5/27/06 "Il pochi il fiero i blabbermouths" We *will* sail again Part 5

[ohiominnie]

Ok, now that I've solved today's shoe crisis (as far as I know) I'm REALLY leaving!

 

[chip&dale&fun]

Ok, now that I've solved today's shoe crisis (as far as I know) I'm REALLY leaving!

Thanks - $39.95.....hum

 

[tchrmom]

How about Ezra Jack Keat's A Snowy Day - he could disguse himself as a snowball in Fran's pocket...

A snowball in Tampa.................Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm............bet it has never been done before! I LIKE IT!!!!!

Fran

 

[mickeymo]

Haven't started THAT yet (and Egypt day is tomorrow.) Christopher has informed me that he wants to make a pillowcase into an Egyptian tunic, tie a rope around his waist, and wear makeup painted on his face. Now THAT's easy... guess I should have just let him deal with it in the first place.

(Tho' Ray warned him against wearing makeup to football practice...)

That answers that question I was just about to ask - what was the decision on the Egypt costume.

 

[mickeymo]

A snowball in Tampa.................Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm............bet it has never been done before! I LIKE IT!!!!!

Fran

Never say never - it snowed on Christmas Eve in Houston this year - enough for a great snowball fight...

 

[kikipug]

If my son had to dress like a book character, it would be the boy from Polar Express... he'd want to go to school in his jammies and slippers... besides, that's our family's favorite book! (loooooonnnnnggg before it was a movie)

 

[mickeymo]

If my son had to dress like a book character, it would be the boy from Polar Express... he'd want to go to school in his jammies and slippers... besides, that's our family's favorite book! (loooooonnnnnggg before it was a movie)

oh awesome - the kids are having a storybook dance at the elementary school Friday night - I just might suggest that - or go dressed myself...yep, that's how I'm spending our anniversary...at an elementary school dance with 1000 kids...

Polar Express has been a part of the 2nd curiculum for years just before Christmas - including a pj party in class.

 

[mickeymo]

It's now going to be a race between the clock and the dryer - So busy DIS'n I forgot to switch Maggie's Jazz outfit to the dryer...we leave in about an hour...

 

[mickeymo]

Karen, just checking - your countdown timer is until Christmas when the kids will find out about the cruise, right? We have 73 days until Christmas??!!!

Gotta start working on the Christmas Newsletter...I'm behind - It takes me a good 2-3 months to perfect it...I have to find just the right blend of sarcasm and humor so that it doesn't sound too pompous...

 

[ohiominnie]

Gotta start working on the Christmas Newsletter...I'm behind - It takes me a good 2-3 months to perfect it...I have to find just the right blend of sarcasm and humor so that it doesn't sound too pompous...

HA! My friend always emails me around Christmas to tell me she's sick of getting newsletters where little Johnny was the star of the football team and little Jessica had the lead role in the ballet recital. She says "for once I want to get a newsletter about AVERAGE kids...." and then she makes things up...."Little Johnny got a D in Math...it's no wonder, his dad can't add without using his fingers. Little Jessica turned up pregnant, then again, so did I....and I'm not sure who the father is this time--we'll have to wait and see what color the baby is!!!"

Glad to hear you're putting sarcasm in your letter!!!

 

[ohiominnie]

Fran and Monica...you guys are confusing me!! I'm reading away and wondering why you're talking to yourself....see....I tell who is posting by their avitar....if I see Crush, I know kikiKaren wrote it....if it's Nemo, must be Mary....if it's scubaMickey, then I know Pop-pop wrote it....

but you guys are BOTH Mickey ears!! And when you post back to back to back I get confused easily!!

Oh well, I'll live!

 

[chip&dale&fun]

A snowball in Tampa.................Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm............bet it has never been done before! I LIKE IT!!!!!

Fran

Yes, it did snow here in 1977.. I was making snowfolk in Gainesville -- even snowed in Tampa...

