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AndiF on May 1, 2006 at 5:43 am
Oui on May 1, 2006 at 6:07 am

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Tulip Fields – Netherlands in the Spring

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“But I will not let myself be reduced to silence.”

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- supersoling on May 1, 2006 at 7:13 am
  
  Planetary racing stripes…..
  - CabinGirl on May 1, 2006 at 7:33 am
    
    Now, why am I not surprised you would think of that? 🙂
    
    How are you this morning?
    
    This morning, I’m the proud mom of a player on what has become THE U-11 lacrosse team to beat this spring…they won 8-0 last night.
    - AndiF on May 1, 2006 at 7:39 am
      
      Morning CG and SS.
      
      Congrats, CG, on having a superstar in the house.
      - CabinGirl on May 1, 2006 at 7:49 am
        
        Good morning! Happy to be back at home this week? I bet the dogs are delighted!
        
        I know, I’m bragging, but it just warms the cockles of my heart when I see my little guy push someone out and take possession, or shoot at the goal…
        
        Plus, my idea for everyone to bring sandwiches and either a dessert or salad to share last night worked out so well that everyone brought their whole families to the game for a change, and we’re doing it at all the 6 PM games for the rest of the season, which gets me out of making dinner those nights!
        
        It’s those little things that get me excited…
      - AndiF on May 1, 2006 at 8:12 am
        
        It’s those little things that get me excited
        
        If it weren’t so early I’d definitely be making you blush for having written that sentence. 😉
      - CabinGirl on May 1, 2006 at 8:15 am
        
        Ha. I was just checking to see if you were awake.
        
        You are. 🙂
      - olivia on May 1, 2006 at 8:27 am
        
        Sounds like a superstar team — wow! 11-0 woo hoo!
        
        And great idea w/ the pot luck and getting families out to watch CG.
      - CabinGirl on May 1, 2006 at 8:38 am
        
        Confession: My real intent was to get out of making dinner on nights when we don’t get home till 8:00…
      - olivia on May 1, 2006 at 8:48 am
        
        Well then it’s doubly successful! 🙂
      - AndiF on May 1, 2006 at 8:56 am
        
        because it just hit me that you are using one of your new D70 shots for your icon. 🙂
      - CabinGirl on May 1, 2006 at 9:45 am
        
        And is that really called a Dorito tulip?
      - olivia on May 1, 2006 at 11:53 am
        
        Just my first thought upon seeing it! 🙂
      - olivia on May 1, 2006 at 11:54 am
        
        maryb gave me the idea last night — go w/ the tulips for May since they’re just popping now in Ottawa. 🙂
      - AndiF on May 1, 2006 at 12:13 pm
        
        I was comparing the two mum pictures and difference in the crispness of edges and sense of depth and texture was amazing.
      - olivia on May 1, 2006 at 12:14 pm
        
        That I only uploaded the resized picture!!! The original is so much larger than the one on flickr.
Kidspeak on May 1, 2006 at 7:55 am

Good morning, folks. I just hustled the baby possum off the back porch before the big feral tomcat got here. Possum is all silverly now, and getting fat. Far too tame.
- CabinGirl on May 1, 2006 at 8:11 am
  
  You have a friendly possum?
  - Kidspeak on May 1, 2006 at 10:29 am
    
    My much belated answer (had another cat-related incident to take care of. Kittens on high shelf. Books, magazines pushed off onto breakfast. . you get the picture.
    
    Well. . .the parents aren’t friendly, but this little one – actually sort of a teenager now, kept coming back thru late winter and he really isn’t scared much anymore. He/she?’s very much fuzzier than his mom & pop. Loves cat food.
kansas on May 1, 2006 at 8:08 am

Hi,guys. Sorry I can’t stick around long enough to do more than say hi. If it’s Monday, it must be Milwaukee.

