Early Birds...

[Alffe]

I will not be catching any worms however!:rolleyes: :D I just wanted to tease those old night owls who congregate while I'm sawing logs. Mr.Alffe said I made enought last night to heat the house all winter! :rolleyes:

[Chemar]

:D aha! A bird after my own heart:p

Mornin' Alffe:)

(ps do we get to eat all the brownies and drink all the hazlenut coffee before the monkey gets here.........personally dont care much for worms, unless thay are choccy coated gummi worms:D )

[Alffe]

Morning Chemar...on my second cuppa coffee..pass the brownines please. :D

[Chemar]

<--- hands Alffe the brownies

http://bestsmileys.com/eating1/23.gif good arent they!

[Julie]

I was up at 3:45 walking the dog. Hubby just lets her out and she goes wild in the backyard waking up everybody. Me I got up and walked her up the street. She tinkled twice and we went home. Put her back in her crate and that was that. I wasn't one bit scared walking at 3:45am...if I didn't scare the caca outa somebody, the dog would get em.

I got back up at 6:50, took Robert to choir practice and then on to McDonald's for breakfast for Mikey and me.

[~scrabble]

Good Morning Alffe, Chemar and Julie :)

I'm still home from work as I'm not feeling well so I would still be sleeping now ... but I got up to make sure my kids get up for school . :rolleyes:

Hazelnut coffee sounds good .... but I don't think I'm ready for brownies .... yet! :D

[Curious]

chirp chirp.:p

[Chemar]

ack:eek: the monkey smelled the brownies and the coffee!!

oh well, at least we all got some afore she arrived to gobble them all up:D

[Curious]

<----hands chemar a fresh cup of hazelnut coffee

but i'm good at making a fresh pot and baking. :D

[Chemar]

http://www.clicksmilies.com/s0105/ernaehrung/food-smiley-001.gif

oh yess indeedy...ya sure make a good cuppa monkey!

[Idealist]

Hey...can't a guy be an Early Bird AND a Night Owl...:D

Brownies are brownies, whether it's a.m. or p.m.

Since I go through my spells of up to 48 hours with no sleep, I could easily flap from one roost right to the other...:cool:

[Idealist]

Oh...by the way...might I politely inquire as to what kind of sound an Early Bird makes???

I hope it doesn't involve singing, or my neighbors might have something to say about my membership...:p

[Curious]

chirp chirp :p

[Alffe]

Not in my neighborhood....it's more like cockadoodledo! :D

[Idealist]

Chirp-chirp? I think I can handle that...:rolleyes:

Cockadoodledo??? If I go 'round saying that, Alffe, the men in white might just come take me away...:p

[Curious]

howz 'bout....
<lowers voice>

*churp* churp*

:p :p :p

[Curious]

chemar can do the *cheep* * cheep* and we will have a regular chorus :D

hmmm...idealist...you think of sounds for kell and scrabble. :p

maybe a *tweet* *tweet* ?

[Chemar]

hey no fair I want the chirp and you can have the cheep:D

s'long as I dont have to honk honk like some of the ducks here on my stream do:p

[Curious]

ok...i'll switch...hubby says i'm thrifty anyways...lol..*yuk *yuk * haha

*cheep* *cheep* :p

how about *toot* *toot*? LOL

[Idealist]

Oh, wow! Sounds for Kell and Scrabble??? I don't know that I'm qualified, Curious.

If a Canadian owl says something like two-wit, or whatever it was, what do ya reckon a Canadian Early Bird would say...:p Maybe somethin' like "chir-rup-chee". LOL ;)

And let's see, Kell has her little hee-hee thing always going. Maybe SHE should be the one who does the cheep-cheep. It fits, doesn't it??? :rolleyes:

[Curious]

so am i *slurp* * slurp*? :p :p

[Chemar]

so am i *slurp* * slurp*? :p :p

gobble gobble ??

:D

[~scrabble]

chick-a-dee-dee-dee!

Gee, I take a 2 hour nap this afternoon and I missed all of this discussion!? :confused:

Acutally, "chir-up-chee" has a bit of a Ukrainian ring to it ....

