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99 total words

12:00 am

flip!

12:00 am

and only got to the 11 yesterday. only 99 today, might actually make it!

12:00 am

flip!

12:00 am

re 7

12:01 am

flip

12:01 am

go cos! go m! go jill!! (down to 85)

12:01 am

flip

12:02 am

I hope this grid isn't as nasty as the last one.

12:02 am

flip

12:02 am

don't get your hopes up jilli! lol

12:02 am

re 7 x 2

12:03 am

in 7

12:03 am

I see, mag :-(

12:04 am

ve7

12:05 am

1 short for NBT

12:05 am

ca9

12:05 am

ta0

12:05 am

ta9

12:06 am

ca7

12:06 am

ty une!

12:06 am

yw :-)

12:06 am

ty for ca9!

12:07 am

NBT

12:07 am

hello everyone

12:07 am

go 9s go!!!!

12:07 am

na6 for lone N

12:07 am

ah, thanks Une

12:08 am

9's done. anyone have an 8word?

12:08 am

only 8 words in & found both 9's HOT DAMN !

12:09 am

go pug!

12:09 am

Clues are up

12:09 am

ty mrp

12:10 am

YAY mrp!

12:10 am

ty mrp!

12:10 am

thanks so much, mrp!

12:10 am

hi mrp and thanks

12:10 am

nbt

12:11 am

ve8

12:11 am

thanjs looking

12:11 am

nbs

12:11 am

nbt/nbs

12:12 am

wtg cos!

12:12 am

sanme to you m9 :)

12:13 am

halfway

12:13 am

bingo nbottom row lol

12:13 am

1/2way

12:14 am

same here cos!

12:14 am

*high five* lol

12:15 am

ca7 x 2

12:15 am

nbs but still have bts

12:15 am

I am halfway, but still struggling on the NBT side *sigh*

12:15 am

stats for corner n, please?

12:15 am

na 6

12:15 am

/18

12:16 am

70 down but still missing that bottom e

12:16 am

ea4

12:16 am

en5

12:16 am

goes with an re7 word

12:16 am

ty cos - looking

12:17 am

thanks cos, needed that one! NBT!!!

12:17 am

ty for the ea

12:17 am

ze6. for real?

12:17 am

wtg!

12:17 am

yay stid!

12:18 am

ta6 x 2

12:18 am

99 uggh

12:18 am

thanks, m9 - but it doesn't look real, lol!

12:18 am

ze6.. sounds like a french person talking aboyt a grandmother lol

12:18 am

or a 2 yo asking for yellow fruit!

12:18 am

thanks for that one m and cos

12:19 am

stats for V please?

12:19 am

tx cos!!!!!!!!!!

12:19 am

ve4/7

12:19 am

yw une :)

12:19 am

VE 6 and 7

12:19 am

down to 38, will leave the rest for tomorrow (hope we'll have power) *poof*

12:19 am

nbt but no 8 or 9

12:19 am

nm got it

12:19 am

ve4 ve6 ve7 ve 8

12:19 am

wtg jilli

12:19 am

wtg jill

12:19 am

thanks cos

12:19 am

Hi all!! NBT & NBS

12:20 am

wow! - remembered the french notebook for once!

12:20 am

go, nan!

12:20 am

still not finding that na 6 though

12:20 am

french notebook?

12:21 am

ty flosey and cos -- and I'm too tired again -- back to this tomorrow...*poof

12:21 am

gn

12:21 am

nan- use your name to get it started

12:21 am

it's not a fish.. it's a goat.

12:21 am

nan, nursemaid for na 6

12:21 am

nm - found it -- just not the spelling I would have used

12:22 am

ca 6, m9

12:22 am

need the E 4th column

12:22 am

anyone called the 8? and it is?

12:22 am

ty nan

12:22 am

ve 8

12:22 am

/55

12:23 am

I have se8/40

12:23 am

hint for the ve8

12:23 am

pb bichon

12:23 am

ah, found the ve8

12:23 am

ve8 is pl for the gratification of sexual desire.

12:23 am

sorry, so sorry

12:24 am

ty bich :)

12:24 am

lol its okay bichon

12:24 am

what???cos

12:24 am

ca6/21... no dictionary results?

12:24 am

for that hi4

12:24 am

tx cos

12:24 am

CA6

12:24 am

nbs, nbt

12:25 am

I managed tomonkey that ve8. whew

12:25 am

wtg nan

12:25 am

may I have stats for 4th column E please

12:25 am

en 5/12

12:25 am

thanks cos

hi all, got nbs before nbt for a change.

12:27 am

ty for the ve8. Never heard of it before, but I won't forget it

12:27 am

me too melon, still working on 1 tile

12:28 am

found it, nbt

12:28 am

thanks cos

12:29 am

crashing -- see you tomorrow :)

12:30 am

me too -- 30 to go -- *poof*

12:30 am

goodnight nan

12:32 am

35 left for me.. and I'm out. gotta work tomorrow.

middle column N (4th row) is all I need for nbt

12:35 am

ne 4

I know it's not the grape soda ;)

d'OH!

12:35 am

hello, late flip and not staying long

nbt

12:36 am

hi west

to bed. teach in the am. nite all. [poof]

12:37 am

hi dart

12:39 am

hi west

12:42 am

Hello...

12:42 am

hi flosey and jellen

12:43 am

hi jell

12:43 am

hey jellen

12:43 am

hi all

12:43 am

hi sammys

12:43 am

Hi, s'mom

12:44 am

I taught my first class today!

12:44 am

nice jellen

12:45 am

great Jellen

12:46 am

did you enjoy it?

12:46 am

voicing a thought............... grand daughter had a baby a few days ago.... delivered after 11 hours labor, by c section......... oldest grand has t kids 1 three year old and a 5 month old... both by c section............. two of my friends have had grandchildren in the last year.. 2 out of 3 my c section>........ am i the only one who finds this odd and distressing???? \\

12:47 am

it does seem to be the norm nowadays

12:47 am

s'mom, my daughter had emerg. C she so wanted to have him naturally but just wasn't to be - she was in labour too long to let it go

12:48 am

sometimes it is necessary

12:48 am

Yes, I enjoyed my class...

12:49 am

same with our last 2 granddaughters our dil was in labor too long

12:49 am

good Jellen, what level did you teach

12:49 am

Freshman English at the local junior college.

12:50 am

good for you

12:50 am

that's terrific jellen

12:51 am

fireworks sans list

12:51 am

wtg dart

12:51 am

Yay dart !!

12:51 am

I'm having trouble getting nbt

12:51 am

love your icon west, had to click on it to see it

12:51 am

what are you missing?

12:52 am

Yay for dart!

12:52 am

thanks flosey it is sweet isn't it?

12:52 am

that corner n that I thought was the Mexican snack

12:52 am

among others lol

12:53 am

na 6,18

12:53 am

I think it's na4/4 East Indian(?) bread

12:53 am

oh yes ! thanks flosey

12:53 am

it's not but I didn't have that one

12:54 am

oh, sorry, guess again, just a sec

12:54 am

na 6,18

12:54 am

thanks dart..looking

12:54 am

ah, women who look after other peoples children?

12:55 am

got it !

12:55 am

na6 - it

12:55 am

it's singular

12:55 am

Fourth column E, please?

12:55 am

the goat who takes care of 'kids' lol

12:55 am

en 5

12:55 am

lol

12:56 am

also a re 7....re + en 5

12:56 am

s'smom, it's always a contraversial issue here,too - people worry there are too many caesar's performed, and that they're just for convenience. All the ones I know of were for good reasons - scans showing baby not engaging properly etc. In all cases, baby and mum survived/thrived which is bottom line for me. I wish a couple of mine had been caesars, then I might not have so much pelvic flo0or trouble now!

12:57 am

Thanks, dart!

12:57 am

thanks dart

12:57 am

ve8

12:57 am

thanks for the input dofith

12:58 am

Hi, ru

12:58 am

hi jellen

12:59 am

hi ru, did you just come in? hadn't noticed you before

12:59 am

Probably "too much information" for some - lol!

12:59 am

brb...getting a snack...

12:59 am

just arrived flosey

12:59 am

hello ruru

12:59 am

hi westie

1:00 am

there's that goat

1:00 am

with the big grin!

1:00 am

what's so baaaad about that?

1:01 am

he;s just kidding around

1:01 am

it's a pasted on grin to humour ru with his puns

1:01 am

<---feels sheepish

1:02 am

can someone help me with the in7?

1:02 am

thanks PM, don't have it but looking

1:02 am

in 6/7...the 7 is the pl of the 6

1:02 am

colder

1:03 am

in + not over there

1:03 am

in-- give em one and the take a mile

1:04 am

oh boy *zips lip*

1:04 am

ty. i really hate all these small grids. they're ok as a change, but not a steady diet.

1:05 am

me too pige

1:06 am

I got to 60 pretty quickly

1:07 am

how old are you now ruru? :)

1:07 am

the years just flew by?

1:07 am

lol westy

1:07 am

not 60.. yet

1:07 am

don't push me ...lol

1:07 am

lol dart gmta

1:08 am

scary huh

1:08 am

I was 5 yesterday but I changed back

1:09 am

that's the youngest you can be on this grid

1:09 am

you can be unknown

1:09 am

when I put my real age back I had to keep scrolling down and down lol

1:09 am

what do you mean westie

1:10 am

in my profile ru

1:10 am

I wouldn't mind scrolling back a few

1:10 am

the last year is 2007

1:11 am

I like where I am

1:11 am

my mother is coming home today from the nursing home we are so excited

1:12 am

wonderful west

1:13 am

they were really good to her but there's no place like your own home

1:13 am

that is true west

1:14 am

for sure west, does she live alone?

1:14 am

my brother lives with her and he'll have help

1:15 am

great

1:15 am

we're only a mile and a half away too

1:16 am

wow.. nice

1:16 am

I'm so impressed by people who get along with their parents

1:16 am

that would be a great comfort to you both

1:18 am

she's 95 and her best quality is her sense of humor

1:19 am

good sense of humour can help you through so many challenges

1:19 am

it's gotten me through a lot of grids

1:20 am

lol ru, and your puns have helped a lot of us too

1:20 am

you bet lol what would we do without you

1:21 am

yeah.. you'd have to listen on and on from dart about how early he has to get up to drive his wife to the airport all the time..lol

1:22 am

*giggle*

1:22 am

i'm stuck

1:22 am

I'm stucker

1:23 am

think ruru might have to revisit some past new year's resolutions :)

1:23 am

was just talking to a HS girl - the schools on the island have gone to 4 day week, which means longer days, she's gone from 6:30 am and is home around 6:

1:23 am

no.. those days are over dart.. I have a purpose now..:)

1:23 am

that really sucks

1:24 am

you were on a farewell tour for about a month back then...then you unretired like some of those boxers lol

1:24 am

I wish high schools were 24 hour encampments personally

1:24 am

those kids are going to have health problems flosey

1:25 am

when I hit 5 million.. I'll retire again

1:25 am

she seems very happy with it west, loves the 3 day weekends

1:25 am

oh lol forgot about those

1:25 am

also fits in dance and music

1:26 am

our daughter and her husband both have 4 day work weeks..and lucky to have jobs

1:26 am

but she has Fri off and he has Mon

1:26 am

oh darn

1:26 am

that suchs

1:26 am

well, that sucks

1:27 am

how do you find these dart? jeez. I'm really stuck

1:27 am

I'm stuck. looking at same word forever,

1:28 am

take some time off for your knee ruru.....i'm sure you'll catch up again the next time i take a cruise

1:28 am

I wasn't going to stay very long but I do have nbt and if some kind (dart) soul would clue a 9 for me I'd have nbs and could go to bed

1:28 am

need a clue for ne6 please?

1:28 am

ne + re 4,4

1:28 am

if you get one 9 west, you'll get the other as well

1:28 am

thanks dart

1:29 am

fish packing places west...and hide proceesing centres

1:29 am

west the 9 are nearly the same - factories for tinning food & curing leather goods

1:29 am

guess I'll have to find the re words

1:29 am

processing that is

1:29 am

ah

1:29 am

only have 1 and it doesn't fit

1:29 am

I bet I know

1:29 am

I do I do

1:30 am

employ again flosey

1:30 am

thanks all

1:30 am

thanks dart

1:30 am

sorry i thought you were doing the big re words

1:31 am

I want to go to the Sardine Factory now

1:31 am

the re 4,4...has a bunch of anagrams in this grid

1:32 am

3 others to be exact

1:33 am

thanks dart, finally got the ne6

1:33 am

whew

1:33 am

:)

1:33 am

brain was starting to hurt over that

1:34 am

omg... there's a Kenny G cruise

1:34 am

is that good?

1:34 am

lot of music cruises now ruru...last 2 that we've gone on have been music cruises

1:34 am

sure if you want to jump overboard

1:35 am

don't have to jump now...water comes to you

1:35 am

I have a nice Christmas album that he did

1:35 am

kenny g is good for about 10 minutes then i need a change

1:36 am

what does Kenny G sing?

1:36 am

not familiar with the name

1:36 am

he plays an instrument..sax I think

1:37 am

very mellow

1:37 am

Soprano saxophone

1:37 am

elevator music

1:37 am

oh, love sax

1:37 am

worse than elevator music

1:37 am

or background for a supper club

1:38 am

(like denny's)

1:38 am

I love those old movies where people would get all dressed up and go out for dinner and dancing

1:39 am

i do like songbird for about 5 minuters............... must be getting bitchier in my old age-

1:39 am

oh, brother once borrowed a sax from on the the HSs during the summer, first day he blew and blew and all of a sudden one awful blast came out - neighbours complained so he gave it up

1:39 am

cat fight brb

1:40 am

night all.. I can't find anything

1:40 am

night ru, restful sleep

1:40 am

I'm with ya ruru

1:40 am

11 left & don't care anymore

1:40 am

when walter and i were dating and first married , we did that.. at least once a month - out to dinner and ballroom dancing dressed to the 9's ... it was wonderful

1:40 am

g' night all

1:41 am

oh yea, sammysmom

1:41 am

and then we had kids>

1:42 am

when you spoke to me in pogo the other day, I did answer you but you were gone by the time I could enter it since the next round had started

1:42 am

I'm s low typist but wasn't dissing you

1:42 am

yes- i got knocked off ny aol

1:42 am

OH ok I feel better now

1:43 am

thought you were insulted

1:43 am

alright then good night & poof

1:44 am

they did videotape us dancing at grand daughter's wedding 5 years ago............. they thought it was cool that this old guy with a portable oxygen tank and old lady who ignores her cane could still do some steppin... lol

1:44 am

no pug.. it was the site that booted me.

1:44 am

bet you look darn good s'mom

1:45 am

it was wonderful .. and then we danced with the bride and groom .. have it all on tape

1:46 am

thanks flosey

1:47 am

yup, and then the pain pills wore off and i behaved myself for the rest of the everning..lol

1:47 am

lol, I know how that is s'mom

1:48 am

back the boys are sorted

1:48 am

just scrolled down..what a beautiful memory sammys

1:48 am

liked the part where you said..and then we had kids lol

1:50 am

yes west, it was great.. great grandson, sam, saw the take last month ( he is three) and said " gee papa ang g'nana can realy rock and roll... ( thatt is his current favorite thing to do) i think flying will be next

1:51 am

that's so cute

1:51 am

love them at that age

1:52 am

do you dance with him?

1:53 am

he says he feels real old now... his sister is 5 months old and he has a new cousin.. says julia and selena aren't much fun but they are ok to look at

1:53 am

lol

1:54 am

we do the video thing .. did you know that there are at least 50 versions of "wheels on the bus"??

1:55 am

no but I bet you're right lol

1:59 am

I'm gone. Can't keep my eyes open. Good night all.

2:00 am

time for bed... went to the libraby today and stocked up.......... have 20 books to amuse me for the next 2 weeks

2:00 am

nite all

2:05 am

must get to bed also, good night all

shhh the world's asleep

3:56 am

I think you are right

hi diane are you making a few words? I have 10 to go

3:58 am

I need 5 more

do you have the last v?

4:02 am

working on how to clue it

I thought it would follow on from the 7 but cant see it

I have it thanks

4:04 am

Good - all I could come up with was to tell you to think of VD duh

lol

4:07 am

Got thos last five. Need anything before I go?

not at the moment thx

have a good night, whats left of it

4:08 am

Take care - bye

4:58 am

morning all - any clues for the first na4 please?

4:59 am

dog from Peter Pan?

5:00 am

hi nammy - i have that one but thanks:)

5:01 am

got it! indian bread!

5:38 am

good afternoon all

5:39 am

Hi Sprite

5:40 am

hello lyn :) xxx How have you been lately? Haven't run into you here.

5:41 am

Been playing each day but perhaps at slightly different times. Have been very well. What about you - any news?

5:43 am

yes must have missed eachother in chog. My daughter is not feeling well, very tired. In the process of getting her examined. New blood tests etc. Am a bit worried.

5:47 am

Hope you get a quick answer...kids share their germs around very freely

5:48 am

Blessings to your girl Sprite. Hope she feels better soon.

5:48 am

the doctor thinks she has suffered through a pneumonia in november. We didn't notice, no coughing and no constant high fever. Thought it was a flu and simply kept her in bed with lots of fluids. But she should be getting over it by now and she is still so very very tired... looks like a little raccoon.

5:48 am

thank you Molly, and hi

5:53 am

watching doco - Boy Interrupted - 7 yo, looked like an cherub - bipolar/ suicidal. Awful and so sad

5:54 am

oh that sounds so sad

5:59 am

those parents must feel so awful

6:01 am

Very brave of them to relive it all. Seem like a very normal and likeable couple

6:01 am

it may help other parent with bipolar and/or depressed children.

