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Clues are up

12:01 am

thank you lickety!!

12:02 am

Hi Lickety; thanks

12:02 am

hi and thanks Lickety

12:02 am

Sue and Erda

12:03 am

Hi flosey

12:03 am

dona

12:03 am

ro 6-7

12:03 am

oops

12:04 am

hi flosey and erda and nan!

12:04 am

ra7

12:04 am

hi uusue

flip; hi sue, erda, flosey, nan

12:04 am

Hello Dee

to 7

hi dc

12:06 am

too tired - will see you all in the morning

12:06 am

good night sue, sweet sleep

12:07 am

ro7

12:08 am

di 9

12:12 am

has anyone found the lone a at the bottom?

still looking

12:13 am

ar 4

12:13 am

ar4/8

12:13 am

ty arb and ru

ty so much

now I just need an 8 for nbs nbt....

12:16 am

not seeing that di 9

12:17 am

NBT/NBS

12:17 am

ra 8

12:17 am

ti 7 & 8

ty NBT NBS

12:20 am

how in hell did you find that di 9 jeezus

12:21 am

guess that means I'm going to need a clue for the 9

12:22 am

dirtroad should be a word!

12:22 am

The di 9 ends the same as the ra 8

12:23 am

diz, is the 9 a word we should know?

It's a plural; definition for di 9 stone mint plant; may be able to google

12:23 am

don't have the ra 8 either

12:24 am

is there a ra 8?

ra 8/40

12:25 am

yes, there is an ra 8

12:25 am

*wondering what stone mint is

12:26 am

don't take it for granite whatever nan

12:26 am

groan

says it is a Cretan plant with spikes of purple flowers..

lol ru

12:27 am

lol

an 7

12:28 am

Crete did it for me...

12:34 am

ai6/33

12:34 am

nbt, nbs

wtg, nan; nice find, ru!

12:35 am

didn't really think I'd find them!

12:36 am

airtank should be a word

12:38 am

I've had enough for tonight --- see you tomorrow

12:38 am

good night nan

12:39 am

night nan

12:39 am

we'll go on without you

12:39 am

:D

at 7/28

12:44 am

missing one dang t

missing one from the t in the 1st col

12:47 am

to 6

12:47 am

like a love affair

have that one :)

12:48 am

to 6 hot to6's

LOL that was my missing t

12:49 am

<-reads dee's mind

12:49 am

tks ru

you always seem to, ru :)

12:52 am

in 7 called?

12:53 am

ma7

wow, just typed the ma 7... thx for the in... looking

12:54 am

finished

12:55 am

well when you find the in 7 you'll have made in7 to finishing this grid :D

12:55 am

wtg ru

12:55 am

tks for the in7

great clue!

12:57 am

thanks to diz for the di 9 never would have found that

1:00 am

going to get ready for bed.. can I help with anything else?

1:01 am

ma6 - afraid I have madona in my head - can't get past it

1:01 am

guess not.. bye for now

thanks for asking, but no thanks... down to 5

lol, flosey... what I thought of, too

1:02 am

ma 6 of honor in a wedding

1:02 am

sorry, it's the 7 I need

1:02 am

if you have madona in your head I feel for you flosey

1:02 am

ma 7 is a red tree

1:02 am

understand that!!

1:03 am

red barked tree

1:03 am

what a cougar she's turned into.. it's appalling

1:03 am

obviously not the beautiful eastern sugar maple

1:04 am

insert a consonant in your religious character

fireworks and wtg, ru!

1:04 am

back at ya dee

1:05 am

ahahaha, thanks ru

ty!

1:05 am

wtg Dee

ty vm

1:06 am

ah, so that's a tree, will look it up later

Well, I am off til the flip; hoping to have a good sleep tonight. Have a great day / eve all! *poofing with hugs*

1:10 am

goodnight Dee, sweet sleep, I'm ready for bed but will try to find a few more words

good luck: always easier to find when comfy :)

1:12 am

hope so

1:14 am

cooee and g'day from me. what a twisty grid. i had to stand on my head to find some words.

1:15 am

hi rose, did it help? it sure is slow going for me

1:15 am

not really flosey....like i sa4, it's very twisty

1:16 am

it is that

1:16 am

do you have the 3 biggies?

1:17 am

have 1 8 and the 9

1:17 am

unrelated

1:17 am

do you have ti7/8, fairy from midsummer nights dream

1:18 am

yes thanks rose

1:19 am

there's an ra8 which I cannot find

1:20 am

okay, other is ra8, ra + sun browned skin + v***, competes

1:20 am

tytyty

1:21 am

which of course also gave me the 5

1:21 am

* smiling at you * glad to help.

1:21 am

nice, flosey

1:31 am

oh for goodness sake! had the in7 but not the 6!!! how does someone do that?

1:32 am

lol....sometimes we type it and the grid doesn't take it.

1:33 am

that does happen, tks Rose

1:40 am

whole lotta monkeying going on with this grid

1:47 am

sorry, flosey. don just came in with a lovely bouquet of flowers for me. had to put them in water straightaway.

1:49 am

how lovely

1:49 am

isn't he a sweetie

1:50 am

yeah...i think i might keep him...lol

1:50 am

lol

1:50 am

I think that's your best bet

1:51 am

*giggle* at my age, not going to run around looking for another one...

1:52 am

at your age!!! think I have at least 20 years on you

1:53 am

i think you may also. but today i feel at least 90.....these rotten hips are giving me a hard time.

1:54 am

ah yes, I can only imagine, aches and pain certainly does make one feel older

1:56 am

**do!

2:05 am

twice tonight I've had the pl before realizing I didn't have the singular

2:06 am

it's nuts, flosey. but it happens. i missed some very obvious 4 letter words.

2:06 am

strange eh!

2:07 am

and one 7 letter word, i know i had tried the 6 letter form which wasn't accepted.

2:08 am

ti7?

2:09 am

oh, me too, ro6?

2:09 am

oh no, but I did have ro7 and not the 6

2:09 am

ma7/36

2:10 am

my mind is mush about now but 2 to go before I can leave this

2:10 am

ah yes, tried it without the r

2:11 am

can i help with your last 2?

2:12 am

tr5

2:12 am

just got it - monkeying

2:12 am

ta5

2:12 am

tr5, tr + number before two with different vowel on the end

2:13 am

ta5, ta + kith and....

2:14 am

ty Rose, and that will be it for tonight!!

2:14 am

good night from here and for you, enjoy the rest of your day

2:14 am

well done, flosey. i hope your sleep is undisturbed and restful. xoxox

2:15 am

tyty - otherwise, I get up and do a jigsaw puzzle or play bridge for a bit

2:15 am

online, that is

2:49 am

dinner ready. bbl. xoxox

3:34 am

going, going, gone. xoxox to sprite when she gets here.

3:36 am

Bye Rose

4:01 am

Hello to anyone here :-)

4:03 am

good morning all

4:03 am

Hello, Sprite :-)

4:03 am

hey zooz :) How are you today?

4:04 am

I am well thank you! And yourself?

4:04 am

I am fine, thanks :) Bit of a bumpy night, but not in too much pain so that is good.

4:06 am

((Sprite)) I always put some bouncy music on (headphones if very early) to try and get it out of my mind.

4:06 am

that is a pretty good method :D *hugs back*

4:07 am

Or have you fallen over and i do not know about it?

4:08 am

no, I am doing well on my feet, lol, no falling of late. No, I meant dreams, indeed, and a part of the night spent on convincing myself it was safe to go back to sleep.

4:08 am

Hi and hugs to you both and belated happy birthday Zooz

4:08 am

ohhhh indeed! Happy birthday to you, zooz, for yesterday! I hope your day was good?

4:08 am

Aww thank you, Liz :-) and hello!

4:09 am

and hi Liz *hugs* to you both. Having a good day?

4:09 am

Thank you, Sprite, it was a wonderful day!

4:09 am

Very good thanks but almost over now

4:09 am

Sorry that your night wasn't too good

4:10 am

The best part is yet to come then, Liz.I nice warm coay bed!!

