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02/04/09 08:46 PM	#233
Sandy Barker Yeah, it's sucking pretty bad right now. This is the first year I have EVER had to put "blankeys" on all of my plants - more than ONCE! Yuk - I don't know how you guys do it! Good thing the "lingerie bowl" wasn't this week! The plants wouldn't be the only fatalities....

02/04/09 08:52 PM	#234
Suellen Etzcorn (Foster) Can someone say 'Rockie Mountain High', cause that's what Lanier's on! "It was a pink, plastic toy chihuahua muzzle?!" Where in the hell do you get this stuff? Well, Jimmy... one thing you are not, is a "Typical Man"! But, I think that's the most charming thing about you, so charge on my dear poet!

02/04/09 10:17 PM

#235

Cheryl Frame (Malinowski)

Frankly, I think he may be on some 'Rocky Mountain Oysters' I think those off-the-grid peeps use them for brain food!!

02/05/09 01:21 AM

#236

Dick Crocker

No one can eat just one!

02/05/09 08:29 PM

#237

Pam Wery (Payne )

Sitting here and reading everyone's post, and just wondering was I that OUT of it in High School?

I remember some of the "event's".............Others, just finding out about them.

Now wishing that I could go back and retry, Or this time TRY our Senior year over again!
I missed out!

02/05/09 09:36 PM

#238

Tom Bonner

Tracy Reed, had a great idea about wild jobs we have had since high scool,this could be very interesting would love to hear, we are all friends. When we are done with this homework we can tell nicknames we have picked up since high school, I hope we have added atleast one to our profile from school

02/05/09 09:54 PM

#239

Cheryl Frame (Malinowski)

Dick - sounds like you are eating, I mean speaking from experience!

02/06/09 10:17 AM	#240
Kathie Keefe Jim - Thanks, darlin',for your cd! Love it and you're looking very cool....

02/06/09 01:56 PM

#241

Jim Lanier

No, no, no and no! There is one thing I've learned with great clarity in the last few years: I AM NOT COOL! There isn't even hope of me becoming cool! In fact, I don't even know what's cool any more. Those of you with teenagers, go ask them; Jim's name will not come up!
I've started playing jazz, and that might be cool IF I COULD DO IT WELL, but guess what? I'M NOT COOL! My only consolation is the blues, which I can play, because I've paid my dues, mainly by realizing I'M NOT COOL! But Am I Blue, to quote a song??

02/06/09 02:02 PM

#242

Suellen Etzcorn (Foster)

So, I suppose when we get together on August 1st, for the reunion, we'll all be fidgeting and looking around in dismay and making noises like "uummm" and "aaahhh" because there won't be ANYTHING interesting left to say, because of this site!

I think I know more about you people than I do my own husband, and I'm not sure I want to know that much! I had to stop reading the 'message forum' at night because I started having dreams about some of you people. Not that I don't love you all, but "eek!"

Now when I'm in Martins, I'm looking to the left and looking to the right to see if I can recognize anyone from their 1974 Sr. picture... that really hasn't worked out well for me so far.

Bruce (husband) and I are leaving Monday morning for a week long trip to the Cayman Islands. Goodbye to snow and cold and hello to warm, white sandy beaches (and lots and lots of rum daiquiri's of every color!!). Sooooo looking forward to a bathing suit, a headband and flip-flops instead of leggins, heavy socks, boots, turtle necks, sweaters, wool pants, coats, scarves, mittens and ear muffs!

And as long as we're sharing it ALL... How about I send you pictures of Bruce in his Speedo, then you all can have some of your own nightmares! Don't worry, he doesn't wear the European type Speedo's, he wears the boring boxer types, but it's much more fun to say he wears "Speedo's" without making those clarifications! A farmer in a "Speedo"... that's a vision that makes me want to stab my eye out with an ice pick! Farmers have to be careful not to get the barn animals all jacked up! (My poor husband... he's going to get a BIG reward in Heaven for always being such a good sport!!)

02/06/09 03:36 PM

#243

Jim Lanier

... although I may LOOK cool; I just can't help that...
compared to Speedo-wearing, daquiri-drinking, left-handed Michiganders with deathly pale fleshy parts being microwaved electric pink by the tropical sun...
Forget it, Sue, my dreams are now toast!