6:10 am

back again for a few minutes- any clues for se7?

6:10 am

hi zoom, will help look

6:11 am

ty sprite:)

6:11 am

lol... I found se8. Not a 7 though yet.

6:11 am

mmm.....me too

6:12 am

do you have ri5.12 Zoom- you would find that useful

6:12 am

yes there it is. Now to think of a clue...

6:13 am

no lynx...no such luck...rs and s s always stump me:)

6:13 am

you can watch a TV se**es + ***derella has lost her glass slipper.

6:14 am

great clue sprite, ty!!

6:14 am

yvw :)

6:15 am

it also gave me the ri5/12 so thnx to lynx and sprite:)

6:15 am

nice going zoom!

6:16 am

always easier with some help:0

6:17 am

still need 32!

6:18 am

good luck with those, i have to go now so will have another look later. have fun!

6:18 am

bye Zooz

6:18 am

bye lynx

6:18 am

bye zoom :)

6:19 am

bye for now sprite:)

6:22 am

am kind of stuck. And not seeing any 9s. Have the feeling this small grid is a tough one.'

6:23 am

ca9 and ta9 --- where you cure leather and where you put food in tins :-)

6:23 am

the 2 9s are really similar - one is where they process leather, the other fish

6:23 am

hi Une

6:24 am

hey, lynxxx :-)

6:24 am

ok thank you lyn, will work on those :)

6:24 am

hi Une *hug*, thank you too

6:24 am

yw :-)

6:24 am

yay found them, must have been blind. Thanks again.

6:24 am

TY for that se8 too Sprite

6:25 am

yvw :)

6:36 am

stuck at 21...might look better in the morning. Goodnight Sprite & Une

6:50 am

bye lyn, have a nice evening

6:52 am

Geeze, working this grid is like playing Twister.

6:52 am

lol yes indeed

6:53 am

down to 17 and completely lost feeling in left leg and right arm ;)

6:55 am

*Waves smelling salts so that Sprite does not pass out due to poor circulation*

6:55 am

*blink* ah good, that is better. Now for right elbow on blue...

7:08 am

morning all!

7:09 am

hiya uusue :)

7:09 am

hi sprite!

7:12 am

gotta run, early class today...

7:12 am

have a good day, uusue

7:12 am

moring everyone

7:13 am

hagd, UU

7:13 am

hi dawg :)

7:13 am

Hi Sprite!

7:16 am

are you good or are you well?

7:17 am

hmmm, i am both...i behave and am healthy! and you?

7:18 am

same :D And that is good to hear.

7:18 am

this is a twisty grid.

7:19 am

very. Fun but nasty, so to say.

7:20 am

down to 27 remaining, and stuck.

7:20 am

Havent been able to get on for a couple of days. Had to change to a little used email and slightly change my name. anyone else have problems?

7:20 am

hey, dawg . . . went to list at 27 :-)

7:21 am

Hi Unea!!

7:21 am

no problems he4, poodle

7:21 am

No problems for me Poodle

7:21 am

no not at all, Poodle

7:21 am

no prob for me either

7:22 am

I emailed dr god twice but no answer

7:23 am

on this grid what I DID notice is that I had to reenter a bunch of words that just disappeared . . .

7:23 am

Hi all! How are the Babblers today?

7:24 am

hey, focal :-)

7:24 am

hi focal

7:25 am

need the lone N, bottom of first column for nbt...any clues?

7:25 am

hi Focal! Having fun with the grid he4, 5 left.

7:25 am

what we called my grandmother

7:25 am

or a kind of goat

7:26 am

Maith maidin Focal

7:26 am

end of yellow fruit comes from another n

7:26 am

Dia Duit Molly!

7:26 am

go Sprite!

7:26 am

Like the plural of a servant that takes care of the children, but drop last letter

7:27 am

oh, got it. ty, Unea and Sprite

7:27 am

yvw

7:27 am

yw :-)

7:28 am

Or, as the kids say, na6 na6 boo boo. : P

7:28 am

hello dear ones

7:28 am

:-D

7:29 am

just found a 9!

7:29 am

go, dawg! (they're both very similar)

7:29 am

Focal, I am reminded of one of my favorite jokes. Q: How do you say "Good Morning" in Gaelic? A: Ready for a beer?

7:29 am

morning, trif :-)

7:30 am

morning, Trif

7:30 am

Ha ha Molly nice one!!

7:30 am

good one molly! when secondo was about 9 she delighted us with "an Irishman walks out of a bar. Hey, it could happen!"

7:31 am

Ha ha Trif! Love it!

7:32 am

yes, it was pretty darn funny....btw, focal, my nephew caused QUITE the stir on his summer vacation in ireland singing the "un focal du focal" song at full volume while skipping down the beach

7:32 am

apologies if my spelling is off....

7:33 am

Ahem, I was a bit tongue in cheek picking Focal as my Nom de Mot, it has its obvious meaning in English, it means WORD in Gaelic, and it is pronounced, ahem, fuckle.

7:33 am

And Trif, your spelling is ace!

7:34 am

yes, I know. hence my story...

7:34 am

ta!

7:34 am

I just KNEW knocking around ireland for 23 years would do me some good, eventually!

7:35 am

When and where, tell all!!

7:36 am

hey Triffles! *hugs*

7:36 am

hi all

7:36 am

I was married to an irishman for just under 20 years, am an irish citizen, as are all my children. we spent most of our time in terenure, wexford, and cavan, but I managed to hit 24 of the republic counties, and 4 of the NI ones, so not bad...

7:36 am

hi carlee

7:36 am

hi carlee

7:37 am

where are you, focal>

morning Babblers !

7:37 am

11 left and still no 8's!

7:37 am

hi Nanette

7:37 am

hi dawg.sprite... waking up this am is hard...its so cold out and my bed is sozy

7:37 am

hi nono

7:37 am

hi nono

7:38 am

argh yes, that kind of mornings

7:38 am

morning everyone!

7:38 am

Focal to your máthair :P

7:39 am

ha ha ha molly!

7:39 am

found me a nine! woot

triff the other 9 is very similar

7:39 am

my morning was quite spritian. Didn't have to get up early, just had to call school that my girl was ill... so woke up, called, couldn't go back to sleep. Then went to bathroom and noticed in passing my son had managed to oversleep again :)

7:40 am

oh dear, sprite! that does not sound like much fun at all!

7:40 am

ah, so it is nono, thank you!

7:40 am

morning molls..trifs

7:41 am

well he will have to learn some day, right? He overslept yesterday, had to be in school today at 8 am because of it... and overslept again.

7:41 am

<---- getting out of bed and making eggs and toast then off to school

7:41 am

does he get demerits or detentions for that? secondo does, and it's a PAIN - one instance of being late, and it's detention

7:41 am

good gal carlee

7:41 am

hagd all

7:41 am

{{babble group hug}}

byeeee carlee

7:42 am

bye carlee

7:42 am

hagd, carlee

7:42 am

lol no, they handle it very apt at school he4. Once late = next day in school at 8 am. Late again = 5 days in school at 8 am. Strike 3 = 5 days 'square roster' which means in school at 8 am, and stay until 17.oo

7:43 am

I do not wake him anymore. My reasoning is that he is better off learning it now, at school, than later at his job.

7:43 am

ugh. that must be a good deterrent! secondo is pretty excited that her school in oz doesn't start until 9, which is a full two HOURS later than school here!

7:44 am

how does he get to school, sprite?

7:44 am

i like the thinking of your school system, sprite

7:44 am

he suggested I'd call school that he wouldn't come today. *giggle* I had to tell him that I wanted him to face the consequences of his behaviour...

7:44 am

Wow Sprite, it's so nice to hear a parent say they actually put the responsibility on the kid. Good for you.

7:44 am

by bike, Trif. dawg: me too!

7:45 am

I try to where it is fitting, Molly. Thanks :)

7:45 am

oh, that is good. I have to drive my fry, so that requires me to be up when they are. ugh. oh well, it does provide babble time. I would much rather be working!!!

7:46 am

that is a very different situation indeed, Trif. Most dutch kids go to school by bike, we are such a small country.

7:47 am

this morning was your basic nightmare - I made the mistake of letting the puppy ride in the car with us, and he LEAPT out in the school driveway, ran all over the place, and poor tertiate had to leg it to rein him in and get him back in the car, and we all felt like idiots. won't do THAT again!

7:48 am

oh and I usually get up with them. Only now my girl is ill. And my son usually gets up and dressed, runs through the kitchen to grab breakfast and pack lunch, and runs out for his bike. He is not fond of getting up in time.

7:49 am

my sister got some sort of car restraint harness for her dogs

7:49 am

argh Trif :( Bad start.

7:49 am

sprite, my kids' school is less than three miles away, but the streets here are narrow, no sidewalks or bike lanes, and with all the stepfords driving their chrysler LeBehemoths while chatting on their phones, it's deadly to even consider biking or walking. it's a real shame

7:49 am

Trif, Trif...don't two kids add enough chaos to the car without adding the dog?

7:49 am

um...two dogs. but at least one acts like a true gentleman. that other one? LOONYH

7:50 am

loony, even

7:50 am

we are very lucky he4, good roads and bicycle paths all over the place.

7:50 am

tada!! finito!!

7:50 am

jealous sprite! I have often thought of driving to work, but I am sure I would die on the way there

7:50 am

wtg dawg! I have 2 left... 6s both, sigh.

7:51 am

holland is mostly a great place to live. I realise again that I don't count my blessings enough!

7:52 am

last one...

7:52 am

ze6 is ze + end of yellow fruit (ba****)

7:53 am

that was my missing one! Thanks dawg :D Fireflies!

7:53 am

whooooo hooooooo sprite!!

wtg Sprite

7:53 am

huzzah for sprite and lbd!

7:53 am

bbl, must send hubs off to work

7:53 am

how on earth did you guess, dawg

7:54 am

Hursh, I think car restraints for dogs is a good idea. I don't know how people drive safely with dogs crawling all over the car.

7:56 am

after one of her dogs fell out the window (was unharmed) she thought so, anyway!

7:56 am

I saw a dog go out the window once. It scared me to death. Luckily it was not hurt.

7:56 am

mine sit still while the car is moving! they are quite good about that, and indy had never just JUMPED out the door before. scared us all!

7:57 am

since i have cats, they just go in crates.

7:59 am

Hi Trif, I'm back, sorry I got called away... I am in Dublin, on the Northside in Artane. So your kids must feel very Irish if they grew up here? Are you back in the US long now?

7:59 am

ca6/24 is a really random french word to count for english.

8:01 am

And this surprises you because? Enable is so fickle that way.

8:01 am

yes, we are. got royally dumped a couple of years ago, and we mostly lived in the US the whole time, just doing summers and christmas holidays in irleand, so it's good

8:01 am

i didn't say it surprised me, i just commented. :)

8:02 am

Well a royal dumping is never good, hope all is OK now.

8:02 am

with the fun plural as well, hurshy

8:02 am

yep

8:03 am

its pretty much focaled, focal

8:03 am

Well you sound as if you are making the best of it, that is what we all have to do. We cannot always control what life throws at us, the only choice we have is how we deal with it. x x

8:05 am

the poor chog has had to listen to me moan for years, so i am trying to be good. here's the 25 second version - he moved out without telling me why, and refused to work on our marriage in any sort of real way. After our divorce was final, (and I got NOTHING, but the house) he took the kids out to dinner, told them he was gay, and then sent them home to tell me. so, there you go

8:06 am

apologies to all.....

8:07 am

OMG, what a nightmare, what an a@@hole, fair play to you for picking yourself up after that. <warm hug>

8:07 am

no apologies necessary!

8:07 am

thanks focal. life goes on, though it absolutely did not feel like it would, there for a while

8:08 am

yes, ireland could do us all a big favor and take him back....

8:10 am

What can I say. . . ? I guess it's good that he's around for the kids?

8:10 am

S's are hard.

8:10 am

um, nope. but whatever. let's move on. I can't find an 8, has anyone had any luck?

8:11 am

yes one is ve8, a pl w/o a singular, somewhat along the lines of the 9's

8:11 am

ooh, thanks hurshy! well done you!

8:11 am

well i had to try SOMETHING for the v

8:11 am

se8/40 ... might be thought of as building from se4/4

8:11 am

that's the bottom row grey for me

8:12 am

ooh help me with the other v's? i have a 4 and the 8 but not the other two

8:12 am

... while it doesn't mean this ... think of a word mi

8:12 am

ty dos got it!

8:12 am

... think of a word meaning a calm song

8:12 am

huh? I have the other v's, but I dont'

8:13 am

get the connection?

8:13 am

I need to go to the school pick up, catch y'all later. Only 27 of 99, grid is trickier than at first glance. Slán :)

8:13 am

i would like help with the other v's. dos clued se8. there is no connection.

8:13 am

slan slan focal - btw, hearing them say that on teletubbies in gaelic was just about my fave thing EVER

8:13 am

... ve 6/7 ... a thin layer of expensive wood laid on a thicker piece of less expensive wood to make it look richer

8:14 am

ah, silly me, ty!

8:14 am

oh, my bad, sorry....the other v's describe fake white teeth, or the thin skin on wood furniture

8:14 am

good morning everyone:)

8:14 am

morning baconman

8:14 am

... morning

8:15 am

are there any s7?

8:15 am

morning crossy!

8:15 am

... se + ri5

8:15 am

I put lots of extra effort into my breakfast today, in your honor!

8:15 am

ty again dos

8:15 am

what did you make?

8:16 am

oatmeal with flax seeds, applesauce, a touch of cinnamon and a banana chaser....i'm needing to lose some weight, and following a clean eating plan

8:17 am

i would say so! all will go right through and not even touch the sides! lol

8:17 am

the spoon your eating it with has more fat:)

8:18 am

i need 3 S, 3 H, 3 I, 1 C, and 1 R.

8:18 am

lol....the flax seeds are supposed to be the protein, and I am trying to reduce artificial anything

8:18 am

if you saw how much weight I have gained over the fall, you would understand

8:19 am

but good for you if you can manage it.so trif is gonna be a slim hottie eh? :)

8:19 am

hey you can be slim without being hot - like me!

8:20 am

trif would mostly just like to fit into her work clothes....

8:20 am

got the C!

8:20 am

got the R!

8:21 am

I can't find the se word clued earlier....mostly because I don't have the right r 5, I think

8:21 am

list time.

8:21 am

... ri5/12

8:22 am

ri5 is a poison.

8:23 am

ty hursh

8:23 am

and done!

8:23 am

yaa for hurshy!

8:23 am

Good morning, all. I'm bummed. Craigslist has been hacked.

8:24 am

howdy judi

8:24 am

a little on the small side but nicer than yesterday - craigslist hacked?! what has happened as a result?

8:24 am

judi, are you sure they just aren't shut down in protest>

8:24 am

craigslist..i have heard of that site i think in the news once...got busted for selling hookers or something as i recall

8:24 am

google and wikipedia have voluntarily shut down today, due to the SOPA legislation

8:25 am

Oh, it's some political nonsense. Well, that could be the case, Trif. They've jumped on the Wiki bandwagon

8:25 am

what's the SOPA legislation, the one that censors the web?

8:25 am

crossys views on the bill in question can be found in yesterdays chog history:(

8:26 am

yes, but not just that, hurshy

8:26 am

google seems to be running.

8:26 am

I dont' pretend to understand all the intracacies

8:26 am

big brother will be watching you

8:27 am

aren't they already?

8:27 am

sorry, didn't mean to post that before I figured out how to spell that word....so sorry

8:27 am

Phffth. Big brother must be awfully bored if he's watching me. *flips bird to big brother*

8:27 am

....waiting for judi's update describing black cars pulling up outside house....

8:28 am

not like this hurshy..the fbi or your version there will be able to stroll into you internet service provider and at a whim demand to see every site you have ever been on

8:28 am

*shades drawn, booby traps set, escape pod ready for launch*

8:28 am

foil hat on....

8:29 am

it would be FBI, i'm only a wannabe brit.

8:29 am

whoof. nbs at last!

8:29 am

"Spooks" is the international term, I believe.

8:29 am

... careful ... MI5 might be listening

8:30 am

but i vented enough about it yesterday and will be quiet today

8:30 am

I thought it had more to do with not being able to post links, claiming some sort of intellectual property infringement of some sort?

8:30 am

it's okay crossy - i was moaning about my ex later, so perhaps today is a day when we can re-air grievances?

8:30 am

i'm pretty sure i think it's bad legislation too. :)

8:31 am

i posted the bill number in question in yesterdays chog,you can look it up and give it a read

8:31 am

sorry, earlier. what is with me, and the inability to find words today? what was IN that oatmeal?

8:31 am

i THINK it is bill 3261..but not sure right now

8:32 am

flax seed

8:32 am

lol hurshy. apparently it has wiped out my ability to type

8:33 am

not to worry i am very good at readying as well as typing typneese

8:33 am

good lord,i even spelt typoneese wrong...

8:33 am

acck!

8:34 am

reich is not enable accepted? that program never fails to astound

8:34 am

think i will just do one dot for yes and two for no the rest of the day lol

8:35 am

.

8:35 am

And the ancho chile is still not recognized. I demand equality for all peppers!

8:36 am

.!

8:36 am

.!

8:36 am

hear! hear!!

8:36 am

snap crossy!

8:36 am

;)

8:36 am

I can't grow peppers in my garden...such a pity, as well all love them

8:36 am

Was yesterday the worst grid ever or what?

8:37 am

.!!

8:37 am

today's is giving me grief as well, hego!

8:38 am

yes, I'm beginning to see that.