(and I'm Ukrainian too) ;)

[Curious]

hehe...the yappy monkey had online work today:p

[~scrabble]

Now that it is dark here .... should we be switching to the Night Owls?? :confused:

[Curious]

:D sounds like a plan

[Chemar]

chirpity chirp chirp chirp :p

[Julie]

Wakey wakey you sleepheads!

[~scrabble]

chick-a-dee-dee-dee! :)

[~KELLWANTSANSWERS~]

Tweet -Tweet
Well it's almost lunch time,but i made it..
So glad there is finally an early bird thread.
I cant seem to keep up with the nightowls anymore:eek:
By the way-I'll eat those brownies day or night!Yum-Yum:p

[Idealist]

Hey Kell! Glad to see you found your new roost okay! :)

I suppose "tweet-tweet" works out okay. You can be the Tweety-Bird...:p

[Alffe]

Cock-a-doodle-doooooooooo

Trying to raise the sun! :p

[Chemar]

chirp chirp:)

top o' the mornin' to you Alffe!

We have a glorious bright and sunny day starting here in central Florida....cool low 60s expected to reach around 80 as a high

This is the time of year that I so appreciate living here.

Looking out my office window to the stream and woods behind our home, I see
the family of mallard ducks enjoying their early morning swim and a crane doing some fishing ..........
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[~KELLWANTSANSWERS~]

Tweet-Tweet:)

Morning girls:)
I am going to do a bit of shopping with my mom today.
She is going to help me with the gifts for the bridal shower on sunday.
She is such a good mommy:)
I'm still not real excited about being around so many people-but at least the burden of getting a gift has been lifted!:)
Chemar
You have an absolutely beautiful view!
Iam sooo jealous:p
I dont even wanna tell you what i have to look at.
I will just say i live in the yucky ole city!
Alffe
You picked the right saying for the morning wakeup call..5:30am??
You had to have gone to bed with the chickens -as my dad would say-HeeHee

[Julie]

Chemar what a lovely sight. I'd love to wake up to that. Sigh I just see miles and miles of houses in a master plan community. I'm going to see if I can catch a few more hours of sleep.

[~scrabble]

Chick-a-dee-dee-dee! (It goes with my avatar)

Lovely views, Chemar. :)

I woke up to rain and major wind. Gusting to 80-90 km/hr! I ran outside to retrieve the large umbrella from my patio table which had taken off in the wind and was wedged against a fence at a neighbour's townhouse. :(

I am not looking forward to fighting this wind to go out and take 2 buses to work today.

It is a long weekend (Rembrance Day holiday on Monday) and already the first 2 ferry sailings to/from the mainland have been cancelled due to the wind. Well, I wasn't planning on going away anyway .... :rolleyes:


Have a great Friday!

[Alffe]

Oh Scrabble....we loved riding that ferry over to see you! thanks for the memory....course there was no wind that day and we just enjoyed our breakfast while looking at the scenery.

Chemar....I love your pictures...what a gorgous view out your windows.
I used to have beautiful flower beds...now I have piles of dirt! :o

Julie I hope your sleeping like a little baby. :)

[Chemar]

we were really blessed to find this neighborhood........in front, we are a regular small subdivision....just a single u shaped road and 3 tiny cul-de-sacs, with modest homes, on 1/4 acre plots

but the backyards on our side of the road are what makes it so unique!

Our area has a chain of lakes connected by streams and waterways. As it is classified Florida wetlands, and we have nesting eagles, whooping cranes, ospreys and other protected birds, our precious greenbelt out back cannot be levelled for development:p

sooooo, now you all see why I am such an early bird.......cos the ones out back chirp, cheep, honk etc me awake at dawn:D

here is one of our more regal neighbors
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b283/almasattic/Eagle1.jpg

[Curious]

chirp chirp :p

i know it isn't real early, but i was online when alffe first posted, but i hadn't gone to sleep yet. :confused:

blech..chemar buddy...you were right about my gourmet dinner from jaque n'boxe. my tummy rebelled against such fine cuisine.

kell...you have to tell us what you bought? i'm a treasure hunter type of shopper. i love to go to thrift shops...out of the way places to find that treasure. even for clothes. but otherwise...i am a female who hates to shop. go figure..hubby loves it.

i hope you get some rest julie. you have a fun fun weekend coming up. i am sooo glad you have me on speed dial. #20. i'll come bail you out. :p

[Chemar]

awwwww poor monkey tummy:( ya want some of my good soup?

