sam congratulations. there is nothing so wonderful as when your child achieves something wonderful.

beth thank you for suggesting 'open season' by archer mayer to bama; whether she likes it or not, i love it.

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does anyone know the url where the old ebay computer board went? i have done my bi-annual 'oh, noooo!' to my computer and need xyste and soundgod.

the bookmark i had for them doesn't work. of course he-who-must-not-be-named was holding court over there, so the whole place could have crashed and burned.

my first car was a '54 studebaker with a starter button on the floor under the clutch.

locks of hair are not all that remain of poor napoleon. (blushing furiously)
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i deplore reality tv. what is realistic about being followed around by a tv camera?

i adore my kindle; i especially love to read while i am driving or doing something else. it has a setting for text to speech and i have the choice of a male or female electronic voice. the electronic voice is not perfect and mispronounces many words, especially abbreviations, but i have learned the code and my brain translates it.

i only have 7 pages of unread books on my kindle, but on my amazon manage your kindle account, i am a hoarder. the number is so high i am ashamed to post it.

and for those of you who don't want to buy a kindle, you can download the kindle cloud (there are pc and apple apps) and read all the kindle free books or any others on your monitor.

patsy if this contraption drives down your sidewalk, call animal control. my granddaughter is an african grey and if they had thumbs they would rule the world. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2013/01/florida-man-builds-mini-car-for-his-pet-parrot/

hello, everyone. stay warm.

has anyone read 'winter of the world'? i keep peeking in, but no one has mentioned it and kindle wants an exorbitant amount ($19.99) and i am so very cheap. the outside the book board reviews have been mediocre, and i was hoping for a review by jim.

j. d. robb is one of nora roberts' pseudonyms.

praying for maureen.

for those of you with a kindle Or with the free kindle app for pcs, macs, or cell phones, two freebies this week are good reads: 'the only witness' (a good first novel which will warm the cockles of any animal lover's heart) and '212' (by alafair burke daughter of james lee burke who is also a former prosecutor and a professor of law at hofstra.)

also, kindle now allows you to lend books, so if anyone wants to read 'the hunger games' trilogy, all i need is an email address. (think george orwell meets logan's run, but they are page-turners.

see how long-winded i am when i don't show up for awhile?

20 mule team borax sprinkled into the carpet, left for a few hours and then vacuumed up is death on fleas with no horrid smell/toxicity. but diatomaceous earth is the bomb; it is just harder to find.

aegbooks - i'm midway through 'catching fire' (the second hunger games book) and in case you thought things couldn't get any worse in district 12, they have.

i forced myself to put down 'the hunger games' and came to check my emails and the boards. isn't that trading one addiction for another? 'the hunger games' is excellent but not at all sweetness and light; it is rather like george orwell meets lisbeth salander.

jim, i so enjoyed your adventures in alaska, having only lived in georgia and then moved farther south to florida.

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jim, i believe that supreme court justices should only make their decisions based on their understanding of the law they have studied for umpteen years. as for the media interpretation, i believe we were better off with the 6 o'clock news, before news was 24/7 but alas the same news 24/7. i want Different news on every broadcast. silly me.

i was a labor and delivery nurse in a (wonderful) catholic hospital run by the sisters of mercy. having been raised methodist, i thought that st. joe would do all kinds of charitable things, but st. joe operated in the black, like no other hospital where i had worked. at the beginning of each hall for 9 floors of 4 wings each was one double occupancy room; all the rest were private. and if you had no insurance, arrangements were made before you were admitted or else you were shipped somewhere else, like savannah freemorial.

all the delivery rooms had bottles of holy water. as a good little methodist, i was horrified of running out and refilled the bottles at the beginning of my shift. if there is holy water in the bottle and you add water, it is all holy water, but if the bottle is empty, the water has to be blessed again.

joanne, the mercy nuns didn't pick a name; they just baptized and then went right on trying to save the baby's life.

you could do a lot worse than 'coming to' with a bunch of mean old nuns around you. they don't like to give up.

the wilbur smith 'courtney' novels about the dutch settling south africa? wilbur pays such serious attention to historical detail that i don't care that so many of his novels are dedicated to new wives.

some southern grammar questions cannot be fixed.

having been born and raised in a small town in georgia, i had southern manners pounded into me from an early age.

miss lady and mr. man if they were older than you and you did not know their names were common.

flannery o’connor taught me to spell the word oncet, but i had heard it all my life.

as a lifelong horsewoman, i was always amazed at hollywood's portrayal of the cavalry: long lines of horses of every color. the army only bought 2 colors, brown and black.

jim - i am with you on historical authenticity. if the era is before the invention of the zipper, i want the dresses to lace up. i want the bits in the horses' mouths to be period. i want the guns and the swords to be period.

i bought rutherford's books and started on 'sarum', and it was sort of like a chicken gizzard: it got bigger and bigger the more i chewed and i put it down. i am like that sometimes. it took me 3 tries to read 'the confessions of nat turner' and i still consider it a disappointment. (nothing good must have been written that year) i love ken follett's historical novels; i love michener; and i also love tolstoy. he was writing about his contemporaries but he was telling it like it was. all that worrying about where to send the carriage first and how to bundle up when traveling by train in 'anna karenina', all that information about the russian generals selling the soldiers uniforms and boots and starving the troops: good stuff!

this was sent to me by a very computer savvy friend:

As much as I like to 'Google', they are getting a bit too intrusive for my libertarian sensibilities... In case you hadn't heard, effective March 1, 2012, they are going to be 'tracking' even more of your online activities & sharing the info across all of their products (& who knows where else)...

(Supposedly) You can opt out of this via the steps in the article at:

http://news.yahoo.com/how-to-remove-your-google-web-data-history.html

Stay safe !

what an interesting scroll. i adore downton abbey, although i don't have to listen to the dialog; i am perfectly happy looking at the clothes and sets and vehicles and houses.

i got badkitty as a newborn the day the 7' diameter oak tree fell on my roof and knocked a big hole in it. that was not a good day. she was feral to begin with, her mother was living in the tree and badkitty was chased off the roof by a chainsaw. it all made her a little nuts. the name badkitty stuck because it was dangerous to try to determine if she was a boy or a girl. she only allows the dogs and me to touch her and she won't make eye contact with me. she stares instead at my left hand and rubs on it trying to get it to pet her. i pet my dogs with my left hand to encourage them to walk on my left side since when i lead my horse he is on my right side. (that's the reason dogs were originally taught to heel on the left.) my horse thinks it is great fun to scare the dogs.

i loved the movie horse names. i needed a refresher.

for those of you with kindles, this looks interesting: lendle.

june, i adore greg iles and read all his books as soon as they are published. i can even forgive him his love of faulkner. a couple of his books have recurring characters, but usually they are all new every time.

i am reading a fabulous book that was a kindle freebie. 1929 (jonathon's cross). it is about the wall street crash that sent so many from riches to rags and off of tall buildings. i am fascinated by all history except recent.

bookleaves - i have a young friend whose grandmother got her a kindle fire for christmas. i don't think she got a screen protector. but i remember reading that someone on here got a kindle fire.

patsy - downton abbey is the bomb. i just love it.

i have an antique kindle, 3 years old, from the time before kindle got into a price war with sony and barnes & noble. mine was hideously expensive compared to nowadays, but it has its own built in wi-fi. when amazon started cutting kindle prices, they also started cutting features.

maureen - my grandfather was like that. there was the forest, and then there were the trees...

how spielberg trained his horses. warning: this contains some major plot spoilers, but i had to know before i could go see it, too.