8/17/08 Captain Jack's Repossession Repo Cruise to PC thru TPC Part 17

[PBader]

Paula, I see in your sig line that you have a Costa Rica trip planned for next month -- is it a deep sea fishing trip? DH went on a week long fishing trip there last year -- I think it was last year! LOL!

No, no fishing. We are doing a 10 day tour. I am really excited about it, got Adam approved to miss 4 days of school for educational enrichment. We leave Jan. 2nd. I don't think I could handle a week long fishing trip--Alan and Adam would probably love it--but after a few hours I am ready to get off the boat.

 

[PBader]

She is only 3 and I did not buy her the Pretty Pretty Princess game. She has 7 tiaras. She changes her crown everyday to match her outfit.

That is sooooo cute!

Great pictures Paula!!! I am looking forward to the mimosas.

This part cracked me up!!! I'm not much of a drinker (my kids got it from their dad! ) but, I do enjoy a mimosa a couple of times a year.

Yes, they were a great way to start our voyage through the canal.

Hopfully 2010!

My 2009 and beyond is wide open Andrew. Alan would like to head out west and see some of our national parks so we may do that. I'm hoping DCL does something to knock our socks off in 2010.

I was just about to compliment you on your sensitivity..... then this:

I've cultivated my reputation as a first-class jerk. I wouldn't want to ruin that by letting people think I'm a nice guy.

I did especially like the line: "a bunch of rabble rousers, led by a lawyer", which, of course, is redundant, like Mark Twain's famous comment: "Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."

 

[PBader]

I'm also not much of a drinker (despite my name ), but that day we started off with mimosas at 7:00 am, graduated to wine by 9:00 am, up to Bloody Marys by 10:00 am, chocolate martinis by 11:00 am and Zombies by noon! We all needed a nap that afternoon We had a big party on our verandah that day.

I should have hung out with you all Tracy!

 

[PBader]

I'm going to email Deb's pic and your reply to DH. We have asked our builder to remove 3 of the oak trees on our lot because we believe they will fall sometime in the near future --- it looks like 1 was hit by lightening and one side looks dead. We really don't need to have large Oak trees fall either on our new house or one of our neighbors!

One of our rentals has 2 huge oaks right next to it. I've had 3 tree companies look at them but just can't make myself spend the $$ to take them down. They are healthy old trees--I just know they would take the house if they fell.

 

[PBader]

Here are a few photos from yesterday.

Castle with newly added snow

Beautiful Roger. Maybe I'll be lucky enough to see both of them next December (probably not).

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

My 2009 and beyond is wide open Andrew. Alan would like to head out west and see some of our national parks so we may do that. I'm hoping DCL does something to knock our socks off in 2010.

After the dissapoointment for 2009 cruises, they will ahve to be bold and do something special. Europe would be nice Captain Tom did say they would be back.

 

[PBader]

Well this time next week will be Christmas eve and the formal start to the holidays.

In two weeks it will be New Years eve and then 2008 and our cruise will be in that year and getting closer.

To all of the very very nice and wonderful people on this thread I wish you a

Merry Christmas

Happy holidays

And

A pirate full new year



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Right back at you Andrew. I can't believe how fast this year has flown by.

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

Right back at you Andrew. I can't believe how fast this year has flown by.

Paula and all the best to you, yes it has flown by and soon will be 2008, then only eight months to go!!!!

Stephen with Chip and Dale, (babies) in 2005.

 

[Stepht5]

Yes, i would agree to get this settled prior to acceptance. If you have to bear the cost of removal it could be in the thousands per tree depending on site conditions. I would not want that additional cost.

Just because a tree has some leaves.....doesn't make it right....

That's exactly how we felt. We know the city will then require us to plant some new trees -- 2 of the trees are in the front yard and that would only leave 1 mature tree in the front. We would much rather have trees that are ALIVE.
The one in the backyard looks like it will be extremely difficult to remove......

 

[Stepht5]

No, no fishing. We are doing a 10 day tour. I am really excited about it, got Adam approved to miss 4 days of school for educational enrichment. We leave Jan. 2nd. I don't think I could handle a week long fishing trip--Alan and Adam would probably love it--but after a few hours I am ready to get off the boat.