I just came back from my regular Friday trip to the yard sales and I am crowing:D
Got some gorgeous glass, some Hull planters and Deco lamps for less than I think your "gourmet" dinner cost Curious;)
I so love this business.........I get to go buy stuff I like and call it working:p

hope your shopping trip is fun too Kell, and that the wind & rain died down a bit for you Scrabble
Also that Julie got some good zzzzzzzzzzs

and Alffe.....hope you and froggy are still dancing in the sunshine:)

[Lara]

I'm earlier than the lot of you. ;)

Friday am 11th of the 11th here - 4.43am. Was daybreak over the sea at 4, and it's only November. :eek:

[Chemar]

hehehe Lara I guess we will let you go "meep meep" then for superspeed time ahead roadrunner birdy:D

[Lara]

LOL OK. Just don't send me any worms.

[Alffe]

Chemar....is that a Coopers Hawk in the picture?

Lara you start the next wakeup.....LOL

[Chemar]

Hi Alffe

honestly dont know which kind of hawk it is...........it is large tho, with a good 2 ft + wingspan, and we have a lot of them living in the woods here.
They have a piercing cry when they start their hunting early morning (tho not quite as piercing as the night call of the screech owls that also live here:eek: )
I have seen the eagles flying, and dipping the water, but never seen one of them stationary close up, only in the tree tops


That particular hawk loves to sit there on the fence between me and my neighbour, and survey the stream.........doesnt seem in the slightest nervous of us and my husband got real close to it to take that photo

We have lots of birds resident here because of the mild winters, but also have large flocks of migratory birds that pass through each year, including real big storks

[Alffe]

We are "birders"....numerous feeders, bird baths..I make suet for them. That picture reminds me of the Cooper Hawk that would hide in our ewes, waiting for the small birds to come to the bird bath and then swoop out and grab them in midair....take them to the fence and before my very eyes....well, you know.

When I would fuss and complain my older brother always said "It's survival of the fittest...get over it." Easy for him to say....he was a hunter. LOL Just like the dang hawk.

[~scrabble]

I've seen a Cooper's Hawk in my wee yard and it caught a sparrow by landing on it on the fence .... and then it started to jump up and down and I had to look away. :(

Just yesterday I saw a hummingbird flit through my yard. There is one type that does stay all year here as our winters are usually quite mild.

My avatar is a photo I took last winter, while visitin my parents in a colder prairie province. I had peanuts on my hand and my camera in my other hand. I snapped a lot of blurry shots of the chickadees flying away before I caught this one on my hand!

[Alffe]

I love the chickadee call...often "talk" to them...chickadee, dee, dee, and they do answer.
They use that to determine how far away prediters are....

[Chemar]

chirp chirp chirp

running late.....gotta go..........save me some worms:D

[Idealist]

You can have my share, Chemar...:D

[~scrabble]

I have a terrible headache. I took 2 extra-strength Tylenol 3 hours ago and tried to sleep it off but I only feel worse. Going to lie down.

[Chemar]

awwww scrabble:( .......sure hope you do manage to sleep it off and feel a whole lot better when you wake up

[Idealist]

Gosh, Scrabble. Don't seem right! You just got over that awful sore throat and now you got an awful headache...:(

I'm sorry you're feeling bad, dear. Hope the Tylenol and a nap make ya feel better real soon...:o

[Chemar]

chirpy chirp.........hope you are feeling much better scrabble and that the headache monster took a hike.

[Alffe]

Cock a doodle ..........well, you know the words. :D

Come on sun............It's a new day!

[jingle]

A new day ......... that's the hard part

[Alffe]

(((Jingle))) did you get everything planted? did you start decorating? Are you feeling ok? I have missed you! Love, Alffe

[Chemar]

Mornin' Alffe, Mornin' Jingle :)

hope the sun rose bright and shiny for you Alffe

((((Jingle)))) sounds like you need extra big hugs today.