8:39 am

sigh....love thinking about my garden in the winter...planning out when to start, what to try next year, what to rearrange...such a nice way to spend time sitting by the fire

8:40 am

why can't you grow peppers?

8:40 am

not sure yet. wrong ph in the soil is my guess. will try them in containers next season, me thinks, and see if they do better in that soil

8:41 am

interesting

8:42 am

MAJOR dumpster dive score recently, did I tell you? we share our office building with a commercial property management company, and at the end of teh fall they threw out two HUGE, perfectly good planters, with the azaleas still in them! scooped those right up!

8:42 am

I love a good dumpster dive....not too proud to admit it!

8:42 am

congrats!

8:43 am

that's no way to treat an azalea!

8:43 am

I know, right? shameful!

8:43 am

Trif - you can get a soil sample analyzed by your local cooperative extension. Probably located at one of the local colleges. Most of them do it for free. They'll tell you what you need to add or feed or remove.

8:43 am

should be criminal offence.

8:44 am

thanks judi! will try to remember that. there aren't any colleges near here, but I think we have mail in available to us

8:44 am

their folly was my happy gain, hego!

8:44 am

don't they have soil testing kits at the garden center?

8:44 am

Yes. You could probably go online and request a sample kit.

8:45 am

BRB.

8:45 am

probably, i have to really ramp up my gardening efforts next year. It got ahead of me last year, and I have a lot of reclaiming and reorganizing to do come spring

8:45 am

morning ladies & gents Had to ask

8:46 am

hi hoot

8:46 am

Trif , can you grow tomatoes?

8:46 am

yes, but I have to be careful to pinch back suckers

8:46 am

zucchini and cukes are my most successful veggies

8:47 am

Well the tomatoes grow the peppers should so it's prob not the soil

8:47 am

pinching suckers is ok - try planting them if you have room

8:48 am

see, that's what I wondered as well, hoot, so thank you! I am not sure what it is....maybe I had them in the wrong spot or something...will move things around next year and see how it goes

8:48 am

Can't grow anything her except weeds

8:48 am

this is when I really miss my chickens. that poop was GOLD in the garden, except for in the potato area. no love for the chicken manure there!

8:49 am

many weeds are quite lovely, hootowl

8:49 am

I'm envious. You obviosly have room and decent soil

8:49 am

wahoo! my current favorite song just came on!

8:49 am

ah, an optimist.

8:50 am

That is the eternal optimist. Someone who considers chicken shit gold.

8:50 am

Not when your trying to grow veggies. And you'd really have to see this mess to believe it!

8:50 am

lol Molly

8:50 am

I highly recommend containers, hoot

8:51 am

Kitchen compost works wonders as well. Turn your trash into wormy gold.

8:51 am

it is molly. it seriously is! best manure you can find

8:51 am

It is molls - very high nitrogen content. Has to sit a while to get rid of the ammonia thou

8:52 am

Tried that too. nope

8:52 am

do that too, judi. actually, the kids and I were just speaking of this - we have the most people living in one house on our street, and we put out the least trash. :)

8:52 am

hate it here and the soil knows

8:52 am

We are inundated with mushroom soil around here. Unless you know someone who has livestock, it's about the only soil supplement available.

8:53 am

not great except for fill. Mushrooms deplete soil

8:53 am

judi, I understood that delaware had an abundance of chickens, so there must be some good poultry poo around? it definitely needs to season, that is true!

8:54 am

That's true, hoot. That's why we use our own compost. We don't bother with a veggie garden. There are too many deer and rabbits living around us. We would only be feeding them. F*ucking fauna, anyway!

8:55 am

lol judi....there are ways around deer!

8:55 am

Never had that problem but I can understand the feelings

8:55 am

I like our deer, but I could have done with out them eating all my tulips, that is true. well, that and the lyme disease. that sucks

8:56 am

Sadly, we really don't have the time to devote to gardening. We plant flowers and pluck weeds.

8:57 am

yes, that is true. I live in the woods, so I spend an even amount of time getting the things I want to grow growing, and holding the rest of it back, so it won't take over!

8:57 am

Maybe you can way lay them with a bale of hay>

8:57 am

We have to start at scratch with the compost pile in the spring. The neighbor obliterated in the fall. Long story. Anyway, I will be planting lots of forsythia on our property line in the spring.

8:57 am

almost anchor

8:58 am

mix in a few hollies if it's that way

8:59 am

Just might, hoot. Although, forsythia is cheaper and grows like weeds. Lots of coverage for not much $$.

8:59 am

here is video I made ages ago of me and tertiare running around in our yard after a flood - you can get a sense of where I live anyway, if you are remotely interested....

8:59 am

http://tinyurl.com/7wobprm

9:00 am

Plus, it's a little more neighborly than posting "no trespassing signs".

9:00 am

I have rose of Sharons. they bloom all summer. great!

9:00 am

forsythia roots easily. Can you get cuttings from other neighbors. Will start in water

9:01 am

I like those too, hego. But it's really shady where I'll be planting. I think those like full sun.

9:01 am

right Judi

9:01 am

Good Morning Everybody. Judi; we use kitchen compost and shredded paper and put it in our nearly empty compost bin all winter. Come spring, we add a bottle of beer (not lite) and some sugar and a little ammonia and it takes off like crazy.

9:01 am

I could use cuttings from my existing forsythia, but I want to make an obvious and immediate border.

9:01 am

Hi Nef

9:02 am

some recipe Nef. lol

9:02 am

Ammonia bad! Keep those chemicals out of the compost.

9:03 am

composting produses ammonia

9:03 am

ammonia is antural and contains nitrogen

9:03 am

natural rather

9:04 am

now that I watch that video again, it really is mostly my side yard, and where the flower gardens are, not the vegetable ones. oh well

9:04 am

Doesn't the sugar and beer make it stinky? Also, attract flies and maggots?

9:04 am

well I found out in aggie school that me and ammonia don't get along

9:05 am

It works. DH has been doing this for years (I'm not sure of the ratio, but can find out). Since we're in MN and the winters normally can be very cold; sometimes compost can be pretty dormant (or dead) during the winter

9:06 am

Ah. An accelerator mix. We don't need that here. Mild winters & very warm summers.

9:07 am

-----> jealous of judi, though I suppose I can hardly complain about my winter thus far

9:07 am

One of my neighbors has started a chain saw! bbl

9:08 am

does the 9 build from the 6?

9:09 am

wind and lake effect snow are howling off the water today and it is minus 16:(

9:09 am

the ammonia is the nitrogen; it takes less than a cup of it for the compost (I think only a few tsps. actually); and you stirr the beer and sugar and ammonia all together and pour it into the compost and stir in fresh grass clippings, any winter yard trash (old leaves, etc.) and the kitchen and paper and mix it all up very well. We don't have a problem with flies or maggots or critters in the compost

9:10 am

sounds delicious.

9:10 am

Good mornimg

9:10 am

howdy bob

9:10 am

Hi Bob and Crossy

9:10 am

It's like compost beer! Mmmm. Green beer.

9:10 am

howdy hego

9:10 am

Crossy, if I ever visit you it will be in July.

9:10 am

hi Bob and crossy

9:14 am

Just realized I need to wake DH and take him to PT; BBL!

9:15 am

bye Nef

9:18 am

must go. bbl

9:25 am

Fireworks! Been a while since I've said that.

9:26 am

ok - the nitwit stopped. It would be a big help if they had built these homes with insulation and storm windows! Hate rentals! NO maintenance

9:26 am

congrats Judi

hi aand congrats Judi

9:41 am

NBS and NBT - time for breakfast

wd wv

fireworks!

9:49 am

whoo hoo judi!

9:49 am

whoo hoo vanillla

9:50 am

te6pls

9:50 am

sorry just started peri

9:50 am

hi all

9:51 am

hi jmc hi all

te6 are you renting?

9:51 am

renter, periwinkle

9:51 am

ty ty

yw

this grid had a sting in its tail for me

9:53 am

yes? should I wear gloves?

9:53 am

No need for gloves, but limber up. This grid is like playing Twister.

hasnt taken me this long to find the last 5 for ages

9:54 am

*stretches*

time for me to vanish have a great day all

9:57 am

bye vanillla

9:58 am

stats for the 4th column E please

9:59 am

i am only finding german words for that one

10:01 am

en5/12

10:02 am

ty phae

10:03 am

yw

10:03 am

nbt

10:03 am

wtg

10:04 am

:-D

10:13 am

okay I am off to school and to figure out how to write a 4 page paper about something i think is stupid

10:13 am

bbl

10:14 am

*goes to thesaurus to look up word "stupid"*

10:14 am

talking baby commercials

10:30 am

Word puzzles that allow obscure foreign currency words.

10:31 am

nein

10:31 am

lol

10:40 am

clue for the ca6 24?

10:42 am

sounds something like the check-out person, but missing a letter.

10:42 am

ne6,18?

10:42 am

ty mixi

10:43 am

dont have that one yet mixi

10:44 am

the ne worm mix

10:44 am

ragworm

10:45 am

ty ruru. (must remember names of worms).

10:45 am

omg, they are disgusiting

10:45 am

crossy does not know fancy worm names

10:46 am

ne + anagram of getting up. **** and shine.

10:47 am

ty mixi

10:47 am

ve8? i'm stuck on the v's

10:48 am

i'm almost there sugrr.

10:48 am

ne6 makes me think of another topic for JMC's "stupid" paper

10:48 am

ve6 is a very this layer of applied wood

10:49 am

dont have the ve8

10:49 am

In/5 and in/6 would be good adjectives for the 'stupid' paper

10:49 am

ve + french negative + anagram of get up

10:49 am

*first half of the french negative

10:50 am

good morning, everyone :)

10:50 am

Most of the long ones have the same endings, so they can be monkeyed.

10:51 am

Ooh...just clicked on the definition for the ve. It means gratifications of sexual desires. How has this word gone into disuse??

10:51 am

lol, jan

10:51 am

cause it cannot be found! lol

10:52 am

see 10:49 clue crossy

10:52 am

it's in my dictionary

10:53 am

just got the z6 by accident LOL

10:53 am

Maybe it has a negative connotation. That would explain its decline in usage in the modern world. ;-)

10:54 am

It sounds more like an STD, Jan

10:55 am

Same root no doubt, Molly.

10:55 am

*zips lip*

10:55 am

Hi I'm back, and for the first time ever in my brief Babble career, I have more words than I haven't!!! Yippee!! 51 got, 48 to go!!

10:55 am

have the ze 4 and 6 -- what am I missing?

10:55 am

uh.. anyone have the se 8 please?

10:55 am

ty molly that got it for me:))

10:56 am

ze4 = another one, there's 2

10:56 am

Sounds a bit like the music played to honor someone, with a dfferent ending.

10:56 am

ty crossy

10:57 am

looking for ze6...

10:57 am

thank you Jan.

10:58 am

It's a snow day for me today, so I'm trying to do this one without a list, but I'm down to random typing. (13 to go...)

10:58 am

It's a snow day for me today, so I'm trying to do this one without a list, but I'm down to random typing. (13 to go...)

10:58 am

looking for the se 8

10:58 am

YW ruru...

10:59 am

Nice work Focal

11:00 am

oooh - found the se 8 - 8's done

11:03 am

I have the ca/7 x2, in7, re/7x2, and ve/7. What am I missing?

11:03 am

ze6?

11:03 am

ze + word for grandma

11:03 am

se7 jan

11:03 am

need the ca7, but not the one who stores veggies lol, need the other one

11:03 am

ty molly

11:04 am

the other ca 7 is french notebooks

11:04 am

French for notebook, suggr.

11:04 am

isn't that a ca 6?

11:04 am

Thanks mixi, looking...

11:05 am

the plural nan

11:05 am

ca 7: more knowledgeable

11:05 am

omg, I have the 6 you would think since there's an S on the board I would plural it LOL

11:05 am

15 words left

11:05 am

Oui, c'est vrai. My mistake.

11:06 am

ty kate - missed that one

11:06 am

And for those of you not fluent in french ca + one who inherits

11:06 am

Anagram of the one who inherits, I think

11:06 am

lmao molly

11:07 am

Ugh...one who inherits mixed up

11:08 am

fireworks

11:08 am

missing one of the re 7's -- have plays out again

11:09 am

Yay Mixi!

11:09 am

to employ agin and again.

11:10 am

ty mixi

11:10 am

just missing one 7 -- think it's time to list

11:14 am

need the se 7 please

11:14 am

NBT, NBS

11:14 am

congrats focal

11:15 am

Thanks WV, I am ridiculously pleased with myself. Personal best and all that!!

11:15 am

always need to celebrate reaching our goals

11:16 am

Focal is on the victory path

11:16 am

morning all! catching my breath between classes...

11:16 am

hello sue

11:16 am

Woo hoo!! And who cares if there's no dinner cooked!! (Well, actually, there WILL be complaints!)

11:17 am

hi, wv, focal, molly!

11:17 am

Morning Sue. No classes for me today--called off due to snow!

11:17 am

Focal, Focal, the answer to "What's for dinner?" is..."whatever you're cooking"

11:17 am

ha,, we almost never cancel classes due to weather

11:18 am

the university rarely calls off classes, but the public schools do cancel or have 2 hour delays

11:18 am

Ha Moll, I'll try that on my 11-year-olds!

11:18 am

That used to be true for our uni, too, but a few years ago we had a storm in which a couple of faculty were badly hurt in a rollover of an SUV.

11:19 am

Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are a perfectly nutritious meal Focal.

11:19 am

never too early to teach them to cook - i had a one pot meal that both the boys learned to cook and the one still loves to make it (he's now 38)

11:19 am

Seems that the decision to cancel or not was made by the provost who lived within walking distance. So he didn't understand the road situation that most faculty staff and students faced.

11:19 am

So true, but that's what they got for lunch! This victory has no been easily won!

11:19 am

Jan, I am so glad to hear that your university takes bad weather seriously. If more places would close due to bad weather, there would be less accidents from it.

11:20 am

I remember walking to school when it was -20 out and my car didn't start, classes were on so I went

11:20 am

True enough. I think having a couple of seriously hurt law profs got their attention though...

11:20 am

we have a lot of commuter students (and faculty) so all weather pronouncements are prefaced by a lot of legalese saying you should make your own decisions

11:20 am

ah, law profs, that would do it!

11:21 am

se 7, please?

11:21 am

When the state patrol says "only essential travel should be attempted" it's interesting how many universities think, "Classes, yes, that's essential."

11:22 am

Alas, people have no sense and will go out in bad weather when common sense says the safe thing to do is stay home.

11:22 am

Hi All

11:22 am

Sorry nan, still haven't got it. Sneaked out and had a spot of coffee instead of monkey-typing.

11:22 am

nm - found it

11:22 am

don't have it either but trying

11:23 am

Can you suggest a clue for it?

11:23 am

se + chinese grain - last letter + not out

11:23 am

se + poison gas

11:23 am

Thanks Molly!

11:23 am

ty molls

11:24 am

And nan too!

11:24 am

thnx molly and nan

11:24 am

would never have gotten that.

11:24 am

aand nan

11:24 am

can't believe I missed the te 4!

11:25 am

And I can't believe I missed the engineering he/5!

11:26 am

have ve 8 - what are the stats of the other 8

11:26 am

missing is easy

11:26 am

are you suddenly ri 4, jan ;)

11:26 am

se/8/40

11:26 am

it's finding them that's hard. lol

11:27 am

Not me, nan! Though tis to be devoutly wished.

11:28 am

*!* ta da *!* - thanks for the help :)

11:28 am

congrats nan

11:28 am

yaa for cybernan!

11:28 am

Congrats nan! And thanks as ever for your helpfulness.

11:28 am

yay! Nan!

11:28 am

Good on ya Nan!

11:29 am

ty everyone -- anyone want clues before I leave

11:29 am

yay! c's crushed!

11:30 am

Not me, nan. I sill have 7 to go but I'm not sure what I still need.

11:30 am

no ty Nan

11:31 am

wd, jan - I gave up and listed at 28 to go

11:31 am

listing now at 23

11:31 am

bye everyone - have a great day :)

11:31 am

66/33 gulp

11:31 am

Bye nan, thanks for the clues

11:32 am

Great Focal!

11:33 am

*Cheers Focal on*

11:33 am

Gogogo focal!

11:35 am

5 left, three fives and two sixes...I really don't want to list if I can help it.

11:35 am

go for it focal

11:35 am

you can do it Jan

11:36 am

Go go go Jan!

11:36 am

ic5 anyone?

11:36 am

More frigid

11:37 am

nm got it. duh

11:37 am

I thought a penguin would have got that before ANYONE!

11:37 am

ty jan

11:38 am

lolol Focal : )

11:43 am

I do not belive the second in 6,21.

11:43 am

or the 7

11:44 am

Hmmm...the second in 6 doesn't pluralize, and the third is a pretty normal word.

11:46 am

second 6, 21

11:47 am

I agree, it's only usually seen in its latin-nominalized form/

11:47 am

what he said.

11:48 am

I mean she

11:50 am

Latin nominalized form? This grid is truly not for the common folks.

11:50 am

Not a language major I.

11:51 am

So true--between chemicals, obscure medieval dress, foreign currency, etc. Babble is a work-out for the vocabulary.

11:51 am

now that stuff I know.

11:52 am

and needle cases and needle nosed dolphins too. lol

11:53 am

You can always identify a Babbler. They're the ones saying, "Excuse me, how many hwan in a dollar?" or " I seem to have misplaced by etui."

11:53 am

: D

11:54 am

Jan is it snowing there?

11:54 am

Yes, much not very hard at the moment. It's supposed to taper completely to flurries within an hour or so.

11:55 am

I have peeps in Seattle

11:55 am

That didn't come out right. I'm listening to the radio and somehow the 'but" incorporated the radio guy's "much"!