Snow Falls on S. Florida
Bitter Cold, High Wind Turn Killer
The event also made national and international media headlines as well. And why not?!? It had never snowed, according to the historical record, this far south in Florida. In the record cold Winter of 1899, snow had been reported as far south as a line from Fort Myers on the state's west coast to Fort Pierce on the east coast, but never had it crossed the Everglades into the Miami region.

The surface weather situation over eastern North America set up a flow of arctic air directly to Florida. A strong, cold high pressure ridge, which had become a nearly stationary feature of January's weather map, had sat over the Mississippi Valley for nearly a week, its centre slipping into east Texas/west Louisiana on the 18th. Along the Atlantic Coast, a deep Nor'easter cyclone, born off Hatteras on the 15th, swirled northward to be over the Gulf of St. Lawrence on the 18th. Pushed by the great pressure gradient between the ridge and the cyclone, bitterly cold air from the Hudson Bay lowlands channelled southward to the Gulf States and into the Caribbean.

The residents of northern Florida around Pensacola were the first to see snow fall on the Sunshine State, receiving 1-2 inches (2.5-5.0 cm) on January 18. Frigid, gusty northwest winds of 40-45 mph (64-72 km/h) pushed the line of falling snow southward, so that by the end of the day, every weather station in north and central Florida had echoed the word: Snow. Tampa recorded its greatest accumulation to date: 0.2 inches (0.5 cm). Plant City measured nearly two inches (five cm) on the ground, and Orlando, Daytona Beach and Vero Beach confirmed falling snow or snow on the ground.

 

[chip&dale&fun]

HA! My friend always emails me around Christmas to tell me she's sick of getting newsletters where little Johnny was the star of the football team and little Jessica had the lead role in the ballet recital. She says "for once I want to get a newsletter about AVERAGE kids...." and then she makes things up...."Little Johnny got a D in Math...it's no wonder, his dad can't add without using his fingers. Little Jessica turned up pregnant, then again, so did I....and I'm not sure who the father is this time--we'll have to wait and see what color the baby is!!!"

Glad to hear you're putting sarcasm in your letter!!!

Thought you left us?

 

[chip&dale&fun]

Karen, just checking - your countdown timer is until Christmas when the kids will find out about the cruise, right? We have 73 days until Christmas??!!!

Gotta start working on the Christmas Newsletter...I'm behind - It takes me a good 2-3 months to perfect it...I have to find just the right blend of sarcasm and humor so that it doesn't sound too pompous...

This year for us, it will be recounting the MAGIC......

 

[ohiominnie]

Thought you left us?

I did.....for 20 mintues or so.

 

[chip&dale&fun]

I did.....for 20 mintues or so.

my turn now.

 

[ohiominnie]

Ok, offer for someone who loves Tastefully Simple stuff.....


I have some in my panty (ya know, go to the party, have to buy something) but I'm not actually going to USE it. I know some ppl out there LOVE the stuff, so I'm willing to ship it to whoever wants it! The lot includes one box of each of these things:

Nana's Apple Cake
Perfectly Potato Cheddar Soup
Savory Wheat Beer Bread Mix
Cranberry Tangerine Cheese Ball Mix


Anyone??? I hate thowing it out b/c it's $$, but it won't keep forever on my shelf!

 

[WDWLVR]

Congrats to Karen (kiki) on post #18,000 and Monica on reply #18,000!

:thewave:

 

[WDWLVR]

As for the wedding. The Maid of Honor or Matron of Honor is in charge of the bride and her dress.


We had both Groomsmen and Ushers, but that was because Mark had 5 guys he wanted to ask and I only had 3 girls. So we had two Ushers. Both the Ushers and the Groomsmen escorted the guests. The two Ushers also walked the Mothers up the aisle and then brought the runner back down the aisle.

It was very cute at the reception when the one Usher asked Mark's Grandmother to dance during the bridal party dance.

 

[tchrmom]

Yes, it did snow here in 1977.. I was making snowfolk in Gainesville -- even snowed in Tampa...

But I was in 6th grade then............and I lived in South FL. I can't be respondsible for knowing Tampa weather all the way back then!

Fran