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Here you go, I had to download it and I had a feeling I saved it ... What is quite amazing is that I found it !!!

LOL, ok SmileyOne will do !!!

I saw that the other day, I'm sure some of us spell that way, I know Blondie does, because she told me

I can't see the pic, TV

LOL enough said !!

Doesn't look good at all !!!! Do they clear it out or leave it ?

LOL Henry !!!!!!

LOL .. Aussies go fishing with no expectation of catching anything, it's all about the "quality time" (so they tell me )

LOL

I think Koach is right in his responses to several of the suggestions. It also seems that different things have been collected from all over the world and thrown together as a "bundle" for the USA. The cost to one country utilising all of those suggestions would be rapid economic failure at the very least. A couple of suggestions I noted were "Paid Sick leave", "Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave", "Free Museum Passes", and a couple of others. These are schemes we have in Australia already. As well we have the baby bundle and each new mother gets $3000 when she has a baby although unfortunately in low income families you often see a new TV being delivered, rather than baby essentials. I also noted a lot of the better ideas were from Scandinavian countries who have a really good record in how they look after their citizens, but who also have much smaller populations to the USA as well as a higher ratio of citizens working and contributing to the country's economy in the first place. I quite liked the oil and petrol tax idea, however not the full 100% of tax as that would leave holes in the day to day economy, perhaps 10% of those taxes raised could go to a Rainy Day Fund. Several of the suggestions were really quite funny and obviously not meant to be taken seriously by anyone with half a brain. Having spent the past week helping a fund raising group who are helping a small country after it was devastated by a huge cyclone last weekend, I also think that people generally need to look out for themselves more and stop expecting Governments and other organisations to fund them. Bring back the extended family unit and take responsibility for yourself. In a third world country that lost everything, houses, utilities, crops etc. 7 days ago, today people are back at work, roads are cleared, electricity, water and phones have been restored and everyone is pulling their weight to help others get their lives back to normal as quickly as possible. Government handouts? they don't get any, there is no social security, everyone works at something to contribute to the family unit and nobody gets a freebie.

Thanks Odd, I have an iPad so I google the story and save it to my favourites on the iPad and then read it when I have time.

It snowed in the Middle East this last week, I saw some beautiful photos of the buildings and the snow, it made our news

Happy Birthday, lovely Chrysta, have a lovely day !

Happy Birthday, Blondie !!!!

Happy Birthday, Dawn !!!! Hope you have a lovely day

And this one of the shelter beside the waterfalls where they have tables and seats and bbq's for people to use

We had reports of the first landslide on one of the range roads

Not yet Smiley but I'm thinking about it, and put his number on my speed dial. TV, Dodge is a long way south of here and not sure there is any rain down his way

I mentioned yesterday and today that we have had a bit of rain, the estimates are between 300 and 400 mm in the past 24 hours (11.8 to 15.7 inches). So I thought I'd post some pics of the flooding we have today. The flooding is on roads mostly where low bridges cross rivers and streams, so houses aren't affected. We also have some reports of landslides on the mountain ranges. Several roads in the area are closed due to the flooding or debris left behind after the floods have gone down a bit. The photos are of the road where our local Curtain Fig tree is located; The road crossing the bridge over Malanda Falls; The road over the little stream that I used to cross when going to and from my old house; Barron Falls - the big waterfall between where I live and the coast. The headwaters of Barron Falls are near where I live.

LOL it must have been really bad for the Seahawks to cause his death .. but these days everyone is looking for an excuse. Next step will be the family suing the team and wanting millions in compensation

That looks really good ... I admit when I need a roast chicken I buy one from the supermarket, they are really yummy and all the hard work is done

I have one fairly similar and it's really good, we are lucky here to be able to get fresh pasta from a couple of the small delicatessens in town that are owned by Italians. When I make a salad for dinner (which is most nights) I use lettuce, sliced cherry tomatoes (or semi-sundried tomatoes), cucumber, fetta cheese, slices of avocado and on one side add a dollop of pasta salad. I don't use capsicum (bell pepper) as they make me ill. Mostly I dress a salad with an egg mayonnaise or a French dressing.

Did you run away from home? Where are you headed ?

Good to hear you are settled and seem to be happy with the changes, Dawn. It would be great to have the boys with you and kids need to have at least one parent there for them on a very regular basis. Keep up the improvements and don't post any photos that might get you in trouble lol xxx

Yay, I feel very spesh now that I have had the thumbs up from Ryan !!! He gets an extra big hug I remember you telling me years ago when he was a baby that you played classical music, how good it is that he now enjoys it. I think he will definitely cherish the CD when he is given it