jacalmi from Canada

Doing the Happy Dance today - I'm in the Chicago area and I'm a Great Aunt today -- in addition to the arrival of Taste of Chicago - my niece had a Baby Girl today -- so she will always have a party going on - with the 4th of July just around the corner -- enjoy your time on the site, Mary

Love butterflies. Lovely pic Jim.

Thanks for the supportive comment.
I post newer photos on Flickr; here's another butterfly:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jim_from_jupiter/4627538562/in/set-72157624074884722/

Merry Christmas jacalmi! Hope your holiday weekend is full of peace and love.

Thanks Vici. Love your Santa kitty.I have 3 of my own.

Looks like I have never welcomed you to the site! Welcome and...
Wishing you and yours a very Happy New Year, jacalmi!

Hi Jacalmi! I guess you snuck on the site when I wasn't looking, but a belated welcome to you. Where in Canada are you located? Enjoy my traditional page warming gift, a double chocolate fudge beavertail pastry from the Beavertail shop on the Rideau Canal skate-way here in Ottawa. Drop in and visit on my page. Cheers!

Happy Canada Day - hope you have a good one!

Australia Day is January 26th. Celebrates the arrival of the First Fleet in Sydney. The aboriginal people call it Invasion Day.

jacalmi, yes this is Oklahoma. I actually live in this Nation, less than 1/2 mile is the Osage Nation, no I am not Indian [native American]. There are many tribes here and most have a section that is their Nation. Since the land was sold back to the USA or was taken, what the different tribes own is the mineral rights under for the land. Hope this makes sense.

Hello Jacalmi - thanks very much for visiting my page and Photo Gallery and your lovely comment. Albany is a beautiful place so any photo taken around here should be a good one, but most of the photos are from trips away. I take my camera with me most places I go such as yesterday when friends and I spent the day visiting various places such as wineries and different food factories.
Cheers,
Anne

Jacalmi!
Wishing you and your family a beautiful holiday and blessings the year long

Have a wonderful Christmas and a very happy, healthy 2012!!

Wishing you and yours the best in the New Year

Hi Jacalmi. I just wanted to wish you and all those you care for a very happy Christmas, and all the best in the year to come. Cheers!

To you.

for the greetings!
Wishing you a wonderful in 2012!

Hi Jacalmi, thanks for your birthday wishes - it's great having so many people from around the world visiting.

Hello Jacalmi - thank you for taking the time to visit my page and leaving birthday wishes. I had a great day and it was lovely to hear from so many of our fellow sudoku friends.

Anne

Hi Jacki! Thanks for the birthday wishes - they are greatly appreciated!



Thanks also for your comments on the photos - I'm usually around a long time after you've made them, but I do see them!!

Happy St. Patrick's Day to you, too! It was great to get your post on my page. My husband is Irish - me, I'm more Scottish I think.
I agree with you about our weird winter weather. We are suppose to get snow tonight and a bit more through the week...but my fruit trees have already blossomed out because of all the warm dry weather we had the last few months...arg! Hope it doesn't ruin my peach crop. I have young trees and they don't hold up too well with heavy snowfall. Enjoy your day in the sunshine!

Jacalmi, thank you so much for the birthday greetings. You helped make my day a little extra special. Cheers!

Woohoo! I guess this advancing in age day isn't too bad. Had lots of surprises, all of them wonderful! Thank you for my b'day song!

Hi jacalmi. Thanks again for comments on my photos.
I found some info on Port Gregory for you in case Wendy is off traveling & doesn't see your question!!
Try these sites for info on Port Gregory -
http://www.wanowandthen.com/Port-Gregory.html
http://www.australiascoralcoast.com/destinations/ka lbarri-region/port-gregory
The first has info on the convicts & the second has a photo of the Pink Lake that's near Port Gregory!

Oops a hiccup in the address there's a gap in ka lbari that shouldn't be there!!! Try this if you want too: http://www.australiascoralcoast.com/destinations/kalbarri-region/port-gregory

for the Grrreat b'day wishes! It is such a joy having so many Sudokuland friends to celebrate with.

