WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR DECEMBER 2017

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  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,594 Member
    edited December 2017
    wildhorsewendy wrote: »
    Machka9 wrote: »
    BTW - a bit of an amusing thing. The pastor at the church I went to on Christmas Eve guessed I was Irish based on my accent.

    When people guess where I'm from based on my accent, Irish is the top guess with Canadian coming in second.
    Evidently, Canadian mixed with Australia = Irish!! :grin:

    I've been told I have quite a strong lilt ... I can't hear it at all, but who knows.

    So, if you're reading my words here, imagine them with an Irish lilt ... and a bit of Canadian and Australian thrown in, and that's probably about right. :lol:


    Machka in Oz

    HAHA, I have people guessing my accent as well and apparently American crossed with Kiwi sounds Canadian. That is ALWAYS what people guess! all13z3hj4vd.gif

    Hey everybody, it's already Christmas morning here in NZ! Just heading out to feed all the hungry furr family before the human family arrives. Our latest refugee is a hedgehog with a sore leg that my husband found by the hedge yesterday. It will get an egg for Christmas breakfast. Merry Christmas and hope you all get a good book to read. (That's what I want!)
    <3 Wendy

    Merry Christmas Day!


    I had a coworker and friend who was born and grew up in China until his teens, lived in the UK and was educated at Oxford until sometime in his 20s, then lived in South Africa for a lot of years, and then had been living in Australia for about 10 or 15 years. I could not work out his accent, and it wasn't until he told me where he had lived that I finally got it. He had a bit of everything in there!

    auntiebk wrote: »
    Machka, that hair! Hubba hubba ;) Irish for the hair, but when I hear Canadian in my head it's more burr than brogue.

    Thanks! :)

    Apparently I've got a lilt ... so much so that one person guessed I was Swedish. And I must have something else in there too because another guess has been French.

    But I have spent several months in Europe and have been living almost 9 years in Australia so I might have picked up bits and pieces here and there.

    M in Oz
  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 17,249 Member
    It’s snowing
  • klanders30
    klanders30 Posts: 2,569 Member
    Happy anniversary with us, Lanette . <3<3<3
  • barbiecat
    barbiecat Posts: 17,194 Member
    :) I rode my exercise bike and read instead of taking a nap this afternoon. I noticed that it was dark outside but since I'm usually asleep in the middle of the afternoon, didn't think it was unusual. Just as I was reading that Lanette, said that it was snowing in SW Washington, the dogs got up from their nap and asked to go out. That's when I found out that it's snowing on the North Olympic Peninsula. The dogs love the snow.

    <3 Barbie t78009.gif
  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,696 Member
    Wish I could go to sleep, but as I can't I will wish you Merry Christmas Day from the UK. :D<3 I have set the alarm for 7am.
    I think I have gone a bit overboard on DH's Santa presents, but they are all useful things including the perennial essential, socks!!! :laugh:
    It will be a rush to open them, eat breakfast, titivate and get into the car. At least the weather is mild. Don't envy you your snow. :o:/
    I will read a little and have another go at sleeping. ;) I do get so wound up with travelling.
    Will be thinking of you all today and hope to have time to check in with you.
    Much love Heather UK XXXXXX
  • jmkmomm
    jmkmomm Posts: 3,247 Member
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  • HandiCrafter
    HandiCrafter Posts: 56 Member
    Merry Christmas!!

    Martha in Eastern Oregon
  • janetr7476
    janetr7476 Posts: 4,001 Member
    Barbie the hat and scarf are beautiful and look so soft and warm. Thank you for sharing <3

    Janetr OKC
  • GodMomKim
    GodMomKim Posts: 3,703 Member
    Barbie - beautiful scarf and hat!
  • exermom
    exermom Posts: 6,518 Member
    Marcelyn - 22! Wow! Do you have to cook a big meal for everyone? Good luck

    Had our Christmas Eve dinner. I invited Amanda (Jess' friend who moved down here), her hubby Andy, their son Aiden and his mother Sue to dinner. Jess did cooking. Vince said "can't you get along"? It's not that we aren't getting along, it's that she and I do things differently and have different ways of thinking of things. Like I like to get started and not have to rush so I started getting the oil warm and the butter melted. Jess will wait until the last minute before doing things. I would NEVER have used as much oil as she used to fry the fish. I swear, it was almost deep fried. I would have just used a little. She wanted to use a different frying pan for each type of fish (cod, halibut, flounder, tilapia, catfish), I had to keep reminding her that we needed to broil the salmon. It's just that we do things differently.

    I didn't have that much to eat, and I'm stuffed! I brought the Krispy Kreme donuts in from the car after church and I really don't have any desire to have one. Now last year I would have. I'm really surprising myself this year.

    DJ - I really do think they'll make the trip mainly because Vince told Denise that if she doesn't come, there is no way that we're shipping her gift to her. She asked for a fireproof safe, and you know how heavy that is! So she'll come if anything to get her presents. Then it wouldn't surprise me if she doesn't come down here again until next Christmas.

    janetr - thanks for such a lovely picture. Very powerful.

    Colby just came here. He evidently drove, said he couldn't get off from work early enough to fly and a flight would have been just $20 more than driving (I personally think it would have been more, I don't think I spend anywhere near $100 to drive to VA)

    Michele in NC
    who thinks tomorrow's dinner will be tonight's leftovers. I am really not up to making another dinner. Will have to make a dinner when Denise gets here.
  • trisH_7183
    trisH_7183 Posts: 1,486 Member
    edited December 2017
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    ALLIE.....Better to be where you feel wanted.Sorry that happened.Enjoy the
    Peace in your home with the new pup.
    BARBARA,love your set. Need to do the same in crochet......my knitting “ skills”
    left in protest a long time ago. :/
  • trisH_7183
    trisH_7183 Posts: 1,486 Member
    GodMomKim wrote: »
    Gnomes done

    Love the gnomes with their button eyes! Also loving the picture......

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