On Thu, 29 May 2003 15:23:19 -0400 Karen Rhodes
 writes:
> At 10:44 AM 5/29/2003 -0500, Gumbie Tygress wrote:
> 
> >> >> >If you drink the water, you're in a state of flux . . .
> >> >> 
> >> >> And if you wash with the water and a certain
detergent, you're 
> in 
> >> a 
> >> >> state of Lux.
> >> >
> >> >Go out to the pond and you'll get a spate of ducks....
> >> 
> >> Sometimes drinking the water requires a box of Chux.
> >
> >This rhyme string certainly is full of Yux
> 
> And it is costing us no bux!

Unless we go formal and rent a Tux

> >> But, yes, letting it stand (even at room temp) does allow the 
> odor 
> >> to  dissipate.  Our water IS wonderfully clear and makes great 
> coffee.
> >
> >hey, great coffee is a wonderful thing
> 
> Essential, don't'cha know!

I *DO* (albeit prejudicially)

> >> >> Veloci--weird place, Florida--raptor
> >> >
> >> >won't argue with a native, tygress....
> >> 
> >> Native by default, I suppose.  By de fault of my mudder who moved 
> us 
> >> here  when I was 7.
> >
> >=g=
> >In some small hamlets that won't buy you the title, but I 
> commemorate
> >your longevity
> 
> Every day it's more and more a feat.

with the aching of d' feet, I'll warrant.

> >> Veloci--Keys and the daughters ARE natives--raptor
> >
> >there ya go....
> 
> Yup.
> 
> >Well, Reid is now graduated from 5th grade -- let the parties 
> begin! [I'm
> >due back at 1:15 with the rootbeer float makings -- being Reid's 
> birthday
> >(as well as Bob Hope's) and all.]
> 
> Well, congratulations  and happy birthday to the lad!

danke
He has a buddy over now; the family will join us for burgers and so forth
this evening (which is why my feet ache -- I've been cleaning all day).
Need to make the cole slaw, but thought I'd take a break. Give the
ibuprofen a chance to kick in.


> >wistful mamma (with a HUGE to-do list, including baking a 
> brownie-"cake")
> >tygress
> 
> Veloci--sounds yummy--raptor

hope so -- I'm not the best of frosters, but it looks ok (caramel-coffee
butter cream frosting (with heath bites in it) over two layers of dense
DARK chocolate-chocolate chunk brownies.....

more fun! tygress

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But what life is without danger, really? [Jill Fredston, arctic
adventure's] father, Arthur Fredston, a courtly Manhattan attorney, was
walking near the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001.
Her mother, Elinor Fredston, was diagnosed with peritoneal cancer almost
six years ago.... So, compared with terrorism and cancer, what's an
occasional polar bear? --Michael Ryan

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