Luv2play

Interesting. I've known a couple of Australian Shepherds here in town and they are shaggy with a mixture of white and black hair, maybe some brown too. One had blue eyes and they called him Auzzi. Friendly dog and got on well with my Belgian shepherd who had blond short hair.

The worst part is that the grass clippings are left on the bronze plaques and totally obscure the names on them. Unless you are there after every grass cutting to brush away the clippings, they just accumulate.

I agree. My parents are buried in one of those modern cemetries that sprung up in the 1950's. Just flat bronze plaques so they could cut the grass easily. All my other ancestors are in traditional cemeteries with lovely monuments, which is where I will end up too.

A lovely man from my town was killed on a bombing mission in Germany in 1944 and is buried there. I have seen a picture of him taken in 1937 with his football team. He was a tall dark gorgeous hunk. His family placed a marker on the family plot here in the town cemetery which says he is buried in Germany. War is a bitch.

It just seems like yesterday you were experiencing low 80s at night and 115 during the days.

It may be given how the storm has developed overnight. This morning we are experiencing a blizzard but the snowfall hasn't been as heavy as predicted...yet. It may still arrive over the next 12 hours. Right now I would say Christmas dinner at my cousins is looking iffy. Thankfully my fridge is packed with food and the bar is well stocked with wine and liquor. Let it snow let it snow.

I guess you could ask for a golden shower on the table shower, no?

Yes of course. I was only thinking of below the waistline. But three is correct.

I think if I found myself in that situation, I would have the cancerous penis removed and a vagina installed in it's place. Being a bottom, that would give me the option of two holes to fill, or even both at the same time. I could get over the missing penis if I found some substitutes.

I can't imagine drinking that much water a day. I get a lot of water from orher sources in the food I eat. Lot's of natural foods that are not processed. They contain an incredible amount of water, some fruits and veggies are up to 90 percent water.

I am in a part of North America that is experiencing the last great storm of 2022 and it is happening just before Christmas. Which means a lot of travel plans are being upset. For myself I only hope to travel on Christmas Day and only 60 miles to go to dinner at a relative's house. Hopefully the roads will be clear by then. In the meantime I am enjoying the snow and wind swirling around. As long as the electricity doesn't fail. 😆

I haven't studied in depth the history of cenotaphs in my country Canada, but know many of them were erected after the Great War from 1914 to 1918. The government decreed that the fallen soldiers would not be repatriated and were buried where they fell, mostly in France. There was pressure to memorialize their names on their native soil and so cenotaphs sprung up across the country. Every small town had one and large cities had much more elaborate memorials. Then after the Second World War more cenotaphs were erected and many had the names of both WWI and WWII soldiers. In my small town we have two cenotaphs, dating from each world war. My great uncle's name is on both. They are in different parts of the town. The larger one is where each November 11th the commemoration Remembrance Day ceremonies are held, marking the last day of WWI in 1918, when the armistice was declared.

Actually that's not correct. Some people are choosing to have their cremated remains divided in two and buried in two separate cemeteries. In one case the woman wanted to be buried with her parents and grandparents but half her remains were to be buried with her husband when he dies. Two cemeteries in separate cities and her name will appear on both tombstones. In the case of a great uncle who died in France in WWI, his tombstone is at Vimy Ridge but his name also appears on the tombstone of his parents' grave in my town's cemetery. In another case a friend is buried with his second wife elsewhere but his name was inscribed on his first wife's tombstone before they got divorced. When he died the family put his date of death on the stone even though he was not buried there. I know of other cases where people have two tombstones but are only buried in one grave for various reasons. Cemeteries can be deceiving places.

I saw the London production of Hair also in late August of 1969 after having hitch-hiked around Europe for the summer.

It's your grammar that is at fault. You said you originally moved in when you were 6 months old, after conducting a long, exhaustive search. That must have been tough on your parents pushing you around in a pram. Lol

You've lost me.

In many respects I have a photographic memory. More like total recall.

That would make you 22 years old today. Lol

I was 16. I remember that spring Leslie Gore had the smash hit "It's my Party" As for Sugar Shack a bunch of my friends had a shack at a ski hill in the Laurentians north of Montreal. We called it the sugar shack.

You said " I was just 6 months old when I moved into the apartment" (paraphrasing). ???

If you can't touch then going to a stripper bar and just watching the show on stage would be a lot cheaper.

My memory does not fail me. I link songs to where I was in my life. Back in 69 I was at university and I remember Sugar Sugar on drives to the ski hills.

I take it the apartment was 6 months old.

You said it was on top of the rent. Has that kept pace with inflation?

That tune takes me back to the '60's. There was another tune called Sugar Shack around the same time. Also Sugar and Spice but not sure that was the title.