02/06/09 04:26 PM	#244
Kathie Keefe Jim - Okay, okay, already, YOU ARE NOT COOL, I get it! Stop yelling at me! I'd insert a little smiley/winky emoticon here but I'm pretty sure IT'S NOT COOL! :) oops, I slipped. Sue - Have a great trip; push a little sunshine north! And thanks for the visuals - Speedo AND you in giant earmuffs.....

02/06/09 04:45 PM

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Cheryl Frame (Malinowski)

Sue have a wonderful trip! Joe & I went to Grand Cayman in '78 on our honeymoon- haven't been back;( Have a fabulous time - be safe- watch for sharks (land & water) drink like a fish and wear plenty of sun screen;)

02/06/09 11:32 PM

#246

Faith D. Mitchell (Biggs)

I've been living in Florida for more than 20 years and we have NEVER seen freezing temps like this...and NEVER so many times in one year! This year, we have had 6 or 7 mornings at freezing or below freezing!!! I was scraping ice off both the blazer and the S10. Go figure; we have a full garden this year! On a positive note, temps made it to 69 or 70 today after starting out at freezing the upcoming week will be in the 70's and low 80's...love it!!!

So, Steve...come on down and be sure to let us know what nude beach you are blessing. The flyers will be burning the press! :-)

02/06/09 11:36 PM

#247

Sharon Simons (Hettinger)

So....you're having cold weather?

In KANSAS, it was mid 60s yesterday and today we topped 70! Of course, there's always wind...We've had 35-45 mph gusts of wind today which made driving interesting...but it's nice to know that we're warmer than Florida!

02/07/09 09:10 AM

#248

Joe Paquette

Hmmm, you people go south for vacation in the winter? I went snowmobiling the last week of January to the UP. The morning temps for 4 days were at least -10 when we got moving and the highs were single digits. Finally got to the teens by the end of the week. Best trails ever and for some reason not many on the trails. Must be the economy... It's different when you haver a choice to go out in it. I don't like it the rest of the time like I used to......

02/07/09 10:19 AM

#249

Steve Merica

Sandy knows all the hot spots for nude beaches!!

02/07/09 10:54 AM

#250

Faith D. Mitchell (Biggs)

Sharon - We've had freezing temps three weeks in a row (1 -3 days each week). Killed my tomato, pepper plants, bananas, tulsi tea plants and basil. Rest of the garden is doing okay. But then, I hate to complain much...we don't have a full winter of this nonsense and it's rare anyway. Today, it will be in the 70's and 70's to 80's all week...back to the norm...LOVE Florida! Michigan, although you guys have had a tough winter, has reported higher temps than Florida at least a couple times this winter. That seemed strange! So, I'm not surprised, Sharon, when you say Kansas was warmer than us at least one day. We did warm up to 70 finally yesterday.

Joe – There are a lot of 'snow birds' in Florida. Those who live in Florida during the winter to get away from the cold. See, I figure I have the best of both worlds living down here. Beautiful weather all year long and short trips up North when I feel like skiing or snowmobiling in the winter. Just enough time up North to have a blast, see family and friends, remember why I moved away from that cold weather and make it back home to the sun, the beach, shorts and sandals. I'm sitting on my patio with my laptop in front of me, a cup of tea on the table, my bare feet up on the adjoining chair and enjoying outdoor sounds.

02/07/09 12:09 PM

#251

Steve Merica

We have great outdoor sounds too!!! If you listen real close you can hear DAM IT'S COLD!!

02/07/09 03:03 PM

#252

Jim Lanier

Well, Faith, it's not all roses in Florida, now is it? A little crowded, mebee? And do you have some kinda glasses that filter out all the wrinkles?? It's fulla OLD PEOPLE, I tell ya, and if you don't get outta there, you'll become an OLD LADY, drivin' a big old Buick, unable to see over the steering column, plowing into busstops fulla OLD PEOPLE who go on and on about how they used to live in Michigan, and it makes their bones break just to think about how cold it was! They're gonna have to change the name from Florida to Oldfart! Of course, you'll all be dunked like wrinkly tea bags in a few more years, what with global warming, and the mean elevation of the state being NINE FEET! Maybe they'll have to change the name to Atlantic Ocean! You got hurricanes, too, don't you? I bet that's when you do your visiting up north!;^)

02/07/09 06:18 PM

#253

Tom Houseman

Sharon - I don't think you can lay claim to the winds - remember Oklahoma's state song is "..when the winds come sweeping down the plains..." - and today they weren't too bad because I did manage to get 21 miles in on the bike.