Hugs to all.
- CabinGirl on May 1, 2006 at 8:11 am
  
  How’s the book tour going?
- AndiF on May 1, 2006 at 8:14 am
  
  Hi kansas. Hope the book tour is going well with lots of people lining up to have their books signed.
- olivia on May 1, 2006 at 8:25 am
  
  {{{{kansas}}}}
  
  Hope you’re having fun and enjoying yourself!
  - Iowa Victory Gardener on May 1, 2006 at 10:26 am
    
    Hi there! I second Olivia’s motion and hope that the tour isn’t wearing you out too much, Kansas. Ah, Milwaukee on May Day… what a romantic idea… if you’re into beer and cheese. Hehe. Hope it goes well for you!
- Damnit Janet on May 1, 2006 at 11:35 am
  
  I’m now hooked on Jenny series 🙂
  
  Have a great tour!
boran2 on May 1, 2006 at 9:49 am

Good morning all! Another fine day in the Hudson Valley. Now if I can just sneak outside for awhile.
- CabinGirl on May 1, 2006 at 9:50 am
  
  It does look like a gorgeous day outside…
  - AndiF on May 1, 2006 at 10:20 am
    
    It’s nice here now but thunderstorms are predicted. Probably a good idea to take my walk a bit early.
Iowa Victory Gardener on May 1, 2006 at 10:28 am

Sigh, Monday again… after a work filled and soggy weekend, I just wanted to stay in bed. But here I am at the office, having a cup of coffee and bracing myself for another week. LOL.

Sounds like everyone else is getting rolling too. Howdy Andi, CG, Olivia, B2 and anyone else I missed!

Gotta love that dorito tulip hehe. Catch you folks later…
- olivia on May 1, 2006 at 12:02 pm
  
  Here’s hoping that you’ll have blue skies for the rest of the week — at work and in the garden!
Damnit Janet on May 1, 2006 at 10:56 am

And to

SAN JOSE SHARKS!!!! Whoooooooooooot

Good morning! Got White T-Shirts?? 🙂
- olivia on May 1, 2006 at 11:55 am
  
  Woo Hoo!!!
  - Damnit Janet on May 1, 2006 at 12:12 pm
KMc on May 1, 2006 at 11:15 am

Just checking in and saying hi.

Today’s fantasy tea: White Peony which is that rarest of all beasts, a white tea. That’s as opposed to a black or a green. White teas have practically no caffeine. And that’s why it’s a fantasy tea. I’m actually drink a nice strong Scottish Breakfast.

Kansas, good luck on the book tour.
- olivia on May 1, 2006 at 12:01 pm
  
  Love your tea comments! 🙂
dada on May 1, 2006 at 11:30 am
Nothing but blue skies do I see this AM.

Some light reading to go with your second cup…the ever witty and erudite John Cleese’s, The New Order:

Enjoy
The New Order…

To the citizens of the United States of America, in the light of your
failure to elect a competent President of the USA and thus to govern
yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your
independence, effective today.

Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths and other territories. Except Utah, which she does not fancy. Your new prime minister (The Right Honourable Tony Blair, MP for the 97.85% of you who have until now been unaware that there is a world outside your borders) will appoint a minister for America without the need for further elections. Congress and the Senate will be disbanded. A questionnaire will be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed. To aid in the transition to a British Crown Dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect:

1. You should look up revocation in the Oxford English Dictionary. Then look up aluminium. Check the pronunciation guide. You will be amazed at just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it. The letter ‘U’ will be reinstated in words such as ‘favour’ and ‘neighbour’, skipping the letter ‘U’ is nothing more than laziness on your part. Likewise, you will learn to spell ‘doughnut’ without skipping half the letters. You will end your love affair with the letter ‘Z’ (pronounced ‘zed’ not ‘zee’) and the suffix ize will be replaced by the suffix ise. You will learn that the suffix ‘burgh’ is pronounced ‘burra’ e.g. Edinburgh. You are welcome to respell Pittsburgh as ‘Pittsberg’ if you can’t cope with correct pronunciation.

Generally, you should raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels. Look up vocabulary. Using the same twenty seven words interspersed with filler noises such as “like” and “you know” is an unacceptable and inefficient form of communication. Look up interspersed. There will be no more ‘bleeps’ in the Jerry Springer show. If you’re not old enough to cope with bad language then you shouldn’t have chat shows. When you learn to develop your vocabulary then you won’t have to use bad language as often.

