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181 2,910
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189 2,773
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199 2,629
200 2,624
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203 2,603
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205 2,574
206 2,568
207 2,566
208 2,554
209 2,529
210 2,528
211 2,527
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213 2,503
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215 2,476
216 2,458
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218 2,437
219 2,430
220 2,414
221 2,405
222 2,405
223 2,378
224 2,378
225 2,337
226 2,335
227 2,315
228 2,303
229 2,294
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231 2,260
232 2,229
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235 2,182
236 2,173
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238 2,140
239 2,139
240 2,133
241 2,125
242 2,111
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244 2,089
245 2,081
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248 2,043
249 2,031
250 2,029
251 2,017
252 2,016
253 2,001
254 2,000
255 1,985
256 1,981
257 1,970
258 1,970
259 1,965
260 1,962
261 1,954
262 1,945
263 1,936
264 1,914
265 1,899
266 1,893
267 1,881
268 1,874
269 1,873
270 1,872
271 1,871
272 1,866
273 1,859
274 1,853
275 1,851
276 1,846
277 1,846
278 1,839
279 1,839
280 1,836
281 1,830
282 1,813
283 1,809
284 1,801
285 1,795
286 1,794
287 1,791
288 1,785
289 1,783
290 1,783
291 1,775
292 1,771
293 1,760
294 1,755
295 1,754
296 1,754
297 1,747
298 1,746
299 1,734
300 1,731
301 1,730
302 1,729
303 1,726
304 1,713
305 1,707
306 1,706
307 1,700
308 1,699
309 1,697
310 1,697
311 1,688
312 1,682
313 1,676
314 1,669
315 1,651
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317 1,645
318 1,644
319 1,640
320 1,636
321 1,634
322 1,628
323 1,628
324 1,625
325 1,625
326 1,623
327 1,622
328 1,620
329 1,612
330 1,605
331 1,603
332 1,586
333 1,585
334 1,575
335 1,574
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337 1,569
338 1,568
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341 1,536
342 1,531
343 1,528
344 1,499
345 1,497
346 1,492
347 1,491
348 1,482
349 1,482
350 1,479
351 1,473
352 1,467
353 1,465
354 1,463
355 1,462
356 1,461
357 1,458
358 1,458
359 1,455
360 1,455
361 1,451
362 1,448
363 1,446
364 1,444
365 1,443
366 1,442
367 1,432
368 1,431
369 1,421
370 1,421
371 1,419
372 1,416
373 1,410
374 1,408
375 1,407
376 1,399
377 1,392
378 1,391
379 1,385
380 1,382
381 1,379
382 1,370
383 1,369
384 1,368
385 1,366
386 1,366
387 1,366
388 1,366
389 1,366
390 1,362
391 1,361
392 1,360
393 1,345
394 1,336
395 1,332
396 1,329
397 1,328
398 1,319
399 1,313
400 1,304
401 1,304
402 1,299
403 1,267
404 1,261
405 1,257
406 1,257
407 1,245
408 1,238
409 1,235
410 1,230
411 1,227
412 1,226
413 1,226
414 1,224
415 1,222
416 1,218
417 1,211
418 1,207
419 1,192
420 1,178
421 1,173
422 1,173
423 1,160
424 1,159
425 1,151
426 1,148
427 1,137
428 1,135
429 1,121
430 1,118
431 1,117
432 1,117
433 1,106
434 1,102
435 1,096
436 1,093
437 1,093
438 1,093
439 1,086
440 1,085
441 1,083
442 1,082
443 1,079
444 1,079
445 1,077
446 1,074
447 1,069
448 1,067
449 1,063
450 1,047
451 1,046
452 1,045
453 1,044
454 1,039
455 1,039
456 1,035
457 1,033
458 1,025
459 1,014
460 1,011
461 1,010
462 1,010
463 998
464 996
465 995
466 989
467 975
468 969
469 963
470 960
471 955
472 949
473 946
474 943
475 939
476 937
477 936
478 931
479 917
480 916
481 912
482 907
483 899
484 896
485 895
486 890
487 889
488 887
489 885
490 878
491 874
492 871
493 871
494 863
495 859
496 849
497 841
498 837
499 836
500 836
501 835
502 834
503 834
504 823
505 823
506 819
507 816
508 807
509 801
510 796
511 796
512 789
513 786
514 782
515 769
516 767
517 764
518 757
519 740
520 737
521 721
522 709
523 708
524 706
525 704
526 675
527 670
528 660
529 659
530 643
531 633
532 631
533 625
534 620
535 612
536 605
537 599
538 594
539 581
540 579
541 571
542 571
543 555
544 546
545 542
546 539
547 533
548 532
549 527
550 515
551 513
552 503
553 499
554 497
555 490
556 488
557 485
558 479
559 456
560 452
561 452
562 442
563 437
564 423
565 422
566 413
567 410
568 400
569 394
570 388
571 383
572 374
573 373
574 371
575 364
576 356
577 348
578 342
579 340
580 333
581 313
582 309
583 301
584 294
585 284
586 258
587 257
588 249
589 239
590 239
591 235
592 231
593 217
594 211
595 205
596 195
597 175
598 158
599 157
600 149
601 137
602 132
603 105
604 98
605 93
606 73
607 64
608 55
609 14
610 5
611 4

284 total words

12:00 am

flipper!!!!

12:01 am

"poof"

12:02 am

flip

12:03 am

flip

12:03 am

hello everyone :)

12:03 am

hi

12:03 am

lea

12:04 am

leat

12:07 am

le5,6,7,6

12:07 am

sa 6/7 *2

12:08 am

la 4/6/7/5

sa8

12:13 am

thx for the sa6,7,8 rastapopolous

12:14 am

hi everyone

flip; hi all; hi nan, smom, momof, dc, rast, flosey

12:16 am

hi Dee

12:16 am

hell o all

12:16 am

hi to all

12:17 am

hi jilli

12:17 am

that didn't come out quite the way I intended! Hello!

12:17 am

have a sa 6-7 combo, but don't see a 6-7-8

hi jili

re 8

12:18 am

hi dee hi as usual :-)

:)

12:19 am

ne 6 & 7 (called yet?)

12:19 am

Hi all!! NBT/NBS

12:20 am

hi diz

hi diz

ty jili

12:20 am

omg dis! wd!

12:21 am

ty

12:21 am

need the top left N and E for nbt

12:21 am

se 8 if not called

12:21 am

ne 6/7 and eg 5

12:22 am

got the eg, thx diz

12:23 am

haha, the volcano erupted

12:24 am

thanks jilli

12:24 am

yw flosey

nbt nbs

12:25 am

wtg dee

12:26 am

nbt, nbs

ty jili

12:26 am

wtg nan

Our famous lake is here, out in NV

12:26 am

ha 6

12:29 am

what dos the 8 start with? Is Lickety up?

12:29 am

late flip for a biggie, eh? Why not!

hi freep

sa 6, 7, 8 jili

12:30 am

ty dee (hunting)

12:30 am

se 8

and se 8 traveler on the ocean

12:30 am

ah, ty Dee that gives me NBT/NBS

one e short for squeegee

yw and wtg

12:32 am

still not seeing that sa 8

12:34 am

most barbaric

la 6, 7

12:34 am

200

12:34 am

ty - can't believe that is a word!

12:35 am

that's the only 8 I found

12:35 am

ty cray -- NBT/NBS but I'd still like to find that oceanic se 8

hi ru 194

12:35 am

yay ruru!

12:35 am

another word for sailor

205 and I'm done for tonight bye all

12:35 am

wd ruru

le 4, 7, 8, 5 has to do with trees...

12:38 am

bye rasta

nite rast

12:40 am

thanks Dee for the le words

12:40 am

I got le4/5 and le5,6,7,5. Still looking for the le8

fe 8/55

yqw

12:41 am

oh, finally got the le8. looks like a fake word.

to me, too, cray

12:44 am

manufactured word, I think

12:46 am

still looking... hmm

12:49 am

66 to go but pretty stuck now

fe 7 fe 8 so there are 2 fe 8's (at least)

stuck at 54 ... hi anike

12:50 am

Hi Dee - been away for a while

what have you been up to?

12:53 am

Went east (Sydney) for a bit but have been back for a week - just really busy

You are always busy :)

12:53 am

brain has quit with 200 down -- see you tomorrow :)

12:54 am

night, nan

nite, na

12:54 am

Supposed to keep you young but I don't think it's working

12:54 am

wow! just found the sq5 with monkeys. never would have known it

12:55 am

Enough for me with no Lickety and fake words, so goodnight all...*poof

12:55 am

ty mom

12:55 am

TY momo

12:55 am

night jill

ty mom... didn't have that one

12:56 am

yw

fo 6 fo 7

12:57 am

Just got those too, Dee

12:58 am

another fo 6 too

great minds ty vash

12:58 am

only missing 2 f's now from left column

I will list my f's then... I have all the left hand f's

12:59 am

i have all the right column f's

1:00 am

You make a good pair then

f's 3 short: fa 4, 4, 5, 4, 5, 4, 6, 4, 5, 4 4 5 fe 4, 6, 5, 5, 4, 5, 4, 4, 8, 4, 4, 7, 8, 4, 5, 4 fo 4, 4, 6, 4, 6, 7

1:01 am

fa 4 at beginning of list

1:01 am

I have another fa 4 before your first fa 5

1:01 am

fa 4,5 at the end of list

ty arb and vash that is all the f's!

anyone have all the t's... I am 2 short

1:02 am

ty dee, g

1:02 am

f's are done

1:03 am

e

1:03 am

i'm falling asleep. 139 left. night all.

here are my t's 2 short: ta 4, 4, 4, 5, 4, 4, 5, 4, te 4, 4, 6, 4, 5, 4, 5, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5 tr 4, 6, 4

1:04 am

e's are ea 4, 6, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5; eg 5, 6; en 5, 6, 6, 7; er, 4, 5; et, 4, 4, 5

1:05 am

ts 4

I have en 5, 6, 6, 6, 7

I have er 4, 5, 6, 7

1:08 am

tr 5 & 6

1:08 am

thanks dee...should have said missing 4 e's on right column

still missing one t from the bottom t and missing one e from the right col

1:12 am

monkeyed a word new to me so I looked up the definition and had a grand guffaw: " to produce an output that oscillates between a certain maximum and zero, especially when due to the effect of a grid." The effect of a what ...?

the missing t is tr 6/30 at the very end

1:13 am

ty dee!

yqw still looking for the missing e

1:15 am

L's are la 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 6, 7, 5, 4, 5, 4; le 4, 7, 8, 5, 4, 5, 5, 6, 7, 6, 4, 4; lo 4, 6, 5, 6...hope i did this list right, as i have them all

1:15 am

finally, i n

1:16 am

ay have something to contribute to this conversation. have the a's. is a list of them needed

1:16 am

en 8

ty vash just typed that !!!

please, rose

ty vash for l's

1:17 am

af4...ag4, 5, 6, 4...al4, 4, 5....an4, 5, 5, 4

1:18 am

ar4...as5....at4...av5, 5, 5, 4, 5

1:19 am

never saw that last av 5 before

1:20 am

lol, yeah it is a doozy.

I would never have found that one ty vm

I am short 1 n... anyone have all of the n's?

1:21 am

f's are fa 4, 4, 4, 5, 4, 5, 4, 6, 4, 5, 4, 4, 5, 4, 5; fe 4, 6, 5, 5, 4, 5, 4, 4, 8, 4, 4, 7, 8, 4, 5, 4; fo 4, 4, 6, 4, 6, 7

found the n...

1:22 am

missing one n as well dee

n's are: na 4, 5, 5, 4, 5 ne 4, 6, 4, 5, 6, 7, 5, 4, 4

1:22 am

na4, 5, 5, 4, 5...ne4, 6, 4, 5, 6, 7, 5, 4, 4

1:24 am

thanks dee and granny

1:24 am

I bet that av5 is what someone in the South says instead of "I have gas."

lol just

yw

anyone have all the h's? 3 short...

1:25 am

missing 3

I'll list what I have

h's 3 short: ha 4, 4, 5, 4, 5, 4, 6, 4, 4, 5, 4, 5, 4, 4, 5, 6, 5 he 4, 5, 4 ho 4, 4, 5

1:27 am

ha 6 after second ha 5

1:28 am

and ha 5, 6 after first 6

ty so much that is all the h's!

anyone have all the v's?

1:30 am

can you re-list the h's?

1:30 am

missing 2 v's

h's are: ha 4, 4, 5, 4, 5, 6, 4, 6, 5, 6, 4, 4, 5, 4, 5, 4, 4, 5, 6, 5 he 4, 5, 4 ho 4, 4, 5

1:31 am

va4,5, va5,6, va4, va4, va4, va4, ve4, ve5, ve4, ve5, ve4

ty kj!

1:32 am

yw

1:33 am

ty dee and kj

yw

1:33 am

How many words today please

I am short 4 g's

284

1:33 am

Thanks

1:33 am

short 6 g's here

yqw

g's 4 short: ga 4, 4, 4, 5, 6, 6, 4, 4, 5, 4, 4 ge 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6, 4, 4, 4, 5, 4

1:35 am

Justa, where are you from?

1:37 am

Thank you for the clue, Justafreep.

1:37 am

ge 5 after first 4

found them... relisting

all g's: ga 4, 4, 4, 5, 6, 6, 4, 4, 5, 4, 4 ge 4, 4, 5, 4, 5, 5, 6, 6, 7, 4, 4, 5, 4, 5, 4

1:39 am

los angeles, peach. but there's virginia in my past

1:39 am

only missing O, R and S

hang on, I'll list the o's

o's are: oa 4, 4, 4, 5, ol 4, 4

1:42 am

thanks...missed an obvious one as usual

sounds like me

I am short 3 r's

1:43 am

missing 2..i'll list

ty

1:43 am

r's missing 2: ra 4, 5, 6, 5, 4, 4, 4, 5, 4, 4, 5, 6, 5; re 8, 4, 4, 5, 6, 5, 5

all of the r's: ra 4, 5, 6, 5, 4, 4, 5, 4, 4, 5, 4, 4, 5, 6, 5 re 8, 4, 4, 5, 6, 5, 5

1:49 am

thanks dee

yqw... down to 5 missing esses

1:49 am

now 5 S's left

1:49 am

lol

lol

1:51 am

I have 9 la's; 12 le's; and 3 lo's. What am I missing?

11 la's

4 lo's lo 4, 6, 5, 6

1:53 am

la4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 6, 7, 5, 4, 5, 4

1:53 am

ty Dee

yw

down to 3 missing esses

1:54 am

thanx dee,got all my l words

wtg

1:57 am

am so struggling with just 11 to go. my hat's off to you and vash. you both are so amazing

as are you, ((rose)))

down to 2...

1:59 am

Hello You speed demons!