11:55 am

Kitsap peninsula.

11:56 am

I think Kitsap has gotten it worse than the city and the north sound.

11:56 am

I thought you meant not much

11:56 am

uh oh

11:57 am

they will be at home for awhile.

12:02 pm

crossy left his etui on the cwms

12:02 pm

Things should get better quickly though. It's supposed to be cold through tomorrow, with a possibility of a bit more snow. Then Friday it warms into the forties with rain to wash away the ice and snow.

12:02 pm

hi Crossy dear

12:02 pm

that's good Jan

12:02 pm

Kitsap has varied conditions due to the straits and the rain shadow.

12:03 pm

howdy hego

12:03 pm

we got 6 inches of snow night before last,got 6 inches last nigh,and am quite sure we will get 6 inches tonight:(

12:04 pm

as long as you know where your etui is, that's all that counts, Love.

12:04 pm

i shall have to dig for it now:)

12:04 pm

I thought it was buried by now. lol

12:04 pm

Hi crossy! You Canadians handle wintry weather so much better than we do. Seattle has four snowplows for the whole city!

12:04 pm

snap again

12:05 pm

Personally, I'm not much better prepared. I had to shovel off my front steps with a plastic dustpan. I really should get a snow shovel...

12:06 pm

we must have the equipment to be sure!

12:06 pm

that's a funny picture.

12:07 pm

do they even sell snow shovels there, Jan?

12:08 pm

Sure! They get tons of snow in the mountains. One winter the ranger station at Paradise on Mount Rainier measured 23 feet of snow on the ground!

12:08 pm

No, I meant in the city.

12:09 pm

when we lived up north a bit further we used to have those catapillar road graders you see spreading dirt on side roads? well they were equipped with auger/blowers on the front and chould fire snow a distance of 20 feet through the air.the banks on the side of the road used to be within 4 feet of the top of the telephone poles.my gomonther used to give us heck as kids cause we used to hack steps into the snow banks and perch on top of the poles and jump off with a bit of card board to slide down with

12:10 pm

Seattle gets snowfalls every now and again. One year we got two feet of wet snow. The corrugated metal roofing over a marina collapsed, sending hundreds of boats to the bottom of the sound. You could hear the anguished cries of the yaching set for miles around!

12:10 pm

godmother*

12:10 pm

whoo hoo!! I want one of those, Crossy.

12:11 pm

hi crossy-just sitting here trying to figure out whether I can get down the driveway, which is essentially a very long luge run.

12:11 pm

gget a luge Eva

12:12 pm

or become a penguin

12:12 pm

mm.pop it in neutral and let it coastthen as you hit the bottom slam it into first and snap it a nice 45 degrees

12:12 pm

in reality waiting for the sander to come

12:12 pm

that's why I did it.

12:12 pm

Doesn't everyone in Vermont have a state-issued toboggan?

12:13 pm

We had 31 inches last December. Waiting for the plows became our statewide passtime.

12:14 pm

the problem is we don't have the usual big snowbanks on either side of the driveway. usually I can play pinball with the car-put it in neutral, as you sugegsted, and bounce of either side. Stopping at the bottom is a bit of a trick. Getting back up, however, even getting off the road, looks like a non-starter.

12:14 pm

no-but we have state issued crampons for or boots

12:14 pm

i hope we get it like last year,snow right up to the side windows of the car.i have 600 dollars worth of new winter tyres on my car and they had better get some use!

12:14 pm

Waiting a bit beats meeting your local tow truck operator.

12:15 pm

crampons?

12:15 pm

yak trax? basically studded snow tires for your shoes

12:15 pm

tire chains? lol

12:15 pm

I bought a set of those crampon-like thingees for boots at Costco. Have yet to crack them out though.

12:16 pm

I don't go anywhere without them. Have taken too many bad falls.

12:16 pm

those slip on crampons are very handy

12:16 pm

Here we use them in the early summer for mountain hiking. Along with an iceax to break your fall into crevasses.

12:16 pm

Oh my! I am feeling cold just reading the chog. I feel so so sorry for you snowed-up folks. I hate hate hate snow!

12:16 pm

in seattle? creavasses?

12:17 pm

(((( Soodle))))

12:17 pm

i do not run into too many crevasses tween here and work:)

12:17 pm

Hi ((((Hego))). Your icon is very appropriate!

12:17 pm

I actually love snow. But not ice!

12:17 pm

We haven't had snow in CT all season, except for the freak Halloween storm which left the state without power for a week

12:17 pm

Not in town, but in the mountains. If you don't mountain hike in Seattle, people look at you funny.

12:17 pm

howdy soodles:)

12:17 pm

us too Bichon

12:18 pm

ty Soodle

12:18 pm

Hey Crossy, Bichon, Eva, Jan et al :-)

12:18 pm

I'm with you Eva. Ice has no redeeming qualities. My least favorite winter weather is freezing rain. Followed closely by 'wintry mix"

12:18 pm

had a bit of a scare last week heading into town. The road surface was just changing from snow to ice and I couldn't stop at the stop sign...luckily was no one coming on the crossroad-did a 270 skid, but avoided the ditches and then just headed home.

12:19 pm

Of course, now I'm in CA, where it is unseasonably cold, low 30's at night

12:19 pm

harrowing

12:19 pm

Twenty six days till pitichers and catchers report to spring training. That cheers me up.

12:19 pm

lol jan..."wintry mix" another word for frozen hell

12:19 pm

do you have ABS Eva?

12:19 pm

no

12:20 pm

Even with ABS, there's no defense against ice on the road. Or skating rink, as it becomes

12:20 pm

<---Loves her Yak Traxx

12:20 pm

but have been driving in the north for my whole life so my foot is conditioned not to slam on the brakes.

12:20 pm

<---Loves Jan for mentioning Spring Training

12:21 pm

I have to check out those crampons for hubby

12:21 pm

Ah, spring anything.

12:21 pm

Spring training is the happiest time of the year. It's a reminder of the promise of warmth, and whatever your team is, it's still tied for first place!

12:21 pm

hi soodle!

12:22 pm

Daffodils are blooming profusely here, after one of the mildest winters on record. All the critters are coming out of hibernation.... Its a funny old world!

12:23 pm

if I start thinking of spring now I'll have a breakdown in March when I realize it is still way far away. I just try to hibernate

12:23 pm

Hope the flowers and critters aren't being suckered into coming out too early.

12:23 pm

I feel so much more secure with ABS, but I've never been driving really fast and have to stop quickly. Usually with ice, I crawl along

12:23 pm

Thats the big worry, Jan. :-(

12:23 pm

Still way far away? Spring starts March 21st.

12:23 pm

But sugaring will start for Vermont in the next few weeks. And when sugaring starts, snow melt cannot be all that far away.

12:24 pm

Ah.... Ireland

12:24 pm

I remember as a child drinking the ice cold sap out of buckets on the way to school. So naughty...

12:25 pm

Nowadays I guess you can't do that. The sap is collected by tube, away from the naughty reach of children.

12:25 pm

sugaring in a few weeks? Where? but on the other hand, these days anything is possible, because the temp is fluctuating so wildly. Was minus 17 the other morning, now is in the 20's.

12:26 pm

need a break bbl.

12:27 pm

I think sugaring starts in mid February, or at least that's my recollection from childhood. Once it gets above freezing during the day but below freezing at night is ideal. Once it gets into the forties, the sap has flavors in it that aren't ideal for syrup, so sigaring has to stop.

12:28 pm

Since I don't sugar I can't swear to it and you may be right, but I think my neighbors don't usually start until March, but I saw a headline the other days about some people beginning early this year. Did you grow up around here jan?

12:29 pm

I lived in a lot of places in New England, including rural Western Massachusetts (Shelburne Falls, Colrain, and Williamstown) and Brattleboro in Vermont.

12:29 pm

hey all! jan, we've really gotten hit in the south sound -- more than a foot since last night!

12:30 pm

A friend outside Olympia emailed me to say they have 15 inches. Has it stopped yet stidmama?

12:31 pm

no, still coming down in little icy flakes! but I just checked and they are predicting icy rain soon.

12:31 pm

I lived in Western MAss for 15 year-in W. Cummington, which is one of the hill towns between Northampton and Pittsfield. I worked in Greenfield, so drove through Shelburne Falls almost every morning. Was cCuskers market there when you were?

12:32 pm

I had an uncle that used to tap his maples. His rule of thumb was 35-25 (thirty five in the day, 25 at night) for the best sugar conditions.

12:33 pm

Don't remember Cuskers Market--I lived there in the late fifties and early sixties. I remember walking across the Bridge of Flowers and thinking it was the most beautiful place in the world, though.

12:33 pm

My brother still lives in Greenfield, near the junction of 5 and 10. That

12:33 pm

That's a joke nobody gets anymore

12:34 pm

the Bridge of Flowers was gorgeous. No, McCuskers opened in the 70's. You probably wouldn't recognize Shelburne now.

12:34 pm

Oh, Stidmama! I hope they are wrong--icy rain on top of snow is the worst!

12:34 pm

You're right, I'm sure it isn't the sleepy rural hamlet of my youth

12:35 pm

Well, if you have the snow underneath, it will crunch and you can still get some traction

12:35 pm

I think it's still pretty sleepy-for good and for bad, that part of the state has had a hard time economically. greenfield has so often been on the verge of a "rennaissance" and somehow it never quite happens.

12:37 pm

The last time I was there, there were a few pretty good semi-trendy restaurants in downtown Greenfield. But I was there to bury my mother, so I wasn't paying that much attention.

12:38 pm

sorry to her that jan. The outer world seems pretty unreal and irrelevant at those times

12:39 pm

How did you end up in Ireland?

12:39 pm

The saddest part for me was that for many years she and my dad lived away from New England and my mother often wished that they would move back. By the time she did, she was pretty far gone with ALzheimers and didn't know she'd gone 'home.

12:41 pm

my mother was also demented for some time before she died.

12:41 pm

Hard to lose a loved one twice, once to the disease and once eventually in death.

12:42 pm

I think it is Soodle who is Irish.

12:48 pm

I think I killed the chog. So sorry.

12:48 pm

I think I killed the chog. So sorry.

12:48 pm

Back to regularly scheduled Babble chat..

12:50 pm

I'm down to three (two 5's and a 6) an h, an r and an s. Should I break down and list? Keep plugging away? Plead for random clues?

12:51 pm

I finish without a list maybe three or four times a year. It's a strange thing to worry about, isn't it? And even if I do finish listlessly, I always benefit from clues dropped in the chat.

12:52 pm

I have 27 to go.

12:52 pm

do you have se6/18?

12:53 pm

Go m9f9l!

12:53 pm

I also have an si6/18

12:53 pm

I don't have any h6

12:53 pm

I have a se/6/18 and an si/6/18. So does that mean my extra s is likely a 5?

12:54 pm

I don't have all the s so I don't know!LOL

12:54 pm

Nor I on the h's.

12:54 pm

I figured if I had a 6 you didn't, it would at least narrow things down!

12:54 pm

I only have one r6

12:55 pm

since it has a 7, I figure you have it

12:55 pm

Me too on the r's. So I think we've positively established that the 6 could be any one of them

12:55 pm

yep!

12:55 pm

a lot of help I was

12:56 pm

LOL

12:56 pm

This is the situation that makes me think that I should list. It's true that somebody with fireworks could tell me which one to look for. But how is that really different than listing? And why should I care one way or the other. Sometimes I think Babble has made me silly.

12:57 pm

I agree.

12:57 pm

I mean I agree that getting it from someone is same as listing. not that you're silly.

12:58 pm

hmm I was sure I had both 8 last night.

12:58 pm

hmm I was sure I had both 8 last night.

12:59 pm

I think I agree that Babble has probably made me silly. But not in a bad way. ;-)

12:59 pm

yes. exactly!

12:59 pm

Could you tell me what the 8 are?

12:59 pm

Well I got another r/5, so the lone six is either an s or an h.

12:59 pm

There's an se and a ve

12:59 pm

wtg!

1:00 pm

ah yes. thanks

1:00 pm

And it's confirmed--it's an se. One that I thought I'd already entered. So now down to 1, an h/5

1:01 pm

oh I hate it when that happens

1:01 pm

I have 4 of those

1:02 pm

I think I sometimes mistype and think I've entered a word but due to the typo it doesn't enter. And if you see my chog entries you'll know my typing is highly erratic.

1:02 pm

I've got 6 h/5's but obviously I'm missing one.

1:03 pm

It's off the lower h, right?

1:03 pm

Yes, the middle one.

1:03 pm

hi! wow - got halfway and nbt really fast today....but I assume the wall looms ahead

1:03 pm

It won't take hanch no matter how often my monkeys insist on it.

1:04 pm

Nor hanta, the mouse-borne virus.

1:05 pm

Hanch I can forgive, since it isn't a word. But hanta's absence is annoying.

1:05 pm

The word's absence, that is, not the virus. Its absence is gratifying.

1:06 pm

I find it gratifying not to have hantavirus, and I'm not all that annoyed at the absence of the word.

1:07 pm

now the absence of the bewitched grandmother is more annoying to me

1:07 pm

You might be if you were down to a single word, a five letter h one.

1:07 pm

ouch

1:07 pm

hey all, had phone call.

1:08 pm

Welcome back stid1

1:08 pm

may I offer one? or are you not accepting help?

1:08 pm

I accept all offers of help, Harry.

1:09 pm

do you have the unit of frequency (also car rental co.)?

1:09 pm

oohh. i didn't have the egg crackihg one

1:09 pm

hi stid!

1:09 pm

oh!

1:09 pm

I didn't have that one, thanks Harry

1:10 pm

yw :)

1:10 pm

oh! what?

1:10 pm

Have those. I have the egg cracking sound, the legatees, the plural present place, the frequency unit, the employer, the present tense of what that person does.

1:10 pm

I thought for a sec that you were jan, and that you found your word :)

1:11 pm

oh!

1:11 pm

And now...the hair dye! And fireworks

1:11 pm

woohoo!

1:11 pm

yay!!

1:11 pm

guess I have all the h5 then.LOL

1:12 pm

i was missing the dye :) ty

1:12 pm

wish we could latin pl the dye

1:12 pm

So...anyone need any clues before I go out to shovel off the steps again with my trusty plastic dustpan?

1:12 pm

I'm missing a t off the far right. And 23 other words.

1:12 pm

wow jan.. that sounds like fun.....

1:13 pm

ooh did the snow shut down the city?

1:13 pm

I'm home from work today 'cause of snow in the Portland area..

1:14 pm

Oregon that is

1:14 pm

wow! we've had close to nothing here in ct

1:14 pm

The t's off the right t are ta/4 ta6 ta9 ta6. Let me know if you want additional clues

1:14 pm

my kids got so many snow days last winter, they're quite upset this year.

1:14 pm

Snow in any amounts other than trace shuts down Seattle.

1:14 pm

there's no a next to the right t!LOL

1:15 pm

Are you in Seattle?

1:15 pm

I'm on a snow day myself. My university shut down at 6 last night and won't open till tomorrow am at the earliest.

1:15 pm

ah.. you're a professor?

1:16 pm

oh doh. it says Seattle in your profile

1:16 pm

I grew up in Seattle, and snow was SO rare.

1:16 pm

Sorry... that's the other t. The right t is te/4 te6 tr4 tr5 tr5 tr6 tr5 tr6 tr5

1:17 pm

Yes, I teach at Seattle U.

1:17 pm

I grew up on Capitol Hill

1:17 pm

Afternoon all...I am stuck on the NA in the lower left corner. Can I get clue please?

1:18 pm

I have mary poppins plural

1:18 pm

got the t, thanks!

1:18 pm

but leave off the s

1:18 pm

(that's the s for savings!)

1:18 pm

make it singular

1:19 pm

ugh! Thank you.

1:19 pm

Indian bread?

1:19 pm

well.. only PRACTICALLY perfect in every way after all.

1:19 pm

Slang for 'of course'?

1:19 pm

thanks for the indian bread, hadn't seen that yet!

1:19 pm

38 to go, and the flow has slowed to a trickle

1:20 pm

21 he4

1:20 pm

in5 pls

1:20 pm

hi peri

1:20 pm

hi

1:20 pm

hey peri

1:20 pm

More frigid, and stupid.

1:20 pm

ty

1:20 pm

I have 2. silly and middle

1:20 pm

Those are clues, not commentary

1:20 pm

down to 35 here. I am glad (once again) that lickety's clues are up

1:21 pm

and now I have 3.LOL

1:21 pm

ty for the frigid :)

1:21 pm

bbl for a second look.

1:21 pm

ty m9

1:21 pm

hi stiddy

1:21 pm

yw

1:21 pm

Could easily be commentary, what with all the weather talk in the chat

1:22 pm

oh.. no flakes coming down at the moment21

1:22 pm

oh! I found the ca 9!

1:22 pm

I think of that pic from a few years ago of the Seattle bus hanging over the freeway!

1:22 pm

good for you stid

1:22 pm

wtg stid!

1:22 pm

it's icy rain now, little misty icy rain... *sigh* I was hoping to get to afternoon before it started.

1:23 pm

firstre7 pls

1:23 pm

oh ugh...ice.

1:23 pm

ta just like the ca 9

1:23 pm

first re7 that is pls

1:23 pm

thanks rbud! got it!

1:23 pm

I only have one. and that's the job one

1:23 pm

but I just got another

1:24 pm

go m go!

1:24 pm

and that's the civil war player one

1:24 pm

not sure but think that is the 2nd

1:24 pm

yup.. cause my new one comes before

1:24 pm

civil war player?

