Linda from Pioneer

And start a second page for you!!! Glad I got to your page.

Thank u for the lovely wine from California! I am indeed from Pretoria. It is a beautiful city with lots of Jakaranda trees. I lived here as a student some years ago and only moved here again 18 months ago. Was priviledged to have stayed in Zambia for 4 years before coming back to South Africa and Pretoria. My daughter, Tiffany, 16, came to boarding school for a year before we came back to SA. I choose to move here so that she could stay in the same school and be a day scholar living at home. Hope you will be able to come to SA and experience our hospitality and beautiful country! Take care

LP
thank you for your kind thoughts re our ordinary day with family illness. dad is recovering ok and will stay in hospital overnight to make sure. graeme is feeling much better and his diabetes is back under control.
thank you again it is much appreciated.

Linda, my wife's name is Linda also. We were up in your area on our motorcycle around the first of June. I think you were in Africa. I had no way to contact you anyway. We took a little ride up around you and had lunch in Sutter Creek. We may be up there around 3rd week of March. I will yell if we do. Have a great trip to OZ and hope you will be able to see some SA'ers down under.

Hi Linda,
While you are in Oz, if you find yourself in Strathalbyn and need a guide, send me a msg through my page and I'll give you my phone no.

G'day Linda, hope I'm not to late to wish you a Bon Voyage on your trip to Oz. I'll be very anxious to hear about your itinerary & see some of your photos when you return. I'm sure you're going to have a wonderful time. Cheers!

Safe journeys Linda.

Hi Linda, when you read this you will be back home with all your wonderful memories. Hope the rest of your trip was all that you expected.
Will leave you a bottle of Australian wine (Margaret River?) and some Sydney Rock Oysters for you to sit on your deck and enjoy and reminise about Sydney.

Hi Linda. Good to see you posting again. Where did you travel to this time on your holiday? Will we see some photos? Cheers!

Hi Linda, Welcome home. I hope your Australian trip was as good as you expected. Were you able to connect with any other Sudokuholics. Will look forward to some pictures.

A very comfie corner for photo album perusing. Your one lane train/auto bridge brought me up short. I'm sure it's the same one I had to stop at and photograph. It gives new meaning to the term "Give Way".

YouTube is easy to set up. Open your "Update Details" page and scroll down to the YouTube section. It has a brief instruction that is easy to follow. Next, go find that special clip you want to share with the world and load it up. Be sure to scroll to the bottom of the page and click "Update Details" or nothing will happen.

Hello Linda - I thought I would stop by for a visit and I ran across your beautiful pictures. Thank you for sharing them. It was a lot of fun looking at them. Thank you, also, for the hot chocolate and goodies. I enjoyed those too! Please come by and visit me sometime. The door is always opened!

Great Pictures Linda, thanks for sharing. Looks like you had a great trip.

OK, linda, we're not gonna let this rest. You've gotta have some success here! When you get this far, let me know and we'll go to the next phase.
Step 1: google and select 'youtube.com' and click the 'videos' tab.
Step 2: In the 'search' bar, type 'pp&m' and click search.
Step 3: Click on the picture of the pp&m song you want to hear.
Step 4: Right of the video is the Embed window. Click it (highlight) then right click it and click copy.

Beautiful pictures Linda. Thanks for letting us have a look. Glad you liked Australia. What did you think of us Aussies?

Linda, food for viewing? Way to go

Good on ya, Linda. And who better than Emmylou to inaugurate your youtube.

Hi Linda - I enjoyed your visit. Yes, the wedding pictures are of my oldest daughter, Angelina. She likes to be called Angi. It was a very exciting time. She just celebrated her 5th anniversary! I am proud of both her and her husband and I am anxiously waiting for the day they tell me I will be a grandma! Please come back anytime!

Hi Linda - It looks like you have had some exciting adventures. It's still warm here in Ohio, but our Fall Season is gathering steam. We a currently in the middle of Apple Season, so I offer some warm apple crisp from fresh picked apples. I highly recommend a dollup of ice cream on the side.

Linda...great pictures of your Qz visit. Your hotel certainly was well located...such great shots while in the comfort of your balcony. Do you and hubby travel every year to celebrate your hubby's birthday, or just travel and his birthday just serendipitously happens around the same time? Whatever, hope you continue to enjoy. Thanks for sharing.