1:59 am

all my 5's are done

1:59 am

do you have the se5/12 dee? that's my oddball S

1:59 am

still need a 7 though

I am missing one s 6 and an s 7

2:00 am

oh, i bet it's the third sa6/7

2:00 am

for both of you, actually

I have sa 6 7, 8 related to wild ones

2:01 am

there are two 6/7s after that, dee

sa 6 7 x 2 scholars and a sport

was missing se 6/24... now looking for the last 7

2:02 am

oh well. I thought I had it :-)

2:02 am

i am missing an s 4 and an s 6

2:03 am

both from bottom s

2:03 am

dee - the st7?

2:03 am

*7s are the only thing I have all of!

that's it!! ty freep looking

2:04 am

you'll hate yourself when you find it, dee.

2:05 am

and vash, I think I'm missing the same ones as you. or there are just silly ones we're both missing

fireworks... the more of st 6 :(

2:05 am

i was missing a silly sa 4/6

hang on... will try to put list in my profile

2:06 am

thanks dee

2:06 am

missing an s6 still

2:07 am

and found my missing s6

2:08 am

another easy one...sa 6/18

2:08 am

fireworks

2:09 am

thanks for all of your help!!!!

2:09 am

WTG VASH!!! AND WTG DEE!!!

2:09 am

oh. i didn't have that one either, vash. congrats to you and Dee!

ty vm I think I have the list in my profile; please check and let me know

2:10 am

i see it dee

Thanks, vash, arb, and everyone for all of the help!!!

2:11 am

ty dee for the list

yqw, arb

Great community effort!

2:11 am

thanx dee, it will probably sa4 my sanity

Well, off til the flip... hoping for a nice pool day tomorrow. So glad, rose LOL!!

*poofing with hugs**

2:13 am

sweet dreams, dee

2:13 am

good night dee

2:13 am

thanks for the lists, all!

2:14 am

good night from me as well

2:15 am

ha4 a good one, vash

2:15 am

8 to go here....

2:17 am

4....

2:18 am

can go to bed now, have Dee's list to wake up to - I'm absolutely lost without Lickety

2:18 am

goodnight all

2:18 am

sweet sleep, dear flosey

2:18 am

night Flosey

2:19 am

thanks and good luck with the grid

2:19 am

3....

2:19 am

1....

2:21 am

And Take Off!lal

2:21 am

wtg Rose, and now goodnight

2:21 am

LOLOL....don't hold your breath

2:22 am

aha...

2:23 am

got it!!!! nice grid....except for the last 12 or so.

2:24 am

and thank heavens for dee's list. what an amazing woman she is!!!

2:24 am

I cant see the grid due to all the fireworks! good job E1

2:25 am

lol, pugs. now back to the real world..*sigh*. bed still has to be remade with fresh linen.

2:26 am

whew. fireworks for me, too. thanks again for all the help!

2:26 am

WTG FREEP!!!!

2:36 am

night y'all!

2:37 am

g-night Just

2:37 am

and goodnight to you freep, hope you ha4 sweet repose

2:37 am

good morning all :)

2:38 am

(((SPRITE))) morning

2:38 am

hiya pug *hug and rose *hug*!

2:38 am

how was your day yesterday

2:40 am

very intensive, but good. And I am home alone until tomorrow afternoon :D

2:41 am

{{sprite}} hello dear

2:41 am

Sometimes thats nice to have the house all to yourself--enjoy!

2:41 am

yay, sprite, enjoy your down time

2:41 am

and how are my friends doing?

2:42 am

did it wipe you out yesterday? Iam good

2:43 am

not so badly, dear. youngest son and wife attended first counselling session yesterday afternoon. turned up here this AM looking like how they should be, two kids very much in love.

2:43 am

yeah kind of. It was lovely to come home in a really quiet house and have a peaceful evening. Afterpain after overtaxing is bad due to the new meds. But otherwise I am fine now :)

2:43 am

Thats really good Rose

2:44 am

oh rose, I am SO glad! My husband and I did the same thing and it made all the difference for our marriage. Learning how to communicate together is imperative.

2:44 am

and you yourself, rose? Glad to hear you are good, pug :)

2:44 am

why do the young folk think they don't have to work at a marriage?

2:45 am

sprite, twinges in both right knee and left ankle...nothing i can't handle...lol

2:45 am

I have no idea, rose. But sometimes it seems to me young people nowadays think everything will roll their way.

2:45 am

*sends gentle healing vibes to rose's legs* Any news on the work front?

2:46 am

oh, so totally with you, sprite. if it's not the material aspects, like house, job etc, it's the emotional stuff.

2:46 am

Most of the time I think they are blinded by love and think it will be that way for all the days ahead-lol

2:47 am

sprite, have next week off as well. have to file a new claim, and be examined by an independent medical examiner. lol, told my boss, by the time THAT appointment rolls around, i will probably be back at work...

2:47 am

it is something I have discussions with my son about... that he seems to think he has a RIGHT to everything good. And I keep telling him, yes he kind of has, but he has to work to make it his. He has the right to work towards his goals. That's about it.

2:48 am

lol rose! But still, very good. Let them check it out. Any other doctor will say the very same thing. And please take it easy with going back to work.

2:48 am

pug: that too, but that is of all times, I think :D

2:48 am

so true, sprite. and i never told my kids it would all be handed to them on a silver platter. they saw how hard i had to work...

2:51 am

ah well, at least son has changed his mind about the stand he took last tuesday. the counsellor i got them into is excellent. christian-based, too. she is in her mid-60's, so has been around the block a few times.

2:51 am

our son works in a supermarket. They asked him to start working for once at 6 am. He is very indignant they had the nerve to ask and is doing all he can to make somebody else do it. I watch it and am baffled. We would have simply set our alarm clock and arrived on time.

2:51 am

rose, that is marvellous. Well done!

2:51 am

ROFLOL...sprite that is so funny...

2:52 am

lol... funny, but shocking too, at least to me

2:53 am

yes, sprite, they BOTH like her. and have committed themselves to on-going help. they both recognise they have issues to deal with.

Clues are up

2:54 am

that is the very best thing they can do for their marriage and their joy in life. And it takes courage to make that decision. They are heroes.

2:54 am

hi Lickety, thank you

2:54 am

thanks Lickety

2:54 am

sprite, young people who haven't led a life-style, like university, or institution-based training have no idea that there are TWO 6o'clocks in a day.

2:55 am

roflollllll rose!

2:55 am

thanx lickety

2:55 am

Thats good that they both are willing to work together on it and great Rose that you found them someone like you did

2:56 am

*snort* pugs, it took a lot of phone calls and persistence...

2:56 am

I hope they are now telling you how right you were, rose :)

2:57 am

side note: so that nice Qu there in the corner is just a waste of space today??

2:57 am

well, it's true, sprite. my DH was astounded when we were first married, and i got up at 5:30am in order to prepare myself for a 7:30am shift.

2:58 am

sprite, qu is used once, sq5/20

2:59 am

*giggle* i don't push it, sprite.

2:59 am

yeah. My husband still starts work at 7 am and has to leave home around 6 to be there on time. And I always worked that early too. I mean, what is the hassle? Set alarm clock, get up, do your morning routine and go to work. Easy as pie. Though sleepy-eyed sometimes, but jeezzz, if that is the worst part...

2:59 am

I know several young people in my circle of friends that stays in bed until noon or better. To me the whole day is gone by then

2:59 am

lol rose... you wise woman :D

3:00 am

pug, I couldn't agree more. Left to his own devices my son does the same thing. I know the puber hormones change their sleeping rhythm, but there is such a thing as overdoing it.

3:01 am

thanks for the sq!

3:01 am

besides, sprite, tell him it's a learning curve...

3:01 am

I have worked all three shifts during my working days, and I still get up with the dawn.

3:02 am

also very true.

3:02 am

prepares him for real life. babies don't have a clock, they just yell when they are hungry...

3:02 am

it is as simple as that, rose.

3:02 am

Even when I lived at home we had to get up and deliever papers before school

3:03 am

I keep wanting to enter garnet.

3:03 am

ditto, pugs. the night shift was the hardest. i had to stay up until the kids went to school, about 8-8:30am, then be up again at 3pm to go pick them up.

3:04 am

ouch, that is tough indeed, rose.

3:04 am

oh, pugs, don't start me on that track. paper deliveries...

3:05 am

Yeah I think 3rd shift is the hardest too but you got to do what ya gotta do

3:05 am

baby sitting, cleaning, supermarket. When didn't we work?

3:05 am

imean, how do you send a 12 year-old out at 5am, in howling winds and poring rain.

3:05 am

you don't.

3:05 am

Kids at home we had morning routes,evening routes and the sunday news-lol

3:06 am

yup, mother got up at and drove said child around his paper route.

3:06 am

i think i knew that route better than he did...lol

3:07 am

same with us Rose--mom or dad had to taxie us on several days

3:08 am

my mother never did. By the time I was 12 I did most of the house keeping, cooking, shopping and even accounting. Plus later on the supermarket etc. And school.

3:08 am

come to think of it, he never have me a brass razzoo for helping him out...lol...think i could ask for payment noe, with interest? he's 32 this year.

3:08 am

*gave*

3:08 am

*now*

3:08 am

I had bags tied to the back of my horse and done my route that way(the horse knew the route as well as I)lol

3:09 am

should work, rose. No worries about pension then :D

3:09 am

oh pug that is priceless :D

3:10 am

the collecting is what I hated

3:10 am

lol, sprite...and pugs...we should be so lucky to have a horse...mind you, at one st5 i definitely considered it.

3:11 am

collecting what, pug?

3:11 am

the money for the papers

3:12 am

did i tell you gals, middle son brought braxton over mid-week? he has such an incredible head of soft mid-brown hair, and lungs on him like you wouldn't believe.

3:12 am

ah, I am glad we never had to do that. All went by bills here.

3:12 am

granny got in lots of cuddles

3:12 am

oh rose, no you didn't, shame on you ;) How wonderful! How is he doing?

3:12 am

you wouldnt believe the people that would give us kids the runaround for just a dollar

3:13 am

that is so sad, pug.

3:14 am

sprite, beautifully. gaining weight. and son is such a wonderful dad. to watch him is like watching poetry. he is an amazing young man

3:14 am

rose, that sounds so good :D Am so happy for you all.

3:14 am

brb need some coffee

3:14 am

good morning

3:15 am

hiya ruby :)

3:15 am

i have never seen a man handle a new-born like he does...*sigh* i did something right.

3:15 am

{{ruby}} my darling girl. are you well today??

3:15 am

to be honest with you, rose, you are doing loads of things right.

3:16 am

*sigh* thanx sprite. sometimes i wonder...

3:16 am

don't. Never doubt it.

3:17 am

et tu, my friend.

3:18 am

mwah, me not as much. But still enough for most days :)

3:18 am

Hi there Ruby

3:18 am

It's another perfect (weather) day and I have lots of ripe tomatoes in the garden.

3:19 am

how lovely, ruby! They taste so much better from your own garden.

3:19 am

I started working at about 7, as soon as I was tall enough to use the cash register in my father's candy store. And he would leave me alone there, for an hour a day, while he went to pick up my mother from her work.

3:20 am

I just could serve ice cream or sodas because I was so short

3:20 am

another leaf on the same branch you are, rose :)

3:20 am

good working skills are a must in life I think

3:20 am

On the other hand, I did nothing around the house....except shopping when I was older

3:20 am

couldn't8

3:23 am

my mother didn't manage her affairs well at all and I picked up where she left off from very early on.

3:23 am

I loved working in the store

3:24 am

Rose you are just being too hard on yourself! We none are perfect nor are we suppose to be and doing your best is all you can do and I dont see where you are too short filling those orders

3:24 am

Ruby was your father a candy maker

3:26 am

Sprite maybe your mom done the best she could--was her mom like that too

3:26 am

no, her mother still managed very well until into her 80s. And yes, of course you are right. Only the best she could (and the best my father could) left me handicapped for life. So that kind of sucks.

3:27 am

no, pugs, it was just a \NY-style candy store with a fountain, newspapers, books, toys, cigarettes and cigars, andy, magazines, comic books, greeting cards, you name it! It was wonderful

3:28 am

I was very lucky

3:28 am

ahh Sprite thats sad your childhood was as such--hugs---

3:29 am

thanks for the hug :) Didn't mean to bring down the mood!

3:30 am

{{sprite}}

3:30 am

hugs are good. Sometimes I think hugs are maybe the best things in life.

3:30 am

Is Braxton's hair curly or straight?

3:30 am

we were too Ruby. We didnt have alot of money but we were all close.I got 5 sisters (all younger)And we were taught to work and to work together

3:31 am

thanks ruby :)

3:32 am

Sprite is your family close(talking about your kids)

3:33 am

yes they are, thank God.

3:35 am

its sad to me now for since my mother has passed our family has drifted apart

3:35 am

that is sad indeed

3:36 am

the image of you delivering papers with your horse is precious,pugs. If people didn't pay, you could always have your horse poop on their seps

3:36 am

Do you ladies have sisters and brothers

3:36 am

steps*

3:36 am

lol Ruby!

3:36 am

sorry, ruby, at the moment braxton's hair is straight

3:37 am

pugs, i have 4 brothers, i am the eldest.

3:37 am

was you a tomboy Rose

3:37 am

I have one sister, who is as damaged as I am. Her diagnosis is borderline. And two half-sisters whom I don't know at all. They were taught I was a very bad person and they always treated me as such.

3:37 am

Rose, don't you feel sorry for the mothers of baby girls with no hair who have to put rubber bands with bows around the babies' heads?

3:38 am

is your sister younger or older Sprite and are you two close

3:38 am

I have one sister, in NY, 6 years older -- very much like me, but also very different in many ways. And she has a very unhappy life

3:38 am

lol @ poop on the stoop

3:39 am

we are 3 years apart, me being the older, and we are close in one sense, but have trouble keeping an ongoing relationship.

3:39 am

yeah, ruby, i sure do...then my niece has so much hair it really needs to be tied back(she is 18 months old) , her mother is afraid she will try to swallow any hair-clips or elastics she uses.

3:39 am

keeping up*

3:41 am

John was born with long, straight dark hair which grew out in bands of color until, at 6 monthsd he had golden curls (just like my father!)

