Weekly Chat, Sunday October 4, 2009

LOL Sandy and Alan

Lindybird, hope Dog on a diet gets back on his food soon:)

Been looking at the Galleries and MMG has put in a great picture of a buzzard.  I love Buzzards. 

Some of those pics in the Galleries are really wondeful!!

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His name was ernie! ERNIE!!

And he drove the fastest leaf blower in the west!!!

With apologies to the late Benny Hill.

 Alan: I loved the Benny Hill Show!  And Keeping Up Appearances , Are You Being Served, ("Mr. Humphries are you free?" "I am free!") but my all-time favorite is Mr. Bean. I think Rowan Atkinson is brilliant in all he does though I didn't much care for the Thin Blue Line series.

Hi all:

Caerann: Thanks for the Whooping Crane link - lovely!

Lindybird: Only four hours from Manchester? That's close!  How often do you get there? 

I too loved Keeping Up Appearances, also As Time Goes By. Our local  PBS (KCET Los Angeles) station still shows them both on Saturday evenings.  Positively ancient now I think!  My sister said they stopped running Are You Being Served decades ago in the UK. I love Mr. Bean - have you seen the movie "Mrs. Bean's Holiday?"  It's a riot.  I especially like "La Mer", sung by Charles Trenet - I remember it being very popular when I was growing up. I've tried to get it from iTunes, but can't seem to get a version I can actually play.

I've got to check out folks' photos and try to upload some of mine. Back later.

OK; for anyone interested; just uploaded two photos of deer taken a couple of days ago in Cambria, plus shot of Cambria's Moonstone Beach.  Also uploaded some shots of the coast just north of us, taken a couple of years ago during April/May......

Hi, all. Thanks very much to all who posted concern about the flooding here. Rain totals and flooding in my area weren't as bad as the weather forecasters had initially predicted. Big sigh of relief! Gary: My own creek/burn rose to the top of the levee, but didn't spill over the banks. I watched it like a hawk, but no worries now. 

I'm having a lovely celebration vanilla latte and doing my happy dance!!! (LAST YEAR, the midwest was hit with torrential rains and historic floods, the worst in modern history in Indiana and a major natural disaster. Flood waters reached my back door, and a tall old tree fell from the pressure of the water. So now I get a tad nervous...)

Tish, thanks. I felt so very sorry for you when your burn flooded this year. And Caerann, neighbor, I hope you're safe and dry up there in the very Windy City. It's sure too bad that we can't share this rain with Australia. Seems unfair.

Annette, I loved the link you posted of the wildlife rescue center. Also, isn't it amazing that cats know to leave skunks alone? Your cat even let the skunk have its food! Good thing, because I would hate to have to wash skunk odor out of a cat! Caerann: I also loved that Whooping Crane video. Wonderful dedication by those folks to save such elegant birds. Lindybird: Welcome back. Your vacation sounds just lovely. I had to smile when you said that your dog slept in front of the doorway so you couldn't leave again without him. (My dog used to try to pull my purse off of my arm when he thought I was leaving.) Hope your doggie gets back on his feed. Cirrus: Your opal earrings sound just beautiful. I, too, am a rock hound and love all of the stones. I am so sorry about your friend, Cirrus.

As for British TV, I just loved "As Time Goes By". I've watched the entire series several times!

Ok, I'm off to look at Annette's photos. Take care, all.

Annette: Beautiful pictures!!! All very soothing places to be. Thanks for posting. Love your gentle little deer with the black tails. I'm so glad that you had a good time.

The lowly one-room school house in the foreground with the opulent and expansive Hearst Castle in the background gets the Photo Irony of the Year Award. LOL

Diane, so glad the water didn't come close to you. How scarey for you last time. I can't imagine the feeling of watching the water level rise to the back of the house:( Enjoy the happy dance.

Sorry Diane,  I missed all about the problems you were having with the water or I would have added a message.  Just pleased you were ok.  We were flooded in June 2007 and we were out of our house for over almost a year.  I keep a careful eye on the river now when we have prolonged heavy rain. It was not pleasant and not something I would wish on my worst enemy   BUT at least we were ok.  I really do sympathise with all the ones whose homes get washed away and they are left with nothing.