particularly if they have calves to feed.

Just for Heidi:

A fire destroyed a barn near Laramie, Wyo., on Monday. Firefighters suspect some goats inside the barn started the fire by nibbling through electric heater cords or knocking down a heating lamp.

Barn owner Dale Wood says the barn was a total loss and at least three female goats died.

Neighbors alerted Wood's son to the fire, who called firefighters and tried to put out the flames.

Goats love to chew through electrical wiring. One of the many reasons I don't like 'em.

I have the feeling that Dale Wood won't have any more goats around, either.

Morning all!
Gail - Ivanhoe rings bells...
Bean - so very cute and sad at the same time, which is good because it means more people will help
Brenda - we have the same 'blame' thing going on here. The girls asked me all about it when Ally hurt her arm and decided it wasn't the gym's fault and we shouldn't ask them for money - phew!

Susan - I heard about the flood money going to the fire fund too! That was amazing!! I forgot about CO detectors, we had one in the US. The problem was it used to go off when there was no problem... Are you going to the sausage sizzle today?

MizT - what a sweet thing for your hubby to say!

Becky - so glad to hear you are okay with little damage. Wind scares me these days after my little run in with it! Imagine not being able to get home with 3 kids in the car, 2 of which don't belong to you!!

Mariana, I've never heard you talk about diet Coke ever, not ever, always Pepsi..

A big thank you to New Zealanders

When combined with the $NZ500,000 ($A401,268) committed by the government the total figure donated by New Zealanders was more than $NZ1 million ($A802,536).

The Red Cross said it would transfer 100 per cent of its appeal fund to fire victims, without deducting any costs associated with administration or banking fees.

Morning rush followed by shopping at Coles - let's hope it takes me forever to get the shopping done!

BTW, next Friday, Woolworths are giving their profits to farmers.. That's where I will be shopping next week!

4 new lambs!!! 1 chocolate male, 1 brown male, 1 golden male and 1 brown and white spotted female. So cute!!!

They do sound very cute Heidi.
We have 9 over night guests tonight. It is snowing again, so Elaine decided it wouldn't be safe to leave her newly hatched chicks at school in case school is closed tomorrow. If school is closed we will be looking after them until 23rd Feb as half term holidays start tomorrow.
Callie is going demented trying to get at the chicks. She is curious about what they are, but doesn't seem to want to hurt them. Just in case they are locked in the office so Callie cannot get at them.

Good morning lovely SA7 people.
MizT - no trouble posting here either.
It's been raining here in Brissie since last night - non-stop and quite heavy at times. Wish I could re-direct it to Victoria.
Suzy - checked with my local BiLo - they are under the Coles umbrella and their profits today go to the appeal, so I will be shopping there today. I do wonder though, how much of a $200 grocery bill would be profit?

CynB it doesn't matter how much the profit is, every little helps. Though I think you would probably be suprised how much profit they actually do make.

thanks suzy- it's nice to know you got my back! hehehe i think you are right heidi, it will have to be d. pepsi for me this next week! no brown bagging it for me. my mamma taught me everything i know, i think she would be wise to my antics real quick!

congrats on all your new babies heidi!

lucky me i have book club tonight. woohoo! as for now i am off delivering children a various different locations...

What about transferring the Coke contents into a Pepsi can?

That would still mean Coke containers on the premises, and a mistake is more likely that way.

The wind is still gusting pretty good here. Was beginning to think that I needed a pair of ruby shoes just in case.

Mariana, just put your can in a foam can holder or you can buy a Pepsi cover for your Coke can. You'll have to hide your stash tho.

Heidi, congrats on all the new additions.

Well, off to fling of food.

I'm back. My grocery bill was $240, and I wonder the same thing Cyn. Just in case I threw a bit more in the bucket as I went past. The girls have given me some of their money to throw in buckets but I decided to let them do it this afternoon after giving them the option to donate to the animals.

Woo hoo Heidi! You sure have a baby explosion going on there... The best kind of children, if they give you too much trouble you sell them! Unlike the ones I have which are just cute enough that you will forgive them anything!!

Speaking of children, mine had 2 girls she didn't know, one at recess and one at lunch, come up to her, point, and say - you sang at the show!! I told her that she has now achieved one of her goals - to be famous! Only the rich one to go...

Okay, it's going to take 2 cups of coffee to help the panadol get rid of this headache. I suppose watching the video taken by people inside the fire didn't help much. Crying is not good for headaches!!

Just had ANOTHER calf born.... a female. That's 3 today, and 10 total.

Suzy.... they probably recognized her because of the cast.

Different cast Heidi, but still a broken arm.

10 calves! Yay! What is it you hope for, Prime?

I just checked the count Heidi. Are you going to make me post 6 times before you answer me? No one else seems to be around to help me!

Very cool...

Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, both developing nations, have offered cash donations to help bushfire victims.

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has offered a donation of $US1 million ($A1.52 million) and Papua New Guinea $A2 million.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd told parliament Dr Yudhoyono wanted Australians to know Indonesia was not only a neighbour but also a friend.

"The president of Indonesia indicating Australia has always dug deep in helping Indonesia in its times of national catastrophe and disaster," he said.

"The government of Papua New Guinea has decided to donate $A2 million to assist disaster victims in the bushfires in Victoria and those who've been affected by flooding in north Queensland," he said.

"Sir Michael (noted) ... whenever natural calamities have hit Papua New Guinea in the past, Australia, through the Australian Defence Force and through other Australian aid agencies, has always been first into the fray."

And Sir Michael said that PNG, too, was a friend as well as neighbour.

I'd LOVE prime, but I'd realistically be happy with high Choice.

Someone asked about mortgage insurance in Australia. I can only speak for my mortgage - if you have a deposit of 10% or more (I think it's 10%, might be 20%) you have to have mortgage insurance, otherwise you just have to have homeowners insurance. I have to provide proof of insurance periodically. We got one of those loans where they take a lot of risk - all of our credit history was in the US so they had to believe that we were good for it. But they made us put 20% down! That means we don't have mortgage insurance.

Did you say you haven't had prime yet but often get high choice? I'm racking my brain here and it's still aching....