3:41 am

aw nice :)

3:42 am

he was such a beautiful baby that strangers used to kiss him in the street and give him money

3:43 am

ouch... scary

3:43 am

(inEurope, of course, not the US)

3:43 am

and he had no teeth 'til one year, but could talk and sing by then

3:44 am

My sisters were my best friends until they all started drifting away. I am still close to four of them-though 2 lives away from here .But my youngest wont speak as I told you all about the thing with Gradyn

3:44 am

I love you, kids, but husband is stomping around and needs me

3:44 am

*woof*

3:45 am

tell him hi from me :)

3:46 am

I swear that Ruby is like a little bird with the cage door open!lol Bye Ruby

i have just read the back chog about families, I am blessed with wonderful in-laws - my husband has 4 brothers and there are 28 members of the family who live within walking distance of us

3:55 am

sounds awesome, Jjenny

3:56 am

Hi Jenny--How lovely

It is, my husband speaks or see at least one of his brothers every day and sometimes all 4 of them. I have 3 brothers one of whom I have only seen twice in 25 years so different from my inlaws

3:59 am

sorry everyone, have to dash off, mother mac appears to be having an angina attack

4:00 am

Thats so great that your in-laws has welcome you into their mist

4:00 am

what is that Rose and hope shes okay

4:01 am

so sorry, rose. Hope she will be better soon

4:01 am

Jjenny, am sad your own family isn't close, but how wonderful that you are so welcome in your in-law's family.

I had just moved to Oxford from London after loosing my father aged 17, met my husband the day after moving here, was engaged in 6 weeks, married two years later and have now been married for 54 years

4:02 am

that is so romantic!

It does take a special sort of person to become like our family but most people who join find its ok after a few months - in fact in 50 years I have only found 2 people who didn't fit and they both got divorced!!

4:03 am

what a delightful story! and with such a happy ending--like cinderella

4:03 am

oh wow... that is saying something!

I do feel very blessed although it hasn't all been smooth sailing especially the last couple of years with my health not being so good but I wouldn't change a thing

4:05 am

I hope Mothe Mac is okay. Kind of worried now for Rose.

4:08 am

Mother Mac is a worry for them. I hope she will be ok too.

4:08 am

no ride in life is without its bumps but thats what makes the ride exciting. Hope your health gets better Jenny

4:08 am

Jjenny, yeah, failing health is a biggie. But you sound like someone who knows how to enjoy life anyway.

We have had to cancel the last 3 holidays we have booked, but I am now waiting for one more result and as I am so much better we are hoping to go away in October

4:10 am

what is angina attack Sprite?

4:11 am

pug: a symptom of heart disease. Severe pain in the chest.

4:11 am

where are you planning to vacation at Jenny

4:11 am

oh, thank you Sprite

We are looking at another cruise to the Caribbean - we went about 2 years ago and loved it

4:12 am

Jjenny: keeping my fingers crossed for you!

thanks sprite

4:13 am

I need to run hubby to a friends bb in a bit

4:13 am

ok pug :)

4:32 am

fireflies. *hugs* to you all. I hope you are all well, including Mother Mac.

5:11 am

hi all. Got a kick out of the definition of a new word I monkeyed earlier today. It's an sq (are there more than one today?) meaning " to produce an output that oscillates between a certain maximum and zero, especially when due to the effect of a grid." ... especially when Lickety isn't around.

5:14 am

The only one i have is the SQ5/20 you are describing, Jwr.

5:14 am

hmm - looks like I'm speaking to an empty room again. Ah well, I'll just go back the word list and just chortle to myself once in awhile. Bye y'all.

5:15 am

Sorry...was making a cup of tea.

5:15 am

Aha? Zoom is here. That's the one. Was it new to you too -- or are you into electronics?

5:16 am

I am sure i have seen it before in the grids..but not a word i have needed to use...lol

5:19 am

I may have missed it because I don't push to finish grids when I don't have the time (no fun then), and I'm sure I would have remembered it since it's so odd: a compound word.

5:20 am

I'll remember it now, though, for sure. And as you say, it won't ever get used otherwise.

5:21 am

It can also be spelt with a KW i see!

5:25 am

back..cooee zooz and jwr

5:25 am

Teehee that was in yesterdays grid, ((Rose))

5:26 am

yeah, i know, couldn't use it as a greeting

5:26 am

Really? Didn't see that. Probably won't stick though since it doesn't glue together the same words that make it memorable. Sometimes I get such a kick out of babble/ Hi rose. Cooee was yeste -- oops - zooz beat me to it. or "snap" as you say.

5:27 am

We're talking about the SQ, rose. I'm sure you have it.

5:28 am

yes, jwr. it certainly is a weird word

5:28 am

If you go back to 5:11, you'll see what I've been ticked about.

5:29 am

another weird one is the av5

5:30 am

Av 5/16 Rose, that one?

5:30 am

yes, zooz. once you see the definition it makes sense

5:30 am

That's right. I was doing a quick lurk (I call them in-and-outs) earlier when someone made a joke about that one, I think -- about doing it with an American Southern accent.

5:33 am

ah, just checked zooz, no. the av5/20

5:33 am

... yes the 5/20

5:34 am

it's the last of the 5 av's

5:34 am

Ahh ok..just checked the Def..and could not get what you meant...thank you..will look for the AV 5/20

5:34 am

broad definition plane fuel

5:36 am

Yep got it!

5:36 am

also the le7/8 combo was new to me. foliage + era

5:36 am

For piston engines.

5:37 am

also oa5/16. different plural for oa4, thugs

5:38 am

the 7/48 & 8/65? I think that's one of the ones that made jillibus give up in disgust and poof away saying there were too many made-up words in the grid today.

5:38 am

yeah, jwr

5:39 am

there is sa6/7 combo. type of sport, like boxing, using hands and feet

5:41 am

tr6/30, no meaning in dictionary.com. it is the la4 tr...

5:41 am

That got me too, until I realized it was pronounced, a la francais, without the final letter

5:42 am

yes, like se5/12. mostly se4 in the bible, between verses

5:43 am

...talking about the boxing one. Sorry I'm getting some chats online now so I have to pay attention to work for a bit.

5:47 am

how rude, work interfering with babble..lol

5:47 am

back, sort of. I think this chatter will be back again soon though. ... rose, don't have the se 5/12; will work on it (I've got 208 so have quite a way to go) but since I'm in such a giggly mood tonight, you made me think about all the hidden meanings between/behind biblical verses.

5:48 am

ahhh, se5, se + ***,***, singing

5:49 am

har=dee-har. Who said it was interfering? It keeps me sane.

5:49 am

ty shoulda seen that

5:49 am

Sorry had phone call...back to the le7/8 combo... in a strange way (maybe)..that is the type of word/s that i have heard people saying on gardening programs but not seen written down..lol

5:50 am

You have to branch out to new words granny like le7

5:50 am

the punster returns!

5:50 am

hahaha very good, Ruru

5:51 am

I tink I must leef you now

5:52 am

I went out in a limb for that one

5:52 am

ruru!!! what are you doing awake?? is all okay, mate?

5:52 am

Teehee take care, Jwr :-)

5:52 am

more like limb-o

5:53 am

not my leg you didn't...*not sure could handle a ruru hanging off my leg*

5:53 am

Yep. I am in a different time zone

5:53 am

later, jwr. have a good one.

5:54 am

okay, ruru.so long as you areokay.

5:54 am

Thanks for the intermezzo, all. Call AND chat coming in, one on crisis line. As long as ruru is here, you're all in good hands. poof

5:56 am

Nice to talk to you, Jwr..take care.

6:00 am

hello, back from poopy lunch

6:00 am

Hello, Ruby..sounds like you did not enjoy it then.

6:01 am

I wish there was a c in the corner

6:01 am

Poopy lunch?

6:02 am

Gaves

6:02 am

Oops

6:02 am

no plural, Ruru

6:02 am

Freakin phone

6:04 am

maiden name" lief

6:04 am

getting on here, after 9pm...bed is singing it's siren song

6:04 am

Sleep well, Rose..nice to see you.

6:05 am

Ooh don is playing officer don?

6:06 am

lol...yup...goodnight dear friends. enjoy the grid

6:07 am

Lol. Hope you don't get a ticket

6:08 am

He might have to frisk you

6:08 am

Or frisky you :D

6:08 am

lol

6:23 am

Ok down to 86 more to find..taking a break.

6:37 am

top left corner N stats please>'

6:40 am

ne6/24 and ne7/36

6:41 am

ty simp ithought thats what the word was but for some reason i tried it 3 times before and it wouldnt go in

6:42 am

E on the first column?

6:43 am

good morning everyone:)) today for those who do not know is official world black cat appreciation day:))

6:44 am

good morning cross

6:44 am

eg5 food going out, not in :-)

6:45 am

ty une

6:45 am

just zipping by -- BBL :-)

6:45 am

yw :-)

6:47 am

R 5th column stats please?

6:48 am

I believe it's re5/10

6:51 am

just got to 100 words found

6:52 am

Nice!

7:17 am

En621 anyone

7:20 am

A clue for en 6/21 - en + an angelic circle around the head. + plural

7:22 am

Oh. That described me

7:22 am

HA!

7:23 am

Ty

7:26 am

Fe8 55 #1?

7:27 am

I'm working on that one myself.

7:29 am

fe8 - ends like left over but with a differnt cons in place of the x.

7:30 am

Not a good clue. sorry.

7:30 am

Got it! Fe 8/55 (first one) fe + bird's home + Egyptian sun deity.

7:30 am

Great clue, boat.

7:30 am

Thanks :)

7:33 am

Thank you

7:34 am

Sure :)

7:44 am

ty, boat for the fe8! gm, everyone!

7:44 am

Morning LBD

how about clues.stats for the other s? gm all

7:45 am

yw :)

7:45 am

Morning, Molly

7:45 am

morning, TO

7:45 am

Other s?

and pls whatever is the right corner r?

8s

7:46 am

I just got a sa 6/7/8 combo meaning uncivilized; barbarous.

7:46 am

The r is not walked again

ty and ty. duh

should not have begun this, won't be able to finish. going to philly folk fest

7:48 am

phantom=agave

7:49 am

Nice day for an outdoor festival.

7:50 am

se 8/55 - ocean + price of a ticket + er

yes! will have to pack for four season though :)

ty boa

7:50 am

yw :)

ithe let column e is also tricky, i have one which i think is the opp of tkae in

7:52 am

re8 to re seal ..has the word op to slow in it.

all of the e words are slow for me. ty zooz

7:54 am

And PB for me for saying se4...sorry, all.

i wasn't going to tell :)

7:54 am

:-)

ok. bbs have to get somewhat ready.

8:00 am

*Tosses blueberry muffins to Zoom in the PB*

8:01 am

They will go lovely with my cuppa..thanks, Molly :-)

8:02 am

*whimper*

8:02 am

If people in Britain have a cuppa, do people in Ireland have a cup'o? *Tosses blueberry muffins to Hursh too*

8:03 am

What up, Hurshy?

8:03 am

i want real muffin

8:03 am

not virtual

8:04 am

True..i am making do with honey sandwhiches.

8:04 am

Nope. I can confirm that we have cuppas here. But far mor frequently, we have a dhrop a tay.

8:04 am

a drap, maybe?

8:05 am

who has a drap?

8:05 am

Hello, Soodle :-)

8:06 am

Tea? Is tea some kind of code word for whiskey?

8:06 am

Hi Zooz, Molly, Hursh, & all. :-)

8:09 am

Its complicated. Tea is what you eat, early in the evening - tea-time. Tay , or a dhrop of it is what you drink before drinking time.

8:09 am

Good day to all.

8:09 am

Hi Scrabbler.

8:10 am

Hello, Scrabs.

8:11 am

hi scrabs, soodle, hursh, zooz

8:11 am

Hello, Dawg :-)

8:11 am

Hi Dawg

8:12 am

37 remaining for later. must get ready for the day. enjoy the grid and have a lovely day/evening.

8:13 am

oh google does not like the word Dhrop.

8:13 am

Enjoy the day, dawg.

8:13 am

You too, Dawg!

8:13 am

Google is not partial to Gaelic. : )

8:13 am

Think Mrs Doyle in Fr Ted, Zooz.

8:13 am

So it seems, Moly.

8:14 am

Molly*

8:14 am

It is my keypad..does not like fast typing.

8:14 am

Holy Moly!

8:14 am

Teehee, Soodle.

8:15 am

Well, looks like the rain has stopped. Back to my outdoor chores. Have a good day all.

8:16 am

His looks inspired me with profound disgust and dislike, which were not at all lessened when I saw him take from the hands of a comrade a black bottle, and applying it to his lips, solace himself with a 'dhrop of the cratur.'

8:16 am

Ah so we are getting the rain from you..thanks a lot..lol...have a good day, Soodle.

8:16 am

Happy saturday all.

8:16 am

What is that from, o-o?

8:17 am

Waving to Soodle....

8:17 am

Hello, o-o

8:17 am

Buon giorno, hego.

8:17 am

Hello, Hego.

8:17 am

The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

8:17 am

Interesting, o-o.

8:19 am

Clues for far left E, please?

8:19 am

ciao scrabs

8:20 am

eg 5/14 and 6/24

8:20 am

eg5 E + readers di*** magazine.

8:21 am

TY for eg5. Looking for the 6.

8:21 am

plural

8:22 am

Aha, vowel added.

8:22 am

really?

8:22 am

oh, ty

8:22 am

Ok sorry for being dumb..but what is 'Cratur'..is it some type of mead? alchol type drink?

8:23 am

Alcohol*

8:24 am

Whiskey..ok got it.

8:25 am

Yes sorry, Scrabbler..i do not know why i said plural.

8:25 am

Well, my monkey helped.

8:26 am

somehow I got it from that. :)

8:30 am

some examples make cratur a category of illegal home brew

8:31 am

Suspicion hath it that in this neighborhood, in a still wilder and more secluded spot, there was not long ago another kind of "cratur," not at all extinct, but alive with all the fiery headiness of moonshine "old corn" whiskey.

8:33 am

for sure

8:34 am

Yes i have heard of the term 'moonshine'....Sounds like old corn would be strong enough to blow your head off...lol

8:34 am

a version of aqua vit zooz

8:35 am

Teehee

8:35 am

:)

8:37 am

Ge 6.33 anyone?

8:37 am

hola Ru

8:37 am

ge**** convention

8:38 am

Hmmm......

8:38 am

morning all, may I pls have a nudge of an 8

8:38 am

also a town in switzerland

8:38 am

Hi Peri

8:39 am

Hi Ruru. You are here early for a Saturday.

8:39 am

Hi Peri

8:39 am

Oh! ty o-o

8:39 am

Moonshine: Related Words bathtub gin, red-eye, rotgut; alcohol, ardent spirits, booze, drink, firewater, grog, hooch [slang], John Barleycorn, juice [slang], potable, rum, spirits, strong drink, tipple

8:39 am

No idea ge was a word.

8:40 am

en8 en + angel rings above head.

8:40 am

ty zooz

8:40 am

hahaha rotgut..sounds painful

8:40 am

yw Peri.

8:41 am

ty zooz

8:41 am

I am in nyc scrabs

8:41 am

really!!!

8:42 am

you are pretty close to a lot of babblers on the east coast, ru

8:42 am

yes, he is.

8:42 am

Visiting friends, family, Ruru?

8:43 am

going to trying on some 13 1/2s?

8:43 am

Friends

8:43 am

what part of NY Ru?