1:24 pm

re + en5

1:24 pm

yeah.. you know.. they do re7ments of the battles!

1:25 pm

ah, yes, ty

1:25 pm

how many re7's are there?

1:25 pm

yw

1:25 pm

2

1:26 pm

19 left!

1:26 pm

oh, good, then

1:26 pm

thanks

1:27 pm

Elina just made herself some coconut snow icecream

1:27 pm

ca 6/24 plz

1:28 pm

ca + rearrangement of child who gets the money

1:28 pm

and thanks for that one!

1:28 pm

help with the re 7 "jobs" clue?

1:29 pm

and a plural on that ca

1:29 pm

to give the job stid

1:29 pm

opposite of what Trump says!

1:29 pm

oh! got it :-D

1:30 pm

down to 23 now.

1:30 pm

sorry dont get that.. brain freeze today

1:31 pm

oh wow.. this is PERFECT snow icecream snow!

1:31 pm

ca + he4 but switch the vowels

1:31 pm

oops just got it ty!

1:33 pm

yw

1:33 pm

14 to go

1:34 pm

go m go!

1:36 pm

totally stuck

1:36 pm

ok.. not totally. 13

1:36 pm

I am stuck at 22.

1:37 pm

And going to go do some "work" before I freeze in place. back later (((hugs))) *poof*

1:41 pm

12

2:04 pm

@ stidmamahaha

2:04 pm

43 woooooo

2:06 pm

first re 7/32 plz

2:09 pm

nm just got it !

2:31 pm

30

2:31 pm

10

2:32 pm

28 :)

2:33 pm

go go Harry!

2:34 pm

26 now...i don't know if I can squeeze any more out of this grid w/o a list

2:35 pm

of course you can - if you have the time - I'm down to 9

2:36 pm

it's not easy!

2:36 pm

I'll admit that instead of monkeying I'm strategically using morewords now

2:36 pm

yeah, if I have the time I can try to monkey every permutation of letters :) but i have to help with homework in 20 minutes

2:36 pm

what kind of homework?

2:37 pm

ooh just got another!

2:37 pm

whoo hoo!

2:37 pm

do you have the rent-a-car company and its buddy ne5

2:37 pm

m9 - got kids coming home from 5th 2nd and K. the K has some silly worksheet sometimes, the 2nd gets a bit of hw, and the 5th gets mountains of stupidity

2:38 pm

didn't have the ne, lynx , ty

2:38 pm

don't even get me STARTED on lameness of hw for younger children!LOL (probably one of main reasons I homeschool?)

2:38 pm

No wonder so many Americans don't like to read!

2:39 pm

I always thought I'd homeschool....until I actually had kids.

2:39 pm

my kids love to read.

2:39 pm

were they "early" readers?

2:40 pm

got another! 23!

2:40 pm

not especially, m9. 4 - 5 yo

2:40 pm

7 - just got the very easy ve6/7

2:40 pm

My second daughter would have been considered a 'late' reader. And that would have been hard for her at school.

2:40 pm

That's early Harry

2:41 pm

and two more!

2:41 pm

Go go go!

2:41 pm

gogo lynx! I had those already :)

2:41 pm

But since she was able to come at it at her own pace when she was ready, it was no big deal. She read at 8

2:41 pm

good onya m9 for homeschooling

2:42 pm

my kids won't sit still and listen to me for that long.

2:42 pm

oh.. it's not about them listening to me. It's about me listening to them!LOL

2:43 pm

and how long do you think it takes?LOL

2:43 pm

do you do set curricula or just let them learn at their own pace?

2:45 pm

Coudl I have a clue for the IN 6/21 (after the measurement) please?

2:46 pm

ty for the clue jindigo! got it!

2:46 pm

nobody in6 but us rabbits!

2:46 pm

in & **** is my clue for that

2:47 pm

yw Harry

2:47 pm

I miss the easiest ones sometimes - thank you lynxxx

2:48 pm

sorry, was switching puters.

2:48 pm

well, I'll bbl....20 left, but 4 of them are 8s and 9s.

2:48 pm

no curricula

2:48 pm

7 left

2:49 pm

bye for now Harry

2:49 pm

6

2:49 pm

NA 5/14 (after the bread)

2:50 pm

more food jin. chips and cheese

2:50 pm

corn chips

2:50 pm

thanks again

2:52 pm

6

2:53 pm

5

2:54 pm

4 - just got that elusive sea worm ne6

2:55 pm

3

2:55 pm

lynxxx - can you clue that sea worm for me please?

2:57 pm

ne & **** and shine but move the e around

2:57 pm

thank you!

2:59 pm

2...don't know why I always miss the hair (or skin) dye

3:00 pm

1

3:00 pm

so do I lynxxx...so do I

3:00 pm

hi Sea

3:01 pm

Hi lynxxx how are you?

3:02 pm

really well...all is good with you and yours?

3:03 pm

5

3:03 pm

still

3:03 pm

All is well this year so far...New baby due Feb. 21st...looking forward to that

3:04 pm

wow! how fantastic..

3:04 pm

my daughter that is...not me! lol

3:05 pm

congrats Sea! My daughter is due any time now

last one need a clue for se6/18 the first one and thanks

3:05 pm

I'd realised that - but a gran dchild is even better

3:06 pm

Oh yes it is....I have a 3 year old granddaughter and she is so much fun

3:06 pm

the SE 4/4 before it plus not out but **

3:06 pm

se6.18 calm , not hassled

thanks just got it fireworks

3:08 pm

Wow, am watching Dr. Phil...so weird...a grown man acts like a baby, sleeps in a crib, wears diapers, etc. girlfriend takes care of him. ???

3:08 pm

Congrats Steve!

3:08 pm

stg

3:08 pm

oops. wtg!

3:08 pm

weird girlfriend

3:08 pm

that's weird.

3:09 pm

the huge onesies are weird too lol

3:10 pm

does she nurse him?? :-O

3:11 pm

4

3:12 pm

don't know but she changes his diapers...how weird is that? she feeds him too, they have pictures of him in a crib, a high chair, these are adult sized....this is crazy

3:12 pm

3

3:12 pm

I have seen that. Woman nursed her 2 yr old and her husband when he came home from work.........

3:12 pm

eewww

3:13 pm

2.

3:13 pm

some one has a warp in their hockey puck.

3:13 pm

sure you're not thinking of the movie "O Lucky Man"? LOL

3:14 pm

omg...he takes a pacifier to work with him and he wears a diaper 24/7

3:14 pm

what's his job?

3:14 pm

have they said what is the point of all that?

3:15 pm

not sure....he has a $4000 wardrobe of baby clothes...not yet snags

3:15 pm

please listen..........would like to know..... why?? not sure why I want to know.

3:16 pm

1

3:17 pm

fw

3:17 pm

Congrats!!

3:17 pm

wtg 9

3:17 pm

me too!

3:17 pm

nice job lynn

3:17 pm

He says he wants to become a full time baby...Dr. Phil calls it infantilism ...girlfriend is coming on next

3:18 pm

Congrats to finishers

3:18 pm

I listed for the last 5. Glad I did.. would never have monkeyed that se7/32

3:18 pm

I only have 49 left to go

3:19 pm

there is something not quite right with those 2, imo.

3:19 pm

LOL.. ya think?

3:19 pm

well I better get the day going....

3:19 pm

uhhh, yeah!

3:19 pm

:) well, I would have put it much much stronger, but there might be some that would be offended

3:19 pm

I must get going too - byeee

3:20 pm

bye

3:20 pm

bye lynxxx

3:20 pm

I have 63, but I'm to busy reading the chat. Never watch Dr Phil but guess I will today

3:20 pm

lol bekki

3:20 pm

go for it bekki

3:21 pm

Hi All. clue for the ta 6, 21 pls

3:21 pm

hello hego.l...........

3:22 pm

hi Snags

3:22 pm

don't have that one hego

3:23 pm

ty

3:23 pm

Good Afternoon All

3:23 pm

hi Westie

3:24 pm

hi hego

3:24 pm

ta plus double consonant and most of the **e cube that makes your drinks cold

3:25 pm

ty ty

3:25 pm

thanks from me too Kaz

3:25 pm

dang! i new it would be some thing easy. ty again

3:26 pm

back to find my last 36

3:26 pm

yw :)

3:28 pm

thats exactly how many i have left too west!

3:29 pm

just got my last z word..French for monkey food? lol

3:31 pm

lol

3:33 pm

hi everyone

3:35 pm

hello annie

3:37 pm

does anyone have an6?

3:38 pm

no an 6 cos

3:38 pm

hello cos sorry no

3:38 pm

but I'll help you look

3:38 pm

i meant ac6 sorry

3:39 pm

and hello!

3:39 pm

Hurts more Cos

3:39 pm

ac6---hurts more and hi

3:39 pm

when you have the flu your body is ac**** than when you dont have it

3:39 pm

thanks!

3:39 pm

snap, molly

3:40 pm

Clues flutter about Cos's head like manna from Heaven

3:40 pm

that was yesterday

3:41 pm

hi Molly

3:42 pm

can I get a clue for te6 please

3:43 pm

a person who rents an apartment

3:43 pm

If you have a renter, he is your te6

3:43 pm

thanks molly, whack me with a flounder

3:44 pm

ty cos and Molly

3:44 pm

The zig zaggy ones are hard to see

3:44 pm

thanks cosdem too

3:44 pm

Especially when they go right to left, and we read left to right.

3:45 pm

helps to be Israeli

3:46 pm

Or attend Hebrew school when young so used to reading from right to lef

3:46 pm

*left

3:46 pm

ci5/16 please? :)

3:47 pm

ci is something that is quite easy

3:47 pm

thanks!

3:48 pm

<--Hopelessly Anglo

3:48 pm

I have ve8/55. May I have the stats for the other 8 please?

3:49 pm

Molly, you can never be hopeless

3:49 pm

ve 8/55

3:49 pm

two of them?

3:49 pm

se 8

3:50 pm

no the other 8 is se 8/40

3:50 pm

thanks cos

3:51 pm

Just joking Annie, I'm like the ant with the rubber tree plant. : )

3:53 pm

I got the se8..it was a song we sang in chorus

3:53 pm

I have to start thinking about dinner...bye dear babblers

3:54 pm

Spanish chorus?

3:54 pm

bye annie take care

3:54 pm

Oh Italian.

3:55 pm

no molly our director always came up with strange songs haven't heard it before or since

3:55 pm

something about 'come to my window'

3:56 pm

ri5/12?

3:56 pm

(In a Charlie Brown "I got a rock" voice) My chorus director was a nun.

3:56 pm

today my mother was supposed to be released from the nursing home after 19 months..not happening because the state RN still has to give approval

3:56 pm

ri5/12 is a poison gas

3:57 pm

in the meantime my brother quit his job so he can be home to take care of her

3:57 pm

Wow West, you sure have had troubles getting Mom sprung.

3:57 pm

thanks

3:57 pm

sure do..luckily she's patient

3:58 pm

may be a blessing in disguise it's bitterly cold and windy today

3:58 pm

Well I hope you don't have to wait too much longer.

3:58 pm

thanks Molly..and I hope she doesn't want to go right back

3:59 pm

going to look up poison gas

4:00 pm

white/brown grain minus last vowel + not out

4:00 pm

oh that thanks

4:03 pm

the first tr6 please?

4:04 pm

fireworks

4:04 pm

Yay cos !!

4:25 pm

YAY, cos!!! WTG!!! (if you're still around). I'm having trouble with either my server or just the internet. I had a bunch of words here earlier (about 20-25), now they are all gone after several crashes on browsers today. Is this related to my server; or the whole SOPA/PIPA thing? (Maybe I should ask if anyone else is having problems too?)

4:26 pm

hi nef not having problems here just trying to find words that don't exist

4:27 pm

LOL! Well, I have that problem too! :-) I've been trying to play Words wtih Friends also and that hasn't been the least bit stable today either for me

4:30 pm

do you play that on your phone?

4:31 pm

nope; I'm too old-fashioned for one of those fancy ones; I think my phone is 5 years old and "it ain't broke; so why fix it?" (as they used to say)

4:32 pm

I agree. My husband likes to upgrade every 5 minutes so I get his hand-me-downs.

4:33 pm

I must admit I do like the iPhone even though I didn't want it

4:33 pm

my daughter gets her friends hand-me-down phones; and they are always dropping calls.

4:34 pm

that's probably the server..lots of people have trouble with AT&T

4:34 pm

<--Sits in the old phone section with Nef

4:35 pm

I did order a little android iPad thing the other day. I can't remember what it is (haven't received it yet); but am looking forward to playing with that

4:35 pm

we have T Mobile

4:36 pm

if I had my way we'd still have one phone with a dial

4:36 pm

my computer server is Comcast (or is it X-finity now?) and they have been less than helpful today

4:36 pm

but I do like this new fangled thing called the internet

4:37 pm

Nef how is your daughter making out in her own place?

4:37 pm

yeah, me too; just not today when it isn't working well for me

4:38 pm

she's doing well from what I know. I'm giving her space; so if she doesn't call, I figure that's a good thing

4:40 pm

that's probably best what are you doing with the room she fixed up with all the wiring for the TV?

4:40 pm

had fixed I should say

4:41 pm

I'm going to make popcorn for my hard working husband..bbs

4:42 pm

I haven't dealt with it yet. Too many other things to worry about first right now.

4:48 pm

<--Still owns a phone with a dial, that rings!

4:49 pm

we don't have a dial phone, but I have 3 of the older push button corded phones that we do use.

4:51 pm

I use my rotary when the power goes out. The cordless phone we use with the land line depends on electricity. The rotary plugs right into the phone line.

4:52 pm

DH wanders off with the cordless and then we both look at each other and wonder where the phone is. The wall phone and the phones in the bedrooms come in handy then

4:52 pm

Often when our power goes out it's because of a bad storm and the cell towers are not working.

4:52 pm

(we have a total of 3 cordless phones; so why they can all disappear, I don't know

4:54 pm

3 corded and 3 cordless phones; I never thought about that before. :-) And I have my cell phone; but DH can't remember how to use one so he doesn't have one. I tried to get him to use just the speed dial and he just can't get it

4:56 pm

BBS, I need to go switch the loads of laundry around

5:12 pm

hi all

5:16 pm

(((Lilliann))

5:16 pm

((molly)) i was about to leave as i didn't think anyone like me :(

5:17 pm

howdy y'all

5:17 pm

how are you hin?

5:17 pm

Who wouldn't like you Lilliann? Hi Kevin.

5:18 pm

hi yad

5:18 pm

mmm, on here could be a few

5:18 pm

Doing well Lilliann. Counting down the days until Spring. How are you?

5:19 pm

61 days!!!!

5:20 pm

good thanks. i finished the grid this morning and got bored so i came on here to chat with friends and see if anyone needed help not that i'm a good cluer!! lol i can't wait for spring either

5:20 pm

my god really?

5:21 pm

Yes, milder days are close at hand. Hooray!

5:21 pm

i can't believe how fast christmas and new year has just flown by!!

5:21 pm

well, we are getting colder apparently

5:22 pm

The holidays went by pretty fast for me this year too. I think that is because I just decided to drop the stress and keep things simple.

5:25 pm

good for you,there's no point in getting stressed and worrying about things unless you really need to

5:26 pm

One of my favorite quotes lately is "Worry is a misuse of your imagination"

5:27 pm

i've learnt that you can't control destiny. whatever is going to happen will, so why get hung up and stressed about it. live one day at a time and enjoy each day...not always easy...but do what you can

5:28 pm

i love that quote molly, i'll have to write it down so i don't forget it

5:28 pm

I agree Lilliann. It's the whole "simplicity" thing.

5:31 pm

exactly...some people worry about every little thing...i was married to a man that worried about everything and couldn't believe that i wasn't the same!! well, i'm not bothered if it is going to rain, because there was nothing i could do about it!1

5:32 pm

life is what you make it! enjoy it why you can and have fun

5:32 pm

Hey Lilliann & Molls :-)

5:33 pm

One thing I have decided over the past few years is that I'm done with people who are all about drama. What a drain they are on your spirit.

5:33 pm

hi soodle, how are you? long time no see :)

5:33 pm

I was just thinking the very same thing, Lillann. I am good! And you?

5:34 pm

Hi Soodle.

5:34 pm

good thanks hin, glad to be back amongst friends and test my brain, especially today!!! lol

5:34 pm

And negative people, Molly. I avoid negative people like the plague. I reckon negativity is contagious!!

5:35 pm

Its lovely to see both of you!

5:36 pm

i agree molly, i had nearly 9 years of it. i just don't understand the point in worrying...if it's going to happen it will!! the more you worry the more you're going to get stressed and ill

5:37 pm

and you soodle

5:38 pm

And...there is a theory...that I believe in...that says you attract what you think about. So if you fill your mind with what you are "afraid will happen" those things will find you, because they think you are trying to "attract" them.

5:39 pm

and molly....i am so afraid of money

5:39 pm

So, Ms Molly, could your theory explain how I still havent won the lottery??? I constantly think about what I am going to do when I win it, all in vain to date....

5:39 pm

that's like dreams!

5:40 pm

<----- said Mizz Anti-Negativity!!!

5:40 pm

so you're afraid of winning the lottery ren??

5:41 pm

we have a saying in the make-up department - "this is make-up" leave the drama outside"

5:41 pm

I'm also a bit worried about that lone N in the bottom left hand corner. Could anybody ease my worries in that regard?

5:41 pm

(I'm looking for a clue....)

5:41 pm

tee hee lil...i have never played the lottery

5:42 pm

What you call a goat or a child caretaker

5:42 pm

i gathered that soodle..i'm looking now :)

5:42 pm

molly beat me to it

5:43 pm

i wish i'd never started ren. very rarely win a tenner

5:43 pm

Soodle, I know what you mean. I have every "thought of intention" about what I wish for. So far I have not manifested those things. But I will keep on trying.