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[~KELLWANTSANSWERS~]

TweeT -TweeT
Morning everyone
jingle ,alffe, chemar
I sure hope your day starts to get better {{{jingle}}}
I sure do hope {{{Ms Scrabble}} is feelin better too!
Have a good day everyone

[Alffe]

Waves at Kell. Been raking, bagging leaves all morning...aren't those little charcoal hand warmers a terrific invention? Wish I would find earmuffs with little pockets in them. :D

Hi Chemar...what's on your plate today?

[Chemar]

Hi Chemar...what's on your plate today?

definitely NOT worms ! ;)

thankfully, Holiday orders are beginning to come in rapidly so I am busy packity packing to get them shipped out

HiYa Kell:)

also hoping scrabble is feeling better today

where's da monkey?? I need a brownie/coffee fix to keep me packing up to speed here!:D

[Curious]

<----hands chemar a mug of hazelnut coffee and

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j147/ChynaBirdd/brownies.jpg

:D

[Chemar]

slurrrrp....munch.........

aaaaaah! that's better:p

thanks monkey...I sure needed that

back to packity packing:D

[Idealist]

Them was some good-looking brownies...:D

My girl starting off making some brownies the other day for her Girl-Scout troop, and they ended up being cookies instead...:eek:

But they sure were tasty!

[Chemar]

brownie cookies:p now there is a novel treat, Idealist!

Morning all:)
Hope today is a good day for everyone

[Lara]

http://www.anbg.gov.au/sounds/kookaburra.mp3

Laughing Kookaburra - Dacelo novaeguineae
Australian Government - Dept. of Environment and Heritage
Australian National Botanic Gardens

This Australian bird is called the bushman's alarm clock - laughing Kookaburra. You'll hear why.
They call, usually in groups back and forth to each other, at daybreak and at sundown... like clockwork, but they also call at times during the day.
They mate for life and live for about 20 years if they're fortunate.

I reckon 'cause they're up so early they get most of the worms.

Hope it makes you laugh too LOL ;)

[~scrabble]

Is that the bird in your avatar? He sure is cute! :)

[Chemar]

:D thanks Lara!!:p

[Alffe]

Well, he's darling but I couldn't hear him. Must have just been me.

[Chemar]

oh Alffe.........ya gotta turn your sound up to listen to that...it sure is worth it:D

well, we have a very rainy morning here in central Florida but are mega relieved that the bad storm system that came our way last night dumped rain but didnt appear to do damage!

have a happy day birdies:)

[~scrabble]

My sound was turned up but it still wouldn't play for me .......... :(

It currently isn't raining but we had tons of rain yesterday and stormy winds. Power is still out in a lot of places so I'm grateful to have mine. My heat is electric too!

A few days ago I heard on our news that in the first 12 days of November, we had received over 20% of our average rainfall for the whole year!! :eek:

Have a good Thursday! :)

[Chemar]

Scrabble...maybe you and Alffe dont have the Windows Media Player installed?

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/AllDownloads.aspx?displang=en&qstechnology=


hearing the kookaburra laugh has reminded me of a childhood song that I now have stuck in my head

Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree
Merry, merry king of the bush is he
Laugh, Kookaburra! Laugh, Kookaburra!
Gay your life must be

:p

[Alffe]

Well I can hear it now! :D Made me laugh just listening....it's a whole flock...right?

Chemar....now it's stuck in my head too! I haven't thot of that song in years!!

[Lara]

Morning. :)
Glowing red sunrise today. Cool crispy air making a change from the usual humid heat.

News of the morning.

Well, there's icebergs drifting off the coast of New Zealand. There's snow in places where it wouldn't usually be snowing this time of year. The firefighters are battling dreadful fires and we've had hail stones the size of cricket balls battering places around here and it actually snowed in one part of my state yesterday in a town called Stanthorpe, which is usually cold place in winter but rarely would snow, and it is Summer here technically on 1st December...

If you get a chance to check out the pics. of the icebergs floating off NZ, then they're worth a look. Amazing.

Glad you got the sound to work on the kookaburra call. That's the bird in my avatar. It starts off with one, alffe, but then others join in.

So, must be coffee time now. I'm late today. It's 4.52am Friday the 17th of November and school is over for the year and it's all WHOPPPEEEEEEEEE around here.