8:44 am

Manhattan

8:44 am

great! where?

8:44 am

I have friends in Manhattan too

8:45 am

I was born there.

8:46 am

Scarsdale..and midtown

8:46 am

Love the place.

8:46 am

I passed halfway so I am done with this grid. Enjoy the day, everyone. See you tomorrow.

8:46 am

Bye Scrabs. hagd.

8:47 am

Take care, Scrabs...great to see you.

8:48 am

right corner r, anyone?

8:49 am

re + not walk

8:49 am

I think it is wrong that you cannot have earnt

8:49 am

silly me, ty Zooz.

8:50 am

Hello, Worzel :-)

8:50 am

yw, Hego.

8:50 am

hi Worzel

8:50 am

Ne too hego I am having a blast...great food

8:50 am

hi zooz

8:50 am

hi zooz

8:50 am

the best Ru

8:50 am

hi hego

8:50 am

brb need to reboot

8:51 am

Ruru is a trooper to Babble on vacation.

8:51 am

:-)

8:53 am

I am an addict to babble on vacation

8:54 am

Tr 6/30 any clues appreciated.

8:54 am

I forget all about everything when I travel.

8:54 am

I think a 12 step program is in order. : P

8:58 am

Hi I am ru...and I am..

8:58 am

um...okay

8:59 am

molly are you still here?

8:59 am

found it thanks to morewords..meaning forbidden food....Fireworks for me.

9:00 am

Have a great day, all...bye.

9:00 am

WTG!! Zooz!!

9:01 am

teas

9:01 am

Hi RB

9:01 am

Thanks ((Hego))........*poof*

9:03 am

hi hego and everybody. Our tiny book group meets here today so i MUST SOON SHOVEL MESS SO THERE'S SITTING ROOM. wE'RE DISCUSSING GREENGAGE sUMMER, rUNER gODDEN--ANYBODY READ IT? iF SO i HAVE A QUESTION

9:04 am

Hve not read it, sorry.

9:04 am

sorry caps. Molly, I have a message for you.

9:04 am

Post it. She'll read it at some point. Maybe

9:05 am

she dodges in and out with words of wisdom--and interest

9:05 am

yup

9:06 am

the sq 5/20 has returned to the grid

9:06 am

and wisecracks

9:06 am

sq 5,20. hmm...

9:06 am

yes--and changes her logo

9:06 am

last tr6?

9:07 am

do eggs have wise cracks ... or just yolks?

9:07 am

yukka yukka

9:09 am

most of woody plant + haute couture: high **s*ion

9:10 am

ty, knew the word, but no idea how to spell it.

9:16 am

Any comment on Christie's vetoes of gun laws, hego?

9:21 am

:P

9:21 am

Tr5.16 anyone

9:21 am

That is my official comment.

9:22 am

Do not have tr 5. Sorry.

9:22 am

tr + *** maria

9:22 am

t + party with X

9:23 am

(ecstasy)

9:23 am

sounds likefun, KJE

9:23 am

OH, not that.

9:24 am

<--too old too get that one. : }

9:24 am

Thank you

9:25 am

yw

9:25 am

Halfway. Break now. bbl.

9:26 am

29 left, time for teabreak

9:27 am

9 left... sticking it out

9:30 am

Finito ...back to having fun tAta

9:31 am

hagd ru

9:33 am

FW

9:33 am

I'm off to start my Saturday as well... hagd all

9:39 am

Hello, Haz. The Troubles you speak are daunting .... and continue ...

9:42 am

Nothing like as bad as they once were, I have to say. It's not perfect but it's better than it was.

9:43 am

Yes, progress is good. Do harbor any trauma?

9:44 am

Can't write today ... keep on skipping words

9:45 am

Did not mean to be overly nosy. I am gone.

9:46 am

I'm not properly traumatised, no, but the memories come back sometimes.

9:46 am

It's okay. Have a good day.

9:49 am

And I'm off as well.

10:33 am

good morning all

10:34 am

hello

10:36 am

hi anita

10:37 am

hello anita and mixi

10:39 am

hi mixi

10:41 am

10 left and struggling

10:42 am

hello

10:43 am

87 left.

10:43 am

i have eg 5/14 from the first column E what is the other one please?

10:44 am

eg6 add a letter

10:45 am

add it where?

10:46 am

at the end.

10:46 am

never mind:)

10:48 am

Hint for eg5 please

10:48 am

add a vowel to the end kristin

10:49 am

Lol need the 5 first please

10:49 am

e plus may i sug****you look on morewords

10:49 am

fe8?

10:49 am

oh my bad, what MLF said :)

10:50 am

lol pab

10:50 am

Thank you both!

10:50 am

in architecture fe8 is a small windowlike opening

10:53 am

i got fe 7/8

10:54 am

pab does it come from the right fe?

10:54 am

fe8 comes before the marshes

10:54 am

yes comes from right f

10:55 am

as in the 4 letter word of a name of a plant?

10:56 am

no, the one that is the marshy lowlands in England

10:56 am

as in french for window.

10:56 am

oh

10:57 am

i need the bottom right r clue please?

10:57 am

to walk fast again

11:00 am

can anyone clue ha5/12 & ha6/21 please my last 2.

11:00 am

can we break that down please?

11:00 am

re + didnt walk but hurried

11:01 am

duhh ty

11:01 am

now i have nbt

11:01 am

yw

11:02 am

i have two f words on the first column and no idea what they are ugghh

11:04 am

fe5= to eat much food

11:04 am

to play golf you pay course fe/4

11:07 am

ha 5/12 is a Hawaaian word for white person

11:09 am

ty bichon

11:09 am

yvw.

11:10 am

fireworks tyvm bichon gave me what i have been looking for for ages

11:10 am

I only have 54 words, but I did have that

11:10 am

couldnt find it anywhere even after i listed

11:12 am

poof im gone catch you all 2morrow

11:12 am

good morning :)

11:12 am

bye anita

11:12 am

hello nan

11:14 am

Hi teach, mixi, nan

11:15 am

fireworks.

11:15 am

hello everybody

11:16 am

WTG mixi

11:16 am

congrats mixi

11:16 am

weird delay here

11:16 am

hello ruby

11:16 am

hello teach

11:16 am

hi ruby

11:16 am

hello bichon

11:17 am

I should be outside gardening, but I'm waiting 'til the temp drops a little

11:17 am

I'm taking a break from cleaning. Having company next week.

11:18 am

how many people?

11:19 am

woould you like my gazpacho recipe?

11:22 am

My d.i.l. and the two grand kids. Of course the house will get messy pretty soon after they arrive, but I must get rid of the cobwebs

11:23 am

av 5/20, please?

11:25 am

av + Las Ve***

11:25 am

av + put *** in your car

11:25 am

av + what you might cook on

11:25 am

thnx bichon

11:25 am

thnx mixi

11:26 am

yvw teach

11:26 am

ty bichon

11:26 am

ty ty

11:26 am

thnx erdA

11:26 am

and erda and mixi

11:26 am

YW Nan

11:26 am

and teach

11:26 am

It's a chorus of clues!

11:27 am

hello Molly

11:27 am

hi Molly, Erda

11:27 am

Hello all

11:27 am

Hi bichon

11:29 am

hello molly

11:31 am

fe 8, please? - keep wanting the french window

11:31 am

Very close Nan

11:31 am

which f is it from?

11:31 am

oh - got it - ty molly

11:32 am

There is a bird home in the middle

11:32 am

The first column one, Bich

11:33 am

ty MOlly

11:33 am

time to refuel the brain cells bbl

11:53 am

tr 6/30, please?

11:54 am

nm - found it

11:54 am

Good Morning, Everyone! How is the grid today; worth starting (and maybe having time to finish) or a nasty grid?

11:55 am

hi nef ... lots of manufactured and non words as well as obscure foreign ones

11:55 am

Morning Nef- I'm finding it fairly smooth sailing so far

11:57 am

MagMom, that is a really nice picture of you.

11:57 am

*!* ta da *!* - thanks for the help - *@%$#! grid

11:57 am

hmm, one says no so nice; one says fairly easy. I'll just wait and see how many words I spot before I actually do start....

11:57 am

TY Molly.

11:57 am

OK grid - there are considerable non-words, foreign ones, but probably no more than usual considering the size of the grifd

11:57 am

got to run -- back at the flip if I'm still awake

11:58 am

I have to laugh at myself: it seems that I rarely finish a grid anyway lately, so why worry? :-)

11:59 am

it does start out eaily because there are so mqany words available in the grid

11:59 am

Same here Nef. I do what I can, but don't worry about finishing.

12:00 pm

unfortunately my aim is to finish

12:00 pm

I've got 115 left and have to go get ready for my dad's 81st bday party

12:01 pm

what an exciting event - enjoy

12:02 pm

Hi Everyone-back to find a few more if I can

12:02 pm

ty teach. just doing burgers, cake and ice cream, but I've got to go shopping.

12:03 pm

Now that we have our son and family here all the time; I haven't been able to even be here this week. And I'm sure the grandson will be running in soon asking me to "come play" (I'm playing more and not doing things I *have* to do (housework) which is a constant frustration with DIL.

12:04 pm

Sounds like fun, magazine mom! I hope it's a great day for him!

12:04 pm

ty Nef!

12:04 pm

Why is doing housework a constant frustration with your daughter in law?

12:05 pm

Nef- enjoy that little guy while you can. Housework can wait!

12:07 pm

Because she has *issues* Molly. I don't really want to get started on it. :-(

12:07 pm

I think she thinks we aren't clean enough.

12:08 pm

I agree magmom.

12:08 pm

hi everyone, back for last 61

12:08 pm

Oh, sorry Nef.

12:08 pm

Nef, she's the one with 'issues' - perhaps she could pitch in and help?

12:09 pm

Go, GO flossy! You can do it!!

12:09 pm

thanks Nef, need that encouragement today

12:09 pm

It would be nice if she stopped making all the nasty comments, flossy.

12:10 pm

absolutely! how rude

12:10 pm

Wow, if someone is gracious enough to take you into their home, the last thing you should do is make nasty comments about their cleaning habits.

12:11 pm

surely she realizes that having them there creates more work

12:12 pm

when i was a kid, my father always "cleaned" right after I did. so i stopped cleaning all together

12:12 pm

there can't possibly still be 18 words that start with S :-(

12:12 pm

hi Dan with such a sweet little daughter

12:13 pm

housecleaning is not all that important to me

12:13 pm

decent is what i aim for

12:13 pm

tx flosey! I blinked and she's starting preschool next month

12:13 pm

wow, hard to believe, isn't it

12:14 pm

*Cues up "Where Are You Going, My Little One" for 2Bit*

12:15 pm

yes, and of course it only gets faster

12:15 pm

Aw Dan! She's a cutie. I wish mine were still that age. My oldest started high school yesterday. :(

12:16 pm

Mine are all over 21. Now I'm just waiting around for grandkids.

12:20 pm

106 left. I'm really going shopping now. Ugh. Everyone have a great day!

12:25 pm

what are the stats for the corner r?

12:27 pm

re5 harpjane

12:27 pm

thank

12:27 pm

(thanks)

12:27 pm

Sorry, Grandson is taking me away. HAGD, Everyone!

12:31 pm

thanks Nef and enjoy that grandson

12:31 pm

Nef, did you get the word I'm coming to see you? Molly L, I've been trying to get you a messzge. Hello, all.

12:32 pm

What is your message?

12:33 pm

You said nice things abt my books a while back. If I had your address I'd send you something. my email is jjack1@uis.edu. I'm legit, ask Nef. I'll see her week after next.

12:34 pm

Thanks

12:35 pm

arts

12:36 pm

sorry

12:38 pm

hi all.. roundbarn, do you write books? would like to know ... i am a bookaphobic....... i may have read one of yours

12:39 pm

or is bookaholic or bookie???????

12:41 pm

SMom, if you are a bookie, I need to talk to you about a horse race. : )

12:42 pm

hey molly... o don't know nuthin 'bout no hoss racin,,,, heh heh

12:48 pm

sammys--look up my websites. roundbarnstories is one with all the latest, beloitcitypress we're just getting going, and my old one is jacquelinejackson, I think--anyway wou'd see me with a goat standing on my back. Most of my childrens books are out of print but available at Amazon and abebooks. One is horrendously expensive, the rest ok. I was second in line for the Newbury for Taste of Spruce Gum. It'ds good reading for adults. The RB books are for adults, use discretion with kids (lotsa sex on a farm). Thanks for asking.

12:50 pm

hi redbarn. hello all

12:51 pm

help with the sa8 pls

12:52 pm

peri, I have something addressed to you--it'll go out Monday. Smile.

12:52 pm

Oh, great, I am looking forward to getting it. thanks so much.

12:52 pm

round........ amazing coincidence. you mention your book taste of spruce gum........... a few days ago, iwas ranting about my childhood to my great grands and told them about how my dad would cut me plugs of spruce sap for gum when i was a kid in maine

12:53 pm

sa8...most brutal

12:53 pm

you'll like the book, then--it won the Dorothy Canfield Fisher (A Vermont award)

12:53 pm

ty Molls

12:55 pm

I'm signing off--belong to a tiny book group, they're meeting here soon--we're discusiing Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden--I'm feeding them blts and don't even have a table. Well, they know that. So, poof.

12:55 pm

Need help with the le8. I have le5,6,7,6 but no 8

12:56 pm

le8...what grows on a tree + how many years you are

12:56 pm

same first four + turn the p*** of the book + plural

12:58 pm

ty

1:01 pm

bbs

1:17 pm

tadone!! finito!! challenging grid.

1:19 pm

whoo hooo lbd!

1:19 pm

hi all

hi jmc :-)

1:21 pm

*tap tap tap* is this on?

1:21 pm

hi diane! :-)

testing, 1, 2, 3, 4,

1:22 pm

o goodie it is working!

1:23 pm

how have things be going in the chog since i was on break?

I think it's been the norm.... I don't often have chog open though.... I just chime in now and then :-)

1:24 pm

i appreciate all chimes!

1:24 pm

but not all buzzers

1:26 pm

hiya JMC! hi diane

I love the good old fashioned door chimes.... we had very nice old brass ones in the house I lived in , in Victoria. I now just have a buzzer that doesn't work half the time ( remotely activated! )

and we are giving "buzzers" a double meaning here... LOL

Hi lb :-)

1:27 pm

ugh my stupid door bell is inside the storm door. . . I can't lock my storm door and i finally put a note on it saying that the bell is inside!

1:27 pm

my doorbell is boring. it goes dink don...I think it lost it's g before we moved in. it's really aenemic.

1:27 pm

i am thinking about moving it but i am terrified how much it would cost!

1:28 pm

i have a really loud one left over from when my hubby was alive since he was so hard of hearing! but i still can't always hear it in the back of the house

Maybe we'll all have to go back to the old door knockers !