Faith - Have you and JL been taking the same gardening classes? Tulsi tea sounds like something JL might have been growing and hiding from the authorities.

Won't it be great to have a week "free" of Ms. Suellen!?!?!?!?!

RUMOR OF THE DAY - LOOK FOR MIKE SOUTHWORTH TO BE JOINING US SOON!!!!

02/07/09 07:56 PM

#254

Suellen Etzcorn (Foster)

We actually had a nice day (for Michigan). It was sunny and in the low 50's, which is bathing suit weather for us! A lot of the snow melted and I saw grass today for the first time since before Thanksgiving! Of course, with 2 big outdoor dogs, there were more 'poop bombs' than grass, but hey, with a lot of imagination... you could visualize the grass!

I also got a chance to fill and clean the hot tub, so tonight, I'll be sitting in it, in my birthday suit (Joe, that maens nude), dinking wine and looking at the full moon. Not MY full moon, but THE full moon.

I also put red, white and blue lights on a big pine tree out front today, so now we look like real hillbillies! My son comes home from Iraq for a visit the end of February, and I want him to know we're supportive and proud of our troops and the US military efforts abroad.

02/07/09 11:12 PM

#255

Tracy Reed

Jim --

Oldfart, Florida, hmmm.... I used to work in a town called Oldsmar, located at the tiptop of Tampa Bay. I wish I had thought of your jokey name back then. Note: Soozi Jasper tells me that St. Petersburg used to be known as Bench Sittersburg because of the older population. I wish I'd thought of that one, too.

Re: "No Regrets." You're too hard on yourself. There is a purity and honesty to your vocals. And isn't that what every bluesman strives toward?

Tracy R.

02/08/09 12:59 AM

#256

Faith D. Mitchell (Biggs)

Jim – This lady has no intention of getting old and you will never see me driving a Buick!!! Are you crazy?!!!! I still kick it up with the young ones and plan to for a good long time! Granted, I am no spring chicken (but then again, look at my picture...I still look pretty young...I get that from my Mama's genes!...don't any of you guys remember wanting to date my mama in High School...you all thought she was my sister!!!). Anyway, back to not being a spring chicken (but still looking good and belting it out on stage!) my co-workers have been calling me 'Mama Cash' for a few years now, but that's because they respect me... :-) They know I will take any of them on with whatever they toss my way...but they also know I will keep 'em in line...make 'em mine the salt (expression)...when it's needed...usually every day! :-) Florida does have a lot of snowbirds and retirees...but look at them...they are active - at the gym, on the trails, at the parks...okay, some at bingo (NOT me...never!); but, they are definitely active. Florida Hurricanes? Michigan Tornadoes? What's the difference...end result is devastation...sometimes. I've never let a hurricane chase me out of Florida! “Wrinkly tea bags”! Not if you live your life young! There is so much more in Florida than baking on the sun every day! By the way...you ever get to Florida, we'll have you over for some of that good Tulsi Tea I grow :-)

Tom – It's funny you should mention Tulsi Tea sounding like something JL might have been growing and hiding from the authorities. I have a cup every day at work (a cup of hot water with floating green leaves that look pretty suspect!); between the comments my co-workers give me on my 'happy tea' and my need to constantly be up on the tables (another story), it's a wonder security hasn't hauled me away! Hmm...I'll leave this where it is for now!

Suellen – Make sure your son knows that it's not just his family who are supportive and proud of him. Thank God we have such wonderful men and women who are committed to serving this country!

02/08/09 11:16 AM

#257

Sandy Barker

To qoute Bette Midler as she did a little "June Taylor Dancers" number on stage - in wheelchairs !! - down here about 20 years ago... "ahhh.. St. Petersburg...home of the newly wed and the nearly dead".........
we have it all - including nudist resorts and topless beaches. And remember, the folks from other continents grace these beaches quite regularly - and they don't have the same "lack of respect" for the human body as we do - none of them look like Paris Hilton...or any of the commonplace emaciated teens that grace our airwaves.. And you really haven't lived until you see an 80 y/o in a "G-string"!!!!

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