WBRepo-Ship of Thieves-Remember The Magic-Pt4

[HollyTyler]

well I am at work today so I guess I had better get to what they pay me for!! will check back when I get home.

Have a great day John!

 

[ibouncetoo]

Oh, and I'll probably have some brocolli cheese soup with that chicken brochetta salad.

and orange sorbet for dessert:

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[LuvBaloo]

Well, I get to pay bills this morning....but then will do breakfast and a movie with Peg. Then must FORCE myself to go shopping. I need to do a mega Walmart run and hit Catherines to replenish some very worn out garments. But FIRST...I may go back and lie down.

What movie are you going to see? Have a great time!

Lizard story:

on DEB and my first cruise, 2001, We shared our table with two other couples, that were also doing anniversary's. at the table the night after Castaway Cay, one of our table mates is telling us about this "huge lizard" that kept attacking her, inside her cabana on serenity bay. (her hubby told us it was only one of the tiny little salamanders) well as dinner was ending, our waiter told us that they had a special desert for us all. other wait staff bring in plates for all of us. with the steel covers still on and place them in front of all of us. with much fanfare they pop the covers off at the same time. on her plate is a Little rubber lizard. the squeal she let out brought half of the room to tears of laughter. seems the waiters had told everyone what to expect.

That's hilarious - I assume the lady saw the humour in it as well.

HEY....I'm going to be having dinner with DIS friends two weeks from TODAY! More importantly...they're going to be having dinner with ME!

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I love your modesty

I am at the Indy Air Show trying to figure out how to post without quoting anyone--so if I made an empty post--blame my shallow learning curve on the RAZ.
Jan

Have a great time! We wondered where you disappeared to last night.

We are back from our Saturday morning trip out.

We took Mrs. Fezziwig to the dealer to get a bath, so she would not be a dirty girl.

Then we went to a big farmers market and from there, to Bed Bath and Beyond to buy a new blender.

I love the blender story and thanks to your mention of farmer's market, I'm going to get moving and go down to ours. I always forget until about 2pm after its over. I want to pick up some pakura & samosas! So much better than the ones in the grocery store.

 

[HollyTyler]

Isn't it great that the servers enter into the fun like this?

As it happened, our 'chocolate slipper dessert' looked like a chopped up lizard didn't it?

 

[ibouncetoo]

Then, of course, there will be a brocolli break at Bengal Barbque

Yummmm, yummmm

.EXCUSE ME.....I MEAN ASPARAGUS.....

 

[HollyTyler]

Monica!

OK.....we do a self catering cottege in England for a week THEN go up to Scotland and have a few friends join us here:

http://www.boturich.co.uk/index.htm


BTW, who's doing the cooking? I might be able to live off tea and scones.




....I'm off to buy us some lottery tickets......

I don't cook, but I'd quickly learn if I could join you both!

 

[HollyTyler]

Holly, I am only joking hee hee, I know different times anyway I was brzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz sound asleep



that is good idea

Loch Lomond is a beautiful place

I will come along and join in Maybe Marilyn and John will come along

Scottishwee35

I want to come too!

 

[HollyTyler]

Are you watching on website live for Panama Canal on Monday?

I must watch it but catch at last lock as I am working grrrrrr

Scottishwee35

I was planning in watching from work, but I have Mon, Tues, Wed off. I don't think my computer at home will work for webcams. Piece of junk.

 

[HollyTyler]

HEY....I'm going to be having dinner with DIS friends two weeks from TODAY! More importantly...they're going to be having dinner with ME!

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You're all so lucky! Which ones? I hope you'll be sharing pictures with the rest of us!

 

[HollyTyler]

Please click one of the Quick Reply icons in the posts above to activate Quick Reply.

Having trouble Jan?

 

[granmaz]

Oh, and I'll probably have some brocolli cheese soup with that chicken brochetta salad.

and orange sorbet for dessert:

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Jackie, will you give over!