1:29 pm

you can get a door bell that isn't wired into the house--I think that's the remote one that diane is referring to.

1:29 pm

i would never hear that in the back.

1:29 pm

the knock that is

1:30 pm

you need one like the Addams family...one that screams...or was that young Frankenstein?

1:30 pm

stats for the corner N please

And gone are the days when your friends could just stick their head in an unlocked door and say "anybody home?"

1:30 pm

ne4.4

1:31 pm

the Addams family bell was like a fog horn. . . young Frankenstein had the screaming one

1:31 pm

top corner N is ne6.24 and plural

1:31 pm

i didn't lock my door until early this year when there started to be a rash of home invasions with people home!

1:31 pm

well, either one would get your attention! lol

1:32 pm

biab. need to check on hubz.

1:32 pm

ty

1:32 pm

i will probably stop locking it when the recession is over. . .

1:34 pm

stats for the first column E please

I think they are eg5/14 and eg 6/24

1:36 pm

hmmm

once I am well on my way with the grid, I'm never sure which is which

1:37 pm

haha i know what you mean. . . but some of them can only come from one letter. . .

1:37 pm

ty i got nbt from that

good ! everything "came out" okay then ;-)

1:38 pm

three more minutes and then i have to go back to being useful. . . having a barbeque tomorrow with about 25-30 people so am cooking up a storm today. . .

1:39 pm

i actually could use some babbland advice. . . making a potato green bean salad with a little red onion but i can't decide what to dress it with. . .

sounds ambitious, although when family is all here we have about 25 .... but everyone pitches in with salads, etc.

1:40 pm

i used golden and white potatoes . . .it is very pretty

1:40 pm

people will bring food. . . even if I asked them not to!

1:41 pm

i hope they bring beer...most of the veggies are from my garden so the price is right. . .

1:41 pm

olive oil, lemon juice, mustard dressing?

1:41 pm

olive oil, a little lemon zest, a light vinegar (white or red wine), salt and pepper

hmmmm..... something light and oily, with a bit of zip. I use Balsamic often.

1:42 pm

yum that sounds great. . . and i bought a whole bag of lemons thinking i would make lemonade so it will even be fresh lemon. . .

1:42 pm

lemon zest sounds like a good touch too!

1:43 pm

i just bought a big jar of dijon mustard. . .

Now my mouth is watering, and I just had a big brunch about 2 hours ago !

1:43 pm

toasted almond slivers would be good, too.

1:44 pm

its six pounds of potatoes and a couple of pounds of green beans from my garden. . .

1:44 pm

Dress it whilst the potatoes are warm, takes the dressing better. Also crispy bacon placed on top is good

1:44 pm

i have walnuts. . . pesto making is on the horizon. . . what would you think about walnuts. . .

1:44 pm

i second the bacon

1:45 pm

alas to many vegetarians among my friends for the bacon. . .which i dearly love!

1:45 pm

walnuts can be bitter. but if you like them use them

we are eating our own potatoes and yellow beans at the moment... tomatoes coming at about 5 a day... love the fresh stuff.

1:45 pm

potatoes were cooked yesterday so i will have to dress it at room temp today. . ..

1:46 pm

my tomatoes are still very small and green. this time last year I had a bounty of lovely red maters.

It sounded colourful and simple the way it was... just choose a nice dressing.

1:46 pm

not so much that i like them but they are a cheaper alternative to pine nuts for the pesto

1:46 pm

walnuts in pesto...that's doable. lots of parm!

1:47 pm

i have had a few tomatoes. . .my sister and another gardener in the community garden have had tons!

1:47 pm

i wouldn't do walnuts. Maybe sesame seeds

1:47 pm

I've made pesto with cashews too.

1:47 pm

yes toasted walnuts with the pine nuts stretches the budget a little. . .

1:47 pm

you can also make it with sunflower seeds

1:47 pm

pesto, I mean

1:48 pm

i saw giada make pesto with toasted walnuts which is what ga** me the idea. . .

1:48 pm

my herbs aren't doing well this year either. however, the cilantro is growing like weeds

1:49 pm

I think you can make pesto with just about anything.

1:49 pm

I've even seen it made without basil

1:49 pm

Yes, I've seen it with baby spinach

1:49 pm

my greek oregano died. . . but the thyme and rosemary are doing fine. . . and the bay tree is now 20 ft tall!

1:50 pm

i am sorry but i think pesto with out basil is depressing. . .

1:51 pm

I think pesto without basil isn't pesto. i'd love to have a bay tree. lucky you!

1:51 pm

i freeze it for a little summer in the middle of winter. . .

1:52 pm

i use my tupperware hamburger patty holders and they hold just enough pesto for dinner for two....

1:52 pm

I've put them in ice cube trays and frozen them that way. a couple cubes for dinner.

1:53 pm

i tried several times to get my bay tree growing. . . one year i asked my mother for a bay tree for christmas and the boy said "why? you have a 10 ft tall one in the back yard." And sure enough i did! it was hiding behind the butterfly bush!

...same as laurel, right ?

1:54 pm

i did the ice cube trays too until i got these hamburger patty holders. . .they stack so nicely in the freezer

1:54 pm

yes, bay and laurel are the same.

1:54 pm

yes. . .it is a kind of laurel. . .

1:55 pm

i cut off branches and sell them for a fundraiser for a scholarship fund at my meeting. . .

1:55 pm

i'll have to keep my eyes open for the hamburger patty holders. that sounds like a good idea for other things.

1:56 pm

last time i sold them this woman told me that she put several bay leafs in olive oil and roasted them briefly and then roasted potatoes in them. . .sounds great and i would be able to sell more bay leafs!

I only use bay le6/27 in soups and stews.... I guess I should get more adventuresome !

aha.... just saw idea #1 :-)

1:56 pm

i got them from a tupperware party years ago but i think you can get tupperware online now

1:57 pm

*takes ice tea into pb*

lol

1:57 pm

i had never thought of it either but it sounded wonderful!

1:58 pm

okay i am off to dress my potato salad with. . . .

1:58 pm

olive oil, lemon juice and dijon mustard. . .

1:58 pm

and a little lemon zest. . .

yummmm.

And I'm down to 40 words; off to spend some time in the yard and great grand baby is coming over to visit too. I

1:59 pm

and start my barbeque sauce for my neighborhood famous ribs. . . and start marinating the tofu. . .

I'll be back to finish later... have a nice afternoon, everyone !

1:59 pm

i decided i would rather be tired tonight than tomorrow so i am trying to get a lot of things done today. . .

2:00 pm

how nice. . . give the ggbaby a kiss for me!

She's such fun.... just over 2 years old now

2:00 pm

bye diane and bye all. . . .203 left. . . *poof*

2:03 pm

oooh ggbaby!!

2:03 pm

hagd Diane and JMC!

2:13 pm

Jmc, if you're still around - I will be attending your soiree tomorrow. Only virtually, you understand, so at least it'll be one less mouth to feed. :-)

2:14 pm

Hi Soodle

2:14 pm

Hello Hego. :-)

2:15 pm

I will bw there virtually also. :)

2:15 pm

Meet you at the bay tree!! Virtually!

2:16 pm

You betcha!

2:32 pm

need some ideas on the fe8's pls.

I'm still trying to find the 1st one, the 2nd one is plural of the fe 7/40 fe + cons. + the fee you charge for a service

2:34 pm

ty Luv

2:38 pm

Fee charged for a service?

2:39 pm

the first fe 8 is,,, fe + bird's home + Sun god

thanks gemini

2:40 pm

ty Gemini, i was on the track but did not follow thru.

2:40 pm

yw

2:43 pm

Thank you Gemini. Could anybody expand on the clue for the second Fe 8?

2:43 pm

fe double cons + consumed food

2:44 pm

and pl

2:45 pm

Doh! Thank you Hego. Babble blindness....

2:45 pm

:D

2:51 pm

Hello to my fellow babblers!How is everybody doing today?

2:51 pm

By the way, congratulations to all the finishers! Way to go!

2:51 pm

you are very chirpy today Molly. is everything good?

3:03 pm

help with the re8 pls

3:05 pm

when your buttons come open, you must re 8 them

3:05 pm

rebutton

3:06 pm

Or to close your seatbelt again.

3:06 pm

ty hego, I did not have the base word

3:06 pm

good Peri

3:06 pm

I am missing an 8 and I do not know what it is. I have en, fe, le, sa, se, and re

3:07 pm

will look

3:07 pm

2 fe 8

3:08 pm

ty, looking

3:08 pm

one is a plural

3:08 pm

found it from a clue below, ty

3:08 pm

yw

3:08 pm

85 left, need a break, bbs

3:09 pm

me too bbl

3:17 pm

*Wonders who was chirping* I've been outside for the last hour and a half. : )

3:19 pm

Hello MollyL!How are you doing today? Welcome to the log

3:20 pm

Hi Min, I'm good, how are you?

3:20 pm

I am well,however, I think I might have gotten a lemon car

3:20 pm

Oh no

3:21 pm

I just got my car back from Subaru.Subaru had it for over a month trying to fix something. I got it back yesterday only to find out the AC does not work. Bringing it back Monday.

3:22 pm

Oh how frustrating.

3:23 pm

They had it for a month??? Yikes.

3:24 pm

Did the AC work before then?

3:24 pm

And Hi Min, Molls :-)

3:24 pm

I am wondering how many problems you need to have with a car before it can officially be called a lemon.

3:24 pm

Sorry. Hi Bich. :-)

3:24 pm

Do some Google research on The Lemon Law, Min.

3:24 pm

How old is it Min?

3:24 pm

Hi Sood, Min, Molly

3:24 pm

Yes,the air conditioning worked just fine before.It's weird.

3:25 pm

Is it the same car?

3:25 pm

The car six months old. I got the car in March.

3:25 pm

The Lemon Law in your State, I meant to say.

3:26 pm

New or used?

3:26 pm

New, 2013

3:27 pm

Definitely lemon law material. Get on their case. I would think it's still under warranty and they should give you a loaner.

3:29 pm

They gave me loaner car the whole time they just had car.

3:29 pm

I just googled Lemon Law. What a marvelous piece of legislation.

3:30 pm

They don't have it in Ireland. Get to work Soods. It's a great cause.

3:30 pm

Do they have the lemon law in your country as well Soodle?

3:32 pm

No, Min. Here, if you buy a new car & you have tons of problems with, it's called a Monday Car. Meaning it was assembled on a Monday, when the workers were 'below par' . Another example of Irish euphanisms.

3:33 pm

I remember the first Toyota we got. It was assembled in Canada and we were so happy that it wasn't a US made car

3:33 pm

I like that Monday car.I wonder why they call it lemon here

3:34 pm

Think of eating a lemon, it give's you a sour taste

3:34 pm

Problem I had was a problem I had NEVER heard of before.

3:35 pm

The key got stuck in the ignition and it wouldn't come out.

3:35 pm

Subaru's are supposed to last forever. They really should give you a new car.

3:36 pm

Still, it must be very frustrating to have bought a brand new car & have so much trouble from it. :-(

3:36 pm

Found this on line...It seems most likely that that the use of a ‘lemon’ as a bad car came from another British slang term from the early 1900’s in which “to hand someone a lemon” was "to pass off a sub-standard article as a good one."

3:36 pm

Also, the driver's se4/4 got stuck & was impossible to move

3:36 pm

It took them a month to replace the ignition? Did they work on it on alternate Mondays?

3:36 pm

Oops, sorry molly. for aome reason I thought Minver was you.

3:36 pm

Lol Bich!

3:36 pm

Hi All

3:37 pm

We had two GM cars which were total lemons. After that we only have driven Toyota's

3:37 pm

That is really funny bichon! They said when they hooked it up to the computer,it couldn't tell them exactly which part they needed. So they kept ordering the wrong part for it.

3:37 pm

Good choice Bichon.

3:38 pm

Hi hego

3:38 pm

Sounds like a Monday car Min. I'd definitely be demanding a replacement. A Tuesday or Wednesday model.

3:38 pm

I would get a Honda or a Nissan, but never an American car. I am patriotic except when it comes to durability

3:39 pm

They had to order one of the parts from Japan because it's not sold anywhere in the U.S.Part comes from Japan and it turns out to be the wrong part. So much for technology!

3:39 pm

Hello hego! How are you doing today? Welcome to the grid

3:39 pm

ty and hi Min.

3:41 pm

Don't think that General Motors makes Subarus. I based my decision to get my Subaru after reading Consumer Reports.

3:41 pm

We have had our Toyota's forever. I think they may become lifetime cars.

3:42 pm

Yes, Subaru's have a great reputation..

3:42 pm

My little car is a hyundai. It was making strange noises last week. Usually, when this happens, I turn up the volume on the radio. Sadly, the weird noises got worse. The garage man told me it was on it's last legs. I was gutted. I felt the very same as when the vet told me he was going to have to put my dog down. :-(

3:42 pm

awww.........

3:43 pm

How many miles on it Soodle? Or Km's?

3:43 pm

Bich, I feel the same way about American cars. Been driving Hyundais for 15 years.

3:44 pm

Its a 2003 car, with 180 K miles. Its been a reliable, trusty, stalwart little motor, and I mourn it's impending demise.

3:45 pm

I also wonder what the heck I'm gonna do when it finally lies down & dies....

3:46 pm

Soodle, my last Hyundai lasted over ten years and I sniffed and waved goodbye as they towed it off to the place I donated it.

3:46 pm

Our 2001 Corolla has 65 K miles on it. It will be with us forever

3:47 pm

Long live Bich's Toyota!

3:47 pm

I love "stalwart" to describe a car. It's like it is a relative of The Little Engine That Could. : D

3:48 pm

When my Mom stopped driving she gave us her 2003 Toyota Avalon [more upscale]. I think the Corolla outperforms it.

3:50 pm

I'm not sure if the names of cars are the same in the US as here. My 'stalwart' little chariot is a Hyundai Accent. My son was horrified when I bought it. A very uncool car. To this day, he refers to it as the Hyundai Accident.

3:51 pm

Yes, when we were in Britain this summer the cars had totally different names

3:51 pm

Yep, we have Hyundai Accents here. I have an Elantra.

3:52 pm

My daughters drove a Hyundai Accent into the ground. Still running well when traded off for the Hyundai Sonata.

3:52 pm

My Subaru is the first automatic I purchased.I miss driving a stick. I've always driven a stick shift, but I think stick shifts will soon become obsolete. That's why I got an automatic.

3:53 pm

Hello BzznBea! How are you doing today? Welcome to grid.

3:53 pm

Hello, Min.

3:53 pm

Hi Bea

3:53 pm

We're talking cars here.

3:56 pm

My son, Paul, (the relative formerly known as Son of Soodle), has a VW golf, but modified. A big vroom vroom exhaust & a dixie horn. I was driving it while my own car was in the repair shop. I bamboozled other 'boy racers'. They saw the souped up car, then when they got alongside, they saw this menopausal woman at the wheel. He he he

3:57 pm

He drives a Golf and he was embarrassed about YOUR car??

