You mean there are TWO of you? OH MY what will the World do when it finds out?!! I'm glad she's coming to help you, how much did you have to bribe here to get here to come help? My son helps me when I need it sometimes, but he wants only wants home cooked meals and access to the washer and dryer. He does not like coming for a small 30 minute job though so I make a list and he usually knocks them all out in the first day. Most I could do if I wanted too but never could I do them all in one day!!
As for wishing us a "happy Tuesday" I will say it was okay an instead wish you a happy Thursday!! I flew to Ayer's Rock yesterday and was bombarded by a gazillion flies!!! We went to dinner near the Rock, they stopping climbing on the Rock itself otherwise it won't be there in another thousand years, so instead some artist made thousands of glass balls filled with solar cells that create a "Field Of Lights" that's pretty cool to see. It seems the flies go away after dark and then the solar cells come on so it looks like a gazillion fire flies all lighting up at once in a large field you can walk thru. During dinner we talked about Australia needing more fly eating birds!! And YES I tried the Kangaroo, it was done on a barbie and was pretty good but does NOT taste like chicken.
Today, Wednesday, we are going to go on a camel ride, along with another gazillion flies, and then have lunch in the dessert. My wife has planned this trip and fortunately some things she has not included me in, but today I will ride a camel for the first time sine I was a very small kid. As I've said in the past my dad was in the US Air Force and when I was about 10 days old flew from Detroit, Michigan, USA to Tripoli, Libya as there was a US Military Base there. My parents took me everywhere wth them, of course, and that included riding on a camel but I have no memories of it.
Today, Wednesday, we are going to go on a camel ride
Everyone I know who has, seems to have shared in an experience of complete agony somehow, but I'd love the opportunity to find out for myself :)
Apart from the flies, it sounds like you're both having a lovely time. I'm glad :) so keep doing that, definitely!
It wasn't nearly as bad a ride as people say it can be, they didn't run or anything, we just walked in a couple mile circle thru the park with each camel tied to the one in front of it. Mine did alot of regurgitating his food and crunching it again, which is normal for animals with multiple stomachs, ruminants. I didn't hear him regurgitating it just that he was quiet one minute then crunching food the next. Mine did try to taste my jeans, they said to wear long pants so I wore Levi type jeans and mine put his mouth on my leg but quickly removed it almost as soon as he put it on there, he never tried to actually bite me. Mine was one of the newer camels for the tours, they use both male and female camels, mine was a male, but they are all caught as nuisance animals and turned into the Park for the purpose of being ridden. After a few years of training they are sent to an 'old age farm' for camels otherwise they would have to be euthanised because there is no way Australia needs MORE wild camels. They have the Worlds largest population of wild camels now and if you catch one you have to kill it or give it to someone who won't release it. They did get one a few weeks before we got there who was pregnant so they do have a baby camel but after it's weaned it will go to the 'old age farm' like the rest of the camels. They have enough and it can take over 6 years to raise it to become rideable so they don't need to put the time into it.
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I had to re-open my snail hospital last night :/ First casualty of the year :( I hope it does better than the last one of last year...
WHY? It's a snail....fry it in some butter with some of it's friends and have dinner?
I got a PM about it, my wife and I have had our shots but we were at Gate 1 and had to pass the Fangio seating area to get to our seats!! That's a scary thing though with big events like that attracting anyone and everyone!! I hope it doesn't end up exploding into a full blown problem!!!
Yup everyday but can't post until after someone else does!!
Today is going to be a VERY long day for me...I woke up at 7:15am on Friday Mar 29th and will cruise around NZ all day long in a SUV on a tour my wife set up, then we get dropped off around 8pm so I can catch my midnite flight to Hawaii, when I arrive in Hawaii it will be Friday the 29th around 9am!! Then I go to a hotel to sleep my day away and get on another plane, around midnite, to head home stopping to change planes in Dallas, Texas along the way. This is the opposite of how this trip was supposed to start and in the end is a good thing...my own bed and pillows!!! I am tired of living out of suitcases and sleeping on beds that either too hard or too soft and with pillows that somehow just aren't like the ones at home. YES I enjoyed my trip to Australia and New Zealand and would do it again in a few years if the opportunity came up again.