4:10 am

yeah, when I get ready to face my day, you get ready to sleep, lol. Weirdness, chatting with aussies ;)

4:10 am

A Not I..lol

4:10 am

:)

4:10 am

zooz, what did you do, and were you spoilt rotten? I hope so... you deserve it

4:10 am

We are weird people!

4:10 am

And proud of it!

4:11 am

proud is good. And weird is good too. I love you auusies.

4:11 am

Agree with you sprite. Hope you had a wonderful day, Zooz

4:11 am

And I love you too!

4:12 am

:) *hugs Liz again just cuz she can*

4:12 am

But I don't love k's

4:12 am

:)

4:12 am

Just stayed round parents..sister made us all a roast dinner..then she went off to pick her children up from school and they came in with presents and a massive cake..It was a lovely day..surrounded by people I care about! I did not want anything else!

4:13 am

I ony have found 4 Ks...lol

4:13 am

That sounds just right and lovely

4:13 am

That sounds just right and lovely

4:13 am

Have struggled to get past the half way mark so far :-(

4:13 am

that is the best way to celebrate, imo, zooz. Your day sounds beautiful.

4:13 am

I do the Ks first. Struggling, lol.

4:14 am

I also only have 4 k's

4:14 am

I have 7 now. Monkeys are getting quite the workout.

4:15 am

Show off!

4:15 am

I am trying silly words now like; kige;kias...lol

4:15 am

My random finger typing is yeilding no results what so ever..lol

4:16 am

kairn, knaig, knods...

4:16 am

lol Liz!

4:16 am

Kyat a doesn't work either

4:17 am

hahahaha..Sprite, yoeu are terrible..you knew i would try those..lol

4:17 am

Auto correct! I wrote kiata

4:17 am

hahahaha I did, zooz... cuz I would too :D

4:17 am

Stop it you two!! I can't help but try the words people put in the chog!

4:17 am

true, Liz. We rock, in finding words that don't work...

4:17 am

Me three

4:18 am

8...

4:19 am

I can here all three of us typing like mad to try and find another K word..lol

4:19 am

Still 4

4:19 am

You are right, Liz, Sprite is just showing off now :D

4:19 am

ahhh 9... think diamonds...

4:20 am

6!

4:20 am

%!

4:20 am

5!

4:20 am

Loved diamonds!

4:20 am

gooooo Liz! And yay, Ks killed.

4:21 am

WTG!

4:21 am

zooz, is your birthday 11th or 12th Feb?

4:21 am

hi dofith :)

4:21 am

11th, Dofith :-)

4:21 am

Wee

4:22 am

Well, Happy Birthday for yesterday. Mine is today - 12th.

4:22 am

Happy Birthday Dofith!

irn

4:22 am

happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you happy birthday, dear dofith... happy birthday tooooo youuuuuuu!

4:22 am

I hope you have a wonderful day like I did :-)

4:22 am

Hi Sprite and Liz

4:23 am

what a lovely singing voice, Sprite!

4:23 am

Happy birthday Dofith - you share the day with my lovely nephew

4:23 am

lol zooz

4:23 am

happy birthday to your nephew, Liz

anti

4:24 am

cameron is on a roll ;)

4:24 am

Yes, I am, thanks. Have heard from all my lovely sons, two of whom are far away.

4:24 am

Happy Birthday to your nephew, Liz!

4:24 am

aw that is good, dofith

4:25 am

Thanks on his behalf sprite. Hard to believe he's 22 and he's the younger.

4:25 am

Thanks also Zooz

4:26 am

yeah, somehow getting older seems to come out of nowhere, doesn't it? I mean, ok, our bodies start to grumble and some things aren't easy anymore... but inside, we still feel 25.

4:26 am

Yes, Happy Birthday, Liz's nephew. We share it with Charles Darwin and Abe Lincoln - good company, I'd say!

4:26 am

That's so lovely Dofith

4:26 am

very good company, lol

4:26 am

Great company and thanks

4:26 am

OKay after trying kandies I think i will give the Ks a rest..lol

4:26 am

Are you ancient like me, Zooz?

4:27 am

51 here, Dofith!

4:27 am

Time for me to leave. Enjoy your days / evenings and hugs.

4:27 am

keep the first 3, zooz, and end with 3 that are black, stinking and on top of road surfaces.

4:27 am

Just a lad!! I'm 65. (There! I said it!)

4:28 am

Nice to see you, Liz.sweet sleeps!

4:28 am

You too are still young Dofith!

4:28 am

beautiful ages, both of you! Old enough to be considered wise, and young enough to still be able to be silly.

4:28 am

bye Liz, have a good night and a grand day tomorrow.

4:29 am

G'night, Liz.

4:29 am

Thanks, Sprite! 7 now teehee.

4:29 am

yay zooz!

4:30 am

Sprite, I think that's the beauty of getting older. You can be as crazy as you like, forget things, not hear what you don't want to hear etc - and people excuse and forgive you! We can get away with murder!

4:31 am

hehehe you got it, dofith!

4:31 am

LOl I like that, Dofith!

4:32 am

Yes! found all the Ks here too.A bit ashamed to say i did not see the KN words till the end though!

4:33 am

don't be ashamed, zooz. They are K words. You are excused.

4:33 am

Be careful with the flattery, Zooz - sweet nothings from young men can turn an old lady's head!

4:33 am

lol you both could do worse, grin

4:34 am

Aww bless..you called me young :-)

4:35 am

Well, you are - relatively speaking!

4:36 am

I fully agree

4:36 am

Listen to you two..who are not that much older than me!

4:37 am

My man is cooking my birthday dinner - better go and make encouraging sounds. Lovely chatting with you, Zooz and Sprite. Enjoy your day, and your lovely cool weather. Too damn hot here.

4:37 am

*grin* Even a tiny bit younger, here. And I don't feel old at all, and won't when I turn 50 either. Now 70... that sounds kind of old to me. Respectably old, that is.

4:38 am

have a lovely closing of the day, dofith, and a good night after. Lovely to chat with you!

4:38 am

Hope the rest of your Birthday goes to plan, Dofith.And very nice to meet you here in babbleland!

4:40 am

I know what you mean, sprite, It seems such a long way away..But then I thought that about 50 when i was around the thirties..lol

4:40 am

Which onnly seemed not that long ago!

4:40 am

hehehe isn't that the truth. I know for a fact that our jillibus still feels young... and thinks young... and she is a little bit older again than we are.

4:41 am

I think that is the key, Sprite.You have to think young!

4:42 am

probably why I am so childish..lol

4:42 am

I think so too. And check yourself often for a tendency to think things used to be better. We need to go with the times.

4:43 am

I like that positive attitude, Sprite!

4:43 am

same here. Last time we ate at a restaurant, I got an ice dessert and it had this silly little parasol on top. So I put it in my hair bun. Kids were embarrassed, lol, my love and I were cracking up every time we saw/felt it.

4:44 am

hahaha nice one..showing yur siblings that just because we are parents..does not mean we too can not enjoy ourselves!

4:44 am

o*

4:45 am

hahaha our kids know that! Can't count the number of times they go : "Mo-hommmmm!"

4:45 am

hahahaha But they will look back on those moments with fond memories in the end :-)

4:47 am

that is what I tell them too, grin. That what they condemn now, will be their dearest memories later on. And that I intend to bestow lots and lots of those on them.

4:47 am

Let me know when you find the 9 Sprite :-)

4:47 am

already did... would you like a clue?

4:48 am

Err yes please :-)

4:48 am

di9/60, plural for stone mint.

4:48 am

how is your botany knowledge? I can clue further, if you like

4:49 am

Well i must admit to mouthing the word stone mint with a look of what the hell is that..lol

4:50 am

hehehe so would I. Let me see...

4:50 am

Came back to finish those k's. Have done that so will leave the remaining 37 til tomorrow K

4:51 am

d + a little b** of this + skin colour change from sunlight, + untruths are l***.

4:51 am

good job, Liz! *hugs* for you both.

4:51 am

Hugs again :)

4:51 am

Also forgot about in!

4:52 am

Oh nice clue..got it straight away with that one..Thank you very much, Sprite!

4:52 am

In!!!

4:52 am

you are very welcome, zooz!

4:52 am

Hello, Liz :-)

4:52 am

lol Liz struggles with the autocorrect

4:52 am

Kn - now stop auto correcting!