2. There is no such thing as “US English”. We will let Microsoft know on your behalf. The Microsoft spell-checker will be adjusted to take
account of the reinstated letter ‘u’ and the elimination of -ize.

3. You should learn to distinguish the English and Australian accents.
It really isn’t that hard. English accents are not limited to cockney,upper-class twit or Mancunian (Daphne in Frasier). You will also have to learn how to understand regional accents – Scottish dramas such as Taggart will no longer be broadcast with subtitles. While we’re talking about regions, you must learn that there is no such place as Devonshire in England. The name of the county is Devon. If you persist in calling it Devonshire, all American States will become shires e.g. Texasshire, Floridashire, Louisianashire.

Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as the good guys. Hollywood will be required to cast English actors to play English characters. British sit-coms such as Men Behaving Badly or Red Dwarf will not be re-cast and watered down for a wishy-washy American audience who can’t cope with the humour of occasional political incorrectness.
You should relearn your original national anthem, God Save The Queen but only after fully carrying out task 1. We would not want you to get confused and give up half way through.
You should stop playing American football. There is only one kind of football. What you refer to as American football is not a very good

game. The 2.15% of you who are aware that there is a world outside your borders may have noticed that no one else plays American football. You will no longer be allowed to play it, and should instead play proper football. Initially, it would be best if you played with the girls. It is a difficult game. Those of you brave enough will, in time, be allowed to play rugby (which is similar to American “football”, but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like nancies). We are hoping to get together at least a US Rugby sevens side by 2007. You should stop playing baseball. It is not reasonable to host an event called the ‘World Series’ for a game which is not played outside of America. Since only 2.15% of you are aware that there is a world beyond your borders,your error is understandable. Instead of baseball, you will be allowed to play a girls’ game called rounders, which is baseball without fancy team strip, oversized gloves, collector cards or hotdogs.

7. You will no longer be allowed to own or carry guns. You will no
longer be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous in public than a vegetable peeler. Because we don’t believe you are sensible enough to handle potentially dangerous items, you will require a permit if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public.

8. July 4th is no longer a public holiday. November 2nd will be a new
national holiday, but only in England. It will be called Indecisive Day.

All American cars are hereby banned. They are crap and it is for your own good. When we show you German cars, you will understand what we mean. All road intersections will be replaced with roundabouts. You will start driving on the left with immediate effect. At the same time,you will go metric with immediate effect and conversion tables. Roundabouts and metrication will help you understand the British sense of humour.
You will learn to make real chips. Those things you call French

fries are not real chips. Fries aren’t even French, they are Belgian
though 97.85% of you (including the guy who discovered fries while in Europe) are not aware of a country called Belgium. Those things you insist on calling potato chips are properly called crisps. Real chips are thick cut and fried in animal fat. The traditional accompaniment to chips is beer which should be served warm and flat. Waitresses will be trained to be more aggressive with customers.

11. As a sign of penance 5 grams of sea salt per cup will be added to
all tea made within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, this quantity to be doubled for tea made within the city of Boston itself.

12. The cold tasteless stuff you insist on calling beer is not actually
beer at all, it is lager. From November 1st only proper British Bitter
will be referred to as beer,and European brews of known and accepted provenance will be referred to as Lager. The substances formerly known as American Beer will henceforth be referred to as Near-Frozen Knat’s Urine,with the exception of the product of the American Budweiser company whose product will be referred to as Weak Near-Frozen Knat’s Urine. This will allow true Budweiser (as manufactured for the last 1000 years in Pilsen,Czech Republic) to be sold without risk of confusion.

From November 10th the UK will harmonise petrol (or Gasoline, as you will be permitted to keep calling it until April 1st 2007) prices with the former USA. The UK will harmonise its prices to those of the former USA and the Former USA will, in return, adopt UK petrol prices (roughly $6/US gallon- get used to it).
You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns,

lawyers or therapists. The fact that you need so many lawyers and
therapists shows that you’re not adult enough to be independent. Guns should only be handled by adults. If you’re not adult enough to sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist then you’re not grown up enough to handle a gun.