How does one administer care to a snail? And under what circumstances?
*slowly pivot eyes round thread* You all saw him ask I know you did, and now no one can stop me.
No one
so I'll begin :)
The best way is to not step on any at all really.
I didn't do that though :( and I'd had a horrible day* already, so clearly had to share that by ruining its which had probably been really quite nice until that point :) I mean, the sun had come out and pretended to be warm between two of my blinks. And there'd been a light splashing of rain to make gliding about more fun. And then night fell and was chilly. It napped...
And I'm not one of those people who can just keep on putting the foot* they were working-on getting down ... down - when horrible crunching noises on the way to the planet, emanate from beneath one of them. Rather, I'm one of those ooooh-noooo whathaveIdone? kinds of people, who can't complete the step until they know* sadly, and with absolute certainty that what's left couldn't really get much flatter or more unwell :(
It's when they could but haven't too-too catastrophically*, and a snail hospital might give us both a chance to feel better again... :) which are the um... circumstances under what, Cecht :)
Yes.
But you'll have to wait for the "how" bit because I haven't written it yet. And because I'm liable to run out of different coloured stars to sprinkle about the text if I carry on here. That could get quite confusing - even for me...
Mine did try to taste my jeans,*flat look round thread* well that made us jealous, didn't it, anniet? Yes... it did. Consuuuumed by it even... *scowl*
Awww... :)
It's good they have an old-age farm for them to potter about in afterwards. I'm glad :)
*eye-up Gary's measles* My twin and I both had that. When we were three. We'd been vaccinated. Storage problems in transit between colonies/former colonies and the empire wasn't uncommon. I expect that's what happened to the batch we were shot with. We didn't catch it until we came to the UK for a stay of a couple of months though, and got it right at the end of being here, before going back to Zambia via British Airways while we were still ill with it.
That wasn't good was it? :( Plague twins. No.
What is good, is that Randy popped in and didn't just get the whole place boarded up with you stuck inside Mikey.
I suppose Mike must be super busy researching more questions for us :) Orrrrrr he hasn't considered the risk of a coup...
*I believed transport for London's directions. I most definitely shouldn't have. Nor do I think any one of you should either. They were for how to walk, people. Yes. From one of their stations... to where I had an appointment. They couldn't have been more completely wrong though. But that I did it for twenty minutes, left me persuading myself to scamper-run, but in the right direction instead this time which was the exact opposite one, so I wouldn't be late, which was a really, really, really bad idea :/ although did at least get me there on time to find out they'd also been, and still were running, but three-and-a-half hours late, which was fortunately, plenty of time to absorb TNT GTN so I could be delivered its usual MASSIVE headache to pass the time with instead until the not-brilliant news. Then, on the way home, like an idiot, my not-quite-all-there-anniet decided to visit someone like I'd got into the habit of doing, which meant getting off the train and watching it speed away without me as I remembered they're no longer there to visit anymore :( which started my monsoon-eyes off and then the next train didn't show up due to a signal failure somewhere else so I walked home from there instead. And I was so happy getting from the gate to my front door in the dark, people, with my keys ready to go in the lock. I really, really was.
*when... lo... a torch reveals it is a snail :( and not a monkey nut shell or other dead bit of vegetable matter
*My feet don't squish nearly as much when they're in bare mode, they're exponentially more trustworthy to be trodden-on-like-that than in shoes. I mean,I can squish them... by dropping stuff on them or mashing them under a door, or getting them tangled in run-away out-of-control pedalled go-karts careering downhill, but otherwise, no. Shoes... may as well be swords of Damocles on my feet.
*so that they're oozing greeny-yellow stuff :(
Note to *: Further gory details may yet to have emerged. This:- "fry it in some butter with some of it's friends and have dinner" is erm... not one of them though... no... if you want more on that approach, Mikey sounds the best one to approach for it ;)
You mean there are TWO of
You mean there are TWO of you? OH MY what will the World do when it finds out?!! I'm glad she's coming to help you, how much did you have to bribe here to get here to come help? My son helps me when I need it sometimes, but he wants only wants home cooked meals and access to the washer and dryer. He does not like coming for a small 30 minute job though so I make a list and he usually knocks them all out in the first day. Most I could do if I wanted too but never could I do them all in one day!!