4:52 am

Lolol

4:53 am

Grrrrr!

4:53 am

Good night!

4:53 am

Teehee!

4:53 am

one reason I don't think I'll ever go use apple machines. Even though they are much better in many ways.

4:53 am

toodle pips, liz :-)

4:53 am

night, darling!

4:54 am

It's only the ipad! Now really goodnight

4:54 am

lolol Liz is pulling a jili on us

4:54 am

I have spell checker on this machine..but it does not seem to work on the firefox browser..as you can often tell with my spelling..lol

4:55 am

I'd much rather type a misspelt word that I put in myself than post something I didn't type. It would piss me off.

4:55 am

I do find I put 'i' instead of 'I' a lot too.Which I find annoying.

4:55 am

well they are close together

4:56 am

or, now that I think about it, it is because you are modest.

4:58 am

This machine has started to leave posts out of the chog..well I think it is this machine or is it babble (second time I have posted this remark in a row)

4:58 am

Ahh that one got through!

4:58 am

ok that is odd. We are bound for the hiccup though. 2 more minutes

4:59 am

It happens often for me sprite..not just the babble hicup.

5:00 am

might be a server issue, zooz. Your message has to pass a lot of servers before it ends up here, and if one of them misfires...

5:02 am

I am done... fireflies!

5:03 am

ok, have to be off, rather a busy day today. *hugs* for you, zooz. And to you all, a blessed day and a peaceful night.

5:03 am

Congrats,Sprite!

5:03 am

Hope you too have a wonderful day,Sprite!

5:29 am

Good morning, everyone:)

5:39 am

Hello, Crossy :-)

5:44 am

Hope you are well?

5:45 am

I am good, and you?

5:46 am

I am well thank you, Crossy :-)

5:46 am

di 9/60 ?

5:46 am

Any signs of Spring yet or is it way too early?

5:46 am

tis a minus 13c atm and a cold alert is on for tonight with a low of minus 24c with a lovely wind chill value of minus 34c. Common over, zooz. we can go snowshoeing:)

5:47 am

d + a little b** of this + skin colour change from sunlight, + untruths are l***.

5:47 am

Clued by Sprite earlier :-)

5:48 am

I think I would freeze to death inseconds, Crossy..LOL

5:49 am

It is a stone mint, Gran.

5:49 am

it is going to be fresh--that is for sure!

5:50 am

I bet it looks beautiful though.

5:52 am

Yes, everything is flash frozen and well preserved:)

5:52 am

...and I have not been bitten by a mosquito in months!

5:53 am

LOL well that is a plus side of the cold conditions you endure!

5:55 am

Okay time for a nice soak in the bath.Have a great day, Crossy :-)

5:55 am

tc zooz, and have a great day.

6:05 am

Morning all.

6:06 am

Hi kids.

6:07 am

tx zooz

6:07 am

H scrabs

6:08 am

howdy scrabs -- saw cute cottontail hopping out of fallen tree branches in backyard from last spring -- guess I'll leave it there a bit longer :-)

6:08 am

Wildlife need hideouts.

6:11 am

yep ... have left a big tangled corner on the OTHER side of the yard untouched for years -- bunny hangout par excellence :-)

6:14 am

Bunny Remy leaped the gate at the bottom of the stairs and surprised me in my bedroom during the night.

6:14 am

aaawwww sweet!

6:15 am

He is so cute.

6:15 am

He is so cute.

6:16 am

howdy sukee, scrabby,une:)

6:17 am

Hi Crossy.

6:17 am

he wanted his MOM :-)

6:17 am

ready for the deep freeze tonight, sukee?

6:17 am

hey crossy

6:17 am

Not really. I am tired of being cold.

6:18 am

just looked at Weather Underground 10-day forecast for my daughter in Maine -- another 25 inches of snow possible - wow!

6:18 am

Yes, he did. I have thought about bringing him to my room every night. I would need to set up food, water, and a litter box.

6:19 am

3 of my 4 dogs sleep in my room every nite -- one in dog bed and 2 snuggled with moi :-)

6:19 am

The groundhog lied...

6:19 am

we're even expecting nutso temps here in Nashville -- below freezing for 5-6 days in a row

6:19 am

At least it is now the middle of February. It will end soon enough.... well, not really soon enough :)

6:20 am

Baseball season is less than 2 months away.

6:21 am

we are due for minus 34c tonight. Have no idea anymore what that converts to in American. I am slowly forgetting all the old measures. I THINK it is around minus 15F

6:22 am

brrrr

6:22 am

It gets to a point when F and C are the same...

6:22 am

yes, at minus 40

6:23 am

It is not supposed to get quit that cold here, maybe -23, but feeling like -33

6:25 am

Tomorrow night at 6pm a group of us are snowshoeing in the woods then having dinner together.

6:25 am

We used to get minus 40 up north when we would go ice fishing on lake Nippissing. You would stand out in the darkness on the ice, with the dark wind cutting through your layers of clothing like a knife, and hear the ice moaning and groaning in pain, and jump in surprise at the rifle-shot sound of the pressure cracks zig-zaging their way just beyond your sight.

6:26 am

Great description, Crossy.

6:26 am

scrabs, you'd really enjoy my daughter and her boyfriend in Orono -- they hike and snowshoe in this weather as well -- yikes! LOL

6:28 am

Ok, going to have breakfast. Not finding any words right now.

6:30 am

I just dress in layers. I will not let the cold weather stop me from enjoying my wintersports.

6:30 am

We used to ride out on a snowmobile or a Bombadeer-- basically a bus on skis, and i clearly remember the drive laying down boards acrossy these wide pressure cracks. You could see the open water below. he would back the buss off and get a good run at it and we would ail over the pressure crack with a rattling of boards and the poor engine screaming at us:)... I was insane now that I think of it...

6:30 am

I need to get ready for work. Bye kids, enjoy the day.

6:30 am

ts scrabby

6:31 am

Yikes, Crossy. Risky!

6:31 am

My typing skills are a mess today:(

6:31 am

LOL my daughters been preaching layers for years :-)

6:31 am

layers rule.

6:31 am

crossy, that's amazing!

6:31 am

I have a nice ski shell that I wear over micro-fleece

6:33 am

Hello friends

6:33 am

lol, scrabby. stepping out your front door every morning is risky. I would rather remember the crazy things I did dothan mourn the things I did not do..I think I am paraphrasing that from someone, but I do not know who atm.

6:34 am

did do*

6:34 am

Howdy,car

6:34 am

hey car :-)

6:35 am

need more coffee -- back in a bit :-)

6:35 am

Loved those Bombadeers, they are a lot like the half-tracks of ww2, but look a lot like a lady-bug since 99% of them are painted red. The entire roof is designed to come off in seconds in case it goes through the ice.

6:39 am

here is what they look like for those who are interested. this will be my tidbit of the day:)

6:39 am

http://tinyurl.com/mghdbkj

6:47 am

Stats for the bottom A in the fourth column please?

6:48 am

ai6/30, car

6:48 am

gm, everyone! tadone and finito

6:48 am

WTH?!?!? airtank is not a word?!?!?

6:48 am

Hi Dawg!

6:48 am

congrats

6:50 am

howdy, LBD

6:51 am

CLue please?

6:51 am

ty for ai 6

6:52 am

a Japanese form of self-defense

6:52 am

martial arts, car

6:52 am

and good morning car and crossy

6:53 am

ty, had to look it up.

6:54 am

good morning dear friends, and my DARLING car!

6:55 am

The bottom a in the 4th column is ar4/8

6:55 am

Oops! TY Molly

6:56 am

Hello Trif! Have you tried out yet?

6:56 am

a little, but my left hand/wrist/arm and shoulder are all REALLY mad at me right now

6:56 am

*dried

6:57 am

Oh dear. I have to try to get some snow off the roof today...we'll see how that goes with my damn sciatic nerve. sigh

6:58 am

flamethrower. CLEARLY the only tool for the job

6:58 am

which roof?

6:59 am

the sun room. it is already bowing. another foot of snow and then rain...it will be all done.

6:59 am

can you broom it off, from your bedroom window? Might be better than reaching up....