[~scrabble]

Thanks Chemar, I do already have Windows Media Player but this is the message I get when I click on Lara's link:



"Windows Media Player cannot play the file. If the file is located on the Internet, connect to the Internet. If the file is located a removable storage card, insert the storage card." (and I am connected to the internet ...:rolleyes: )

Wow, school's out?!

[Idealist]

You ain't the only one who's get the wet weather, Scrabble. I feel like we're going to drown here in VA if it don't let up soon! This morning we had some pretty severe T-storms, and the wind blew several shingles off the roof. I woke up to the sound of water drip-dripping in my son's bedroom.

We have an extremely tall house, and there's no way I can climb up there these days. Especially not in the rain. So I had to gather up all the pots and buckets I could find and set them around, LOL. Boy what fun.

[Lara]

I'm late. It's 6am Saturday. I was busy writing a couple messages.

I'm sorry some of you can't get to hear the kookaburra. I can't figure out what is up with that at all. Mine actually opened with QUICKTIME.

Yes, school is out. Our school year is from end of January or beginning of February to somewhere in late November and early December depending on which year in school. Our summer technically begins on the 1st of December.

I hope the storms pass for you all who are experiencing them

[~scrabble]

Luckily we mostly had sunshine yesterday and today. :)

I heard there were still 20,000 homes without power on our island and on the mainland they are having to boil their water. :(

I'm sure glad I have electricity, especially because my heat is electric!

What a pain for you with the pots and buckets, Idealist.

[Idealist]

Lara, no offense, but you're more nuts than I am...:p Six o'clock AM on a Saturday is late??? I didn't even know there WAS a six AM on Saturday!

It is kinda cool for this ol' night-owl to hear such vivid descriptions of sunrise, though. I'd kinda forgotten what it was like...:rolleyes:

[Chemar]

hehehehe Idealist you do make me :D

mornin' all :p

the coffee is on and I am making pancakes
(well, I will 'fess up that cos of my British roots, I slurp tea in the mornings, not coffee;) )

soooo Lara, by now you are likely in dreamland.........see ya later:)

[Curious]

night owls know the sunset cuz they are still awake. :o

slide a pate of those pancakes over here chemar. :D i enjoy my tea too.

[Chemar]

maple syrup monkey ma'am??:D

[Curious]

yes please. :D

[Idealist]

Hehehe...I could go for a little tea and pancakes myself...:rolleyes:

I switch off, Chemar. Some mornings it's coffee and others it's tea.

It's all good...:D

[Chemar]

chirrrrp brrrrrr chirrrrp

it is an unusually chilly morning here in central Florida, tho there was an o so beautiful sunrise :p

definitely oatmeal with my tea today

Happy Sunday all :)

[Julie]

tweet tweet tweet. Good morning.

[Curious]

burp burp

oops...cheep cheep. :p

maybe i shouldn't drink coffee before i post. :o

goooood mornin!

[~scrabble]

Chick-a-dee-dee!

I didn't see any meteors in the night. The rain and wind started up again ... :(

My son's soccer game was cancelled this morning ... and then we got a call that it was on again. Actually, it will be more like a practice but they still need their uniforms. (I'm not too sad to be off the hook for standing on the sidelines in this weather, watching a game.) :D

[Lara]

Monday has begun with a bright red sunrise to clear blue skies and a slight whisper of a cool breeze suggesting hot but pleasant day to come. :)

[No, I don't know the lottery results. ;) ]

*coffee

[Chemar]

mornin' Lara :)

reading your post reminded me that even after years of living in the northern hemisphere, I still find it odd not to have this time of year being summer:cool:

glug glugging my cuppa tea and getting ready for a big day of work here getting orders packed and shipped so I can start preparing for my eldest son's arrival home from college in New England for the Thanksgiving long weekend......he gets here on Wed night and I am sooooooooo excited
I just love having my brood all in the nest:p

chirpy chirp chirp:D

[Julie]

Tweet tweet. Unhappy bird who didn't get to sleep late on first day of Thanksgiving break because a little bird didn't take the trash out last night. Grrrrrrrrr.

[~KELLWANTSANSWERS~]

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Morning Ladies:)
It is VERY cold and windy here this morning!
I usually just put my warm robe on when i drive my daughter to school..soooo
i was freezziiinnggg this morning..
Think i'll make some tater soup today ..Yummy! Sounds like it might warm me right up!
I hope everyone has a great day:)

[Alffe]

Oui....tato soup sounds yummy!

