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Originally posted by philnic:
Tinkerbell, so your hospitalisation was the result of a rash decision?

Tinkerbell...playing in Peter Pan... Ah, of course! Captain Hook!

Don't be frivolous, philnic! I'm the crocodile. Tick-tick-tick-tick ...

Hey! That's my line!

Just checking you were awake, old bean. That should, of course, have read: 'tick-tock'.

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I wonder if Tinkerbell's Fido has found his way into such a polytunnel melon patch!

Indeed, MogtheDog!

Fido is busy harvesting melons as I write. Photos to follow ...

Oh! And here's Hamish guarding the tomato crop...

Hamish is a good word.

Mog the Dog here.

Those are some fine melons you've found there, Fido. And what a fine job Hamish is doing there as well. Heh...heh...heh...

No need to hire a guard for the tomato crop in this neck-o-the-frozen woods. My tomato plants were all wiped out a few days ago by our first cold snap and now they smell funky.

MTD

We're buried under three feet of snow and expecting more.

We're travelling to Switzerland this afternoon and hoping for LOTS of snow!

Have yourselves a merry little Christmas!

- Tink

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Originally posted by tinkerbell:
We're travelling to Switzerland this afternoon...

If I may trot out a cliché, must be nice!

(isn't "trot out" also a cliché?)

Travelling is a good word.

"You know what the fellow said — in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace — and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."

- Orson Welles in The Third Man

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Originally posted by philnic:
...and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."

No small accomplishment the cuckoo clock! And they also produced that good chocolate, did they not?

Phil, one of the great scenes from one of the great actors in one of the great films!

Since I have recently retired, and upon the suggestion of my wife, I took off on a three week road trip to Iowa, Minnesota, and Iowa again. It had been seven and a half years since I had experienced the nip of cold weather, ice and snow and I know now why I love living in Florida.

Leaving Minnesota a week and a couple of days ago I kept on the leading edge of cold weather,
watching the temperature drop 12 degrees in about 20 minutes on the thermometer my dad has in his kitchen window. I had just escaped blizzard conditions in Minnesota and as the themps were falling in Ottumwa, Iowa I threw my stuff in my car and took off for St. Louis and beyond. Driving through torrential rain and I kept on and ended up staying the night in Padukah, Kentucky.

Colder temps were forecast for the area the next afternoon and when I woke the next morning at 4:00 AM to use the bathroom it was raining and so I threw my stuff in the car and took off again ahead of the plummeting temps.

I roared through Nashville, had a bite to eat in Chatanooga and stayed the night in Valdosta, Georgia. With warmer weather I rolled into Sunrise at 12:01 PM so thankful of warm weather, elongated and elevated toilets, and, of course, my wife.

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Originally posted by Doug Spaulding:

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Originally posted by philnic:
...and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."

No small accomplishment the cuckoo clock! And they also produced that good chocolate, did they not?

Not to mention cheese fondue.

Ein frohes neues Jahr!