6:59 am

Actually, with the piles of snow so high on the deck, I will have better leverage.

7:00 am

I don't dare go on the roof with only mom here at the house.

7:00 am

don't you have men in your house to deal with this stuff? Zach is WAY old enough!!!

7:00 am

He's at school. Dylan is about to leave. Matt is at work. It just didn't get done in the last few days with all the shoveling and re-shoveling.

7:01 am

ugh.

7:01 am

I will try my best. If I can't do it, then Matt will have to deal with it.

7:01 am

in other news - the interviewer is here from the local vo tech school, and let me tell you!!! That guy could interview me once a week and twice on Sundays....

7:01 am

Calling Valentine....

7:02 am

Im not blind....

7:03 am

Finally...NBT

7:03 am

count for the second row o please?

7:04 am

or 6/21

7:04 am

ahhhh! Thanks!

7:04 am

or 5/10

7:05 am

nbt!

7:06 am

Listening to a beautiful piano rendition of Nearer My God to Thee

7:06 am

how lovely!

7:06 am

I love when music brings tears to my eyes. It makes me feel good

7:07 am

Pandora Classical for Studying. If you skip over the 800 renditions of Pachebel's Canon in D, it is a great station.

7:08 am

I can't get the Pandora stations here at work, as it's a blocked site - It really stinks, as I would LOVE to play it during MCAS prep class....

7:09 am

Hey do they block something on your phone?

7:09 am

if I use the school wifi, yes

7:09 am

Oh yeah....

7:14 am

omg....I am in the library right now, and can overhear the FUNNIEST conversation at a nearby table - four barely teen boys bragging about how may days a week they have to shave....

7:16 am

My typing is so bad this morning. My eyes are so out of focus.

7:17 am

migraine?

7:17 am

possibly...lots of pressure in my head / sinuses

7:18 am

I found some GREAT new stuff at rite aid that is really working for me....Tylenol severe sinus pain

7:18 am

I have to use my nasal spray from hell...its the only things that works for me.

My maiden name is in the grid

7:32 am

hii..

7:32 am

Hi Matty, Hi PREM

7:33 am

i m new here ..anybody know how to play..

7:34 am

Welcome! Just find words of 4 or more letters that connect in the grid.

Hello! Care to help with the last two words, car? I'm sure I'd find them eventually, but lunch is nearly over! TO6/21 and to5/12 (I have the love affair 6/21)

Got the to6/21 now - just the 5/12 left

7:35 am

to 6/21 is TO + Di 4/5

Never mind - fireworks!!

7:36 am

Yah! Congrats!

Asking for help always seems to help me find the words before the clue is given ;)

7:36 am

too hard for me.

7:37 am

It takes some time to get used to.

7:37 am

I'll hellp you find a word, so you can see how it works.

7:38 am

Start at the M at the upper left corner. You can make the word "mads". See how the letters connect?

7:38 am

That word is scored as a 4/6, meaning it has four letters and the points of those letters add up to 6.

7:41 am

thank u..

7:42 am

Is anyone here that can explain how to figure the values for 5, 6, etc letter words? I can't seem to get the wording right.

7:42 am

this grid is hard today

7:42 am

words are just hard to see for some reason

7:42 am

yes it is

7:42 am

They are better off clicking on the help button

7:43 am

clue for the at7/28? please

7:43 am

That is a good idea. PREM, there is a help button right above this chat area. That will help a lot.

7:43 am

I'm looking for that too Phae...

7:44 am

or the di9?

7:44 am

Don't have that yet either.

7:44 am

at7/28 = against + oxygen hi all

7:45 am

that is an7

7:46 am

sorry! a + pl of broadway award word

7:46 am

AT 7/28 - pl of what you do for forgiveness of sins

7:46 am

ty pcal2

7:46 am

ty pc

7:46 am

ty too WV

7:46 am

yw

7:46 am

ty

7:46 am

ka6/30?

7:48 am

sounds like a metal tin + what makes feathers stick on treasons

7:48 am

ty

7:48 am

treasonous peeps

7:50 am

ma7/36?

7:51 am

ok... here goes

7:52 am

angry + end of the song title by the Knacks... My My My My My Sha****

7:52 am

ty

7:52 am

yw

7:53 am

ty

7:53 am

Did we find the Di 9 yet?

7:53 am

I haven't

7:54 am

I keep thinking it must start with soil... but nothing works

7:55 am

alike again: di**o + businesses: comp*****

7:56 am

Hello o-o! TYVM!

7:56 am

ty

7:56 am

my a is over...

7:56 am

I would never have gotten that one.

8:01 am

lone a bottom row please and hello

8:01 am

Hi pink AR 4/8

8:01 am

ar 4/8...8 points is a clue

8:02 am

ty ty car, mol

8:03 am

ty got it

8:09 am

good morning all

8:09 am

Hello

8:09 am

hi wv

8:12 am

Uh oh...coast guard helicopter just went by, flying low.

8:12 am

wow... completely stuck and still have 26 to go

8:12 am

Howdy, y'all!

8:12 am

I'm down to 5 thanks to the list

8:12 am

Let me know if I can help

8:12 am

Hi Judi

8:13 am

I guess it's time to list

8:17 am

Do you happen to have a clue for the RA 8?

8:17 am

not yet

8:17 am

ill look

8:18 am

add plural-ish ending

8:18 am

to the ra5

8:18 am

Fireworks! TYVM

8:18 am

woohoo!

8:19 am

YAY, CARE!]

wtg, car!

8:19 am

huzzah for car!

8:19 am

ty, ty...couldn't have done it without you all! :)

8:19 am

Trif...still working hard!

8:20 am

I guess I have to go do the roof now, eh?

8:20 am

in computer class. student is not here

19 to go with no prospects

8:20 am

LOL

8:20 am

I'm with Trif, leave the roof for the men folk

8:20 am

I'm here to help....

8:20 am

I have to at least try

8:21 am

I also need to get the hell out of the house

oh car, de careful...is there anyone else there with you/

8:21 am

puppy play date?

8:21 am

Just using the rake. Not going on the roof

8:22 am

I cannot leave mom here

i take it you have a ranch then

8:22 am

bring her with you

and how much on the roof?

8:22 am

I did find her some great shoes yesterday, though. Mens hiking boots with a great tread.

8:22 am

Either that or it's one big ass rake

8:22 am

That would defeat the purpose of getting out of the house.

:)

8:23 am

so much better than those sneakers she has been wearing! DEATH TRAPS those! Well done you!

they are not that common here. land is premium. remember one or two in my nnj town,

8:23 am

Now we have steep pointy roofs except a flat portion over the kitchen. It is the sunroom that is about to fall apart that is of concern. I would be happy to just let it go and have the insurance get us a new one, but our generator is out there and we are afraid that the roof may collapse and break through the sliding glass doors leading to that area...then we would be sunk.

8:24 am

Death Trap Sneakers, sounds like a punk band

sounds like you should move the generator

8:24 am

Turns out her sneakers are not even comfortable for her. She is so excited to have "room to wiggle her toes".

8:24 am

LOL

8:24 am

hahaha molly!

8:24 am

No kidding Joseph

better than many i've seen lately.

8:25 am

one of my friends referred to her wedding dress as a "polyester prison" which might be the greatest women's punk band name of all time....

seeing "pho" tmorrow

8:25 am

Sweeeet!

squee!

8:25 am

promise you will chuck the old, uncomfortable sneaks, car>

8:25 am

lol polyester prison!

sorry, make that "phox"

8:25 am

I know, right?

8:26 am

OMG! Did you see the new pups coming up with PAWS New England! LIttle Archers!!!!

8:26 am

yes...they are SO CUTE

8:26 am

I will. She is so happy with the new shoes and she can wear them like sneakers.

8:27 am

I am on SUCH a decluttering binge...it's so great

8:27 am

six snows days will do that to a gal...

come to my house, please.

8:27 am

I promise, TO, if I could get out of my driveway, I totally would :)

8:27 am

No! She must come here first!

8:28 am

"Elder" is calling me...

8:28 am

car, what do you think norwell will do about school?

well, we have snw showers and frigid air.

8:29 am

I think the professional days need to be scrapped so we can use half days instead of staying in school until July

8:29 am

I'm happy to say good bye to April vacation as well.

