Hi July!!!
They were great....K-12 and grades 9-12 took off for a field trip. It is the season of Makahiki (HARVEST TIME). It was customary for Hawaiian Royalty to travel to all parts of the Island and visit their people....also to collect taxes... the kids picked differnt parts of the Island. Usually they have to do a good deed, but this year they were told old stories, legends, and memories by their teachers!

I never knew that Santa had so much white behind.....I'm not sure if mommy was being kind!!!

There is a free site which is sponsored by the XEROX Corp.
These are cards that have been beautifully drawn by children.
Look and click on the one you want and Xerox will forward it to a military person serving our country.

Comes with beautiful messages pre-written or you can do your own. What a nice thought!


http://www.letssaythanks.com

Hi doing good....
I am also partial to the movie "Home Alone"
That young man now was such a cute resourceful kid!!

Not a cartoon...but I'm kind of partial to the movie, ELF

To H--- with the tree. I'll take out all of my jalousies, the screen, and put a chute with a soft cushion for him to fall into...

I am originally from Minnesota....wouldn't get a tree to save my soul. We get them shipped in from Pacific NW and they are cut about early October...

carold...I know....I'd like to be Miss Driving Miss Daisy....just sit in the back of a car and bark out orders to the driver where to go next...be a good day to go to the North Shore and check the surf...

deaming...of course!

Glad to hear you're doing better flame..
Hi carold, missy. horsegirl

Feel tired and sleepy after lunch...
I like to put my head down and nap...but I knoe I'd get caught

81 and sunny....buts thats only worth something if you are off and can hang at the beach...
Beats our winter rains tho'

hugs bonnieb, been a while, lost my two parents almost exactly 2 months apart...time has healed a lot since then....
It sure changes your prospective of what is important.

Best advice is send flowers and call as often as you can. They love those cards too!

EX-LATE....
Best thing I did when he went on a trip I put love notes in his pairs of socks...said he couldn't wait to wake up evrymorning and put his socks on...
ah, that was so much fun...

dcrdnk...
aaaaahhhh you sweet goold ole boy...
Every woman is checking their pockets!!

Nice variety of pictures, pictures are a little dark. Hard to really see your face. Good profile.
Have fun meeting people.

Aloha and here are some wonderful pearls of wisdom for the non-aging gent and all other looking for happiness lovers..

Its choice, not chance that determines your destiny.. Jean Neidetch

Change your thoughts and change your world..Norman Vincent Peale

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow...Norman Vincent Peale

Even though you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there..Will Rogers


and if seems like all of the above fail...try... Laughter is an instant vacation..Milton Berle

Lively batch for a Monday....

glass of wine and relaxing sounds good!

Good luck yellow rosie, you too, greer.
good to be reminded about monster twitch...

carold...congrats on your wonderful Thanksgiving present!!
JD...Aloha to you...you can always bring some of your buddies..
no worries though we aren't on here sitting in our aprons exchanging cookie recipes....
Greer,horsegirl, music...glad to see you're still here..

Will be thinking of you....one thing to think about is that wonderful things have been done with heart surgeries and processes. Glad he is being proactive.
Prayers and love your way!

Happy Monday, greer, july, sage, horsegirl, flame

Flame love the new picture...

Planning and Collaboration Day at our school....no kids...quiet time...
Enjoying the quiet morning!

I am with sage on the sweet potato/yam thing...
I only cooked them because other people seemed to like them. Put them in a pie and thats a whole new thing!
One year did find a recipe that had some sort of liqueur in it with brown sugar, cinnamon, and all sorts or goodies....I remember eating and liking it...thinking this tastes just like pie...
Then never again!