[Chemar]

chirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp

high 30s here overnight:eek:
and wont be much above the mid 50s today with a stiff breeze

Floridians wimp out at these kinda temps
Only one brave stork wading in my stream this morning

need hot cuppa tea
:D

[Idealist]

I know it ain't mornin' no longer, but for a night owl this is early...:D

It's cold and raining here in central VA tonight, and it looks like it might be sticking around for a while. Brrrrrrr.

[~scrabble]

We had tons of rain today and very dark skies. :( I was pleasantly surprised that the rain stopped when I walked to work this morning AND again it stopped pouring when it was time to walk home! :)

[Alffe]

Gobble Gobble! :D

[Chemar]

starting early with da gobblin' eh Alffe :D

well....if I thought yesterday was brrrrr....ya gotta feel it here today
M'thinks our Disney tourists must be wondering what happened to warm winter Florida.............and, get this, we had SNOW FLURRIES last night:eek:
That is sooooo freaky cos snow is unheard of in Central Florida

the weather dudes say there is a warming trend on the way tho and we should be around 79/80 degrees for Thanksgiving day with clear skies

My son arrives home from college in New England in just 7 hours and i am soooo happeeeee:p

Happy Wednesday and for those birds who wont be around the board tomorrow....Happy Thanksgiving and many blessings:)

[Julie]

It's supposed to be in the mid to upper 70's here today through Friday.

[Idealist]

Still cold and rainy here today. But I was actually an early-bird this morning!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! :)

[Chemar]

lovely sunny day tho a bit cool still in the 60's here....told it will be up to 80 by tomorrow

scurrying round the kitchen preparing for tonight's dinner feast
mmmmmmm I love the smells of Turkey Day :D

Happy Thanksgiving to all:p

[~scrabble]

Brrrrr ..... it is snowing (and we very rarely get snow here) ....

Just yesterday I bought a jacket on sale that is water repellant and has a zip out fleece jacket in it for added warmth.

If this snow keeps up, the kids at the elementary school where I work tomorrow are going to be very excited to play outdoors at recess. (And as I'm standing around supervising, I'm going to be very glad I have a new warm jacket!)

I have flowers in pots by my front door and they are getting covered in snow. When we do get snow here, it usually just melts as it hits the ground, but not now. This makes me worry about the hummingbirds that stay year-round here .... :(

[~scrabble]

I went to bed late last night ... wondering about how I would manage to get to work in all of this snow. I take the bus and I know the snow really slows down all traffic, especially since we rarely get snow that stays and we just don't have the snow plows to deal with it.

I got up early to turn on the tv and found out that all schools are closed. I'm relieved that I can just stay home! Then I bundled up to head out to shovel my walk and my neighbour's walk. He is a senior who moved from South Africa 10 years ago and he has never seen this much snow! He phoned me yesterday to talk about it and he described his view from his window as "it looks like a huge pillow fight going on out there!" When I was shovelling his walkway yesterday (for the 3rd time) and the snow kept coming down, he called out his front door and offered me a cup of soup! I think he enjoyed the company when I took him up on his offer. :)

[Alffe]

Has it all melted now? We are having warm balmy days but there's a front headed our way....*grin. There's always a spoiler in the forcast. I wonder where the shovel is? Yesterday I had the snow tires put on my car and everyone at Curves thanked me...said now it won't snow for sure! :D

[~scrabble]

I'm not sure if you are an early bird or a night owl, Alffe .... (it says you posted at 2:40 am!)

The snow is still here and the sidewalks are a mess of bumpy ice and snow. Yesterday it took me about 30 min. to walk to the Univ. and then my bus was 20 minutes late. Brrrr..... :(

The forecast is for more snow to come.

I have some pretty icicles hanging from the bottom edge of my balcony out back. :)

[Alffe]

On mine it says I posted at 5:40 a.m. Icicles!! Makes me think of the snowflakes we made out of pipe cleaners and borax???? LOL It continues to be warm here but they are saying look out tonight! Two inches of rain which will change to freezing sleet...then snow. :o

[Curious]

we have a cold front coming in. gonna be in the 20's!! 443

probably get ice and snow. not good. texas drivers + snow = dis monkey staying home!!:p

[~scrabble]

This is a week now of coping with tons of snow and ice. A couple of nights ago it rained all night and then by morning it had frozen. Not enough warm weather to melt it yet. This is the worst we've seen in 10 years and our city just isn't equipped to deal with it. There are areas where the public buses still can't get into because the roads haven't been cleared.