Hello Jacalmi - regarding the photo on today's tough puzzle.
This is actually my daughter near a statue of the French Explorer Baudin, around the boardwalk in Albany.

Hi jacalmi.
It's a low spreading shrub 0.3–0.6 m high, with very small flowers about 3mm. It's a threatened species & is found in a Nature Reserve called Muogamarra on the other side of the Hawkesbury River from where our new house is being built. It is also not a Epacris sp, Heath, Ericaceae - Styphelioideae, as I wrote when I uploaded the photo because that was the closest at that time1 After that I found the correct name: Micromyrtus blakelyi, Myrtaceae. It is so rare it doesn't have a common name!!
If you want to see a better photo go to this address:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lightcliff/3923497945/
(Micromyrtus - a small myrtle, and blakelyi after
William F Blake a former botanist at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney.)

Thanks for visiting, jacalmi!
Sorry I haven't been around often recently - it's going to be nothing soon!!! We're having a birthday party in the River House in a couple of weeks! I've been making curtains etc & husband has been trying to get the yard straightened up after all the building!!!
We've borrowed bedrooms from all our friends up there to accommodate family & friends from other places!!

jacalmi, for the Birthday greeting. I am pleased you enjoy my pictures. I haven't submited any lately, I will have to get some done but it will be after we move.

Hi jacalmi, Todays hard puzzle was mine. This was taken in what is refered to as the 'Grand-Place' or Market Square, in Brussels.

Hi jacalmi!
You asked about the rail on today's Med JS! It's for turning a very heavy cannon to different positions according to where the enemy was!
It's on Battery Hill at Port Fairy, a pretty fishing village in Victoria.
http://www.travelling-australia.info/InfsheetsP/Portfairy.html

Hi Jacalmi
I do the hard because the tough is too tough for me. As a novice at Sudoku the two tips I would give you is after you have gone thru all the numbers and have all the possibilties in the squares,firstly check whether you have two squares in the same line, row or a bigger square of 9, which contain only 2 numbers which are the same. If so you can delete those two numbers from all others in the same line, row or big square. Secondly then do the same thing with three number in three squares.
Now I read what I have written I wonder if you will have ny idea what I mean. Unfortunately I can't see how to make it any clarer. Keep at it. It does become easier.
Cheers

Hi Jacalmi, I read your post on not being able to complete the hard puzzles, keep trying, they are daunting at first but doable after a point in time, I never finish the tough ones though, usually I don't even try, not sure how some of our other friends on this site are able to do so, perhaps they use the possibility option, I don't use that. Anyway good luck!

Jacalmi, It makes me so happy that someone else appreciates the beauty of rocks. I was actually raised in Midwest farmland, so these mountains never cease to amaze me. Thank you for the kind comments with your birthday greetings! I had a great birthday weekend with very creative grandchildren. It would be nice to have a little more time for Sudoku and people on this site, but I appreciate the time I do have and reading your comments on the site, even if I do it late at night and am too tired to comment myself. Your efforts are noticed and appreciated!

Hi jacalmi - just found you note (22/Dec/11) on the photo of my BIL survival of an avalanche in NZ. Thank you!

Thanks for remembering. Glad you enjoyed my pictures.

Thanks for the visit, Jackie. The main thing about being friends (apart from being friends!!) is that you can easily contact each other on the site even if the 'Check my page' isn't nearby! You just go to the 'Friends' button at right hand end at the top -
'jacalmi Update Details Sign Out Your Page Inbox Friends'

Hi Jackie - arrived via 'Friends' page!!

Thanks for visiting, again!! Saw you visited the gallery, too! I know there wasn't any criticism, but I also know it was a dark photo, just didn't realize it would make it so much harder to see with the shrunken image!!
Have a good day when it's time to wake up! It's about 10.20am here when I post this!