 

[HollyTyler]

It is a line from a a very famous Rudyard Kipling poem:

Gunga Din by Rudyard Kipling​

You may talk o' gin and beer
When you're quartered safe out 'ere,
An' you're sent to penny-fights an' Aldershot it;
But when it comes to slaughter
You will do your work on water,
An' you'll lick the bloomin' boots of 'im that's got it.
Now in Injia's sunny clime,
Where I used to spend my time
A-servin' of 'Er Majesty the Queen,
Of all them blackfaced crew
The finest man I knew
Was our regimental bhisti, Gunga Din.
He was "Din! Din! Din!
You limpin' lump o' brick-dust, Gunga Din!
Hi! slippery hitherao!
Water, get it! Panee lao!
You squidgy-nosed old idol, Gunga Din."

The uniform 'e wore
Was nothin' much before,
An' rather less than 'arf o' that be'ind,
For a piece o' twisty rag
An' a goatskin water-bag
Was all the field-equipment 'e could find.
When the sweatin' troop-train lay
In a sidin' through the day,
Where the 'eat would make your bloomin' eyebrows crawl,
We shouted "Harry By!"
Till our throats were bricky-dry,
Then we wopped 'im 'cause 'e couldn't serve us all.
It was "Din! Din! Din!
You 'eathen, where the mischief 'ave you been?
You put some juldee in it
Or I'll marrow you this minute
If you don't fill up my helmet, Gunga Din!"

'E would dot an' carry one
Till the longest day was done;
An' 'e didn't seem to know the use o' fear.
If we charged or broke or cut,
You could bet your bloomin' nut,
'E'd be waitin' fifty paces right flank rear.
With 'is mussick on 'is back,
'E would skip with our attack,
An' watch us till the bugles made "Retire",
An' for all 'is dirty 'ide
'E was white, clear white, inside
When 'e went to tend the wounded under fire!
It was "Din! Din! Din!"
With the bullets kickin' dust-spots on the green.
When the cartridges ran out,
You could hear the front-files shout,
"Hi! ammunition-mules an' Gunga Din!"

I shan't forgit the night
When I dropped be'ind the fight
With a bullet where my belt-plate should 'a' been.
I was chokin' mad with thirst,
An' the man that spied me first
Was our good old grinnin', gruntin' Gunga Din.
'E lifted up my 'ead,
An' he plugged me where I bled,
An' 'e guv me 'arf-a-pint o' water-green:
It was crawlin' and it stunk,
But of all the drinks I've drunk,
I'm gratefullest to one from Gunga Din.
It was "Din! Din! Din!
'Ere's a beggar with a bullet through 'is spleen;
'E's chawin' up the ground,
An' 'e's kickin' all around:
For Gawd's sake git the water, Gunga Din!"

'E carried me away
To where a dooli lay,
An' a bullet come an' drilled the beggar clean.
'E put me safe inside,
An' just before 'e died,
"I 'ope you liked your drink", sez Gunga Din.
So I'll meet 'im later on
At the place where 'e is gone --
Where it's always double drill and no canteen;
'E'll be squattin' on the coals
Givin' drink to poor damned souls,
An' I'll get a swig in hell from Gunga Din!
Yes, Din! Din! Din!
You Lazarushian-leather Gunga Din!
Though I've belted you and flayed you,
By the livin' Gawd that made you,
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!

Thanks Ian!

You squidgy-nosed old idol, Gunga Din

 

[ibouncetoo]

You're all so lucky! Which ones? I hope you'll be sharing pictures with the rest of us!

That's a dang good question....I don't know who all is attending???
I know I'll be there, and Cheri and Ian and Suki (duh) and Kelly and Nan and family. I'm not sure who else of the California gang is coming for sure...I think (and hope!) Galyeen is and Bubba & Venitia...but I don't know for sure. Maybe some folks are planning on being surprise guests! I know Mr & Mrs Woody won't be able to attend (you never know for sure WHERE on the planet those two are )

You never have to worry about photos when Cheri is around!