That sounds like alot of fun! I can't wait to see the pics!

 

[Stepht5]

One of our rentals has 2 huge oaks right next to it. I've had 3 tree companies look at them but just can't make myself spend the $$ to take them down. They are healthy old trees--I just know they would take the house if they fell.

Dh's Anut had a couple of large, old, healthy trees removed right after her dh died -- he loved them and would never consider removing them. It was a good thing she had them removed! She would have (more then likely) lost her house in Katrina! All of her neighbors had trees on their houses! She was the only one whose house was fine -- she lives in Laural, MS.

 

[dahuffy]

Debi,

I'm not a licensed forester but i have taken street tree inventories and am a Qualified Forest Professional (in MD).....

but i'd say the whole tree should come down based on the condition of what's left. With that one side missing and most of the crown missing it's only a matter of time before it would fall towards the street. (ie the side with branches still on it.)

Sorry you lost a tree but at least your roof was spared.

Thank you for great advice! Actually,we've been wanting this one down for quite some time(can't afford it). We were kind of hoping that the last big branch would fall off too.

 

[dahuffy]

Paula and all the best to you, yes it has flown by and soon will be 2008, then only eight months to go!!!!

Stephen with Chip and Dale, (babies) in 2005.

Oh my goodness Andrew, I do believe that's the first picture I've seen of Stephen with a "smile" on his face!!!

 

[Verandah Man]

Hey, y'all -- maybe you want to rethink letting Tom31b and the lawyers on-board your cruise -- this is from the NY Times:

"A incident occurred last month aboard the Sapphire Princess, a 2,600-passenger cruise ship on a 16-night voyage with scheduled stops in Singapore, Shanghai and other Asian ports. Two late-season typhoons severely disrupted the trip, canceling port calls in Vietnam, at Okinawa and at Taipei, Taiwan.

Unhappy passengers rushed to Internet stations to tell the world. Some were “claiming they were on the verge of mutiny,” The Sunday Mail reported while the ship was still at sea.

An online critic, Carolyn Spencer Brown, happened to be on the ship. Ms. Spencer Brown is editor of CruiseCritic.com, which features cruise news and reviews.

Naturally, she also turned to the Internet. As the passenger unrest spread and the crew seemed unable to keep up with the clamor for timely information, she compiled a daily log from the storm-racked vessel.
A former Washington Post reporter, Ms. Spencer Brown has sailed on most cruise lines. But this was her first mutiny.

As port stops were canceled and passengers found themselves with little to do, protest meetings broke out. “It became ‘Monty Python Meets the Perfect Storm,’ ” she said.

“First there was a group of what I’d call rabble-rousers, led by a lawyer,” she said. “We were missing all of these ports, and they felt they weren’t getting the truth” from the ship’s officers. At one point, with passengers assembled in the ship’s theater, she said, “the attorney jumped up and grabbed the microphone away from the assistant cruise director and said: ‘We’re taking over the stage! We have a petition!’”

“There was a big shouting match with the captain,” she said. “One passenger was telling everybody he was captain of a yacht back home.” He stormed the bridge with Google Earth printouts, she said, and demanded to show the captain how to navigate around the storm.
As the ship approached its final port, near Beijing, a few passengers threatened to barricade themselves in their staterooms unless they got $1,000 in chits and a free cruise. Resistance collapsed when the captain noted that the police in Beijing would probably not be in the mood for negotiation, Ms. Spencer Brown said.

What are chits???

 

[micmse2003]

Hey, y'all -- maybe you want to rethink letting Tom31b and the lawyers on-board your cruise -- this is from the NY Times:

"A incident occurred last month aboard the Sapphire Princess, a 2,600-passenger cruise ship on a 16-night voyage with scheduled stops in Singapore, Shanghai and other Asian ports. Two late-season typhoons severely disrupted the trip, canceling port calls in Vietnam, at Okinawa and at Taipei, Taiwan.

Unhappy passengers rushed to Internet stations to tell the world. Some were “claiming they were on the verge of mutiny,” The Sunday Mail reported while the ship was still at sea.

An online critic, Carolyn Spencer Brown, happened to be on the ship. Ms. Spencer Brown is editor of CruiseCritic.com, which features cruise news and reviews.