G'day Linda, I saw your note in Easy about your picture gallery so just dropped in for a squiz! What wonderful photos they are. It's hard to know which ones I like best but your safari shots take some beating. The Masai women are wonderful too. All in all it's a fascinating picture gallery and I'll certainly come back to it now and again. Glad you made it to Australia too, which is such a long way off the beaten track. Your Opera House shot is calendar-worthy. Well done and many thanks. Tree Sheila (Kate)

Hi Linda - Thank you for your kind comments. I hope you have a great week-end also!

Hi Linda! I enjoyed looking through all your travel photos. The Australia & NZ ones brought back many great memories of the trip Rob & I took there in Mar.-Apr., 2005. Looks like our itineraries were very similar. How long were you over there? Glad you made it to Tasmania; many tourists don't get to see it & it is SO special. Africa is on our wish list for 2009. Do you have any suggestions for us?? Did you go with a tour group? For 2008 we picked China. Where's the next place for you?

Linda, I would have no problem leaving the kids for a week or two, I just haven't had the opportunity. My kids are lucky. Both sets of grandparents live within 45 minutes by car. My older son is moving in with my in-laws for a week over winter break when he attends baseball camp near their house. This way I don't have to drive 45 min. twice a day to drop off and pick up.

You invited me to your place a long time ago, and this is the first time I've been free from my onerous shepherding responsibilities to make the trip. I had to hang all the sheep up on hooks on my wall so they wouldn't run away in my absence. Anyway; I've brought a rucksack of goodies for you: inside are some TUC biscuits and a lovely moist roquefort cheese. There is also a bottle of vintage port, and, as a special gourmet treat, some Japanese sweet chestnuts marinated in brandy. I love your travel photographs.

Linda, thank you for the birthday greeting. I really appreciate it. I am glad that babysitting is going well. It is nice to know that you can still find time for sudoku. Have a great week.

Linda, thank you for your kind words and for sharing your wisdom. There's quite a bit of my mother in me, so she does carry on and there's always a big space reserved just for her in my heart.

Thanks for your suggestion, Linda!

Woohoo! Good to see you had time to check in. Are the kids being little treasures? Have a great week.

I brought you a Pumpkin Chiffon Pie,
and happen to have an empty wine glass here: TRICK OR TREAT!

Trick or Treat! I am trying hard to keep up with Eve, but she is miles ahead of me!

Hi Linda - really enjoyed your photos. I'm wondering where exactly Pioneer is? Found a Pioneer in Michigan, Kansas, Sth Dakota but it is probably none of those. Bye for now.

Linda, just stopping by to wish you and yours a Happy Thanksgiving.

Linda: HAVE A WONDERFUL THANKSGIVING &
GIVE THANKS FOR ALL THE BLESSING BESTOWED UPON US HERE IN AMERICA.

Gobble, Gobble!

Hi Linda,
Have a wonderful Thanks Giving Celebration.
A to your daughter.
I am sure you will have a great time with your family.
My back is improving but I have been doing a lot of babysitting and that is not helping my recovery.
How are you getting on with your knee? Hope it is better than when you were here. Best wishes to R.

Linda, wishing you and your loved ones a very Happy Thanksgiving.

for stoping by with Turkey Day wishes - it was indeed great day. The pilgrims spent 3 days on that first Thanksgiving celebrating.

My U-tube is to honor all those who are a "brother/sister" to me and others on this site. HE AIN'T HEAVY, HE'S MY BROTHER"

Gday Linda, I hope you don't mind, I've just popped in here to escape the madness of reality! Can you believe how quickly time has flown? I have forbidden the use of the 'C' word until the Melbourne Sudoku get-together. Maybe then, I'll stop being Cleopatra, Queen of Denial and start getting into the festive spirit!
My head is still in a whirl with end-of-schoolyear stuff, particularly now that my D#2 has just completed her final year of high school. She has gone away to one of the many locations for the traditional week of 'schoolies'. I pity those places!
Anyhoo, enough of my babble! Thank you for hiding me for five minutes. I hope things are a little more peaceful in the build-up for you and yours.
Sending cyber hugs all around,
Gail

Have a wonderful Christmas Linda and the happiest of New Years xx