3:58 pm

Oh Molly, modified Golf's are the bizz here.

3:59 pm

That's funny : D

4:03 pm

Euphemism alert. Before my 'domestic circumstances' changed, I drove a Nissan Navara, & he had a BMW X5. Oooooh, I loved my Navara!

4:07 pm

Thinking about dinner...It makes my brain hurt...

4:08 pm

Meanwhile, back in the utility room, the washing machine is being hormonal.....

4:09 pm

Bzz. We had salmon, new potatoes & fresh garden peas. Yummy & recommended!

4:09 pm

Except I don't like salmon. Or have any in the freezer...

4:10 pm

Mmm, fresh garden peas.

4:10 pm

Okay! So whats inthe freezer?

4:11 pm

And I could eat salmon every day if it weren't so damn expensive.

4:11 pm

It's not a matter of what is in the freezer. It is a matter of I really don't want to cook or deal with it.

4:12 pm

My peas never make it from the garden to the table. I eat them right out in the garden.

4:12 pm

Oh, I forgot to say, I made a cheeky little hollandaise sauce to accompany the salmon. Sublime!

4:13 pm

Sounds delicious Soodle. My stuffed chicken breasts pale in comparison.

4:13 pm

Bzz. I take it you have the number of local take outs? Go for it!

4:14 pm

I think we will have chicken salad sandwiches with fresh sliced tomatoes and cottage cheese.

4:14 pm

Molly, it was divine!

4:16 pm

Bzz, as long as the bread is fresh, those sammidges sound like winners.

4:18 pm

Good thing I don't have to decide what to feed the fur kids...Time for their dinner...

4:18 pm

I love Salmon, but will eat only wild fish. All this farmed stuff doesn't really tast like fish.

4:20 pm

fo 6/27, the first one pls.

4:22 pm

That is why I buy my fish at Whole Foods.

4:22 pm

fo6...pertaining to unborn, with an extra vowel

4:25 pm

TY MOlly

4:25 pm

I get mine at Costco. They quite often have wild fish. They actually have wild Haddock and Cod.

4:37 pm

I love shopping at Costco. I don't do it often because it's just two of us and I don't have an extra freezer.

4:40 pm

After a Costco run, my freezer is bulging. But, I find that for your buck the meat, fish and produce is well worth it.

4:42 pm

hi all! We have just found Costco as well - now our shelves are full of gluten-free crackers and our freezer is full of chicken burgers and frozen fruit

4:45 pm

I wish I had more freezer room. I have frozen some fresh green beans and some berries while they were a good price this summer. But not as much as I would have liked to.

4:46 pm

Hi uusue2! How are you doing today? Welcome to the grid.

4:46 pm

hi min, molly, bichon! I am good.

4:50 pm

I saw people talking about fish. I had halibut once.I was pleasantly surprised because I thought I wouldn't like it. It was made with squash noodles sweet & sour cabbage.

4:51 pm

halibut is a pretty mild fish, I think

4:51 pm

I like halibut too, Min.

4:51 pm

I also don't like squash or cabbage, but the squash noodles didn't taste like squash.Cabbage didn't taste like cabbage.

4:56 pm

Well, that was a pleasant surprise all the way around.

5:01 pm

German, low cost, no frills supermarkets have swept across this country. Lidl & Aldi. People are aaving upwards of €40 per week on their grocery shopping.

5:02 pm

'Savind'

5:02 pm

'Saving' even!

5:02 pm

we have Aldis here

5:04 pm

And is Aldi significantly cheaper, Peri?

5:05 pm

it seems to be, there is not one near me so I don't get there often. We also have Bottom Dollar, Price Right and some lower places that are supposed to be less money

5:06 pm

I have been to all of them. it is good if they have what you want. not many options tho

5:07 pm

this grid is endless

5:14 pm

16 left, bbs

5:18 pm

Our Aldi's is neat and clean with nice restrooms. But the best is their cheese. We always get interesting cheeses for our gatherings.

5:24 pm

Cheese, frozen vegetables, toilet paper, herbs , spices, fresh fruit & veg, wine (don't forget the wine), all top quality.

5:25 pm

I don't like their personal hygiene producy

5:25 pm

I wish, Soodle, but no wine at Aldi's in Maryland! But everything else, you are spot on.

5:26 pm

....products like shower gel, shampoo & conditioners

5:27 pm

Agreed.

5:28 pm

Hi Deutsch! How are you doing today? Welcome to the grid

5:30 pm

I bought a bottle of wine in Aldi yesterday for €3.99. I think it may be very low alcohol content, but, hey! It's wine!

5:31 pm

nbt finally

5:31 pm

I'm doing great, Min! Hi everyone else, too!

5:31 pm

Hello harpjane! How are you doing today? Welcome to grid

5:32 pm

good minver, thanks

5:32 pm

hello everyone

5:32 pm

Hello Anniebrook! How are you doing? Welcome to the grid

5:33 pm

HI Min, Im doing okay and hope you are too

5:33 pm

It took me ag4/6 just to find 198 words today. I am not going to accomplish the fe4/7 of finishing grid. I ga4/9 up on grid so here is a story with clues.I ha4/5 flying on airplanes. I ha4/8 not done a va4/7 amount of flying in my life. When I was a te4/4ager I flew out to the ea4/4 coa4/4 to visit my friend in California. It was the worst experience of my life. Things got quite te5/10. I wasn't able to fly with ea 4/4 because the airplane had engine failure. When plane st 4/4ted to go down, stewardesses sugge4/6ed everyone to fa 6/27 their se 4/4 belts. The plane descended very quickly.As we were going down, I realized the plane wasn't going to make it to its ga4/7. As I grabbed my oxygen ge 4/6, te 4/4s were streaming down my face and I thought this is my fa 4/7. I was not meant to live long. I prayed that an angel with a ha4/5 would sa4/7 everyone on the airplane. I think someone heard my prayers because as we got ne 4/4 the ground, the pilot was able to land this plane sa 4/7ly. That was the la4/4 time I ever flew on an airplane. I ha 4/8 tried to er5/10 the memory of that flight, but I can't.I'm now a fe 6/27 of flying and I fe4/7 airplanes. I will never go on a plane ever again. It is a good thing I don't ea4/4 a living as a traveling sa 4/4s person. Husband wants the computer. I am going to give it to him before he begins to ra 4/4 and ra 4/7. I am going to le 5/16 Babbleland now and go watch the film The Fa 4/7 and the Furious. By the way,my ta4/4 is not true.I will be back la4/4r on tonight to chat w/others & to help out with more clues.

5:33 pm

I saw Blue Jasmine today. I thought it was very good

5:36 pm

Another awesome story Min. Thank you. :-)

5:36 pm

picked up a few words, thanks Min and I loved your story

5:37 pm

Hello everyone. Min was that a story or an experience? Am i allowed to ask?

5:39 pm

Hi onyx. At the end of Min's story she says the ta** is not true

5:44 pm

hey all

5:48 pm

Hi stid :) How are you?

5:48 pm

good, Annie, thanks. You?

5:48 pm

Im okay..enjoying the nice weather we are having

5:49 pm

:-) We were overcast today, so it's a bit muggy, but not hot as I had feared it might be.

5:50 pm

How is the new house coming along?

5:52 pm

the plumber was there today laying the pipes. Then I think the reinforcements go in and then I think he puts the pex tubing for the heat (or maybe he'll lay the pex tomorrow and then they reinforce after?). He says they will be able to pour the slab sometime next week. I am so excited!

5:52 pm

thanks for asking. :-)

5:53 pm

the blackberries are ripe, every time I go home I leave with purple fingers and a full tummy.

5:53 pm

stid, that is exciting!

5:53 pm

Will you be in the house for Thanksgiving?

5:53 pm

need clue for has 5/12 and 6/21 fter ring around your head

5:54 pm

yep. and now the sun is coming out and the warmth is making the wind blow a bit. I can tell because it's whistling through a window....

5:54 pm

that should have been just ha

5:54 pm

matches...rearrange the letters of the ring....and then drop the plural letter

5:54 pm

Then you will have a wonderful Thanksgiving.

5:55 pm

I just started so Im no help

5:55 pm

rearrange the plural rings...

5:55 pm

no, I don't expect to be able to move in much before February or so.

5:56 pm

Stid, but you will be moving into a new house.

5:57 pm

Yes, and as finished as I can afford. I was trying to set things up for some pretty specific enhancements like a lateral drain in the master shower, but the best I will be able to do for now is pretty standard stuff. I just can't afford $500 just for a drain when a normal $35 one will do!

5:58 pm

$500 seems like a lot of money for a drain.

5:58 pm

But it is interesting to look at what is available and talk to people who have actually installed things to help me decide if they work or just look good.

5:59 pm

LOL that's what I thought! I would rather spend that money on a better range for the kitchen.

5:59 pm

se 6/24, pls

5:59 pm

Not that I have that money right now... but someday.

5:59 pm

Stid, that's where Iwould put my money, in the kitchen

6:00 pm

sorry, bichon....i don't have that one

6:00 pm

I don't have it either, bichon, sorry -- I am totally at a loss for some of these!

6:00 pm

ty penquis got them

6:01 pm

yw...

6:01 pm

still working on rings, too. I think I am missing too many from that letter to have things make se5

6:02 pm

oooh! But I have the fe 8 if anyone is looking?

6:03 pm

Hi stidmama! How are you doing today? Welcome to chog.

6:03 pm

Hello Matches! How are you doing today? Welcome to chog

6:03 pm

Hello penquis! How are you doing today? Welcome to chog

6:03 pm

hello Min! wonderful to see you! I must head out and meet up with a friend for an early dinner.

6:03 pm

How is the month going for you, Min?

6:04 pm

fine, thanks, min...

6:05 pm

been lurking...working on the grid

6:05 pm

there. Finally NBT!

6:06 pm

I am having a very busy month so far. I went to Vermont at the beginning of the month. La 4/4 week I went to a two day educational conference and a workshop & next week I have a week of workshops in Yonkers. Still don't know what or where I will be teaching this year though.

6:06 pm

Okay, time for me to run away. Down to 135. So lovely to see you today Annie! Hope your weekend will be pleasant. See you-all again soon! *leaves in a cloud of choclits and sparkly candies* *poof*

6:06 pm

I have the se 6/24 if anyone wants a hint.

6:07 pm

Goodbye stidmama! I will see you tomorrow in the chat log

6:07 pm

oh gee min, that IS busy! I hope you'll get your assignment soon. *repoof*

6:07 pm

FW, tata

6:07 pm

I do bichon

6:08 pm

Congratulations bichon on your fireworks! Hooray for you!

6:08 pm

congrats, bichon!

6:10 pm

stid, wonderful seeing you, have a lovely dinner with your friend

6:10 pm

congrats, bichon

6:10 pm

Min, I hope you get your assignment soon

6:12 pm

Thank you Anniebrook, me too!

6:13 pm

Anniebrook, do you live in NY City? I am not far from there

6:15 pm

Se6/24 the se4/4 just before the se6/24 + olympic **mes

6:18 pm

Hello zoozzoom! How are you doing? Welcome to the chog

6:18 pm

May I please have a clue for se5-12? Thanks

6:19 pm

what an odd word, zooz...ty

6:20 pm

se5/12 se + the grand prix has 72 **ps around the track + letter

6:20 pm

Hello, Mineryork :-)

6:20 pm

It is, Penquis :-)

6:21 pm

Thanks so much, zoom.

6:22 pm

ty, zooz...i needed that one, too....down to 8 now...

6:22 pm

Hello gapeach!How are you doing?Welcome to the chat log

6:22 pm

You are both more than welcome :-)

6:23 pm

Thanks, Min.

6:31 pm

Ok heading off to my bed..take care, All..hope you get fireworks, Peach & Penquis...bye.

6:31 pm

ty...bye!

6:31 pm

Thanks much, zoom

6:32 pm

2nd st627 pls

6:32 pm

st6/27

6:33 pm

nm

6:35 pm

don't forget to add a letter ;o)

6:35 pm

ge6-33 please....thanks

6:36 pm

the city in Switz....where a lot of financial and diplomatic events take place

6:37 pm

can also pluralize it...

6:37 pm

Thanks so much, pen.

6:38 pm

yw...

6:45 pm

hi all :)

6:45 pm

hi smores...

6:46 pm

fo6-27 the 2nd please.....thanks

6:46 pm

Hi there smores.

6:46 pm

hey pen, peach :)

6:47 pm

An fo 6/27 word refers to baby in womb w/an extra letter,

6:47 pm

Hi smores! How are you doing today? Welcome to the chog

6:48 pm

Is that the 2nd fo6, Min.

6:48 pm

woohoo...i am done!

6:49 pm

Congrats, pen!!!!!!

6:49 pm

hi Min, doing well thanks

6:49 pm

fo + not early

6:49 pm

ty!

6:49 pm

congrats Penquis. Morning all

6:49 pm

wtg pen!!!! woohoo

6:49 pm

ty!

6:49 pm

Thanks so much, pen.

6:50 pm

yw!

6:50 pm

don't forget the plural... ;o)

6:50 pm

Gotcha.

6:50 pm

Min, I was away from the keyboard. Yes , I live in Brooklyn

6:51 pm

Congratulations penquis on your fireworks display! Hooray!

6:51 pm

fe8 anybody? (evening all)

6:51 pm

ty!

6:52 pm

fr+bird home+sun god

6:52 pm

fe & birds home & egyptian god

6:52 pm

snap Smores

6:52 pm

tx smores & lynxxx - that's firewords

6:53 pm

oops yes

6:53 pm

congrats, dan2

6:53 pm

congrats Dan

6:53 pm

congrats, dan!

6:54 pm

can I get a clue for en 6/24 please

6:54 pm

Congrats, Dan!!!!!

6:55 pm

en....make someone angry

6:55 pm

thanks! pen

6:55 pm

yw...

6:57 pm

missing 2 h's one is ha5/12 after what an angel wears and the ha6/21 please help not monkeying it at all

6:59 pm

the 6 is an anagram of the plural angel headwear

6:59 pm

ha 5 and 6 are Hawaaian derogatory terms for white people

6:59 pm

and the 5 is singular

7:00 pm

thank you I know it shows up a lot and I never get it

7:00 pm

down to 50 time for a break!!!

7:05 pm

er6-18 please.....thannks

7:06 pm

er6-18 typical knight descriptor

7:06 pm

Congratulations dan2bit on your fireworks display! Hooray!

7:06 pm

er6----to make an error or have a tantrum

7:07 pm

great clue, joso

7:07 pm

Hello joso! How are you doing today? Welcome to the grid.

7:07 pm

hi min, well, and you

7:09 pm

Thanks much, joso and Annie.