Naturally, she also turned to the Internet. As the passenger unrest spread and the crew seemed unable to keep up with the clamor for timely information, she compiled a daily log from the storm-racked vessel.
A former Washington Post reporter, Ms. Spencer Brown has sailed on most cruise lines. But this was her first mutiny.

As port stops were canceled and passengers found themselves with little to do, protest meetings broke out. “It became ‘Monty Python Meets the Perfect Storm,’ ” she said.

“First there was a group of what I’d call rabble-rousers, led by a lawyer,” she said. “We were missing all of these ports, and they felt they weren’t getting the truth” from the ship’s officers. At one point, with passengers assembled in the ship’s theater, she said, “the attorney jumped up and grabbed the microphone away from the assistant cruise director and said: ‘We’re taking over the stage! We have a petition!’”

“There was a big shouting match with the captain,” she said. “One passenger was telling everybody he was captain of a yacht back home.” He stormed the bridge with Google Earth printouts, she said, and demanded to show the captain how to navigate around the storm.
As the ship approached its final port, near Beijing, a few passengers threatened to barricade themselves in their staterooms unless they got $1,000 in chits and a free cruise. Resistance collapsed when the captain noted that the police in Beijing would probably not be in the mood for negotiation, Ms. Spencer Brown said.

I was just about to compliment you on your sensitivity..... then this:

I am not taking sides!!!!!

I've cultivated my reputation as a first-class jerk. I wouldn't want to ruin that by letting people think I'm a nice guy.

I did especially like the line: "a bunch of rabble rousers, led by a lawyer", which, of course, is redundant, like Mark Twain's famous comment: "Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."

Yes you do have your reputation to up-hold although we all know you are a first -class .........Nice guy most of the time.

I'm also not much of a drinker (despite my name ), but that day we started off with mimosas at 7:00 am, graduated to wine by 9:00 am, up to Bloody Marys by 10:00 am, chocolate martinis by 11:00 am and Zombies by noon! We all needed a nap that afternoon We had a big party on our verandah that day.

You are my kind of friend. Your verandah or mine????

 

[PBader]

After the dissapoointment for 2009 cruises, they will ahve to be bold and do something special. Europe would be nice Captain Tom did say they would be back.

I would have just been more inclined to book if they had thrown even a couple longer cruises in there and with several new ports. I can't remember which ones the Wonder went to a couple of years ago, but even something along those lines would have been nice. And when they go back to Europe I would probably be interested in the last cruise and the repo back

 

[Diznyfan68]

Just a quick post to let ya'll know that we're okay. Just got our electricity up and running, after it being off since last Sunday night. I took tons of pics! Fortunately,no house damage but do have a lot of tree damage to clean up.

Gonna try and play a little ketchup.

TTFN!

Debi

Glad to hear that you are safe and sound and have your electric back on. We've heard that there are some who won't have theirs back on for another week or two.

There have been two times that we were out for longer than 24 hours that I can remember - the first time was in 1977 when I was a kid in NYC and we had the big blackout - we were without power for 2 or 3 days, and then a few years ago when the eastern grid went out we were out for 2.5 days. One of these days we are going to get a generator - just have to figure out where it's going to go that it won't get stolen.

 

[PBader]

Paula and all the best to you, yes it has flown by and soon will be 2008, then only eight months to go!!!!

Stephen with Chip and Dale, (babies) in 2005.

I think that is a smile sneaking out

 

[Diznyfan68]

I would have just been more inclined to book if they had thrown even a couple longer cruises in there and with several new ports. I can't remember which ones the Wonder went to a couple of years ago, but even something along those lines would have been nice. And when they go back to Europe I would probably be interested in the last cruise and the repo back

Us too Paula, though now DH is talking about booking for late 2009 and creating our own land/sea - 3 days at WDW followed by a 7 day on the Magic.

 

[PBader]

Dh's Anut had a couple of large, old, healthy trees removed right after her dh died -- he loved them and would never consider removing them. It was a good thing she had them removed! She would have (more then likely) lost her house in Katrina! All of her neighbors had trees on their houses! She was the only one whose house was fine -- she lives in Laural, MS.

Sometimes, you have to trust those feelings you get. Glad your aunt's house was spared.