8:29 am

You know who I feel really bad for? The hourly employees who count on the MBTA to get to work. They are losing so much money.

that bottom i is taunting me i am determined to get it sans list or clue

8:30 am

ir 4/5

8:30 am

oops, sorry

that's ok. i am just blind to it

8:31 am

I need to read to the end of the sentence...

ogt it!

8:31 am

Oooh....you gave yourself such a good clue!

8:32 am

OK...time to suit up. HAGD everyone! Stay warm!

ll yu probably cannot read through my typos. i have a new pc but am still setting it up to take the wifi

with 17 to go, time to do some work. hapy babbling.

8:35 am

help with the bottom row T or stats for an 8 please

ti8 is both bottom row and 8

8:39 am

morning all- i have that large creature as a bottom t wv :-)

8:39 am

thnx - will look

8:39 am

ty joseph- will look

8:40 am

does the 8 build off the TI 5/10

yes

8:41 am

got the 8 and colored the tile- ty again joseph

8:42 am

stats for the a in bottom row?

8:43 am

nm- found it :-)

8:44 am

thnx joseph - halfway, NBT and NBS - time to do some work but BBL (shortly)

8:44 am

I found a ti7 but not a ti8

8:45 am

the 8 plurals off of a ti 7

8:45 am

pl the TI 7/28

8:45 am

duh, ty

8:45 am

ttfn teach- me as well- bbl

8:45 am

Both are extensions of Ti5/10.

8:46 am

ti7/8 are minerals

8:49 am

Any clue for the Di9??

8:52 am

Sounds like plural of pop singer Spears

8:52 am

like again: di**o + businesses: comp*****

8:52 am

Ty, Molls!

8:59 am

Did anyone clue the Ra8?

9:00 am

Hi Folks

9:00 am

Hiya, Hego!

9:00 am

Hi Judi :)

9:00 am

Hello, hego

9:01 am

hi all. just starting. but would loe a clue for the 9

9:01 am

Hiya 0-0

9:01 am

Rodent + businesses: comp*****

9:01 am

The 9 was just clued

9:02 am

Ty ty!

9:05 am

i found the clue. ty. got it.

9:07 am

Fireworks! Huzzah!

9:08 am

Go Judi!!!

9:08 am

Now you have to work the rest of the day.

9:10 am

I know. Sucks right?

9:10 am

:(

9:11 am

Off I go to justify my paycheck. See y'all tomorrow! *POOF*

9:11 am

bye....

9:49 am

hi all, can't believe it is Thursday already.. the week has flown by

9:49 am

ty for the ra8 clue, o-o

9:49 am

Saw your Myrtle Creek pictures Aloy. Lovely!

9:50 am

tx hego..

9:51 am

Must og...later..

9:51 am

go, even

9:52 am

later, hego.. grab some coffee on your way!

9:58 am

hello

9:59 am

this grid is going really slow

10:01 am

hi MLF

10:01 am

hi aloy

10:03 am

First column d?

10:05 am

di 4

10:05 am

soil

10:07 am

1st ad6?

10:07 am

hi ruru... brb, must get dictionary .. some of these words are newbies

10:08 am

ad 6 handsome fella

10:08 am

ah! thx ruru

10:17 am

have TI 8 - help with the other 8 please

10:18 am

it's an ra8, extend the ra5

10:18 am

it's an ra8, extend the ra5

10:18 am

di8 , guess I don't know perennial herbs

10:19 am

oh, sorry.. di is a 9, not an 8

10:19 am

and now to find the ti8, ty

10:20 am

TI 5, 7, 8

10:21 am

got em, ty

10:21 am

yvw

10:25 am

have two RA 5 (RA 5/12 and RA 5/10) both pl, but don't see how to extend to an 8 - is there another RA 5

10:25 am

extend the ra5/10, think plural

10:30 am

..back.. was shut down by a Windows update, hmmph..

10:38 am

hi all, clue for the an7/28 pls?

10:38 am

against what you breathe, Mary

10:39 am

ty Aloyisius

10:39 am

antipot

10:40 am

damn it

10:40 am

LOL ruru

10:42 am

hello all

10:43 am

hi Dorens

10:43 am

yw Mary

10:43 am

morning ms d

10:44 am

down to 7. think I can make it?

10:44 am

:D

10:44 am

here's hopin'

10:44 am

well, 5 now.

10:45 am

maybe i should open lickety?

10:45 am

lead the way, Dorens..

10:45 am

Hi folks, didn't understand the ra 8 cle. Understand the rodent part, but not the second part

10:45 am

I bet I can guess which ones you need doren :D

10:46 am

haha. ka6 and ka5?

10:46 am

I bet the Ai 6 is eluding you

10:46 am

i'll find it!

10:46 am

I have a ka similar to the weight of diamonds

10:47 am

bamboo furniture minus the t, and extend it as a plural

10:47 am

ty tabby. did need that

10:47 am

ty Shirl

10:47 am

everyone knows ra4.8, the Turkish liqueur.. but of course

10:48 am

*sets up tape at the finish line for doren*

10:48 am

you probably need in6 to get your INs doren

10:48 am

*guessing*

10:49 am

all my i's are done. two a's and a k

10:49 am

oh

10:49 am

one sounds like a diet coke receptacle + road Material

10:50 am

rofl. diet coke???

10:50 am

<---goes for boyfriend clues

10:51 am

ai 6 is a martial art

10:51 am

aikido

10:51 am

oops!

10:51 am

ty Dorens

10:51 am

that's IT!!!

10:51 am

:D

10:52 am

ok, so diet coke is at7? hmmmm

10:52 am

diet coke is ka 6

10:52 am

at 7 is lots of anthony's

10:53 am

found it. but don't see how it is like diet coke

10:53 am

kan = can

10:53 am

Oh! just saw that. looking for the ka now. no more clues

10:53 am

found it. even without the last hint, which really was a cheat!!

10:54 am

is the di 9 some typle of plant, hint pls

10:54 am

<--into making doren's life easier

10:54 am

thanks ru. on to other things, like stuff i really NEED to do. happy babbling!

10:54 am

bye

10:54 am

congrats doren, hagd!

11:01 am

fw send me off to choreland.. happy Babbling all

11:01 am

bye aloy.. I have to run too

12:57 pm

hi all. anyone have clue for any O words? ty

12:59 pm

di 9, pls

di.9 is a plant (mentioned in Harry Potter)

1:01 pm

di9 sounds like plural of pop singer Spears

1:03 pm

ty Molly

1:03 pm

di, dbl cons, vwl and 3 letter plural.

1:03 pm

oops too late.

1:04 pm

I got it earlier from Molly's clue. ty

1:23 pm

hi all. i am so confused.

1:24 pm

can anyone clue me a O word?

1:24 pm

when a man becomes a priest, a bishop or6's him...

1:24 pm

or 5/10 o+ double consonant + I am he **

1:25 pm

ty got it.

1:26 pm

ty got both.

1:26 pm

any clues for the A word bottom row? only one word

1:26 pm

yw

1:27 pm

ak 6/33, martial arts

1:27 pm

ak is not bottom row A. sorry.

1:30 pm

hmmm, I have it, but I can't figure out what it is

1:30 pm

AR 4/8

1:30 pm

i got it. ty

1:31 pm

aar 4/8 Sounds like a Mid eastern ccountry

1:34 pm

dorr

1:34 pm

dort

1:34 pm

sorry

1:43 pm

our high temp on sunday will be -5 below zero..

1:44 pm

i don't like to think about what it will be here....especially with the wind and snow...

1:45 pm

yes, that is prob withut the wind.. i hope there is a large grid, cuz im nnot leaving the house

1:45 pm

me either...

2:02 pm

Brrr... tis minus 18c and falling now with the wind chill at minus 31c

2:03 pm

you win the cold sweepstakes, crossy....

2:03 pm

balmy 16 here right now...

2:03 pm

minus 11f with a wind chill well below minus 40f now forecast

2:04 pm

Lucky me:)

2:05 pm

I am sure our babblers in the western provinces have us all beat for tonight

2:10 pm

anyways, we shall all have a good place to chill our beer:)

2:11 pm

ha!...going to a cajun dinner tonight....will be hard to get out the door....body wants to stay in...

