Like They Didn't See This Coming?

[Princess Susi]

I hunted down a silver tree a few years back, as chronicled in this blog entry:

http://celebrationfl.blogspot.com/2004_ ... chive.html

It was a major draw in my house when it was on the Celebration Holiday Home Tour a few yers later. f you scroll down in the pics. on the link below you'll see our aluminum tree, but you can't really make out thre multiple color wheels:

http://www.celebrationinfo.com/tour.htm

Loved the tour. Do I leave my booties in the box? Thanks! Very cool! :D:
sooze

[Princess Susi]

Nursing: A job I could never do. I became friends with a lady in Portland who is nursing assistant (I don't remember her certifications). Her favorite story to tell is that of helping one lady with her prolapsed rectum.

Ah yes, the old prolasped rectum, always a fun thing to deal with! We had to deal with a cockatiel's prolapsed uterus and then she had a itty, bitty, teensy, weensy hysterectomy!!!! I am not joshing. We had a *very* fertile cockatiel who laid an egg everyday and it got so bad her uterus fell out. The Emergency vet stuck it back in, stitched it up in there and then we took her to her regular vet who did the hysterectomy. Can you imagine a hysterectomy on something so small? Wow!!!! We lost her a year later to cancer, but she lived a good life with us. I had hand raised her from a just a little dinosaur looking thing with no feathers to a beautiful sweet bird who would kiss me. Her name was Chirp! :parrot2: :) I'll find a picture to scan and post it sometime. That was before our digicam.
She actually left us right around Christmas time.
susi

[Princess Susi]

My dad would have had that problem too. And with a bad back he had trouble crawling under the tree to give the tree a drink. So he took the tree stand and attached a plastic tube to the bottom of the bowl of the stand. Then out beyond the tree he put a small bucket with the tube attached at the bottom. Thus you could fill the stand from outside and the water level in the bucket matched the water in the stand. Later we put a large bucket above the small one and put a float valve in the small bucket. So as the water level dropped in the small bucket the water was released from the big bucket to bring it back up. The whole thing was camoflaged in a fake xmas gift package. The large bucket was big enough that it would last for about 3 weeks without filling. So if we went from Tgiving to first of Jan we only had to fill the bucket once about the 2nd week of Dec.

Randy (who came by his talent for coming up with an unusual solution to every problem, honestly)

Your dad sounds like my dad! He always does stuff like that! The old guys from back in the day know how to do that stuff.... :D: My dad was a mechanic by trade all of his life since he was 14 or so. He is 85 now and still tinkers. I remember the Popular Mechanic on his side table next to *His* chair with his pipes and tobacco. :D: He does not smoke anymore, has not for years...
Lots of good memories on this thread. Brings on the warm and fuzzies for me. What great memories and thinking bout 1963 again...wow, I don't thnk there is a person alive who was old to remember the Kennedy assassination who does not remember where they were when they heard the news. I was in third grade and they announced it over the intercom...sent us all home too...
sooze
By the way do we have multiquote yet????? Sorry, I did not notice if we have it now

[Shorty82]

What great memories and thinking bout 1963 again...wow, I don't thnk there is a person alive who was old to remember the Kennedy assassination who does not remember where they were when they heard the news. I was in third grade and they announced it over the intercom...sent us all home too...
sooze

That date for me will always be 9/11/2001, then again I'm a youngin. I was in college at the time.

By the way do we have multiquote yet????? Sorry, I did not notice if we have it now

Yes, we do. It's the little button to the right of the "Quote" button with two pieces of paper on it.

[BRWombat]

... I don't thnk there is a person alive who was old to remember the Kennedy assassination who does not remember where they were when they heard the news. I was in third grade and they announced it over the intercom...sent us all home too...

Sorry if this is TMI... but at one point, out of what was likely an excess of curiosity, I counted back from my birthday (8/14/64) the average number of days in a pregnancy -- and found my most likely date of conception was Nov. 22, 1963! What a way to mourn, huh?

Then again, I may have miscalculated, as I was using human gestation, not wombat. :)

[Princess Susi]

Sorry if this is TMI... but at one point, out of what was likely an excess of curiosity, I counted back from my birthday (8/14/64) the average number of days in a pregnancy -- and found my most likely date of conception was Nov. 22, 1963! What a way to mourn, huh?

Then again, I may have miscalculated, as I was using human gestation, not wombat. :)

Your mom and dad were *comforting* each other over the tragedy.
sues

[Big Wallaby]

Mom? Dad? What were you doing when you heard the news?

<Mom and dad point to each other>

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

Wow, I remember I was in the six grade, and our teacher had been called out of the room by the principal, usually bad news (for a kid) and came back in crying! very sad. we had never seen a teacher cry and I think we all felt a little upset over that. She told us wht happened and we got out early. I remember going home and instead of cartoons, they had the news on early with commentary. and a lot of still pictures.

[Whazzup]

I was in school and when we heard the announcement I saw my best friend crying and I thought "What a hypocrite." She was always badmouthing Kennedy and making fun of him. She got that from her father, who was a loudmouthed ignoramus. I guess the shock of the event woke her up and made her realize how fragile life can be.

[Cheshire Figment]

On 11/22/63 I was at the 7th Army NCO Academy in Bad Tolz, Germany. The other unit on the base was the 10th Special Forces Group. When we found out about it (the next morning) everyone from 10SFG had disappeared.

For 9/11/2001, Judy and I flown home from Disneyland the day before and were at work. I was less than four blocks from the US Capital and Judy was less than 4 blocks from the White House. It was a strange day for us (especially the commute in getting home).