5:43 pm

And that Positively deserves a fish-slap. Thanks ladies :-)

5:44 pm

wet fish slap on it's way soodle :)

5:44 pm

*Thinks about visiting Soodle Abbey when Soodle becomes the richest woman in Ireland*

5:45 pm

Soodle Manor...Soodle Estate...Soodle Acres...

5:46 pm

molly, i actually understand andagree with what you said earlier

5:46 pm

There will be a welcome on the (gold-plated) mat for my friend Molly!

5:46 pm

i love your saying ren

5:46 pm

It's called The Law Of Attraction, Lilliann and I am still trying to master it completely.

5:47 pm

Hiya Ren, how are you doing today?

5:48 pm

thanks lil - haven't seen you in a long time - my fault i'm sure - i haven't been around the chog

5:48 pm

well, then we should all think about good things and hopefully they will all happen!!

5:48 pm

doing good molly

5:49 pm

no ren, i've not been here for months, only started again a few days ago

5:49 pm

And I am Molly's apprentice, Lilliane. Hello Renfield, I don't think I ever came across you before.

5:49 pm

well - we be on the same page then lil

5:49 pm

Hi again. I'm always thinking about good stuff happening; it does; but sometimes it doesn't look or feel like it's the good stuff at times

5:50 pm

Hiya Nef, and you are absolutely right. (Humming Unanswered Prayers....)

5:50 pm

hey soodle - hey nef

5:51 pm

as far as winning the lottery; I guess I'd have to buy a ticket first! ;-)

5:51 pm

good grief - 2 9's!!!!

5:51 pm

arrrr -- good to see ye, ren

5:51 pm

no place for me on the gold plated mat then soodle? :(

5:51 pm

hi all

5:52 pm

hi nef

5:52 pm

hi jilli

5:52 pm

it's good to see you rennie. And it's great to see you jilli! How are you doing?

5:52 pm

hey jilli -

5:52 pm

Lilliann...... its going to be an uber-mat. Room for all!! :-)

5:52 pm

yay -- got the ca9!

5:52 pm

Hello Jilli :-)

5:53 pm

ooh, me too, jilli, thanks for letting me know it was there!

5:53 pm

Doing ok, nef -- snowed in today but coping just fine with no Home Support

5:53 pm

And not to skip anyone; Hi to lil, soodle, and Molly again too! :-)

5:53 pm

and hi all!

5:53 pm

hey u2

5:54 pm

Hi sue! I just friended you on FB yesterday (in case you were wondering who I was

5:54 pm

hi sue

5:54 pm

oh, ok, nef :-)

5:54 pm

that's good then soodle :)

5:54 pm

hi sue

5:54 pm

no home support?

5:54 pm

you should look at all my pictures from Israel, then!

5:54 pm

*Blesses the room and sends sparkly, LET GOOD THINGS HAPPEN thoughts in everyone's direction*

5:54 pm

yay jilli!

5:55 pm

Are you up and about on your own; or do you get some house work help?

5:55 pm

I will, sue.

5:55 pm

nef, I'm still in the wheelchair

5:55 pm

i'm going googly eyed now with the chat as it'sgoing too fast!! *)

5:56 pm

My local pub has a savings/gambling club. Everybody (about 120 people) puts in €20 per week. €15 is saved, and the remaining fiver is gambled on horses or lottery. Approx €2,500 was spent on the lottery in 2011, and we won €72.00.

5:56 pm

that's what I expected, jilli. And that's why I was surprised you don't have home support. Do you have a pretty accessible home?

5:56 pm

sounds about right, soodle. not great odds on the lottery.

5:57 pm

soodle -- I didn't realise Ireland was using euros -- I guess that's just the South?

5:57 pm

(phone call, BRB)

5:58 pm

Yes Jilli, we use euros. 40 miles across the border they use sterling. Its daft!

5:58 pm

Nef, I usually have Home Support but today we're snowed in so they couldn't get here safely. And yes, my house is all on one floor.

5:58 pm

Are you in much pain, Jilli?

5:58 pm

mmm, not so good then soodle:( but i can't win nowt either! :(

5:59 pm

We fared a whole lot better on the horses ;-). Loads of stud farms round here, and we get tips straight from the proverbial horses mouths!!

5:59 pm

jilli, i've missed so much not being here, so why are you in a wheelchair at the moment?

6:00 pm

you'll have to give me some then soodle and i'll pass them on to my fil :)

6:00 pm

No pain really, soodle -- just not allowed to put any weight on that foot for 6 weeks -- which is almost up. Then I don't know what I'll be allowed to do. I see the surgeon on Feb 2 for x-rays. Meanwhile I am doing regular physio exercises to get mobility back in the foot and leg.

6:01 pm

Was it your talus you broke?

6:01 pm

lil, I broke my ankle rather badly on Dec 9 -- needed surgery and a hospital stay.

6:02 pm

Broke tibia and fibula, dislocated the foot and did some ligament damage. Skin is like tissue paper so there's still some healing of it to do.

6:04 pm

aww, i'm sorry to hear that jilli and wish you a really speedy recovery.x in the meantime we can have wheelchair races until you walk again which will happen

Ouch. that's awful.

6:04 pm

Two screws and a pin are holding it all together now. Bones are osteoporotic so the surgeon said it was like putting screws into an egg.

6:04 pm

Wow, Jilli, that was serious damage. Sending healing thoughts and prayers.

6:04 pm

Hi jilli and soodle. Just starting. Snowy wonderland here. 14 inches of the white fluff. Took my crosscountry skies out and found on the powder it was like submarine skies.

6:05 pm

Thanks, guys. I'm getting better at wheeling but my house has rather thick carpeting which slows me down, lil -- so you win the race, I'm sure.

6:05 pm

sorry jilli, you've been through the mill, but i know you will get through it and sending big hugs

6:05 pm

Hello ((((Gmere)))). You are painting a lovely picture. :-)

6:05 pm

Wow, gmere! I was wondering about your snow -- we didn't get nearly so much.

screws into an egg? Thanks, doc.

6:07 pm

<---Imagining Jilli & Lil like the car-racing scene in 'Grease'. Can I be the starting lady, please?

6:07 pm

gosh jilli, i knew you were injured - i did not know tho how badly - praying you mend

6:07 pm

Soodle -- I love your icon!

6:07 pm

hi gmere

6:07 pm

Yup Jilli... the treasure at the end of the rainbow!

6:08 pm

and kap

6:08 pm

I have a lot of respect for those who are permanently wheelchair bound.

6:09 pm

We will have to let them fight it out to decide who is "Greased Lightning".

6:09 pm

Soodle, Patrick Taylor would agree with you, but only in Ireland. He says the Guinness over here isn't anything like the same.

6:09 pm

yes you can start the race soodle's but you're nowt like her...she was rough!!

6:09 pm

I broke my ankle in 1978 (obviously before I was born,cos I'm not THAT old), and it was a long slow process...

6:09 pm

You know he named O'Reilly's dog Arthur Guinness, don't you?

6:10 pm

i'll let jilli be grease lightning as everyhting she has had to go through lately she deserves to do well when she comes out the other end.x

6:10 pm

My ankle is not the boss of me. I will make it behave.

6:10 pm

Actually Soodle and Rizzo share some traits. : P

6:10 pm

I heard that, Jilli. And when Mr Obama was here in May, he had a pint, and accused us of keeping the best stuff for ourselves.

6:11 pm

Aww, lil -- you deserve the prize for niceness.

6:11 pm

Point of order, Molly.... Rizzo didn't start the race. It was Kinickie's (sp?) floozie!

6:11 pm

You mean Mr. O'Bama, don't you, soodle?

6:12 pm

Oops, sorry. I forgot the apostrophe. Mae culpa.

6:12 pm

I'm jealous of the Obama's. They got Colm Di Rìs pottery when they were in Ireland.

6:13 pm

i meant it jilli :)

6:13 pm

Thanks, lil, but I'm usre you've been through more as have many oothers.

6:13 pm

Begging your Soodle's pardon. I am not a Grease aficionado.

6:14 pm

Oops -- phone.

6:15 pm

Ah Grease! Ah, the summer of 1977.... (again, long before I was born), but the regression therapy helps.... LOL

6:16 pm

I ordained Michelle O'bama (now known as Michelle Mary Margaret O'bama) an honorary Irish woman when she arranged for the White House fountain to be dyed green for St. Patrick's Day. That was too cool.

6:16 pm

after being in a wheelchair for years, i know how you feel jilli.one day you can walk and the next you can't, and the not knowing is the worst because you want to get back to how you were before, but as i have learnt i can still enjoy my life doing different things(wheelies in wheelchair):) and still spending time with my family

6:17 pm

I LOVT GREASE

6:17 pm

I LOVT GREASE

6:17 pm

i call her moochell

6:18 pm

oops...lol i meant to say i love grease and rizzoli was my favourite!

6:20 pm

what happened to you, lil?

6:20 pm

Yay Lilli, for loving Grease, loving Rizzo and your post at 6.16!!

6:22 pm

had treatment for menieres disease which killed off my balance onone side on purpose because my consultant didn't realize/know that i had menieres in both ears and balance went on that too(menieres is fluid build up in inner ear...dizzy spells, tinnitus)

6:23 pm

Oh dear, lil -- how frustrating!

6:23 pm

thanks soodle :) rizzo was the best in the film tho and i loved the music...sad i know, plus i still have the album:)

6:23 pm

sorry, guys. I'm having problems with the internet today. Comcast has been little to no help. I'm trying the laptop now; we shall see ow long this works.

6:24 pm

hi all

6:24 pm

hi jmc

6:24 pm

hope we don't lose you nef

6:24 pm

This is my grumble about Babble. You log in to innocently find a couple of words in a grid, then you get sucked into conversations with intelligent, lovely, real human beings. Then before you know it, its 3 hours past your bed-time. Sheesh.

6:25 pm

too true soodle

6:26 pm

Aw, soodle; you just need to log in earlier (or go to bed later)

6:26 pm

mi madre had meniers syndrome - the doc controlled it w/ valium - valium is also used in the space pills to keep the astronauts from "sea sick" syndrom while in space

6:27 pm

interesting -- my hubby had meniers syndrome but they had nothing to offer him

6:27 pm

sorry -- phone again

6:27 pm

it's one of those things jilli, i had the treatment because my daughter was a year old and i was beginning to fall over and was frightened of hurting her. when i lost my balance a few days later i was told i must have had an allergic reaction to the treatment i'd had to kill of my balance in one ear. it's lfe, me, hubby and bairn have learnt to live with it!hard for my daughter sometimes as she is now my main carer when hubby is away

6:28 pm

Lol Nef. I will bid you all a very good night.Love and hugs to all, and thanks for the wonderful company. to all who are suffering - from whatever - special hugs and good wishes. Nite all. XX

6:29 pm

did he not have tablets to start with jmc?

6:29 pm

bye soodle!

6:29 pm

i was on serc

6:29 pm

niters, soodle! (Just back from being bumped again)

6:29 pm

no nothing--they said there was no cure all he could do is suffer

6:29 pm

nite soodle, lovely to catch up with you, sleep well, tc

6:29 pm

whoa jmc - this was in the 70's - mi madre had excellent docs

6:30 pm

but this was nearly 20 years ago

6:30 pm

Oh lil, what a disaster! Thinking you're going to get a cure and getting a disability instead.

6:30 pm

apparently ren

6:30 pm

Gnight, soodle -- so glad to see you and have a chat.

6:31 pm

niters soodle

6:31 pm

this is going back 11 years ago jmc, but i moved counties and i think if i'd stayed in the one i was before i wouldn't have had the same treatment from my other consultant

6:32 pm

well hubby died in 1993 so looks like they are getting worse since 1970

6:36 pm

Rennie -- you're in the grid ;-)

6:36 pm

woot got both 9s on my own

6:37 pm

it was difficult to come to terms at the time jilli as i worked in the care field and loved my job with people with special needs and then not being able to do things that i always wanted to do when i had a child was hard and i felt really guilty to agreeing to the treatment, especially now that my daughter is older and i've missed out on so much, physically with her...but we get on with it and all love eachother

6:37 pm

wd LA!

6:38 pm

yay leslie

6:38 pm

so sorry jmc - some docs are dedicated - mi madre's oncologist kept her alive from 1991 to 2006 - she also had poly cythemia vera - which is the over production of red blood cells -

6:39 pm

lil, you certainly shouldn't feel guilty -- you did nothing wrong!

6:40 pm

lil you made the best decision you could make with the information you had

6:40 pm

i'm so sorry about your husband jmc and what he went through and how he got treated

6:40 pm

wtg leslie

6:40 pm

well it is water long under the bridge. . . .but ty

6:41 pm

ah, just got the ta9 -- similar to the other 9

6:42 pm

how about the 2 8 letter words?

6:43 pm

I haven't got either of the 8 letter words

6:43 pm

hang on, just looking :)

6:44 pm

se8 starts like what you would do to a lover, with music, but the last two letters are different

6:45 pm

the ve8 sounds like the disease i have...if you scroll down you will see it

6:45 pm

ty molly

6:45 pm

minus the m

6:45 pm

actually, don't listen to that...sorry

6:46 pm

ve8 ends like the 9's and starts with ***ding machine, that dispenses snacks

6:46 pm

it sounds a bit like a sexually transmitted disease

6:47 pm

that's alot better molly :)

6:47 pm

i think i'll give up cluing :(

6:47 pm

ah, got it -- thanks molly and lil

6:47 pm

nbs at last!

6:47 pm

i was no help but thanks jilli :)

6:48 pm

lil, you gave us the first 3 letters anyway, lol!

6:49 pm

aye...better than nowt!! lol

6:49 pm

(although I thought the disease was Meuniere's)

6:50 pm

no, mine is menieres with an accent on the second e as it is french

6:51 pm

I'll have to google it

6:51 pm

, minus the 3rde

6:51 pm

actually, no it has 3 e's

6:51 pm

Oh right, the woman who pops wheelies in her chair is going to give up. No chance. : )

6:53 pm

Just googled and it has 2 accents, comme ça -- ménière's

6:55 pm

weird to have Wikipedia blacked out!

6:55 pm

evening all

6:55 pm

hi dan!

6:56 pm

I think the site blackout in opposition to the piracy law is dumb and ineffective.

6:56 pm

aye, you're right jilli, i should know really as i've seent he word enough!!

6:56 pm

hi dan

6:56 pm

I'm being bumped every time I turn around here; I give up. Happy Babbling, Everyone!

6:57 pm

and my mam and dad live in france! i should have learnt some french..lol

6:57 pm

Oh, too bad, nef -- I always enjoy seeing you here

6:58 pm

you're right molly, i'm too bloody minded to give up :)

6:58 pm

And that's why we love you Lilliann. : )

6:58 pm

ah nef, don't give up!

7:00 pm

aww, thanks hin. your a sweetie :) i enjoyed my cupcake last nite too :)

7:00 pm

almost Happy Hour -- off to get some vodka and turn on the news -- back in a bit...

7:01 pm

ok jilli, enjoy your vodka .see you in a bit

7:02 pm

any clues needed?

7:09 pm

the happiest hour of the day...

7:09 pm

hi kje

7:10 pm

hi! how are you?

7:10 pm

love your icon

7:11 pm

fine thanks..you?

7:11 pm

thanks

7:11 pm

doing well

7:11 pm

in my jammies under down with a diet coke...

7:12 pm

sounds good

7:12 pm

resting is good!

7:12 pm

i should really be in my jammies in bed and asleep but i'm wide awake

7:13 pm

what time is it there?

7:13 pm

i didn'r sleepwell last night either

7:13 pm

gone 1am

7:13 pm

wow

7:13 pm

something bugging you?

7:14 pm

later lil

7:15 pm

i think i'm getting over jet lag from jamaica last week plus it takes alot of of me when we travel and i usually get bad after hols and end up sleeping alot

7:15 pm

byr ren, tc hin, really nice seeing you again.x

7:15 pm

oh yes.... you are on jamaica time.... almost the same as my time

7:17 pm

aye but that was a week tuesday, should i not be over that yet? saying that, hubby has been the same...i think because we are getting old!! lol

7:17 pm

the bairn's been fine

7:18 pm

yep, things get tougher as we age.... I use to be able to fly to europe and not lag at all! now it takes me about 5 days

7:18 pm

coming this way... going to europe isn't as hard for some reason

7:19 pm

Good evening to my fellow babblers! How is everyone?

7:20 pm

By the way, congratulations to all the finishers! YAY!

7:20 pm

hello min

7:20 pm

S's Stomped! 2 left

7:21 pm

bottom n?

7:21 pm

aye we were fine flying apart ftom the fact i always get dizzy and pressure in ears and head but i don't mind as i'm going on holiday, and even though we went 5 hours back we were ok, but it killed us coming back and going 5 hours forward...how does that work?? you'd think you'd be worse going, because you going back in time??

7:21 pm

go Min go

7:21 pm

I just started min! 52 to go

7:21 pm

hi min :)

7:21 pm

maybe it is 2 switches in such a short period

7:21 pm

that is my theory!

7:22 pm

hi dan

7:22 pm

it could be

7:23 pm

hi dan2

7:23 pm

wanna race today?

7:24 pm

bottom n rhymes with what chicks do when the gestation period is over

7:24 pm

V's Vanished! 1 left

7:24 pm

you tease

7:24 pm

go min!!

7:24 pm

hi br... I have that and it isn't the bottom

7:25 pm

I am saving my last word.I will do a story of clues now

7:25 pm

That na 5/14 word is na*** cheese Doritos kje.