2:12 pm

Add more spice to that Cajun meal to warm yer insides

2:12 pm

heh heh....

2:13 pm

Good Afternoon Everyone. How are you all today?

2:13 pm

(besides cold)

2:13 pm

hi nef....cold but ok...

2:13 pm

howdy nef:)

2:15 pm

It's 7 (F) and sunny here; but the wind chill makes it -10(F). And that wind does get to you too!

2:15 pm

where are you, Nef?

2:16 pm

MPLS/St. Paul, MN, pen

2:16 pm

lol There was a local bust buy the police. They busted up a pot farm inside a local townhouse-- they were found out because it was the only house in the area without any snow or ice on the roof. All the heat from the grow lamps had melted it. was like a beacon:)

2:16 pm

ah....well our high tomorrow is supposed to be 11 F....

2:16 pm

by*

2:16 pm

We don't have much snow (I think it all went to the east coast this winter,

2:17 pm

yes, we have a LOT of snow on the ground....

2:17 pm

and it's snowing lightly right now...

2:17 pm

a lot more expected Saturday night into Sunday....

2:18 pm

Y'all up in the north east need flame throwers

2:19 pm

yes, some would need that to get out their front doors right now....

2:19 pm

good afternoon everyone

2:19 pm

Sorry, I was boiling some eggs and the pan cover was on, spurted water all over the stove top & floor!

2:19 pm

guess we shouldn't complain about the fog and rain -- at least no snow shovels are involved

2:19 pm

hi nan...

2:20 pm

well one good thing about the cold...it usually means lightweight snow...

2:21 pm

Hi Molly & nan.

2:21 pm

true --- the last 2 dumps (and I use that lightly as they were only about 6") that we've had were really wet and heavy -- had to hire a teenager to come and move it

2:21 pm

We're behind in snow for this winter; nearly 2 feet. :-( The weathermen keep saying that every day...

2:23 pm

Sometimes, pen, that cold can bring dry snow that packs down with strong winds. You hit a few of those snow bumps on the highway out in the country & it can know your wheels out of alignment.

2:23 pm

apparently we had about 2 feet while I was in Vancouver for my surgery, but that and the 2 soggy ones has been it for this year.

2:25 pm

(Not especially liking this grid today; too many phantoms for me right now)

2:25 pm

don't like it either - 50 lft and stuck

2:25 pm

Nef, I see you still have auto correct enabled : D

2:27 pm

i am down to 30...stopped looking for a while...knitting instead...

2:28 pm

what are you knitting?

2:28 pm

It's scary that you can knit and type at the same time. How many hands do you have?

2:28 pm

a scarf for my neighbor...

2:29 pm

it's a medical secret, molly....

2:29 pm

are you the heir of zaphod beeblebrox, penquis? :D

2:30 pm

no, but you have heard of those strange genetic mutations in frogs?....well.....

2:30 pm

sorry, off tending to my boiled eggs, Molly. I am getting used to a new keyboard right now too; so who knows what I'd type if I didn't have autocorrect on?>

2:31 pm

LOL, jes!

2:31 pm

*making a note to boil some eggs before the next storm hits*....

2:37 pm

ok, I saw a supposedly easy way to peel hard boiled eggs where you put them in a glass with some water & shake it & the eggs peel themselves?

2:38 pm

man, I could use an extra set of arms some times... or a prehensile tail

2:38 pm

never heard of that...

2:38 pm

ai 6 please?

2:38 pm

have you ever tried it? doesn't really seem like it would work

2:39 pm

My first glass was too small; so tried again with a bigger glass. This time my hand wasn't big enough to cover the end of the glass & I slopped water all over the kitchen!

2:39 pm

nm - found it

2:39 pm

a mason jar might work better, nef...

2:40 pm

can you help with it nan - have looked earlier for that

2:40 pm

ai + young goat + vowel

2:40 pm

yes, pen; it probably will on my Next attempt.

2:42 pm

Hard boiled eggs peel easily under cold running water

2:42 pm

And thanks, nana for the clue.

2:43 pm

yw nef

2:44 pm

I normally peel them with a spoon, Molly, over the trash can (I know, I should compost them, but then we get more raccoons). It really works well for me. I just thought I'd try this. I'll try it with a jar before I decide if I like this way or not

2:45 pm

sorry, nan, I know you're not my nana!

2:48 pm

but I'm a Nana 9 times over

2:49 pm

I wanted cybernana for my user name, but it was already taken

2:50 pm

Well, since I'm also retired; you should be glad you're not *my* nana! (That would make you Very OLD!)

2:50 pm

lol - some days it feels like it!

2:50 pm

you could be adopted, nef :)

2:50 pm

Same here.

2:52 pm

ka 6 please?

2:52 pm

Ahh, jes; it never happened when I was young, I won't be doing it now. (But I have *adopted* some dear friends without relatives myself over the past few years….

2:53 pm

ka6...sounds like tin container + black gooey road surface

2:53 pm

k + picnic pest + i am you **e...

2:53 pm

ka6 sounds like a horse's slow run

2:53 pm

ty molly

2:53 pm

Good clue Jes

2:54 pm

Thanks jes& Molly

2:58 pm

ma 7?

3:00 pm

ma + most of boring sound + vowel...

3:00 pm

Sounds like Heavenly mother combined with an unmanned spy plane

3:01 pm

thanks penq and molly

3:01 pm

ty molly

3:01 pm

47 left, and gotta go pretend to be a productive member of society again.

3:01 pm

yw....just found it because nan asked for it, lol....

3:01 pm

*and pen

3:05 pm

Okay, tried peeling an egg with some water in a 1/2 pint mason jar (just because I had that size in the kitchen). It works. BUT I found it not nearly as easy as the YouTube video made it seem; more stressful on my hand joints than using a spoon I thought.

3:06 pm

Just in case anyone wonders.

3:06 pm

i just use my fingers anyway...

3:09 pm

*!* ta da *!* - thanks for the help and thank you lickety

3:09 pm

congrats nan

3:09 pm

congrats!

3:09 pm

I like to have some peeled boiled eggs handy because they are a snack that doesn't have extra sugars, fats or other stuff & even the grandson eats them. But I have arthritis in my hands and I keep trying to find simple ways to do stuff that is easier or less painful than what I've been doing.

3:10 pm

YAY, cybernan!!! WTG!!!

3:10 pm

off to make my lunch -- wouldn't you know? -- spinach salad with bacon and a hard boiled egg!

3:10 pm

LOL!!! :-D Maybe everyone will have boiled eggs today! ;-)

3:11 pm

sounds like a good lunch - we'll all be right there to share

3:11 pm

hagd everyone - back at the flip :-)

3:12 pm

Bye, nan! HAGD!

3:22 pm

help with IN 7 - last 7

3:23 pm

I don't have it but will look

3:25 pm

in streets

3:26 pm

Thanks, lynxxx

3:26 pm

thnx lynxx

3:48 pm

gotta go...bbl to find my last 27....bye!

3:49 pm

bye pen.

4:06 pm

noa

4:40 pm

ma 6, pls?

4:44 pm

nm, FW, hagn all

5:20 pm

hi everyone

5:21 pm

Hi, Annie.

5:21 pm

Hi Bea

5:23 pm

Too many bowels...

5:24 pm

lol, I agree

5:24 pm

Bea, you need to become unfixated on bowels : P

5:25 pm

Just my anal retentive self...

5:25 pm

Early potty training? : D

5:26 pm

I think so.

5:31 pm

I just found out Bob Simon died. That makes me so sad.

5:36 pm

Yes, I was sorry to hear that too.

5:47 pm

I cant find ad 6/21...anyone have a clue

5:48 pm

He-man

5:48 pm

Greek God style

5:48 pm

thanks, Molly

5:49 pm

I saw it but didnt type it in. It's usually capitalized. Silly me, I should try everything.

5:50 pm

be back later, 11 left..need a break

a fitting inclusion near valentine's day.

5:51 pm

hi and bye Owl

hi and byem annie. stay warm.

6:06 pm

hi folks, help with an7 pls

6:06 pm

against O2

6:07 pm

ty Bea

6:07 pm

yw

i am all around my last word..

