My OT post today is a hearty and heartfelt Congratulations!!!!!! to the Anaheim Ducks, 2007 Stanley Cup Champions!
Oh, Daniel....wha' happened? Evil is defeated once again and I am over the Moon! Thank you, Ducks!
Mari

Hi C Mari! I ned to congratulate the Lady Vols softball team for almost being the champs!! IMO, they are champions, anyway!!! GO VOLS!!

There is just something very, very wrong about still playing hockey in June. I'm swatting mosquitoes and they're skating.

No disagreements from me, Linda! Or from most of us up here, on that issue. I am sorry every year when they don't address this in the owners meetings honestly....the schedule is too long to accomodate teams which were added in an expansion that never should have happened. Think how the players feel, they're swatting mosquitoes and skating!
Mari

hey gurl how you doing today ?

Have a re-tension basin on the property and I swear nearly every tick in a five mile radio is livin' there. Every single one of them has a family member that has lived and died attaching itself to one of my dogs(or eecck a few made it to mom and I)!!! Not LOL!!! EEEWWW!!!

Trying different natural products to see if any work!

Eek I know what you mean with my used to be cat cooper .

lol

and the hartz stuff lordy did that stuff stink .
If you have a natural lists for cats throw one my way cus one of these days I'm gonna get me a bunch of cats after we get the H outta dodge .lol

Two words: Guinea fowl.

They eat ticks and are excellent "watch dogs" to boot. Plus they look really nice, but are loud, loud, loud.

Have ordered but haven't received yet some liver flavored pills from fleaaway.com that are supossed to work for ticks, mosquitos, and fleas. Will let everyone know if they work. They are all natural.

Ah my friend NS, always better when I speak to you! Honestly, how am I? Since I was witness to the annual choke that is the Senators, I am delighted and happy today! This might not cast me amongst those with the milk of human kindness, however, I am always honest.
I am also thinking about Linda's gunea fowl observation. We had geese back home, and they were not only great catching whatever they could, they were an astonishing early warning system. My uncle had brought them from his RAF base, where they were even too violent for guard duty! (Yes, they used geese to guard military bases in the UK. If you've ever accidentally gone near a Canada Goose on a nest, you know why.) If Tony Soprano had some geese, and that red squirrel in his crew, Phil wouldn't stand a chance! Boy, this is admirably OT!
Mari

My college had a huge goose problem. I'm talking really big geese as well as lots of them. They would happily come up to feed from the hand of unsuspecting idiots (by idiots, I mean freshman) who would believe them to be "friendly". They would then follow you around, honking loudly if you stopped feeding them. Hordes of them would wait patiently outside of the buildings you ran into to get away from them. They could cover all of the doors should you attempt to sneak out another way because they communicated telepathically, *got another one cornered in Brook Hall*.

Remember the seagulls (Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine) after the crab in "Finding Nemo"? Mindless zombie geese.


And they crapped everywhere, so it's vitally important you not slip and fall during a game of XTREME FRIZBEE.

So that's where Alfred Hitchcock got the idea for "The Birds"!!! LOL!

That's what I'm sayin.

It might also explain Poe's obsession with the Raven!!

Honey u always crack me up .

LOve that .

I got one better never feed a bunch of starlings .lol

the one winter we did boy did we regret it turned into the birds .lol



all of them lined up on the fence and all over the patio one walked up to the patio door and tapped on it . and for days they were so thick in flight they'd block the sun out .


I think one of them was a tony soprano in birds .lmao
after that we stopped feeding them talk about an alfred hitchcock movie .

Paris was sent back to jail today.

about time .

I saw it breaking news on cnn.

I feel safer already.

I agree; I don't think she should've been released yesterday.

HaHaHaHaHaHa, HeHeHeHeHe, LOL LOL LOL LOL!!!!
I'm really sad about the whole thing!

Uh,huh! I gotcha! Love the dripping sarcasm too!

Actually, I originally typed: "Yay! Paris was sent back to jail today!" with a laughing icon, but I changed my mind to be "sensitive" to those who might think that she should be get preferential, special treatment over the rest of society.

EB, why in the world could you be 'sensitive', over such a fake! If it were either of us, we would be thrown under the jail, and special treatment would not exist!! Sorry, What goes around, comes around!! I learned that from my mother.

KR, I agree! Like you said, we would've been thrown UNDER the jail!

Yep; that would've solved their "overcrowding" problem! Nope, no special treatment for us either. But, what I can't understand is, since she was in solitary confinement how did the "overcrowding" issue affect her? I don't think it did; to me, that's an excuse to justify releasing her very early.

Yeah EB! Medical condition my rear-end!!!

They just reported, she is back in jail for 45 days!! Mommy cried the whole way to the jailhouse. I guess we should call her 'Jailbird Hilton, what do ya think?

You said it, sister! I thought the same thing. If Paris is indeed so sick, if it was such a dire situation, why didn't they immediately give her medical attention AT JAIL (and keep her there) or at least, take her to a hospital for whatever medical attention or "treatment" she needs?

Don't get me wrong; I don't want her to be sick or anything, but their excuses/reasons don't sound believable to me................


Uhh........Jailbird Hilton kinda has a nice ring to it I'm sure her mother is like most of mother's in the same situation with their children: worried, etc. BUT, Paris and mommy's tears are no more precious than anyone else's tears.

Our campus had a huge goose (geese?) problem too. It didn't help that we had a pond and a river on campus. Geese would be everywhere. We'd all ignore them.

One girl from rez was minding her own business and a goose came out of nowhere, ran after her and bit her ankle. She was screaming and couldn't shake it off for nearly 5 minutes. Everyone was afraid of the goose 'cause they didn't want to be attacked either.