7:25 pm

hire to take care of someone else's lod

7:26 pm

nope

7:26 pm

chid

7:26 pm

not that one either

7:26 pm

child

7:26 pm

ty

7:26 pm

that was a fish

7:26 pm

An na6/18 word is alternate spelling of babysitter kje

7:26 pm

i was thinking that was with a y

7:30 pm

hi all....20 left and I'm almost ready to list

7:30 pm

30 eft here

7:30 pm

Hello HarryHood! How are you doing? Welcome to grid

7:31 pm

careful you don't fapp

7:31 pm

fall

7:31 pm

haven't seen you in awhile, BR - how is the vision?

7:31 pm

doing okay

7:31 pm

were you able to get treated?

7:32 pm

Yes, eyedrops

7:32 pm

good

7:33 pm

saw a video of a new hospital in Dallas .... supposed to be the best in the world

7:33 pm

which was that?

7:33 pm

cuz I guarantee it's not ; )

7:34 pm

is yours 50 years old

7:34 pm

hi harry

7:34 pm

my hospital?

7:34 pm

the new one is several years off .. just had groundbreaking

7:34 pm

I give up....going to expert.

7:34 pm

hi lill

7:35 pm

sw

7:35 pm

my mouse got sruck so i had to reboot

7:35 pm

Univeristy Hospital? Parkland? they are both building brand new ones.... about 2 blocks apart

7:36 pm

yep, that is univeristy hospital.... they may end up having a cool building, but they don't understand that will not make them the best hospital

7:36 pm

I've worked at the best, I know the difference

7:36 pm

you were at the best

7:37 pm

Johns hopkins

7:37 pm

it is the committment to excellence in every area.... down to the freakin transporter and janitor

7:38 pm

when I first saw your name and that you were in baltimore I wondered if you were weeb's daughter

7:38 pm

UH drives me nuts

7:38 pm

I had never heard of weeb until I moved there and patients would ask me if I was related... at first I thought they were saying dweeb

7:39 pm

wasn't sure what to make of that til I figured out who he was

7:39 pm

dweeb.. I'd believe

7:39 pm

old men should not throw stones

7:40 pm

*innocent look*

7:40 pm

young should not either

7:40 pm

we had a new hospital built where i live a few years ago..it was built originally for all the soldiers coming back from the 2nd world war and then a few years ago it was knocked down and made into a new hospital and that is called a university hospital...not as many beds as the last one apparently

7:40 pm

true....

7:41 pm

do they need as many?

7:41 pm

I was in the brand new tower of Victoria's Royal Jubilee Hospital -- fabulous.

7:42 pm

need a clue for SE 7/32 please

7:43 pm

don't get me wrong... the new place will be pretty, have lots of bells and whistles, look cool.... but that doesn't matter. In the long run it is about the people

7:43 pm

Million-dollar beds from which the patient can raise and lower window blinds, turn lights on or off. Mostly individual rooms to prevent infections, get better rest, many other features.

7:43 pm

Nurses with communication devices...

7:44 pm

hi all

7:44 pm

sounds a lot like this one, jilli

7:44 pm

hi BR! *waves*

7:44 pm

ji jmc

7:44 pm

hi jindigo

7:44 pm

hi aqgain all

7:44 pm

in 6/7?

7:44 pm

ji yourself kje

7:44 pm

leslie: nobody in**** but me! and pl

7:45 pm

lol - hi

7:45 pm

Hello!

7:45 pm

and all is covered here by universal health care, no worrying decisions to make.

7:45 pm

:-D

7:45 pm

well, in this area kje. yes. but i feel sorry for the soldiers as the last hospital was built on a really steep slope the the poor orderlies having to push them to the top wards must have suffered as much as the sooldiers

7:45 pm

well, that is where we differ here, jilli.... here, you have money or die

7:45 pm

thanks harry

7:46 pm

yw

7:46 pm

se + most of the east asian grain staple and ** the misty moonlight by the flickering ...

7:46 pm

ooooh - just saw the 9s

7:46 pm

Hello Mark Jones!How are you doing? Welcome to grid

7:46 pm

So sad, kje. So wrong.

7:46 pm

I am doing great! Thanks. Is that your automatic greeting?

7:46 pm

The in 6/21 is in plus he 4/5 word and plural LeslieAnn

7:47 pm

hmmm the kidney doctors i worked with when my hubby lost his noted that dialysis was rationed in england and canada. . . just saying good and bad in both systems

7:47 pm

min is the babble greeter

7:47 pm

hi mark

7:47 pm

don't get me started, jilli - I'm considering moving to canada where my patients can get their freakin meds when they need them

7:47 pm

That se 7/32 word is se plus the ri 5/12 word Jindigo.

7:47 pm

I don't believe dialysis is rationed in Canada.

7:47 pm

define rationed... we ration it here as well

7:47 pm

Hi jmc, kje, Leslie, and everyone else

7:47 pm

No Mark Jones, that is my signature Babble greeting.

7:48 pm

this was some years ago

7:48 pm

OK then

7:48 pm

Hello Mark

7:48 pm

it isn't jilli, not as people here mean it... I have studied dialysis specificlly as a house officer

7:48 pm

Oh hey Jilli. How are you doing today?

7:49 pm

but there is a difference in rationing and not offering treatments that shouldn't be offered

7:49 pm

I'm having a happy Happy Hour, thanks, Mark :-)

7:49 pm

all i know is that one doctor left canada and the other left england because of it. . . but this was in the 1980s

7:49 pm

maybe it is changed

7:49 pm

Jindigo, did you see the clue for the se 7/32?

7:50 pm

hmmmm happy hour

7:50 pm

i got it, br - ty

7:50 pm

Nice to see you, babrab, and thanks for that se7 clue

7:50 pm

my hour is happy.... cuz I am in jammies under down

7:50 pm

is the ve8 related to the ve7?

7:51 pm

yes, jmc, but not Jack as you know

7:51 pm

I would love a clue for the ve7/8!

7:51 pm

ooo - just saw the 7

7:51 pm

ve7 is pl of ve6

7:52 pm

Thank you Min - always a help!

7:52 pm

i'm needing ve8 and ze6

7:52 pm

the ve 8 ends like the nines

7:52 pm

i promise you, asking for a clue is the best way ever to see the word

7:52 pm

ve8 has a plural ending harry

7:52 pm

don't have 7 so i don't know if they're related

7:52 pm

got it ty!

7:52 pm

ty LA

7:52 pm

they arent

7:52 pm

ve8 is the 1st 5 letters of sexy disease + that is + pl

7:52 pm

ze6 any1?

7:52 pm

and BR

7:53 pm

sexy disease lol

7:53 pm

Ve+ ne** and far, except spelled slightly diff.

7:53 pm

ze6 is ze and word for grandma

7:53 pm

ty lill

7:53 pm

so many clues flying fast!

7:53 pm

donE

7:53 pm

ok, that sounds fake, lillian

7:53 pm

well in the uk anyway

7:53 pm

with this silly little grid

7:53 pm

Congratulations HarryHood on fireworks! Good for U!

7:53 pm

yay HH!

7:54 pm

congrats harry!

7:54 pm

yw harry! wtg hin!!

7:54 pm

WTG harry!

7:54 pm

I still have 14 left

7:54 pm

Hooray for HH!

7:54 pm

we're in need of a nice bulky grid

7:54 pm

hoping more people ask for things I need...

7:54 pm

night all! gotta get some food

7:55 pm

Why did the invisible man look in the mirror? To make sure he still wasn't there.

7:55 pm

Puzzle was a ci5/16 to complete. Ea4/6 of the words were easy to find. Now he 4/5 is a story filled with hi 4/5s. When I was little, my parents hi4/5d a na 6/18 I did not like. She would always tell me I ca4/5 do this or I ca4/5 do that. She en5/12 rules that my parents never had.For example, when we ate lunch she would tell me to sit straight with my ch 4/6 up. My parents never cared how I sat at the table.If I didn't behave, she would stare at me with an ic 5/12 glare than the wicked witch.She also made in5/10 threats that I did not listen to.Her screams bothered me to my in 5/10 core.She would also sn5/14 toys out of my hand while I was playing with them.She also demanded that I not make a mess because the house had to stay ne 4/4. I begged for my Mom & Dad to get rid of her, but they would not budge an in4/6.They liked her and thought she was nice. They told me I had to listen to her and I ca4/5 disrespect her. Little did they know that she was a very cruel person with a ve 6/27 of kindliness. I tried to ha 5/16 a plan to get her fired,but nothing ever worked. Hubby has a desi4/4 to use computer. I am going to be a ri 5/10 and ri 4/4 out of this chair and go watch the film An4/4 and the King. I hope you have se 4/4 some more words. I will be back later on.

7:55 pm

Bye harry

7:55 pm

I have 31 left and can barely be bothered.

7:55 pm

why did it sound fake kje?

7:55 pm

Goodbye HarryHood! I'll see you tomorrow in the log.

7:55 pm

nite harry, tc

7:55 pm

does that work for you kje? ha

7:55 pm

not the clue.... the word.... sounds like dr seuss

7:56 pm

grandma?

7:58 pm

te6?

7:58 pm

ty min

7:58 pm

te 6/18 is a person who rents an apartment LeslieAnn

7:58 pm

yw kje

7:58 pm

someone whorents a room from you min

7:58 pm

za6.... like my sharona....funny word

7:59 pm

I am done! I have fireworks! he5/12 was my last word

7:59 pm

or leslieann, even and i was too late anyway :(

7:59 pm

wooooohooooo min!!!

7:59 pm

Yay Min and ty for the great story!

7:59 pm

Thank you lilliann, I stand corrected!

7:59 pm

wtg min!!

7:59 pm

Thanks jillibus and you are welcome.

8:00 pm

thanks all just one left, ri5

8:00 pm

I'll be in&out of chog to help out with clues if neeeded

8:00 pm

ri 5/12 that is

8:00 pm

Ok min, I may need them

8:00 pm

ri + most of movie house

8:01 pm

oh i got it. fireworks!

8:01 pm

Hi all. ri5.12 is a poison, LeslieAnn.

8:01 pm

Poison

8:01 pm

woooohooo LA

8:01 pm

Oh! Too late!

8:01 pm

YAY LA!

8:01 pm

Well done, LA! *~*~*~*~*~*

8:01 pm

wtg leslieann!!

8:01 pm

Jilli - how are you healing? Well, I hope?

8:01 pm

Yay La! Can someone give me the single e for NBT?

8:02 pm

I can give you a clue for ea4/6 and every word, Mark.

8:02 pm

two single e's. i will give you a clue for ea**.

8:02 pm

en + be in a play

8:03 pm

No, I have that Jac

8:03 pm

en5/12

8:03 pm

Thanks Leslie

8:03 pm

Ah! Sorry Mark.

8:03 pm

NBT

8:03 pm

Hi jac -- I hope I'm healing well too! I'm just doing as I was told and staying off that foot for the prescribed 6 weeks, which will be up soon. Learning the ins and outs and roundabouts of a wheelchair and so on.

8:03 pm

Hi lil!

8:04 pm

The en 5/12 word is en plus to perform on stage lillian

8:04 pm

hi jac!

8:04 pm

wtg mark

8:04 pm

jilli - glad to hear you're doing as you've been told (for once). xx

8:04 pm

I wish I could keep up on what happens with all of you. However, my schoolwork limits me and I cannot be here five hours a day

8:04 pm

Congratulations LeslieAnn on fireworks! Hooray for U

8:04 pm

Hello Min.

8:05 pm

Quite understandable, Mark

8:05 pm

Hi Jacula

8:05 pm

It is quite depressing

8:05 pm

i know, min,i finished 9am british time this morning :)i was saying it to mark :)

8:05 pm

Awww, jac, love your icon!

8:06 pm

OK then, thanks

8:06 pm

Congratulations lillian on finishing the grid early. YAY

8:06 pm

jilli - I thought you'd like it!

8:06 pm

Min - I sincerely hope your clue story isn't true!

8:06 pm

se8?

8:07 pm

nm

8:07 pm

May I have the 9s? I cannot find them

8:07 pm

thanks min.x

8:07 pm

ca9 - places to put tings in tins

8:07 pm

kje -- se8 -- almost sing a song to your lover + brit thanks

8:08 pm

ta9 - same just start with a t

8:08 pm

kje - another word for what your lover might sing to you.

8:08 pm

things, not tings

8:08 pm

ty

8:08 pm

ta9 is to do with cows hides

8:08 pm

I do tings all the time, kje, instead of things. Kinda musical.

8:09 pm

lol - put the vodka down jilli ; )

8:09 pm

ok, kje -- finished it anyway

8:09 pm

ca9 are places where food is put into tins. ta9 are places where animal hide is made into leather.

8:10 pm

LOL@kje to jilli.

8:10 pm

I may go get some limoncello

8:10 pm

ta9 is where cows hides are made into lether

8:10 pm

Awesome. Thanks jac

8:10 pm

*leather

8:10 pm

Mark - y/w

8:11 pm

I think I'd better go and warm up the Meal on Wheel for today -- 28 left here so maybe I'll be back later. Toodles, all!

8:11 pm

OK, must go and finish homework. I will see y'all (hopefully) tomorrow.

8:11 pm

first ca?

8:11 pm

bon appetit jilli!

8:12 pm

merci kje (it looks fishy this time)

8:12 pm

nm, found it

8:12 pm

first ca -- French notebook

8:12 pm

hi everyone!

8:13 pm

fish is my fave... hope it is good

8:13 pm

sounds like a teller at the bank kje

8:13 pm

ty

8:13 pm

hi and bye lbd

8:13 pm

FW for me

8:13 pm

don't forget the pl

8:13 pm

YAY kje!

8:13 pm

whooo hooooo kje!!

8:13 pm

bon apetit, Jilli

8:13 pm

Hello lbd.

8:13 pm

wtg kje

8:13 pm

hi jac

8:13 pm

hi lbd

8:14 pm

nite jilli,tc hin

8:14 pm

i see the mistress!!!

8:14 pm

Jilli said she's going to warm up the 'Meal on Wheel'. I now have a vision of a person on a unicycle delivering her dinner!

8:14 pm

wb ren

8:14 pm

Hello Servant Ren!

8:15 pm

Hi Lilliann!

8:15 pm

Rennie!!

8:16 pm

Ren - I hear you've been a bit of a lily-livered landlubber lately. Maybe if you crawl enough and pay me the homage due to me, I will chuck you a slice of shoofly pie. Maybe...

8:16 pm

am off to bed nite all and tc(poof)

8:16 pm

thanks lil - hey dawg - grovel grovel at mistress's feet

8:17 pm

'Night Lil. Sleep well.

8:17 pm

Not enough grovels...

8:19 pm

Not sure if I want to watch this. I hate groveling.

8:19 pm

sweet dreams, Lilliann

8:20 pm

Molly - it's all in fun, I promise you. A long-term thing beween Renfield and her mistress Jacula (think Bram Stoker).

8:20 pm

grovel grovel grovel grovel grovel grovel grovel grovel - i have been a lily-livered landlubber and i am grovel grovel grovel groveling

8:21 pm

and who is the most fantabulicious mistress of the fly eaters and the pirates?

8:22 pm

the mistress jacula is the most fantabulicious mistress of the fly eaters and the pirates

8:23 pm

*throws a piece of shoofly pie Ren's way, and sends a dollop of squirty cream to put on top of it.*

8:24 pm

'chomp chomp slurp' thank ye mistress

8:24 pm

*Puts foot on Ren's neck as she bends to eat the pie.* 'Now make sure we have no more of this illness nonsense. I need you fit and well and ready for duty swabbing the decks.'

8:25 pm

y/w Ren.xx

8:25 pm

aye mistress

8:26 pm

I think you mean 'aye, 'aye Capt'n!

8:26 pm

aye mistress, 'aye, 'aye Capt'n!'

8:27 pm

That's better! Now, how is the ship's cat, Jett doing?

8:28 pm

taking over the house, still a kitten larger than the cocker spaniel - gonzo jett

8:29 pm

and all he eats is kitten dry food

8:29 pm

That's one hell of a big kitten! Be a good ratter for the ship eventually.

8:30 pm

aye - that he will be mistress

8:31 pm

Seriously - don't just keep him on dry food. That's the quickest way to kidney failure. Cats aren't good at drinking tap water, they prefer brackish water from outside.

8:31 pm

Hopefully, he'll get interested in fresh food soon!

8:32 pm

thanks you for the info- now i know why he and the other cat like to drink blondies's water with all the doggie slobber and food on the bottom

8:33 pm

The crew might only get grog and dried ship biscuit but the cat needs fresh fish and meat!

8:34 pm

Yes, cats hate tap water and bottled water. My cats always drank the greenish water from the pond by choice. The cat I still have, still does.

8:35 pm

I've never had a cat that liked milk either. And, actually, cow's milk is bad for cats.

8:37 pm

there is a non-milk liquid my other kitty likes - in small slurps

8:37 pm

it's in the kitty department at the pet stores

8:39 pm

brb - need to get the mezzer a soda and meds

8:40 pm

Yes, I tried that cat milk thing on my two (when I had two) and neither of them liked it. Kira (RIP) the black female loved cheese. She would materialise whenever it was out in the open. Yes, I do mean materialise. Even if we hadn't seen her for hours and still couldn't see her as we approached the fridge to get some cheese out, the moment the packet was opened she would be there.

8:40 pm

Okay Ren. See you in a bit. x

8:42 pm

The male cat, the one who is the Hunter Cat, loves killing things and also materialises whenever raw meat is around. Having said that, he also adores cooked, crispy chicken skin.