6:21 pm

You will get it, to.

finalyy.

6:24 pm

adbrucejenner

6:24 pm

damn it

6:24 pm

=)

6:24 pm

I thought she said she man

6:25 pm

Who could have sen that one coming?

6:25 pm

jeezus.. no kidding

6:26 pm

I thought he'd just turn black like all the other guys around the house

6:26 pm

LOL!

6:28 pm

Need to rustle up some grub...

6:28 pm

bon appetit!

6:34 pm

No one here ever fixes dinner. They forage, they rustle up grub, they rummage...

6:41 pm

<--cooks dinner

6:43 pm

Well, you are the five star chef exception : D

6:44 pm

there's gotta be a woman out there for me that doesn't like to cook ... among other things

6:49 pm

I thought you already had one of those : P

6:57 pm

not yet

6:57 pm

plotting my future

6:59 pm

LOTS of women don't like to cook anymore ruru. The fact that you want to do the cooking should increase your ratings.

7:00 pm

:D

7:00 pm

<---vacuums too

7:00 pm

Oh now I'm confused. I thought you spent years being the cook and coffee maker.

7:00 pm

wishing you well on your search

7:01 pm

ooh another positive point!

7:03 pm

Here in the Northwest in shirt-sleeve weather, we are fixing dinner and I should be doing some potato peeling even as I write

7:03 pm

I like to do those things....

7:04 pm

Hey stidge! You are lucky to have a man who appreciates what you do for him.

7:06 pm

I suggest a barter system then. Will cook for _____ (fill in the reciprocating gesture of your choice) : P

7:06 pm

oh.. like THAT will happen

7:09 pm

Well, it's a nice fantasy : D

7:12 pm

I can't say anything

7:13 pm

Maybe you just need to find a "beloved"

7:14 pm

My computer is not working really very fast today.

7:15 pm

hmmm

7:25 pm

This is strange. Two messages sent by me to the chog. Zero showing up.

7:38 pm

Finally, the messages came through. Just in time for me to start dinner. 21 left in the grid. Argh. Would like to finish but it wont happen. Good evenings to all.

7:39 pm

any computer techies about this evening?

7:46 pm

What's up dawg?

8:05 pm

everytime I try to open Explorer it closes on itself.

8:11 pm

think i'll just shut down and read. ttfn

8:57 pm

lbdawger - start-control panel-internet options. Click the Delete... button on the General tab. Check preserve favorites, temporary internet files, cookies, then click Delete. Then try reopening Internet Explorer

9:51 pm

C cleaner is my favorite when it comes time to do a d&c on my cobbled together machines:-)

9:53 pm

Followed by a good scrub with malwarebytes of course:-)

10:00 pm

Why does babble accept ra5 but never rana?

10:04 pm

dinar

10:16 pm

FINISHED!!!! VERY EXCELLENT!!!

10:19 pm

congrats, godthaab!!

10:32 pm

evening folks

10:32 pm

yay godthaab!

10:32 pm

hey jes :-)

10:32 pm

Jane's cute!

10:33 pm

indeed :-)

10:37 pm

how many fosters have you caved and kept?

10:38 pm

3 of my 4 started out as fosters -- quit fostering awhile back LOL!

10:39 pm

ah, the dangers of fostering :D

10:40 pm

yes! it amazes me to see all the folks who foster dogs for MONTHS and then are able to give them up -- i'd be a total wreck!

10:40 pm

can i get a glue for the gi 5/14 please

10:41 pm

really big, shorty

10:41 pm

fee fi fo fum

10:43 pm

omg thank u wow i was looking the wrong way

10:44 pm

wow i cant believe i did that duh shorty lol

10:45 pm

having fish for dinner tonight?

10:45 pm

ka5 please?

10:45 pm

yes i am lol

10:46 pm

haven't got it, unea, saorry

10:46 pm

ok -- will keep lookin'

10:46 pm

gold measurement

10:47 pm

une, gem weight spelled with a k

10:47 pm

tx tor!!

10:47 pm

like a diamond measurement

10:47 pm

thanks granny, tor

10:47 pm

howdy ru :-)

10:47 pm

hi une

10:47 pm

hullo, ru

10:47 pm

hey, rose :-)

10:47 pm

hi jes gr and torg

10:48 pm

g'day jes, une, tor, ruru

10:48 pm

stats for the lowest a please? that'll get nbt

10:48 pm

at 5 I think jes

10:49 pm

or ar4

10:49 pm

clue for ik 4/8 PLEASE

10:49 pm

I + not dog

10:49 pm

FW! :-)

10:49 pm

back at the flip!

10:49 pm

YAY une

10:49 pm

yay unea! have a good evening :)

10:49 pm

thank you!!!!!!

10:50 pm

ar4/8 is the bottom one

10:50 pm

yw shorty

10:50 pm

...and heyas kids ..

10:50 pm

thanks, torg :)

10:51 pm

WTG UNE!!!!

10:52 pm

hey all

10:53 pm

hey stid :)

10:53 pm

my computer looks like it is going to die soon -- didn't plug it in before I sat down...

10:53 pm

g'day stid {{hugs}}

10:54 pm

Too hot and too dry... the weather is all wrong for the time of year. I worry about the plants.

10:54 pm

better find the power cord

10:54 pm

How's Effie doing, Jes?

10:54 pm

eeeeh. she caught a rabbit yesterday. lovely diarrhea today. *grumblemutter*

10:55 pm

no, I will just play until I run out and then recharge overnight. Taking tomorrow off, so no need to be "ready to go." But I am going to be up early so I can drive to Seattle.

10:55 pm

*hides chat from Scrabbler*

10:55 pm

oof. Guess she's better if she can catch rabbits!

10:55 pm

Did you hear about our SNAKE?

10:56 pm

yeah. she's certainly perky. i could do without the clean up though.

10:56 pm

no, you got a snake?

10:56 pm

*waves hands excitedly * i did, i did......lol

10:56 pm

um. sort of.

10:56 pm

ROFL GR!!!!!

10:56 pm

my whole neighborhood heard about the snake...

10:57 pm

did he surprise you a bit?

10:57 pm

oh, oh, oh, miss, miss, pick me miss!!

10:57 pm

??? what about the snake

10:57 pm

It's a she, actually. 5-foot long ball pythons closely resemble copperheads or diamondbacks at 6 am in the dark...

10:57 pm

<-- thinks granny wants to tell a story :)

10:57 pm

oh jesus

10:58 pm

<-----crawls away and hides under pillow.....

10:58 pm

Had not been told it needed "temporary" shelter back in November when it arrived.

10:58 pm

GR knows the rest...

10:58 pm

none of which are native to portland.... where did she come from?

10:58 pm

snakes scare the living crap outta me

10:58 pm

your kid?

10:58 pm

yep.

10:58 pm

man, ruru... so much for your tough guy backwoods image.

10:59 pm

he owes you a present with a boa on it

10:59 pm

gf actually -- she is a herps nut. But her family disapproves. So she needed a "safe house" when some relatives visited.

10:59 pm

RURU!!! *stern mama look*

10:59 pm

did she get loose? and related, how had he kept her secret since November?

11:00 pm

I grew up in Virginia, and of course I have lightning reflexes. Very very surprised to see it.

11:00 pm

I thought all pythons were male and named Monty

11:00 pm

you didn't hurt her, did you?

11:00 pm

no, ruru... my python is named Cassius :)

11:00 pm

ROGLOL....close ruru, close

11:01 pm

because he has 'a lean and hungry look'

11:01 pm

I'd love to see une shuttling snakes across state lines :D

11:02 pm

She was hungry, hadn't eaten in 6 weeks. We fed her Tuesday a week ago (the day she pushed the lid off the tiny box she was being kept in and came hunting). One rodent. She should probably eat again, but I am being told not until the first is fully digested.

11:02 pm

I really scolded the kids for A) not telling me and B) mistreating the poor animal.

11:02 pm

stid, your son is officially fired from snake-keeping.

11:03 pm

HE didn't know better, but the gf did.

11:03 pm

She claimed poverty, but it

11:03 pm

though in fairness, a lot of ball pythons don't eat in the winter anyway...