Please tell us who killed JFK. It’s been driving us crazy.
Tax collectors from Her Majesty’s Government will be with you

shortly to ensure the acquisition of all revenues due (backdated to
1776).

Thank you for your co-operation and have a great day.

John Cleese
Peace
- Damnit Janet on May 1, 2006 at 11:34 am
  
  I love Cleese 🙂 I have a slight crush on him.
  
  Terry Jones has also wrote some scathing articles against this “war” and Bush and American Exceptionalism.
  - dada on May 1, 2006 at 11:53 am
    
    Guess you didn’t get ‘busted’ Friday…it was Fri. that you and your Code Pink cohorts were going to see your politichek wasn’t it?
    
    Yea Av’s…surprised the hell out of me…:{) SJ, I expected to win…so far so good, eh.
    
    No white shirt today, not even going out; no shopping, no driving, no Mexican food for lunch…both my favorite Mex. restaurants are closed in solidarity!…back to the yard work, as soon as the trees dry off a bit I’m back to pruning. It’s not much fun when it involves taking a shower every time you make a cut.
    
    Later
    
    Peace
    - Damnit Janet on May 1, 2006 at 11:56 am
      
      The Senator visit is May 12th. Now they want all the names of the people going so they can do a security check before the appointment is actually official.
- IndyLib on May 1, 2006 at 11:53 am
  
  Initially, it would be best if you played with the girls.
  
  Bring it on, tough boy. I played every position from goalie to striker for a girls’ team that never once lost a match with any boys’ team even well after they outgrew us, and I will kick your ass.
  
  I’m just popping in briefly to say hi, I have a ton of stuff to do and am still sick as hell. Really, I’m just glad I don’t have poison oak. Okay, back to the packing. {{{Cafe}}}
  - Damnit Janet on May 1, 2006 at 11:58 am
    
    Sorry you’re sick. Yeah, packing and moving with poison oak really sucks ass.
    
    Hope you feel better, (((((((((((INDY))))))))))))
  - olivia on May 1, 2006 at 12:01 pm
    
    {{{Indy}}} Sorry to hear that you’re still feeling yucky!
- olivia on May 1, 2006 at 11:59 am
  
  “The letter ‘U’ will be reinstated in words such as ‘favour’ and ‘neighbour’, skipping the letter ‘U’ is nothing more than laziness on your part. Likewise, you will learn to spell ‘doughnut’ without skipping half the letters. You will end your love affair with the letter ‘Z’ (pronounced ‘zed’ not ‘zee’) and the suffix ize will be replaced by the suffix ise.”
  
  Hi dada! Good luck w/ the yardwork — wish that’s what I was doing!
  - dada on May 1, 2006 at 12:14 pm
    - olivia on May 1, 2006 at 12:24 pm
      
      “It is not reasonable to host an event called the ‘World Series’ for a game which is not played outside of America.”
      
      When I hear ‘World Series’ I always think of little kids who declare themselves king of world even though they’re playing in their backyard!
Damnit Janet on May 1, 2006 at 12:02 pm

Monday, May 1st – Celebrate International Workers’ Day!

A national Immigrant General Strike has been called! If you cannot support the workers in our community by taking off work that day, and attending the rally, then please support them by honoring the Buy Nothing Day: make a commitment to NOT being a consumer for one entire day.

11 am – Rally & Noon – March

South Park Blocks near Portland State University

Support immigrant workers who will say “No” to work, school and shopping on May 1st. There will be music and speakers in the park before the march.

If you are working on May 1st, come later:

4 pm

South Park Blocks near PSU

Rally: Immigrant Rights are Workers’ Rights

Is it right to set someone’s house on fire and then punish them for running out? That is just what Congress is attempting to do to immigrants who have fled job losses in Mexico caused by flawed trade deals pushed by Congress itself. Immigrant workers in Hood River were just detained by INS and workers were subject to raids last week in Portland and other parts of the U.S., leaving children without their parents. Let’s fight against corporate trade policies! Let’s fight for union rights for all workers and for an end to bosses pitting one group of workers against another! More info: 503-236-5573 http://www.jwjpdx.org
Second Nature on May 1, 2006 at 12:10 pm

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