8:43 pm

He used to beg for cheese when Kira was around but hasn't bothered since she died.

8:46 pm

Anyone lurking who needs clues, btw?

8:51 pm

re7 the first?

8:52 pm

Hello Shirlock - re7 (1st) is to do the part in the stage play again.

8:53 pm

thx jac, good clue

8:53 pm

y/w

8:53 pm

re 7/32 is re plus en 5/12 word Shirlockc and hi there

8:53 pm

Hello again, Min.

8:53 pm

I always forget the indian bread

8:54 pm

Hello Jacula! I was just playing Pinball for 45 minutes.

8:54 pm

So do I Dan, when making a curry or a balti, but I usually remember it in the grid. LOL

8:55 pm

Min - did you win?

8:55 pm

hehe Jac

8:57 pm

dan - I assume you have the Mexican snack?

8:57 pm

I do Jac

8:58 pm

still need the ne6

8:58 pm

I don't play others. I just try to get to a certain level

8:58 pm

ne 6/18 word is ne + anagram of ri 4/4 word dan2bit.

8:58 pm

ne + anagram of get up in the morning

8:59 pm

got it tx min & shir

8:59 pm

ne6 = clamworm or ragworm. Google it, if the site isn't still protesting.

8:59 pm

yw

9:00 pm

Shirlock - good clue. Almost wordlwide word re language that might be translated as 'don't want to get up yet!' whilst bashing the alarm clock.

9:00 pm

re 7, second one, please

9:01 pm

Hi bichon. 2nd re7 is to employ again.

9:01 pm

pl of the 6 before it

9:01 pm

ty Jac, and hi everyone

9:01 pm

Or rather employs again.

9:02 pm

y/w bichon.

9:07 pm

firewords! tx all cluers - se7 se + ri5 was my last

9:07 pm

Congratulations dan2bit on your fireworks!Way to go

9:08 pm

now if i has the ri5 ...

9:09 pm

Well done, dan.

9:10 pm

ri5/12 - soya bean poison or ri5.10 upright part of stair or step, Shirlock?

9:10 pm

i got it thx!

9:10 pm

Actually castor oil bean, not soya bean.

9:12 pm

se8?

9:12 pm

*Is now actually wondering if her doctor from childhood was trying to kill her - thinking about castor oil for constipation, kaolin & morphine for the opposite*. Blimey!

9:12 pm

se 8/40 is se 4/4 plus consonant plus babbler ***lante.

9:13 pm

se8 - a romantic song.

9:13 pm

thx guys!

9:14 pm

y/w Shirlock

9:14 pm

no, your doctor Jacula, helped your brain........ fish oil.

9:16 pm

and the mophine? He had me 'tripping'. LOL

9:16 pm

Goodnight to my fellow babblers! I'll see you tomorrow

9:16 pm

moRphine, I meant.

9:17 pm

'Night Min. Sleep peacefully.

9:19 pm

I'm off now, too. No morphine or castor oil. See you all next grid.

9:29 pm

morphine?? where?!! crossy holds an arm out and a leg up:)

9:32 pm

evening all

9:36 pm

hi jes, hi crossy

9:36 pm

how goes, dawg?

9:36 pm

howdy lbd

9:37 pm

Heyas kids ..

9:37 pm

howdy torgone

9:37 pm

hi torg :)

9:37 pm

hey crossy--it finally decided to be winter here; how much snow did it dump on you up there?

9:38 pm

12 inches in last 3 days with one day of rain in the middle

9:39 pm

oh, layering snow on ice...what fun

9:39 pm

it is special

9:41 pm

rained all day yesterday and flash froze to minus 14 overnight and blew a lake effect blizzard of georgian bay all morning,the sun all this afternoon..i do not know if i should wear shorts of 15 layers

9:42 pm

hehheh. 15 layered tank tops :)

9:42 pm

i keep 3 seasons of clothing in the car at all times,spring,fall and winter

9:43 pm

you have seen those pictures of canadians in a big parka and shorts? well that is why

9:47 pm

I've been known to trudge out in heavy insulated boots, jeans, a tank top and mittens :).... it's my hands and feet that get cold.

9:49 pm

hey everyone

9:50 pm

hi jen :)

9:53 pm

this puzzle looks boring

9:54 pm

I dunno, it's not large enough to get really tedious

9:54 pm

i found 18

9:57 pm

Half way :)

10:04 pm

checking to see if logo changes, hi Babblers

10:04 pm

nope

10:04 pm

meant icon, not logo

10:05 pm

hi aloy

10:05 pm

Looks like a sunset in chatlog

10:06 pm

hi jes (-: supposed to be the sun instead of the sunrise.. have had FM's icon in her honor for 52 days, thanks for the input

10:07 pm

I reloaded, now it's the cartoon sun.

10:07 pm

oh, good.. I will try that too

10:08 pm

testing, one, two, three..

10:08 pm

didn't work

10:09 pm

oh well, that's ok.. eventually "the sun will come out tomorrow"

10:09 pm

heh

10:10 pm

hey snuffy

10:10 pm

hi there jmc!

10:11 pm

hi all

10:11 pm

i was just reading about new vs. old wars

10:11 pm

howdy, jam

10:11 pm

fun fun fun

10:11 pm

hey jes

10:12 pm

that was after spending 2 hours reading about rain barrels

10:12 pm

h'mm.. new or old, war is not healthy for people and other living things

10:12 pm

i tell you i know how live a full life

10:12 pm

am a rain barrel fan

10:13 pm

thoughts on what i should look for besides a low spigot

10:13 pm

i was looking at a rain barrel wall

10:13 pm

a bigger container

10:13 pm

haha!

10:13 pm

barrels aren't big enough

10:13 pm

the wall holds 67 gallons

10:14 pm

seriously.. you need a lot of capacity

10:14 pm

i did a calculation and it appears that my roof would provide 150 gallons for 1 inch of rain

10:14 pm

i don't have that much space

10:15 pm

i should have built my addition out of rain barrel walls

10:15 pm

wonderful.. that is what I mean..oh.. ok, see what you mean.. any space to put a "rain garden"?

10:15 pm

that is a place to which you can divert the rain water

10:16 pm

((((((ALOYISIUS!))))))) hey all!

10:16 pm

not really--i just thought to spread the rain out over the summer some without breading mosquitoes

10:16 pm

hi stiddy

10:16 pm

hows the snowy west coast stiddie

10:16 pm

stid! great to see you! how's every little thing?

10:17 pm

I just posted my master's paper *yuck face* and resume to my website... my own "folksy" low-key style. It's blocked at the moment to protest the SOPA nonsense, but it will be available again soon.

10:17 pm

breading or breeding mosquitoes.. (-: have never tried breaded mosquitoes

10:17 pm

haha! never could spell

10:17 pm

I am well, Aloyisius, trying to get a full-time job in what I have considered my most likely setting. But no nibbles yet.

10:17 pm

are breaded mosquitos anything like fried grasshoppers?

10:17 pm

wtg, stid.. am sure you are relieved to have accomplished this.. yay

10:18 pm

breaded mosquitoes might be okay with enough tabasco sauce

10:18 pm

i had fried cockroaches once breaded mosquitoes couldn't be worse

10:18 pm

omg.. fried la cucarachas

10:18 pm

had chocolate covered ants but no grasshoppers yet

10:18 pm

crunchy no doubt

10:18 pm

all crunch snuffy nothing else

10:19 pm

lol

10:19 pm

ants had kind of a bite to them

10:19 pm

how are you aloyisius? staying warm? we have SNOW!

10:19 pm

fiber for one's digestion, chitin

10:19 pm

jmc, is your home done being renovated yet?

10:19 pm

a sting i guess

10:19 pm

well my friend was hungry and they were abundant

10:20 pm

*sigh* no stiddie--i should go home to a done bedroom at least *knock on wood*

10:20 pm

hey stid.. having a bit of a cool spell but nothing to complain about, temps rising tomorrow.. so far, much better than last winter, only two days of 25 degrees to contend with, knock wood

10:20 pm

jmc and I are knocking wood together..

10:20 pm

haha snap snuffy

10:21 pm

(-:

10:21 pm

anyway i told my construction guy i wanted a rain barrel i guess to go with my solar panels

10:21 pm

that's nice, Aloyisius, that it hasn't been too cold. We have had a mild winter so far, and even the last few days haven't been all that bad. And jmc, I will give those builders a "stern mama look" if your bedroom is not done posthaste! You tell them that. It might help...

10:21 pm

oh, I am so jealous.. solar panel envy here

10:22 pm

the solar panel guys are mad that i only let them have half teh roof and even madder that i dare build a deck on the other half which might shadow the panels

10:22 pm

oh no, don't shadow the panels!!!!]

10:22 pm

the poor guy had his last chemo today so i will protect him from your stern mama look

10:23 pm

ooch.. last chemo for what?

10:23 pm

well as it is they calculate that they will produce more than half of all the electricity i normally use all year

10:23 pm

never asked as he did not volunteer but he did say he is officially cancer free

10:23 pm

yep, I'm green with solar panel envy

10:23 pm

well, that is indeed good news

10:23 pm

oh dear... yes, I suppose I can be more patient in that case. *offers poor guy fluffy pillows and soft blankies*

10:24 pm

i would rather have a deck than more solar panels

10:24 pm

I am glad he is cancer free. That is a good thing.

10:24 pm

it is one of the many reasons i don't complain more about how long this all took

10:24 pm

put your ding dong deck elsewhere

10:24 pm

don't shadow the sun

10:24 pm

from the deck you can see virginia and maryland as well as dc

10:24 pm

Aloy has spoken, LOL

10:25 pm

I want to get solar tiles for our roof if/when we have the money to put a family room on the back. or an entry porch. or ... *sigh*

10:25 pm

i only gots so much roof snuffy

10:25 pm

ok, so build a platform.. a tree house..

10:25 pm

i couldn't shadow the sun if i tried! haha

10:25 pm

in 6/21 the second, please?

10:25 pm

no tree

10:26 pm

platform not legal

10:26 pm

In + not there

10:26 pm

in + don't come in **** i am not dressed

10:26 pm

thanks :)

10:26 pm

ugh, so windmills must also be against ordinances

10:26 pm

too high

10:27 pm

no you can get windmills that are long and low now so they can be on the crest of your roof

10:27 pm

very cool, didn't know

10:27 pm

it is a city snuffy--and people thought it odd that there were oil derricks in back yards in houston

10:28 pm

it would be like putting to sticks at either end and then inbetween them you put a flat corkscrew that the wind turns

10:29 pm

does that make sense?

10:29 pm

ok.. are there others in your neighborhood using solar power?

10:29 pm

first re7/32 please?

10:29 pm

that makes a lot of sense jmc, so why aren't they installing them on all the buildings!

10:29 pm

I'm picturing it, jmc, give me time (-:

10:29 pm

jes: to pretend to be a person from the past in an historical context

10:30 pm

think civil war re7s, people who dress up in character

10:30 pm

this is cutting edge stiddie--couldn't even find a pic on line

10:30 pm

of course wiki is down

10:30 pm

the wind blows hard, the roof peels back, lol

10:31 pm

my oldest sister sent this today http://www.tomrush.com./video_remember .html

10:31 pm

lifts off and flies to Oz

10:32 pm

here it is:http://gigaom.com/cleantech/ridgebl aster-rooftop-wind-turbine-idea/

10:32 pm

ok.. gonna check it out..

10:33 pm

the video has been removed by the user *sigh*

10:34 pm

what?

10:35 pm

it is still there on my computer

10:35 pm

it's in your cache, jmc, which is nice.

10:35 pm

belated thanks, stid--i got distracted watching the crow sledding.

10:35 pm

that sucks

10:36 pm

try googling tom rush remembering

10:36 pm

try this, jmc http://challenge.ecomagination.com/hom e/SmartWind-RidgeBlaster-18-kW-wind-tu rbin

10:36 pm

is se8 related to se6?

10:36 pm

wow.. the concept is very intriguing.. did research back in the late 70's that confirmed wind power as THE alternative energy for areas like northern Ohio.. we get a lot down here in SW Fla too.. and I like the position of the tube.. bookmarked the page, tyvm jmc..

10:37 pm

no, jes

10:37 pm

what a great idea!

10:38 pm

i think it makes sense but i waited a while for the solar panels so that most of the kinks were worked out before i invested

10:39 pm

so i would wait a while for the ridge blaster

10:39 pm

oic you were talking about the ridge blaster video and not the remembering video

10:40 pm

se 8: start out with four letter word for "dry", then add symbol for sodium and end with ** dah!

10:40 pm

I would like a boost for the se 8 please?

10:40 pm

thanks!

10:40 pm

ty snuffy

10:41 pm

aloy is cluing premptively for you, stid :)

10:41 pm

the ve 8 is similar i was told

10:41 pm

no, tis not

10:41 pm

how about a 9 so i can have nbs and go to bed

10:41 pm

I have the ve 8 and can't figure out how they could be similar

10:42 pm

oh well it was probably the 9 then

10:42 pm

ca9-where they put the peaches in the tins

10:42 pm

what do i know!

10:42 pm

the 9s are the same but for the first letter. think steinbeck's book about the fish factories in california, plural word

10:42 pm

well, if you visited places where they treated leather, you would have ta9

10:42 pm

ty jes and stid

10:42 pm

ty snuffy

10:42 pm

nbs

10:43 pm

i think i am getting a bourbon and curling up with a book on contemporary peacemaking!

10:43 pm

gah. i feel like my brain is shuttering the windows

10:44 pm

well done jmc! sounds like a great read for an evening.

10:44 pm

I am down to 13, considering the list

10:44 pm

neis

10:44 pm

oops

10:44 pm

se7/32?

10:44 pm

down to 7, and definitely using the list :P

10:44 pm

bye all

10:45 pm

ve8: ve + Bruce Jen***, Olympic star + the doll cr**** MaMa and wets too.. ugh

10:45 pm

*poof*

10:45 pm

no idea, jmc

10:45 pm

g'night, jam

10:45 pm

sweet dreams jmc

10:45 pm

bye jmc.. see ya next time

10:45 pm

thanks, aloy

10:45 pm

scooting here too.. might be back at the flip.. ciao

10:46 pm

g'night, aloy

10:46 pm

gn, jes (-:

10:46 pm

oh oh, log increase!

10:46 pm

I mean, lAg increase -- very slow

10:47 pm

sweet dreams Aloyisius!

10:50 pm

phantom zenith

10:50 pm

down to 5...

10:50 pm

3 here

10:50 pm

do you have the ze6?

10:51 pm

yes, ze, end like monkey fruit

10:51 pm

that's a word?!

10:52 pm

gah. indian? french and scottish weren't enough confusion?

10:52 pm

LOL jes!

10:52 pm

down to 4 and stuck.

10:52 pm

need the ve 6/7 pair along with the toughy se words

10:52 pm

whatcha missing?

10:53 pm

ve6 and 7 are thin layers laid over the surface of something

10:53 pm

got the ve words

10:53 pm

head up and too the right in the grid

10:53 pm

thanks jes

10:54 pm

te6?

10:54 pm

person who rents is the te 6 (think dr who different spelling)

10:55 pm

need that se 8 and the se 7 that comes after

10:55 pm

oi, thankee

10:55 pm

se8 is like the se6 immediately after, but change the last vowel, then add british "so long"

10:56 pm

the se7 is my last word

10:56 pm

thanks jes! we'll be looking for that one together then...

11:01 pm

combine the "calm" word with the end of the ri 5 poison jes...

11:01 pm

or, se + poison word

11:01 pm

*waits*

11:01 pm

thanks!

11:02 pm

thank goodness for lickety's list today, I could not finish without it!

11:02 pm

evening. Hi, stid, jes, et al. Ty, stid for the education about education in WA. :)

11:02 pm

I think I've finished exactly 1 grid listless

11:02 pm

evening, dc

11:03 pm

i hardly ever finish anymore. I just stopped caring. I play to have fun. :)

11:03 pm

sure thing, seain, what little I know I am happy to share! LOL there are so many differences state to state. I know a little about VA schools from a friend who teaches there.

11:03 pm

YAY jes!!!

11:03 pm

I usually play to have fun, too -- but have wanted to take my mind off the job search the last couple days. It's disheartening to keep hoping and waiting and the phone doesn't ring.

11:04 pm

ah, so you know that we have 'teachers associations' instead of unions, as teachers are classified as commonwealth, not locality employees and therefore may not unionize.

11:04 pm

and yay for stid's fireworks too!

11:04 pm

yes, job searching is hard, even in an in-demand profession such as your own.

11:04 pm

thanks jes!

11:05 pm

congrats, stid :)

11:05 pm

I'm gonna head off and cuddle with bruce now that we've defeated this grid... thanks for cluing! :)

11:05 pm

have fun, jes! see you tomorrow.

11:05 pm

thanks also seain.

11:08 pm

wow. I started to get on my soapbox... LOL delete! delete!

11:08 pm

Will head out unless you need some clues, seain?

11:09 pm

eh, i'll list maybe first. congrats also, jes, and g'night to both yall

11:11 pm

okay seain... I hope you are well and having a good start to the new year. I'll check back in a little while before I head to sleep.

11:26 pm

bit of a rough start, but an end in sight, and a better year than i've had in several in store. :D

11:32 pm

glad to hear that, seain! just checking in one last time, in case you are stuck on something?

11:32 pm

only just listed, and so far so good, thanks :)

11:33 pm

okay, I will toddle off to sleep -- and hope the power is on in the morning. It's chilly out there!

11:34 pm

g'night, and may the power be back soon. Wet snow is hard on overhead lines, and your infrastructure there is not well-built for snow and ice at your altitude, i'm sure

hello all its that time again

11:58 pm

hello everyone :)

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