7:09 pm

I am well. Didn't finish grid so I am basically useless tonight

7:09 pm

youre welcome peach

7:10 pm

Min, you are never useless. Never.

7:10 pm

Thank you Anniebrook. Let's just say I can't be very helpful

7:11 pm

That's what I said about an hour ago.

7:11 pm

if nothing else you spread good cheer min

7:16 pm

st6-27 the 2nd please.....thanks

7:17 pm

dont have it, sorry

7:18 pm

Thanks anyway, Annie.

7:18 pm

st6-27, wwII planes were known to to this to ground troops

7:18 pm

thank you, joso

7:19 pm

st7, one who st6 ed

7:24 pm

I'm sorry, I've tried everything I can think of and it isn't working.....I'll keep trying. Thanks

7:25 pm

st6, st + raphael's nick name

7:27 pm

st 6/27 is st plus Days of our Lives character **** Hernandez

7:27 pm

st + a book of chance, a ***fl* book

7:29 pm

st + rodent **t + be sa**, not sorry....

7:30 pm

Anniebrook, we must try to get together sometime.It is my lifelong dream to meet at le5/10 one babbler.Work in Yonkers,so maybe we could meet each other halfway one day after work. How far do you live from Yonkers?

7:30 pm

Thanks to all of you. I'm down to 3 now.

7:31 pm

Go gapeach go!

7:31 pm

About an hour and a half

7:32 pm

keep plugging, peach!

7:32 pm

Really, I did not realize it was that far away from Yonkers.

7:33 pm

I am at the tail end of Brooklyn near the ocean

7:40 pm

Annie, one of my sons-in-law was brought up in Brooklyn (I know that is such a small community, LOL) his last name was Olsen.....he would be about 77 now.....

7:41 pm

I guess I should have asked how long have you lived there.

7:41 pm

peach, I dont know him but by his last name I am guessing he lived in Bay Ridge

7:42 pm

I grew up in Manhattan and when I married I lived in Manhattan for a short time then we moved to Brooklyn. I have lived in Bklyn for over 50 years.

7:43 pm

Do you see many plays?

7:44 pm

I used to go all the time but now I am very close to 80 years of age so it is hard for me to get into the city.

7:45 pm

The last play I saw was Jersey Boys and I loved it

7:46 pm

I've been there (briefly) once. Would have loved to see some plays....lived in Norwich, CT for 7 years....but had had two small strokes and it was just too much trouble to get into the city.

7:48 pm

I could understand how difficult that would be. My daughter lives in CT. You must have been very young when you had the strokes/

7:48 pm

I bet it was good. I've seen some in Atlanta at the Fox....saw Yul Brynner in "The King and I" and several others.

7:48 pm

LOL. I saw Yul Brynner on Broadway (a hundred years ago)..Wasn't he marvelous?

7:49 pm

I was 62. I was lucky.

7:49 pm

Indeed, he was.

7:49 pm

Yes, thank goodness. You were lucky. Glad you are here to babble.

7:50 pm

How long are you living in Georgia?

7:50 pm

I think it is Georgia?

7:51 pm

Due to Elder Abuse, I had to move back to GA in 2009. If I had not left there, I do not believe I would be here to Babble....LOL

7:52 pm

Oh my God. very glad you escaped that horror.

7:52 pm

I left KY in 1977 and came to Augusta, GA and lived here until the strokes in 2002.

7:53 pm

Oh, where in CT does your daughter live?

7:53 pm

She lives in Wilton. peach, I am glad you are safe.

7:54 pm

Thanks, Annie, it was a horrible time.

7:54 pm

I can't imagine it. but you are here now.

7:56 pm

I was trying to look up Wilton, but the print is so small in my Atlas.....just wondered if it was near Norwich.

7:57 pm

peach, I dont know where Norwich is but Wilton is sort of near Westport

7:58 pm

and its nearer to Norwalk

7:58 pm

Wilton is about 75 miles from Norwich.

7:59 pm

I don't think it is near Norwich.....not too much is, really. It was chosen because it is half way between each of their work places.

7:59 pm

so Norwich is north of Wilton

7:59 pm

Which way, Molly?

8:01 pm

peach, it was nice chatting with you. I hope all your days are peaceful and full of babble. I'm going to do some reading and then to bed. gnite.

8:01 pm

Wilton is SW of Norwich.

8:02 pm

gnite everyone and have sweet dreams

8:02 pm

OK, thanks Molly.

8:02 pm

Sweet dreams to you too, Anniebrook.

8:03 pm

What a lovely lady.

8:04 pm

I need to check my blood sugar....brb

8:04 pm

Wilton is down by Greenwich, if you know where that is.

8:04 pm

Goodbye Anniebrook! I'll see you tomorrow in the chat log,

8:04 pm

And yes, Annie is top shelf. : )

hi all, peekaboo

8:11 pm

hi doc

exciting chat, eh? lol

8:15 pm

annie left, and the entire social fabric disolved

apparently . . .

well i have had a nice, boring day, how bout you?

8:18 pm

just plunking away at babble for most of it

i hit a few rummage sales, took a nap, watched some dvds

8:20 pm

my brother dropped by, dropped off a birthday gift, told me he almost got me a puppy, glad he rethought that.

happy birthday dude!

8:22 pm

tnx doc, but was last week, the day my dog shadow died, just as soon forget it.

8:23 pm

Thanks, Molly, I do know where Greenwich is....not far from the City. My daughter has a friend there and we have visited her.

8:24 pm

Joso, didn't know it is your BD. Happy Birthday!

condolences, joso

8:24 pm

Hi Book Doctor Gwen! How are you? Welcome to the chog.

hiya min and peach

8:25 pm

tnx peach, gwen

8:27 pm

happy b'day, joso!

8:27 pm

ty pen

8:28 pm

ne5-10 the 2nd please....thanks

8:29 pm

slang cussing, simmilar to nuts

8:29 pm

like the breath mint but n for c....

8:29 pm

*cursing

ty pen and joso, got it

8:30 pm

yw...

8:30 pm

Thanks much, joso.

8:32 pm

very last one is as5-12, please....thanks

8:32 pm

NM Got it.

8:32 pm

as5-12, a famous ski resort

as5 is a tree, also a city in colorado

8:33 pm

Thanks much,

congrats peach!!

8:33 pm

Will start over....thanks much, Gwen and joso. See yall at the flip.

8:33 pm

congrats peach

8:37 pm

Congratulations gapeach on your fireworks display!Hooray

8:37 pm

congrats!

8:37 pm

ve

8:38 pm

sorry

hi gail, how ya doin?

8:40 pm

Okay, getting over gall bladder surgery.

oh dear, hope you get well soon!

8:40 pm

hello all, just got back from an afternoon of white water rafting. It was fun.

8:41 pm

Oh, thanks, I am doing fine. Rafting sounds good.

8:42 pm

Hello again Everyone. Dear little Grandson is totally tuckered out and his Daddy is putting him to bed.... :-) Grandma & Grandpa are probably as tired but we get to zone out a bit before going to bed.

8:42 pm

hi...

8:43 pm

Hello Nef! How are you doing today? Welcome to the chog.

8:43 pm

Hello Gail! How are you doing today? Welcome to the grid.

8:44 pm

Get Well soon, Gail. I understand that gall bladder surgery has changed drastically in the past 15-20 years....

8:44 pm

Hello phandmd!How are you doing today? Welcome to grid

8:44 pm

May I have a clue for the TR 6/30, please?

8:44 pm

I am pretty tired, Min, from that rafting trip.

8:45 pm

It was very simple surgery, although my surgeon said mine was almost too full of stones to get out through that little hole. He said it was like delivering a baby and it just finally popped out.

both fascinating and gross, lol

8:46 pm

I went white water rafting once in my life. It was in Maine.

8:47 pm

This was my 2nd time, the 1st time was years ago in NC. This time was on the Potomac.

8:47 pm

When I went it was years ago. All I remember is that it was very cold and I was shivering alot! Hope it wasn't cold for U

8:48 pm

It wasn't too bad. The best part was that I didn't end up falling out of the boat as I did the last trip!

8:48 pm

the Potomic has white water? (Can you tell I've only been out east a few times?

8:49 pm

class 1-3 rapids.

8:49 pm

so does no one have the TR 6/30?

8:50 pm

Sorry phanmd. I do not have the tr6.I quit after 198 words.

i don't have the tr6,30 either, but i hunted for it a little when you asked 8-)

8:51 pm

well, thanks for looking Gwen. :)

i just might list soon, down to 85 to go

8:52 pm

I'm still looking. I haven't listed (haven't even found 100 words yet); but how hard can it be?

trick question!

8:53 pm

will I am down to 54 words left.

8:53 pm

opps, well... not will...

okay, listing now, let's see what springs up

8:54 pm

got it! (now to clue...

8:54 pm

tr6 30 = tr 4 7 + what doctor wants to say when checking your tonsils

8:55 pm

and hello all!

8:55 pm

tr+**fort + exclamation of surprise?

8:55 pm

Thanks, Nrkii how are you doing?

8:55 pm

tr 6/30 word is tr + vowel plus alternate to air conditioner.

8:55 pm

Great clue nrkii

8:56 pm

I'm good. Just coming down off of 3 days of visitors and a big party last night. House is delightfully quiet.

8:56 pm

Hello nrkii!How are you doing today? Welcome to the chog

8:56 pm

ooh, but that reminds me I put sheets in laundry hours ago... brb... switching laundry over

oy, finally found the tr6,30, thanks for the clues

9:04 pm

Ok, that was my la4/4 clue for the night. I am signing out.

9:05 pm

Goodnight to my fellow babblers! I will see you tomorrow.

9:05 pm

st 6/27, the 2nd one? I am assuming the v is in the word, but the monkeys are not working.

st6, to shoot the ground from a plane

(not the v, the other high-point letter)

9:07 pm

thank you, Gwen.

8-D

Fs and Gs and forked and gorked

hs are hacked

Ls are locked

9:15 pm

she's on a rampage....look out!

(!)

9:16 pm

Gwen's exterminating!

Ns are Nocked

okay, Rs are Rocked, etc

9:22 pm

Wow, Gwen!! Keep it up! You can do it!!

bbbrrrrrzzzzzzttt!!

Ss are, you know

9:30 pm

se 8?

9:30 pm

se8 the most uncivilized

9:31 pm

oops, that sa, se, ocean traveler

9:31 pm

thanks, joso.

9:32 pm

yw

9:32 pm

what about se 6/24?

9:32 pm

may I have a clue for the fo 6.27, pls

9:34 pm

fo6, cover with plant le4s

se6,28, se + opposite of positive (abbrev) + vowel

9:35 pm

thank you!

fo6, alternate spelling of an adjective, refers to an unborn baby

9:35 pm

fo6, fo + not on time

9:36 pm

my first f6 is a bad clue

9:38 pm

having a hard time figuring out what 3 ltrs to add to the le 4/7

9:38 pm

thnx, joso, and Gwen

9:39 pm

teen***rs.....that's what you add...

le4,7, they fall from the trees

9:39 pm

le4-7, plant arm is limb, hand is le4

9:39 pm

slap me with a fish for that! Thank you.

9:40 pm

yw...

faxing some anchovies to phand

7 to go,o all Vs

9:43 pm

I have 7 V's to go too; but I still have nearly 200 left to find. :-(

ta-da, sparklies!!!

9:44 pm

congrats gwen

9:44 pm

I have all the v's if clues are needed.

9:44 pm

congrats!

there are no pv-- words 8-(

9:44 pm

YAY, Book Doctor Gwen!!! WTG!!!

english is sorely lacking in pv-- words, and sgw-- words, for that matter

9:45 pm

ge 6/33?

so, i have invented some more silly driving games. example: when you see a Smart Car, you shout "lightbulb!"

ge6, a city in switzerland

9:46 pm

thanks again, Gwen.

when you see a Mini Cooper, you shout "gwenny!" (named after Gwen Cooper, not me)

9:47 pm

evening all :)

yw, ph!

hi jes, i'm just on my way out, bye all

9:48 pm

bye, Gwen

9:49 pm

hi jes. How are you doing?

9:49 pm

good evening, Gwen

9:49 pm

g'night, gwen

9:49 pm

I'm well, nef. kid is finally rid of the twit girlfiend. How're you? How's DH?

9:51 pm

DH is doing okay. We are a bit stressed due to son and DIL now living here (with our darling Grandson, of course!). DIL makes things really tense

9:51 pm

that is a shame, Hef.

9:52 pm

opps, sorry, Nef...

9:52 pm

fe 8?

9:52 pm

I'm so glad he's done with her. How is he paying off his phone bill? (I think I last chatted with you the day or week he found out she was crazy)

9:53 pm

oh, I see there are 2 FE 8's I would take both of them...

9:53 pm

fe8, fe + bird home **** + egyptian sun god **

9:54 pm

got it, thanks, Joso.

9:54 pm

He spent most of a week in the middle of hot weather in July bucking hay bales for his grandpa.

9:55 pm

fe8 #2, fe7, cute rodent ***ret + rental cost ****, plural for the 8

9:55 pm

the second one is fe+double consonant+ consumed+ plural letter

9:55 pm

That is tough work, jes. Did that pay it off?

9:56 pm

yeah, gramma paid him for the hay, and then he handed the money back for the phone bill

9:57 pm

LOL!! I hope that that taught him a lesson!

9:57 pm

thanks, Penquis

9:57 pm

me too! he never did get his phone back from the twit though

9:58 pm

yw...

9:59 pm

she had the gall to show up at my clinic last week, looking for him. said they weren't done. I said "you aren't done? you broke up with him. you broke up with him in a horribly rude and inconsiderate way, posting pictures of yourself kissing another guy and declaring your engagement to him on facebook. you ARE DONE, that's what 'broke up' means.

10:01 pm

OMG!!! What kind of an idiot is she? I hope he wasn't there

10:02 pm

she (again, of course) accused me of not being a good parent, and not actually caring for the kid, and being selfish, and asked what happened to being supportive of him. I think she was a bit taken aback when I said "You. YOU are what happened to being supportive. You with your lies, you with your threats, you with your manipulation. YOU are what happened." Then she threatened to call the cops if I wouldn't let her speak to him. I laughed at her, wished her luck with that, and told her to leave my business and not return.

10:03 pm

Lucky for her, she did, or I would have offered her the phone to talk to the cops, so she could explain why she was trespassing, harassing and threatening me, and interfering with my business.

10:03 pm

down to 10 left, gonna throw in the towel and go to bed. Peace out.

10:03 pm

Yay for Jes! I would have appluaded had I been there

10:04 pm

Helo Nef and Jes & bye Phand

10:04 pm

g'nite, phan...

