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RasmaSandra @RasmaSandra (90353) • Daytona Beach, Florida 28 Oct

Halloween is coming and the ghosts and goblins are ready, The witches are preparing their brooms to fly high. The gravestones in cemeteries are starting to move with impatient bodies wanting to get out. Werewolves will begin to...

beware on halloween

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Ron Rybs @RasmaSandra My black cats will defend me!

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RasmaSandra @RasmaSandra (90353) • Daytona Beach, Florida 28 Oct

Sorry to disappoint you, but no, little green men did not plant this flower. It is a strange-looking perennial plant that comes from South America. Besides Happy Alien flower, it is also known as Darwin’s slipping flower and was...

looking like an alien

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Ron Rybs @RasmaSandra Thought so, but I am no plant expert!

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Judy Evans @JudyEv (364832) • Rockingham, Australia 27 Oct

I have one tomato plant growing in my garden and now it has three little tomatoes on it and more flowers. We’re going away tomorrow for about a week but my friend will keep an eye on it for me. I wonder if they'll ripen before we...

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Ron Rybs I think the most worrying thing is the need to ration water. That would always be a worry for me, but at least your tomatoes will be doing alright!

29 Oct

Judy Story @jstory07 (146247) • Roseburg, Oregon 28 Oct

My two cousins asked us to take them to a Halloween party at a farm. We all had a good time. We got to go on a hay ride. Pick a pumpkin. Played lots of fun games and won some prizes. The boys forgot to tell their parents so...

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Ron Rybs Way back when, I visited my cousin in Chicago at Halloween and went to farm. it wasn't a party, but like a fun fair. Really meant for the youngsters, I think

29 Oct

Judy Evans @JudyEv (364832) • Rockingham, Australia 28 Oct

I am at the stage of my life where I’m trying to get rid of things rather than accumulate more. However, when we’re travelling, it’s nice to support the local communities that we pass through. When we went to Wongan Hills, I...

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Ron Rybs Love the name, Fairy Wren. An irredescent blue to say the least.

29 Oct

LooeyVille @LooeyVille (59) • United States 28 Oct

We just won a trophy for general knowledge trivia We’ve won about six times already this cruise The one Texas girl is completely obnoxious when she knows the answer It’s embarrassing And yet we still play

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Ron Rybs I used to love quizes, but these days I don't spend evenings in the pub

29 Oct

LooeyVille @LooeyVille (59) • United States 28 Oct

we’ve just docked in Aruba Sunny and HOT We’re waiting until the crowds die down before we try getting off the ship I don’t rake the heat well so we’ll see how much this tropical heat and humidity gets me I think we’ll just...

aruba

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Ron Rybs Aruba always sounds like a made up name, even though I know it is a real place

29 Oct

LooeyVille @LooeyVille (59) • United States 28 Oct

I can’t take heat and humidity very well anymore It’s oppressively hot in the Caribbean islands and was today in Aruba I’d rather cruise to Alaska or visit Europe quite honestly. No offense to the Caribbean countries but it’s...

caribbean

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Ron Rybs Oh no, it is cooler climes for me!

29 Oct

LooeyVille @LooeyVille (59) • United States 28 Oct

Attached are some of our choices but dinner tonight There are additionally desserts and appetizers — this is just the page for the main entrees In going to have the pasta carbonara. What would you choose from this menu? What...

dinner

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Ron Rybs I'd go for the lamb, but the weather might be a bit warm for that meal

29 Oct

RasmaSandra @RasmaSandra (90353) • Daytona Beach, Florida 28 Oct

Sorry to disappoint you, but no, little green men did not plant this flower. It is a strange-looking perennial plant that comes from South America. Besides Happy Alien flower, it is also known as Darwin’s slipping flower and was...

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Ron Rybs Rather an attractive flower. I am guessing it is an orchid

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RasmaSandra @RasmaSandra (90353) • Daytona Beach, Florida 28 Oct

Halloween is coming and the ghosts and goblins are ready, The witches are preparing their brooms to fly high. The gravestones in cemeteries are starting to move with impatient bodies wanting to get out. Werewolves will begin to...

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Ron Rybs Best I get some chocs in for those unexpected callers!

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LooeyVille @LooeyVille (59) • United States 29 Oct

It’s a beautiful sunny day in the Caribbean Probably hot We have an afternoon excursion but it’s still morning so we’re getting ready for breakfast The Texas girls are going snorkeling. We’re going sight seeing The Texas...

bonaire

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Ron Rybs I saw there is a hurricane knocking about that part of the world. Hope it doesn't cause any problems for you

29 Oct

LooeyVille @LooeyVille (59) • United States 29 Oct

We survived our tour in a hot bus whose air conditioning wasn’t working on a hot day in Bonaire Luckily we did get to see many flamingos and donkeys and lizards and such The stores were filled with flamingo themed...

flamingo

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Ron Rybs Nice that the flamingoes have their own airport!

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Judy Evans @JudyEv (364832) • Rockingham, Australia 18 Oct

While in the Westonia Museum, I saw some saucepans with very long handles like the one in the left-hand image. I was wondering why the handles were so long but after seeing the open cooking range at Mangowine Homestead, I...

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Ron Rybs Everything was designed for a purpose, mostly we've forgotten why

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Judy Evans @JudyEv (364832) • Rockingham, Australia 18 Oct

The image shows the sign ‘The Stacey Lamb Train’. I knew I’d heard of this before but couldn’t think where so off I went searching. Mr L J Stacey of Quairading in Western Australia produced fat lambs for market; so many in fact...

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Ron Rybs Wow, that is lot of lamb!

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Fleur @Fleura (32987) • United Kingdom 18 Oct

There are some pubs around here which host folk music ‘sessions’; when anyone can just turn up and join in. The snag is that unless you are an accomplished player it can be really hard to join in, everyone plays so fast, they know...

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Ron Rybs That's the problem with tight knit and long standing groups. Very insular if not downright cold

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Judy Evans @JudyEv (364832) • Rockingham, Australia 17 Oct

Don't take the title literally but it looks to me that this little guy holding the rain gauge is hoping for a downpour. They are forecasting rain for the next three days but at least I won’t have to water the garden. We’re...

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Ron Rybs We've rain forecast for the next four or five days, as well

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Judy Evans @JudyEv (364832) • Rockingham, Australia 17 Oct

So here’s another scene from the museum in Westonia, Western Australia. This shows a farmer in typical clothing ready to hump a bag of wheat onto a truck. My father never wore overalls but the truck is typical of one we had. At...

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Ron Rybs Something we seldom think about in damper climes, the risk of fire spreading. Mind you, with climate change we have recently had a few

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Judy Evans @JudyEv (364832) • Rockingham, Australia 17 Oct

I really think I’m getting old. While we were away, we ran out of instant coffee which is really the only coffee we like. I buy the large tins of our favourite brand as it’s cheaper that way. So I bought a large tin in...

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Ron Rybs @JudyEv I used to use loose tea, but now find teabags easier to clean up after

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Judy Evans @JudyEv (364832) • Rockingham, Australia 17 Oct

Two things fell into place for me when we visited Mangowine Homestead in the Central Wheatbelt area of Western Australia. For some years, I’ve been intrigued by a tree which grows with a twisted/fluted trunk. I assumed it was just...

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Ron Rybs @JudyEv I know, it crops up in conversation all the time!

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