As for wishing us a "happy Tuesday" I will say it was okay an instead wish you a happy Thursday!! I flew to Ayer's Rock yesterday and was bombarded by a gazillion flies!!! We went to dinner near the Rock, they stopping climbing on the Rock itself otherwise it won't be there in another thousand years, so instead some artist made thousands of glass balls filled with solar cells that create a "Field Of Lights" that's pretty cool to see. It seems the flies go away after dark and then the solar cells come on so it looks like a gazillion fire flies all lighting up at once in a large field you can walk thru. During dinner we talked about Australia needing more fly eating birds!! And YES I tried the Kangaroo, it was done on a barbie and was pretty good but does NOT taste like chicken.
Today, Wednesday, we are going to go on a camel ride, along with another gazillion flies, and then have lunch in the dessert. My wife has planned this trip and fortunately some things she has not included me in, but today I will ride a camel for the first time sine I was a very small kid. As I've said in the past my dad was in the US Air Force and when I was about 10 days old flew from Detroit, Michigan, USA to Tripoli, Libya as there was a US Military Base there. My parents took me everywhere wth them, of course, and that included riding on a camel but I have no memories of it.
mikey wrote:Today, Wednesday,
Everyone I know who has, seems to have shared in an experience of complete agony somehow, but I'd love the opportunity to find out for myself :)
Apart from the flies, it sounds like you're both having a lovely time. I'm glad :) so keep doing that, definitely!
I had to re-open my snail hospital last night :/ First casualty of the year :( I hope it does better than the last one of last year...
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anniet wrote:I had to re-open
How does one administer care to a snail? And under what circumstances?
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anniet wrote:mikey
It wasn't nearly as bad a ride as people say it can be, they didn't run or anything, we just walked in a couple mile circle thru the park with each camel tied to the one in front of it. Mine did alot of regurgitating his food and crunching it again, which is normal for animals with multiple stomachs, ruminants. I didn't hear him regurgitating it just that he was quiet one minute then crunching food the next. Mine did try to taste my jeans, they said to wear long pants so I wore Levi type jeans and mine put his mouth on my leg but quickly removed it almost as soon as he put it on there, he never tried to actually bite me. Mine was one of the newer camels for the tours, they use both male and female camels, mine was a male, but they are all caught as nuisance animals and turned into the Park for the purpose of being ridden. After a few years of training they are sent to an 'old age farm' for camels otherwise they would have to be euthanised because there is no way Australia needs MORE wild camels. They have the Worlds largest population of wild camels now and if you catch one you have to kill it or give it to someone who won't release it. They did get one a few weeks before we got there who was pregnant so they do have a baby camel but after it's weaned it will go to the 'old age farm' like the rest of the camels. They have enough and it can take over 6 years to raise it to become rideable so they don't need to put the time into it.
WHY? It's a snail....fry it in some butter with some of it's friends and have dinner?
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I got a PM about it, my wife and I have had our shots but we were at Gate 1 and had to pass the Fangio seating area to get to our seats!! That's a scary thing though with big events like that attracting anyone and everyone!! I hope it doesn't end up exploding into a full blown problem!!!
Hello! Four and 1/2 days
Hello! Four and 1/2 days without a comment?
Anybody still out there?
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Yup everyday but can't post until after someone else does!!
Today is going to be a VERY long day for me...I woke up at 7:15am on Friday Mar 29th and will cruise around NZ all day long in a SUV on a tour my wife set up, then we get dropped off around 8pm so I can catch my midnite flight to Hawaii, when I arrive in Hawaii it will be Friday the 29th around 9am!! Then I go to a hotel to sleep my day away and get on another plane, around midnite, to head home stopping to change planes in Dallas, Texas along the way. This is the opposite of how this trip was supposed to start and in the end is a good thing...my own bed and pillows!!! I am tired of living out of suitcases and sleeping on beds that either too hard or too soft and with pillows that somehow just aren't like the ones at home. YES I enjoyed my trip to Australia and New Zealand and would do it again in a few years if the opportunity came up again.