10:04 pm

he wasn't working that day, so no, he wasn't there. but he'd witnessed her crazy directly the weekend before, when we were all in town and she started calling his dad's phone and swearing incoherently at him. Asked him why he called her ("i didn't"), then accused him of fucking her ("I didn't do that either"). he hung up on her, she called back and swore at him some more, so he hung up on her again.

10:06 pm

she CALLED BACK (this was on speaker phone so the kid heard both sides) and Bruce asked if she was drunk. She (and the person in the background) started giggling uncontrollably and then she managed to get out "i'm not <i>drinking</i>" and went back to giggling. Bruce asked if she was high, which was just met with more giggles.

10:06 pm

Then she asked if he knew who she was, and he said he only knows one 14 year old stupid enough to get high and call him, and hung up on her again.

10:06 pm

She called back twice more, but he ignored both calls. Kid was mortified.

10:07 pm

g'night, phand. hi, lynxxxx.

10:09 pm

WOW! She's dumber than a brick! And I wrote a long response, but in the wrong box and messed up when I tried to copy and paste it <shaking head slowly>

10:09 pm

hi lynxxx.

10:10 pm

Yeah, she's really super-special. Why are son and DIL living with you?

10:10 pm

I'm going to give you a standing ovation for your response to her when she was in your clinic though. THAT was beautiful!!! (I only come up with responses like that after I'm asleepthe night afterwards....)

10:12 pm

oh, i came up with several things i missed after she left - like i didn't start the conversation off with 'did you come to return the kid's phone?"

10:14 pm

I think I would have a small recorder around for an possible future conversations and tell her that you will be sending it to her parents or the police

10:14 pm

I think I would have a small recorder around for an possible future conversations and tell her that you will be sending it to her parents or the police

10:14 pm

I think I would have a small recorder around for an possible future conversations and tell her that you will be sending it to her parents or the police

10:15 pm

(sorry - finger remained on enter too long)

10:16 pm

oh, her parents wouldn't give a crap, lynxxx. her dad is not in the picture at all (she claims she's never even met him), and her mother is an apathetic, drug-addicted drunkard who's already had custody of all her kids taken away.

10:16 pm

the kids live with the mother's mother, who is seriously lacking in both intelligence and spine, and lets the twit order her around and run the household. mother also lives there, but spends most of her time locked in her bedroom ignoring the kids.

10:17 pm

it's a...great... household.

10:17 pm

sad...and for her too I guess...hope something happens in the future that will get her out of the rut

10:17 pm

it is not difficult at all to work out why the twit is as pushy, manipulative, and drama seeking as she is. but that doesn't mean I want her shit in my life.

10:18 pm

'the kid' is your son?

10:18 pm

My son was laid off with 1/3 of the salaried company back around Halloween, and he had vacation and sick time through Jan. 1, then severance pay and benefits through April 30th. DIL is bipolar and during her last manic phase (in April) she took out 4 credit cards and maxed them out (around $10,000 or more, neither will tell us the whole amount). Our son was working way above his education after 9 years at his former workplace and he didn't have the certifications necessary to be hired at the level he was used to working at. He's taken a bunch of courses through a state program and now has all of the certifications done; he's been doing 2 free lance jobs and is applying for permanent positions; but the $$$ isn't there to pay off her debts too.

10:18 pm

my step son, bruce 2 (called 'the kid' to differentiate him from bruce)

10:19 pm

ah, that's rough, nef

10:20 pm

Can you get a restraint order on hrr

10:21 pm

Her

10:21 pm

Very rough Nef, great you can help them out

10:21 pm

hi Ru

10:21 pm

if she shows back up, i may have to, ruru. we're hoping she will go away (the latest crap on her facebook claims she's moving across the state, but she's notoriously untruthful)

10:22 pm

Restraining order I me

10:22 pm

I want to divorce her myself; I've asked our son if he still loves her and his answer was "which one?"

10:22 pm

Mean

10:22 pm

having keyboard issues, ru? :D

10:22 pm

aw - thats kinda sweet

10:22 pm

ruru, are you having trouble typing or talking tonight?

10:23 pm

Cell phone...hard to type

10:23 pm

I've got a bi-polar uncle who purchased a 747 on his amex once.

10:23 pm

cell phone? are you on ypour holiday?

10:23 pm

Plus we had a lot of wine ...

10:24 pm

lol Joso - really!?

10:24 pm

oh, my, joss! What happened?

10:24 pm

hah. you need a hand for the wine glass, so don't have extra fingers for the typing?

10:25 pm

yes, for a weekend junket because he couldn't get enough tickets for all his friends to vegas

10:25 pm

(Dang Spellcheck!) sorry, joso

10:26 pm

Wow how is that possible joso?

10:26 pm

did he buy a pilot too, or did he expect to fly it himself?

10:26 pm

sold it back at a loss, still cost 10's of thousands.

10:26 pm

BRB, dog is barking outside and I need to go get him.

10:27 pm

the last st 6/27 plz

10:28 pm

amex used to be that way, and he was a good earner, used to be an supervising engineer at various middle east oil projects.

10:28 pm

what planes do when they attack the ground...

10:28 pm

TY Penquis

10:28 pm

st+ consonant + be s***, not sorry...

10:28 pm

Ww2 pilots st6 tge countryside

10:29 pm

ty

10:29 pm

yw

10:29 pm

the thing to do is sever financial connections, companies try to say you are responsible for spousal debt but it is not true.

10:29 pm

thanks

10:30 pm

unless you co-sign

10:31 pm

depends on the state you live in, joso. washington is a 'community property' state, so any debt or assets accrued after marriage are shared.

10:33 pm

keep hubbies money separate, she can declare bankruptcy separately. this used to be true, but the financial firms have jury rigged so much of the system in the states that I don't know if it is still possible.

10:38 pm

then get divorced and live in sin, continue to live together and love each other but get the finances separated. must remember it is a chemical imbalance of the brain, truly not her fault, support can help, and tinkering with doses and drugs have a good chance of sorting it out over time, but be ready for a wild ride, and take practical steps.

10:39 pm

joso, MN is like Washington state. They are married; it's considered community property and debt.

10:41 pm

joso, they've been married almost 5 years and I don't know how my son has stayed with her this long. I truly think heshould be nominated for sainthood.

10:41 pm

tr6/30 clue please?

10:42 pm

(BTW, jes, the 11 lb dog has treed something in the backyard again. Either a raccoon or a huge cat; couldn't tell in the dark)

10:42 pm

I am wondering if there is not some legal way out of her debts (and any future ones) considering her illness?

10:42 pm

Worth talking to a lawyer or accountant, I have heard of men putting stuff in wife's name when going bankrupt to keep things. A pro's advice can be very helpfull.

10:42 pm

heh. he'd best mind the 'coons. They can do some serious damage if they decide not to run.

10:44 pm

tr6, tr4 + sound of satisfaction **

10:44 pm

thanks, joso!

10:44 pm

tr4" + what the doctor makes you say when he looks down your throat"

10:45 pm

My husband went bankrupt several years ago but my assets/debts/earnings were not taken into consideration (and our home was in my name beforehand)...maybe the rules are different in Australia

10:46 pm

the rules are different even between states in the States, guys... options will really depend on where they declared residence at the time the debt was racked up.

10:46 pm

in the US, a lot of states have different laws than others. SO it all depends on where you live I guess.

10:47 pm

TY for the throat one

10:48 pm

It's hard to keep up with the state's fiscal laws, I know cc debt no longer goes away with bankruptcy, and student debt is also very sticky now, lobbies are steadily sticking it to the average joe.

10:52 pm

DIL hasn't worked in 5 years; I doubt if she can live on her own at this point because of her crazy thinking. I wish she'd stop using the internet because she goes to all the "Ntural" sites instead of using it to help herself. She won't stay on her meds and she gets all sorts of weird ideas from her on-line "friends"

10:56 pm

sounds familiar, seems to be a strong desire to deny your mind is working against you, Uncle joe used to get on an even keel, then after 3-4-5 years stop taking the meds, believing himself cured. The lows can be bad too, not believing it is worth getting up for anything, staying in the same chair for days regardless of the need for food or the call of nature.

10:58 pm

but rosehip tea ain't going to get the job done.

10:59 pm

Evening all :) Can I get a clue for fo 6/27? It's my last F word. Thanks.

11:00 pm

butbutbut don't you know that modern medicine is poison?! they use CHEMICALS!

11:00 pm

hi boat :)

11:00 pm

But she has a habit of making nasty remarks that cut to the quick and I've become super sensitive to her nasty cuts about my housekeeping and cleanliness. I keep a neat house, but she's always complaining about my "clutter" and "all the dust and cat hair" around. I thoroughly vacuum once a week and I run my Roombas 1-2 times a week; but she is always talking about how dirty my house is (and my grandson has repeated it too)

11:00 pm

hi jesd :)

11:01 pm

tell her she's welcome to mop the kitchen and wash the dishes any time she feels like it?

11:01 pm

fo6-27 to do with babes in womb

11:02 pm

fo 6/27 is another word for an unboarn child (alt spelling) and of 6/27 is a type pf vitamin that pregnant women need to take

11:03 pm

Ah, got it. Thanks all :)

11:04 pm

i need a beatin' with the clue stick - what gets added to the tree's greenery to make the le7 and 8?

11:04 pm

jes, the first 3 days they were here I called the cops because I couldn't stand her continual fighting. The woman officer told her that if she sees something dirty, she should clean it herself; and that she needs to go to the Dorothy Day Center with the officer to see what happens when you don't have relatives that care about you.

11:05 pm

For the le7/8, add how old someone is.

11:05 pm

hah. nice :)

11:05 pm

It's a disease that is rough on all around the victim, bitching about whatever is minor, if you want to try to reason with her work on the meds routine, getting counseling (for all).

11:05 pm

thanks, boa!

11:05 pm

yw :)

11:08 pm

did you know her before this kicked in nef, if so try to remember her, the true DIL. And remember I am an amature with some first hand experience, talk to a pro.

11:09 pm

You know, joso, you have a good idea there. I think the counseling is the right plan.

11:12 pm

As far as what and why this all started; I really believe that she did well til she got pregnant and went off her meds. *I* think she went through some peri/post partum depression; she has been in denial about that for years; but in April (when she was hospitalized) she said she thought that may have been the start of this.

11:12 pm

Can I get a clue for ga 6/24 please?

11:12 pm

You are not the first person to deal with this, tap that knowledge. A chat group of people in a similar situation can guide you to all sorts of help, and let you vent to those who understand. Babble is one of the kindest places I know, but talking to those who truly understand because they are dealing with the same thing is also good.

11:13 pm

(I didn't know her before she was pregnant)

11:13 pm

ga6/24 Ben Affleck's wife Jennifer

11:13 pm

ga6; ga + fish capture weaves

11:14 pm

Ah! Thanks Une :)

11:14 pm

yw :-)

11:16 pm

a good chat group will have recommendations of good counselors and programs vs quacks and money grabs too.

11:18 pm

first fe8 please?

11:19 pm

I work with a woman psychologist and will ask her for recommendations (she works as a social worker/counselor with our young women

11:19 pm

fe & birds home & egyptian sun god

11:19 pm

fe8 #1, fe + bird home **** + egyptian sun god **

11:20 pm

ah, of course! thanks :)

11:20 pm

Ah, I see my clue from earlier has made its way thru the chat :)

11:20 pm

good luck nef

11:24 pm

Can I get a clue for the third ha 5/12 please?

11:24 pm

thanks, joso

11:25 pm

mmmm. s'mores ice cream.

11:26 pm

ha5 whiteman in Hawiaan

11:27 pm

bye all

11:27 pm

sleep sweet, lynxxx

11:27 pm

thanks for the ha

11:28 pm

Thanks lynxxx :)

11:28 pm

bye, Lynxxx. HAGD

11:30 pm

ga5/20 please?

11:31 pm

ga 5/20 ga + Babbler that has a picture with blue hair :)

11:31 pm

ahahahah. right in front of me! thanks :)

11:32 pm

:)

11:33 pm

First le 5/16 please?

11:34 pm

finally.....fireworks, and made it before the flip tonight. Nite all

11:34 pm

yay pida!

11:34 pm

WTG pida :)

11:34 pm

plural of tree greenery

11:35 pm

TY jes :)

11:37 pm

No wonder I couldn't find it, I normally spell that with a v NOT singular + s.

11:37 pm

firewords! last word ga6/24 to gather

11:38 pm

i don't think it's actually a plural, i think it's a verb form.

11:38 pm

the bush le5 out in the springtime.

11:39 pm

Yay, pida 1!!! WTG!!!.

11:39 pm

Ah, I see jes.

11:39 pm

YAY JES!

11:39 pm

YAY pida!

11:40 pm

congrats jes

11:40 pm

YAY, jes!!! WTG!!!

11:40 pm

congrats pida

11:40 pm

WTG jes :)

11:40 pm

hey all

11:42 pm

hi stiddy!

11:42 pm

:-) good to see you jes

11:43 pm

is piggy happy in her new home?

11:43 pm

Second ne 5/10 please?

11:43 pm

i assume so, i haven't heard from them. but it looked like a really nice place

11:44 pm

ne5/10 is a card game. 3 consonants together at the end.

11:45 pm

nef, I just wrote you. I see you're telling abt things here--I too advise counseling. FOR YOU and FRANK. Sje herself will prob resist it, as Demi did, and I have close friends with two bipolar sons--one is doing well, the other refuses help and raises hell.

11:45 pm

I'm not getting the card game.

11:46 pm

start at the ne, drop to the bottom line and go straight back to the left

11:46 pm

it's the N on the right, boatierra -- and it sounds like fred and ethel me*** (Lucy's neighbor's on the TV show)

11:46 pm

hi Round Barn. First day all week I've had a chance to catch up on emails and Babble. :-)

11:47 pm

Ah, got it. Thanks guys :)

11:48 pm

I definitiely will seek counseling to deal with this; I believe in it and we've done it before. Whether she goes or not is another story.

11:50 pm

even if she doesn't, it can help you stay on the level - mom got a lot of benefit from talking to a counselor when dad was depressed and he never could be convinced to go

11:53 pm

Nef, just read back in the archives. **surrounding Nef with love**

11:53 pm

yes; I know it helps. Both of our kids are ADHD and I made us all go back then and all of us now look back and agree it helped. (At the time our kids hated going though)

11:53 pm

St 6/27 and st 7/40 please?

11:54 pm

lay a swath of bullets, boa

11:54 pm

swath of buttets???

11:55 pm

thanks, stid. I really didn't want to talk about it; but it's been a long day I guess. Sorry Everyone (for hogging chog)

11:55 pm

no hogging :-) lets us know how to support you. thanks for the bullets, boatierra!

11:56 pm

Ah, got it jes :)

11:56 pm

you have not hogged, nef, we want to support you!

11:58 pm

there's another st 6 27--the rings that go around a wood silo--or a barrel

11:59 pm

Was looking for the 6/7 combo, jes got it :)

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