On Thur. our schools opened an hour later in the morning in hopes that the streets would be a bit better. A teacher at my elementary school fell on the ice and broke a bone in her hand. I also saw on the news that a mail carrier fell and later died from his head injury.

I think this weekend it would be a good time to stay in and do my Christmas cards, some baking and working on gifts. I finished another scarf for a homeless person .... they could really use all the warm stuff they can get now.

[Chemar]

chirpy chirp chirp:)

well, we here in central Florida are still having record breaking warm muggy weather for this time of year so some more of the cool stuff would be very welcome!

having two new kittens in the house has brought a whole new meaning to the word early bird:D
I may have to start aquiring cat nap behavior myself so that I can keep up with the lil tikes:p

hope everyone has a good Monday

[Julie]

Chirp Chirp...it's 20 balmy degrees in Texas right now.

Good morning!

[~scrabble]

chickadee-dee-dee!

It is a couple of degrees above zero with light rain. We still have snow hanging around from last week's storm but it is disappearing. Unfortunately most sidewalks still have a thick layer of bumpy ice. :rolleyes:

[~scrabble]

*waves at Idealist ........ :)

[Lara]

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[Curious]

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[Chemar]

chirpity chirp :Wave-Hello:

well, I was a night owl and an early bird today

got back home around 1.30am cos I had to drive down to DisneyWorld to collect my son after his day Disney park hopping with some friends (we live about an hour from there)
He had a great day....passes for all parks were free from a friend whose parents work at Disney:p and they stayed till the last firework was over:D

anyways, i would sure prefer to be :Zzzz: now, but the kittens purrrrrred me awake for their breakfast :)

Hope everyone has a really wonderful day!
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[Curious]

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:D

i bet HE sleeps all day chemar. :p

hope you have a wonderful day too! and everyone else.

[Julie]

Tweet Tweet...trying to recover from party Saturday here. We are off to church. Hugs to all.

[Curious]

:o hate to say it...but we are skipping today. killer back...i can't sit for that long.

((((julie)))

[Chemar]

awwww Curious, so sorry the back is bad today:( and sure hope it eases off for you

very gentle ((((hugs))))http://www.clicksmilies.com/s1106/liebe/love-smiley-024.gif


hiya Julie ...:) Enjoy church.

we go at night now cos they have youth group then

[mrsD]

only mine is a dull roar now thankfully..knock on wood and everything.

Curious --did you ever investigate Lidoderm patches? They really work for me.

I've been up early too, can't sleep for some reason.
So I am looking around here also!

Today is pack up Xmas gifts to mail, etc, writing notes.

Hope everyone has a nice day today! ;)

[Lara]

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[Chemar]

'ello there Lara :D

[Lara]

G'day Chemar. :D lol

<whispering> I'm waiting to see how long it takes for curious to notice today's avatar. ;)

[Curious]

hehehe...i would have noticed if i was an early bird today. :D

i was a brownie..then a girl scout. started ont he choccy lovin' real early.

is that your patch lara? it is much cuter than what we had. but we had choccy brown uniforms. :p

[Lara]

No, but I was a Brownie. Our leader was a BrownOwl. :)
I was so tiny I could sit under the mushroom. (it was about 3 ft tall)
It's sorta quaint when I think about it all today. No wonder I've always believed in fairies. :)

My mean relatives threw away all that stuff from when I was young. I had heaps of them. I used to have to handsew them on my sleeves of my uniform. Although, I still have my prefect badge from my senior year. Now that was something for a small high school in Australia. It had a rocket ship on it. We went space age. lol No idea why, but I guess it coincided with Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins' little adventure up yonder. I'll take a pic. of that one day and post it. I will have to find my scanner first. Most of my stuff is still boxed up from my last move. I have a few neat ten-pin bowling badges too. Can't do that any longer though. There were three of us living in the same cul-de-sac and one of them asked us if we wanted to join a league. Never really done anything like that before. We blitzed it. It was very cool. :)

The whole idea of those badges is pretty cool. They're better than Gold Stars on a cardboard sheet... great incentive for children to learn skills.