11:03 pm

really dumb of him to not tell you

11:03 pm

it's not like she doesn't know anyone with funds for food.

11:04 pm

my Lady MacBeth used to go from November to March without eating every year.

11:04 pm

bet she liked little pigs huh jess?

11:04 pm

True, they don't, but usually you don't feed them because they stop eating, not because you aren't offering them any.

11:05 pm

Yes, ruru -- it was dumb.

11:05 pm

little hamlets

11:05 pm

not a thing Cassius does - he'll eat year round, the greedy bugger.

11:05 pm

aw, stid... it's cute when he tries though :)

11:05 pm

anyway... she has beautiful coloring, and I am told she is quite gentle (when not hunting)

11:06 pm

<---keeps wide distance from snakes

11:06 pm

I, personally, am not a herps nut. I lived in Puerto Rico and Virginia far too long to think of them as "cuddly"

11:07 pm

but they ARE cuddly - because you're warm!

11:07 pm

but they are living beings, and as such I recognize a commonality -- the right to be safe and live as normal a life as possible.

11:08 pm

Hence, snake's habitat has been moved to our home (Grant's room!) and we will keep her until the gf has developed the ability to care for her properly.

11:08 pm

stidmama is my hero. she actually asked to be introduced to Monty formally.

11:08 pm

Apparently the snake (a rescue) used to be a classroom pet!

11:08 pm

LOL -- she is a hunting ACE!

11:09 pm

older kids, I hope? *pictures salmonella in all of Stid's students*

11:10 pm

how long do pythons live, and how long do they grow to? *wonders if there is enough room in stid's house*

11:10 pm

30-40 years, granny, and balls top out about 6 feet

11:11 pm

Won't take her to my own classroom -- too many unpredictable backgrounds! besides, I will NOT handle her by myself.

11:11 pm

*note to self.. pass on the invitation to visit stid and stay over*

11:11 pm

egad, une, that's a lot of mice to find...

11:12 pm

Yes, fortunately there is the ability to purchase frozen food.

11:12 pm

or breed your own

11:12 pm

She is native to African plains, and so her normal diet of course would not be available here.

11:13 pm

won't breed rodents, Tom HATES rodents.

11:13 pm

*there goes my mountain man vision of Tom*

11:13 pm

LOL ruru!

11:14 pm

it wouldn't take long stid. mice can be impregnated in the middle of delivering a litter.

11:14 pm

well, have to head out. the computer is about to die. I got ONE word! LOL

11:14 pm

back online over the weekend, hope to see you all! *poof*

11:14 pm

hemce two mice, thirteen babies, three weeks later another thirteen babies. wanna do the math?

11:15 pm

they gestate in three weeks? wow

11:16 pm

sleep well, stid!

11:16 pm

yup, we had a breeding pair, didn't know that they could do that. within 3 weeks we went from two to twenty-eight.

11:17 pm

28 days, actually

11:17 pm

but they breed back within a couple hours of birth, so they pile up fast :)

11:18 pm

<---thinks it may not be bad to be a male mouse

11:18 pm

jes, this pair produced again in 3 weeks. we were told by the CSIRO that they breed in the midst of giving birth.

11:18 pm

well, you ONLY get to breed that one day, no point breeding if they're already preggers. so you get it once a month. for like 5 seconds.

11:18 pm

what's a csiro?

11:18 pm

oh.. well.. I wouldn't like that

11:19 pm

and that's all it takes. i had a great argument as to who brought home the male mouse.

11:19 pm

really, the phrase should be "breed like rats" not "breed like rabbits"... it's impressive

11:19 pm

a research company here in ozland

11:20 pm

ah

11:20 pm

until we opened the cage, and found my female suckling the litter.

11:21 pm

well i wanted to know how best to care for them. that's when i was told of course you have separated the pair.

11:22 pm

that little mother raised both litters. fortunately we were able to find homes for all the babies before they matured to breeding age.

11:23 pm

why don't you like snakes, ruru?

11:23 pm

and there was the time the cat got inside and knocked over all three cages. i had to find 28 mice before the crawling baby did.

11:24 pm

did the cat help?

11:25 pm

lolol...no, that was the easy part, catching the cat and putting her outside again.

11:25 pm

just an innate fear jes

11:26 pm

I don't like reptiles to be totally honest

11:26 pm

huh. i've never understood that. thought they were fascinating since I was a kid.

11:27 pm

I do find crocodiles fascinating though

11:28 pm

but they're more prehistoric

11:28 pm

how about birds?

11:28 pm

love birds

11:28 pm

love watching birds too

11:28 pm

but they're just lizards with feathers...

11:28 pm

*coughs*

11:29 pm

yeah.. well.. they aren't poisonous and have fangs either

11:29 pm

do any of the native american snakes travel in mated pairs? over here the red-bellied black, and the eastern browns do. if you go bush, you take a double-barrel gun with you. if you shoot one, you have to have a barrel ready for the other.

11:29 pm

ahahahahaha. some are

11:30 pm

not really, granny. though they do pile up in huge numbers during mating/winter sometimes, depending on the species.

11:30 pm

personally i just freeze. the snake usually ignores you.

11:30 pm

the only mated pairs of snakes in America are found in Wall Street granny

11:30 pm

oh dear, ruru....lol

11:30 pm

look up the hooded pitohui, ruru

11:31 pm

brown snakes are very dangerous aren't they GR?

11:31 pm

isn't everything in australia dangerous, ruru?

11:32 pm

well.. even the bush sounds dangerous over there :D

11:32 pm

ewwww, jes. well that puts new guinea off the bucket list.

11:32 pm

and yes ruru, one of the most venomous in the world.

11:32 pm

whatwhatwhat? an australian intimidated by someone else's wildlife?

11:33 pm

hey i intimidated by my OWN wildlife...

11:34 pm

<---getting ready for some wildlife ...

11:34 pm

well yeah, that's reasonable. I mean even the moths in australia can kill you, right? so why would a toxic bird be scary?

11:34 pm

you wanna see the dance i do when ever i see a huntsman spider, or a false black widow, accompanied by loud screeching and maniacal laughter.

11:34 pm

yes, post video! :D

11:35 pm

i'd love to see that

11:35 pm

but daddy long legs??? the most venomous of all, bring them on, love them....lol

11:36 pm

our daddy long legs are harmless here

11:39 pm

ours are harmless to humans, but anything else they are fatal. i have one in our bedroom with legs nearly 3" long, stretched out. it almost looks like a wind-up toy.

11:41 pm

3 left - ta5/18 clue please?

11:42 pm

ta5, ta + kith and ....

11:42 pm

hah. nevermind.

11:42 pm

thanks though :)

11:43 pm

how about ra8? I probably won't find it by accident while you're cluing :)

11:44 pm

start with rodent + sun browned skin + v***, competes

11:44 pm

thanks, granny

11:45 pm

oh good you found it.

11:45 pm

yeah, was a good clue. And a new word for me.

11:46 pm

is di9 related to the di4 before it?

11:46 pm

nevermind. it is not

11:46 pm

nope

11:46 pm

firewords :)

11:46 pm

WTG JESDRAGGON!!!!

11:47 pm

hah. both of my last 2 were purple plants. weird.

11:51 pm

speaking of ra6 things in the news about aussieland - I heard the lady who was in jail because nobody believed dingos stole hr baby got released because someone found suspicious dingos... does the stuff about your country that makes news in the states make you cringe?

11:52 pm

gosh, jes, that was years ago. you are talking about the chamberlains. it was all a very grave miscarriage of justice as far as i am concerned.

11:54 pm

and, no i don 't cringe. and news from the states just makes my heart ache with sorrow and some times outrage. we get similar things happening here too.

11:54 pm

i thought the release was recent, but she'd been in jail for several years?

11:55 pm

yes she had. and several of us have been fighting for her release. she wrote a book about it. it was very sad.

11:57 pm

her case was quashed in 1988, she has since remarried, lived in seattle and now moved back to ozland with her husband.

11:59 pm

ah... i didn't realize. is good she wasn't in prison all this time.

12:00 am

grief is hard enough without false accusations piled on top

12:00 am

i think we are about to lose our power. big thunder storm overhead.

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