NJ has a dense concentration of wide green areas surrounding all those corporate centers that popped up along the Route 1 corridor and other main traffic lines. These places are goose magnets. Huge money to be made by companies that shoo away the geese. One outfit is the Geese Police. They use border collies and other herding dogs to try and herd the birds. The dogs run around having fun, the geese get annoyed and leave.

You hit it right on the nail,EB!!!!!

What gets my goat are pretty normal illnesses that are found among the prison/jail population. Not to mention HIV/AIDS; TB, etc. So, why should she get out for hers, unless we let everyone out for their illnesses?

Sounds like momma is part of the problem...throw her under the jail too!!

WOooHOoo! (about momma thrown under the jail where the rest of us woulda been)

LOL! I do too! That's ONE less drunk driver we have to worry about being on our roads (for now at least).

Only you, EB, could conjure up that one!! You are absolutely right!!

I don't know where this goes...so I think I shall put it in "OFF TOPIC!"

I have been watching Bravo tonight and have decided that I really like the show Semi-Detached! I am not the first I know, but just had to put my 2 cents in it.

I think the flirting between Goren and the Pharmacy gal is cute. I love seeing the jealousy from Eames when he is all about the gal...and did you notice that Eames' lines from BlindSpot "I am supposed to keep an eye on you" is also in this show?!

Alright, I am done just thinking out loud.

Don't ask me why, but tonight is the first time I noticed that in season 4 the opening credits show different pictures of Goren/VDO than the first three seasons. His are the only ones I think that are different.

That's the season that they changed the pictures of everyone in the opening close up shots. But, the close up of Goren used for the episode "Want" with Neil Patrick Harris kidnapping the girls and lobotomizing them, was him in a winter hat. For some reason they never used that one again.

Morning all members and newbies!! I wanted to know if you all would like to have a birthday trhead, Lauren brought it up yesterday from the USA board. The USA board really celebrates all members, and soom to be members, BD'S like it's goning out of style!! You can also ask Laurengoren about it as well! What do you members think? I know we have a calendar, but it doesn't recognize people that like to bust it out, no matter how young, or how old!!! Peachy asked me to post this to see if maybe you all would like to agree having a wonderful birthday thread, where everyone knows it's your special day!!!! How about guys, maybe Laurengoren would put her two cents in?? Tell us what you think, it might be fun!!!

Sorry, it's early and I can't spell very good this morning!!!

It's me again, 1 more thing, go to the USA board and check it out for yourself?!!! Thanks, that's all,Kathy.

A birthday thread was already attempted a couple of months ago. It was merged with the "Welcome to the Board" thread when it devolved into, "oh, wow, you're a July birthday too!" style comments. Kathy, the calendar link at the top of the board is intrusion enough for my taste and IMO that's what PMs are for. If I reveal things about myself via my posts in a thread, that's my choice. I don't think birthday wishes from the board are necessary.

This isn't the USA board. They have their things, we have ours. I don't believe that we need to recreate everything here that they do there, and vice versa. What is successful on one board is not necessarily so on another. If you want to have a birthday thread, join that board and birthday away.

I didn't mean to cause any trouble with this birthday thing yesterday, and I am so sorry. For everyone that I upset, please accept my apologies. I won't let it happen again.

Lauren

No worries laurengoren!


With Mod hat on, I'd like to mention something....What the USA LOCI board does is up to their members.

Each LOCI board on the Internet is different. We are not in competition with any other LOCI board. There is more than enough LOCI to go around for everyone. People are free to join as many LOCI boards as they like -- just please be mindful and respectful of the differences in all these boards.

This board discussed having a birthday thread quite awhile back and members voted not to have one. Strictly as a member here (Mod hat off for the moment), I'm not interested in having a birthday thread.

PeachyBC

I am voting with Linda and Peachy on this one, Kathy. I understand the appeal, just not for me though.
When I was in High School, the thing to do was decorate lockers for people's birthdays. In theory this is nice, and it's a lot like having a birthday board. The thing is it is never fair, even to all of those who would want a big deal; not all birthdays are celebrated evenly. They can't be, by definition, that's humanity. For those of us like me who isn't into birthdays, it's a trial, it was a trial in High School. I was all for getting the singing telegram every year for our homeroom teacher because that was different, but the classmate stuff was tiresome and more often resulted in tears than laughs.
Mari

Lauren, You didn't cause any problems, I asked Peachy, and sh told me to ask, and you came up because you mentioned it from the USA board in the first place, and I thought it was a good idea!! I'll forget you mentioned it!!!

Thanks Mari, I respect your decision ! I was not trying to cause any kind of trouble either. I just thought it woulg be kind of fun, that's all. Kathy

Hello this is the first time today I've been able to post here .

Spent the day getting our stuff off the OLD harddrive .

it was doable and we have an extra storage space later


scanner still having trouble and mom's pretty much givin up .

bye for now tired lol

Oh NS! Any good news is a port in the storm! The great news is it was doable! That is excellent! The scanner I have zero suggestions for, my Canon printer doesn't do anything other than print photos and docs.
When you get a rest tell us what you did to solve the crisis, but get a rest most importantly, this takes it out a person. I am still looking at Mac's new memory. I am terrified to install it!
Mari

Storms here on the east coast(at least PA) have been numerous and damaging this season so far. How has the weather been for you guys? Plants are happy for it!

Lots of threats of rain, 60% last night, but no actual rain.

It was beautiful yesterday in my part of the world but now it's reverted to type ...ie, overcast, cooler temperatures with torrential rain forecast