[Curious]

my younger cousins always got my stuff. i always wondered how they got away with not earning their own badges.:o

i wish i had sat under a mushroom. :D

[Chemar]

aaaah
what memories come flooding back to me too of my Brownie days:p

[Chemar]

chirp chirp

still breaking some weather records here with temps still climbing into the 80s each day and not much below 60 by night and odd humidity for this time of year!
oh well....it will make the area visitors at Disneyworld happy:p

me....i want some nice chilly weather for Christmas !

I am soooo glad today is the last day I will be packing glass to ship express from my online store as Christmas gifts.
I love what I do, but this year has (thankfully) been so busy, that I have been packing orders like 12 hrs a day, 7 days a week


Happy Friday birdies :D

[Curious]

cheap cheap...:D

i have to make a run to the dollar store today. last minute stuff.

i bet you can't wait for a few days break chemar? it's chilly here...39 right now. it will warm up some.

da monkey's are sick. :( that will change the holiday plans. my folks won't be able to come if they are still coughing. still have a few days..so i'm hoping they will be well.

take care all....have a great friday.

[Chemar]

awwww...poor sick coughing monkeys :Sick:

sure hope everybody gets better real quick Curious, and that you dont catch da bug they have

((((Curious))))

[Curious]

hehehe...they are bunddled up watchig a dvd inthe media room. that way they can't breathe on me.

[Julie]

Cheep cheep, mid-day greetings.

I'm so tired. I so overdid it last night with ironing and laundry. Long, but good party Wednesday, mega shopping excursion on Thursday with the sister and tons of laundry last night. I need a break today.

Everybody get well please!

[Curious]

you jinxed yourself. how is robert feeling?

[Curious]

good morning little chick a dee's :D

busy busy day here. sister monkey comes in tonight. have to go get my folks tomorrow. they said booger nose grandmonkey won't stop them. lol

hope everyone has a joyous holiday. merry christmas!

[Julie]

Not an early bird here today. Cheep Cheep.

I actually slept until 10:00, though I woke up at 5:00, 7:00 and 8:30. Ranger has taken to...unexplainably, sleeping at my feet or in the crook of my knees. This morning when I woke up at 8:30 he walked up me and settled in right at my face purring. It was really cute. He so prefers to sleep with Michael.

Knock on wood, Robert is feeling much better. I was really scared that it might be strep and happy that it just seems to be really sore throat. He's quite upset that he used Super Glue to glue an axle on one of his models and it glued it to the body. Ya know, I tried to tell him, but noooooo.

I'm so hungry, but have this craving for big fat french fries. Have you ever been up here to Judge Beans??? They have such good burgers.

[Curious]

i haven't been to judge beans. i'll have to try it. but the burgers at texas road house...yum.

you might have to explain to robert what super mean. ;)

[Lara]

kook kook
Kookaburras are awake.

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[Curious]

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merry christmas eve ((((lara))))

[Julie]

Merry Christmas to Lara!

[Lara]

Thankyou both very much.

4.55am 25th here. yawn.
glorious gold sunrise earlier.
I wish I was asleep. lol

[Idealist]

Just wanted to wish all you Early Birds a wonderful Christmas morning. This is gonna be one day when I'll be an Early Bird, too. I'm sure my kiddos will make sure of that...:D

[Julie]

Cheep Cheep...rude husband woke me up at 6:25. How rude.

It's going to be windy and in the sixties today. I'm going to open the windows and air this place out.

[Chemar]

chirpy chirp....got my Christmas wish and we have a chilly morning here in central Florida, tho a rather sad price to pay for it with all those Christmas day tornadoes in the region that caused so much devastation and homelessness.:( as the cold front collided with the hot humid air that has been over us for so long

hope all you birdies are doing well :)

[Chemar]

Chirpy New Year Birdies :D

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[Curious]

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happy new year early birds

[Lara]

Hey look, I'm well and truly awake at 5.55am. lol

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I wonder if that satelite photo is static.
I'll have to keep checking it.

[Lara]

kook kook

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