I am winning!!!
@Mikey, Based on your posted
@Mikey,
Based on your posted itinerary, you should be in the air on the way to Hawaii right now. Have a good sleep-over!
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How does one administer care
*slowly pivot eyes round thread* You all saw him ask I know you did, and now no one can stop me.
No one
so I'll begin :)
The best way is to not step on any at all really.
I didn't do that though :( and I'd had a horrible day* already, so clearly had to share that by ruining its which had probably been really quite nice until that point :) I mean, the sun had come out and pretended to be warm between two of my blinks. And there'd been a light splashing of rain to make gliding about more fun. And then night fell and was chilly. It napped...
And I'm not one of those people who can just keep on putting the foot* they were working-on getting down ... down - when horrible crunching noises on the way to the planet, emanate from beneath one of them. Rather, I'm one of those ooooh-noooo whathaveIdone? kinds of people, who can't complete the step until they know* sadly, and with absolute certainty that what's left couldn't really get much flatter or more unwell :(
It's when they could but haven't too-too catastrophically*, and a snail hospital might give us both a chance to feel better again... :) which are the um... circumstances under what, Cecht :)
Yes.
But you'll have to wait for the "how" bit because I haven't written it yet. And because I'm liable to run out of different coloured stars to sprinkle about the text if I carry on here. That could get quite confusing - even for me...
Awww... :)
It's good they have an old-age farm for them to potter about in afterwards. I'm glad :)
*eye-up Gary's measles* My twin and I both had that. When we were three. We'd been vaccinated. Storage problems in transit between colonies/former colonies and the empire wasn't uncommon. I expect that's what happened to the batch we were shot with. We didn't catch it until we came to the UK for a stay of a couple of months though, and got it right at the end of being here, before going back to Zambia via British Airways while we were still ill with it.
That wasn't good was it? :( Plague twins. No.
What is good, is that Randy popped in and didn't just get the whole place boarded up with you stuck inside Mikey.
I suppose Mike must be super busy researching more questions for us :) Orrrrrr he hasn't considered the risk of a coup...
*I believed transport for London's directions. I most definitely shouldn't have. Nor do I think any one of you should either. They were for how to walk, people. Yes. From one of their stations... to where I had an appointment. They couldn't have been more completely wrong though. But that I did it for twenty minutes, left me persuading myself to scamper-run, but in the right direction instead this time which was the exact opposite one, so I wouldn't be late, which was a really, really, really bad idea :/ although did at least get me there on time to find out they'd also been, and still were running, but three-and-a-half hours late, which was fortunately, plenty of time to absorb
TNTGTN so I could be delivered its usual MASSIVE headache to pass the time with instead until the not-brilliant news. Then, on the way home, like an idiot, my not-quite-all-there-anniet decided to visit someone like I'd got into the habit of doing, which meant getting off the train and watching it speed away without me as I remembered they're no longer there to visit anymore :( which started my monsoon-eyes off and then the next train didn't show up due to a signal failure somewhere else so I walked home from there instead. And I was so happy getting from the gate to my front door in the dark, people, with my keys ready to go in the lock. I really, really was.*when... lo... a torch reveals it is a snail :( and not a monkey nut shell or other dead bit of vegetable matter
*My feet don't squish nearly as much when they're in bare mode, they're exponentially more trustworthy to be trodden-on-like-that than in shoes. I mean, I can squish them... by dropping stuff on them or mashing them under a door, or getting them tangled in run-away out-of-control pedalled go-karts careering downhill, but otherwise, no. Shoes... may as well be swords of Damocles on my feet.
*so that they're oozing greeny-yellow stuff :(
Note to *: Further gory details may yet to have emerged. This:- "fry it in some butter with some of it's friends and have dinner" is erm... not one of them though... no... if you want more on that approach, Mikey sounds the best one to approach for it ;)
Note to *: Further useful information for which you are very, very welcome
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