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[HollyTyler]

Hello folks

Marilyn - I'm glad you have mastered the art of skimming since we filled up so many pages last night, but some was educational (thanks Ian!)

Deborah - that's a great pic you posted of Deb & John

Holly - thank goodness I wasn't back on here at the same time as you (that was only 4:30am for me )

Sorry Shannon (and Gaylean when you read this), my fuzzy brain in the morning was thinking you are 3 hours AHEAD of me, not BEHIND. I'm always backwards in the morning, beer or no beer the night before!

 

[ibouncetoo]

Jackie, will you give over!

Sorry....can you tell I've been visiting the Disneyland restaurant dining review thread?

I guess I won't post pictures from Cafe Orleans....thouse beingets may just put you over the edge!


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[HollyTyler]

I am at the Indy Air Show trying to figure out how to post without quoting anyone--so if I made an empty post--blame my shallow learning curve on the RAZ.

I wanted to give you a link to the website which I JUST learned is showing streaming video--otherwise I would have told you earlier in case you wanted to watch.

I have no idea if there will be replays later.

If you are interested, checkout the site and see if you can find it:

www.indyairshow.com

Jan

Very cool Jan! I'd watch if my stupid computer would quit being stubborn and work Flash. I'll bet I'm really not going to be able to see the Magic on PC crossing day. Hmmm......maybe my little Dell pda has flash! I'll have to play around with that later and see what I can find out.

 

[ibouncetoo]

MARILYN CLOSE YOUR EYES..








I was just reminded that they have DARK chocolate covered strawberries at Pooh Corner......

 

[HollyTyler]

We are back from our Saturday morning trip out.

We took Mrs. Fezziwig to the dealer to get a bath, so she would not be a dirty girl.

Then we went to a big farmers market and from there, to Bed Bath and Beyond to buy a new blender.

I have a blender story from last night.

Since we have been both heavily back into WW, we have been using WW Smoothie mix to have a smoothie every night. Typically I add some ice and frozen fruit. It comes out to about 1 point for each of us, or about 2 points for the entire blender jar.

We had a Waring blender that we got in around 1991, so we've had it for years. It was one of the models with a sealed bottom. You know, the blades were integrated and could not be removed from the blender jar.

Last night, it was leaking fiercely out of the bottom with frozen smoothie going everywhere, oozing out all over the counter. I did manage to salvage about half a glass for each of us. Vanilla-Banana-Mango and it was great.

My half came out of what was left in the blender.

It was odd, because there was grit in my smoothie. I thought is was bits of ice that had not been blended, that is until I got to the bottom of the glass, and realized that the bits had not been ice, but bits of glass.

It was not sharp shards but little pieces more like sand (the blender jar is rather heavy glass).

I did not tell Sukie about it last night, but did while we were driving around today. He promptly proceeded to freak out in the car.

"You fed me broken glass?!?"

I looked at him and said, "You know, you can never get too much silica in your diet."

I told him to look on the bright side. To my knowledge, glass is zero points.

At Bed Bath and Beyond, when trying to choose a blender, Sukie asked the store clerk, which blender jar tasted best.

We bought a Krups, with powerful motor and the blades unscrew and remove for cleaning.

If Sukie doesn't watch out, I'm going to put a Brillo pad in his next smoothie. I suspect he needs more iron in his diet.



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Poor Sukie! Are you trying to off him before the wedding?!

I do love hearing about your Saturday adventures. The things that happen to you two, and your way with words, always have me just cracking up!

 

[ibouncetoo]

OH.....and the Shreded Beef Nachos from WhiteWater Snacks in the Grand Californian!






.HONESTLY. ....I'm just posting these to give Ian some help for all the days they'll be at DLR~

 

[HollyTyler]

It happens!

I do like to pepper my speach with literary allusions...though more lately it's film allusions.

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Pepper away, Jackie!