tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28348450108375857152024-02-06T20:48:04.569-08:00Pink Rabbit AbroadHello, my name is Maurice.
Discovered at a flea market in Clermont-Ferrand, France, I was rescued for 50 centimes and immediately taken hiking. Since then I have been an ideal travelling companion: lightweight, squishable, free on trains and planes, uncomplaining, and useful in many comic situations. Over the years the shade of my pink has faded, but there will always be a new horizon to be dragged to.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger176125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2834845010837585715.post-5220935629958473022013-09-30T09:01:00.000-07:002013-09-30T09:01:11.741-07:00potato time<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Taters!</div>
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I'm making potato pancakes.</div>
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Mashed potatos for me.</div>
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Ha! Mine is bigger than both of yours together! I will have gnocci <i>and</i> knishes</div>
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Oh, you think you have spuds, do you?</div>
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<b>This</b> is a spud. It weighs more than I do. It has spudly annexes.</div>
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Ah, yeah, that's some tater you have there.</div>
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Are you sure that thing is really a potato?</div>
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What if it's an alien?</div>
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It kind of looks like an alien to me.</div>
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Potatos are supposed to be round. Maybe long, but round. That one's got blobs.</div>
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It looks like Elvis!</div>
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It does?</div>
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Well, if you turn the lights down, look sideways and squint.</div>
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Do you think alien elvis potatos might taste good?</div>
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I don't know.</div>
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I'm frightened. You remember <a href="http://pinkrabbitabroad.blogspot.fr/2012/03/dinnerbeast.html">the one Harold found</a>...</div>
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We can always just eat the other ones first.</div>
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Yeah; give it a chance to manifest itself.</div>
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In the meantime, let's watch Doctor Who.</div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">Hey look, it snowed last night!</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; text-align: start;">Let's build a snowman, quick before it's gone.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"> Brrr! it's cold out.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">My tail is frozen.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">It must be forty below!</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"> Where's Bunnyboy?</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Went to get a scarf.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">A scarf!</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">chicken! braaaawk!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">What's a little cold?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">Wait for me, guys!</span></div>
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...<span style="color: #990000;">oof</span>...</div>
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<span style="color: blue;">He looks ridiculous.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Absurd.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Like some frail San Diegan, all wrapped in wool.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Looks warm, though.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"> I can see the use of a scarf.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Yeah, not so bad.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Um, I can't get my paws out to build that snowman.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">Me neither.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Me neither!</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">My tail is still frozen.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Well tuck it in.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">I think there's hot chocolate in the kitchen.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Ah! now there's the life!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">My buns are hot.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Oh, you think!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">I'm an entirely hot Bun.</span></div>
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Hey, look at all of these nifty presents the folks sent us!</div>
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It's Christmas!</div>
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Yea!!!!</div>
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Oh, feel this wonderful chenille scarf. Love that red&black! </div>
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And black walnuts! MMMMMM</div>
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That nice soap is for you, Laars!</div>
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Are you saying something?</div>
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Yeah - Thanks Mom & Dad!</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2834845010837585715.post-7519920861583929482012-12-23T02:35:00.001-08:002012-12-23T02:35:32.289-08:00Lima Bun<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm in Lima!</div>
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As soon as I work myself free of the architectural details, I'm heading to the 1st International Congres on Breast and Colorectal Cancer in Peru. </div>
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At the 1st ICBCCP, with Esteemed Colleagues Eva and Jenny. </div>
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We are working hard. Really! We have badges and everything.</div>
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Here I am chairing the Coffee Break Session, with Alexandra, Nancy, Professor Dominguez, Mom Dominguez, Mev, Mabel, and Jean-Baptiste (who does not, thankfully, have a dog).</div>
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Mom makes really good dinners!</div>
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Michel and family, my generous Chief of Transportation. Thanks for getting us on the right buses!</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2834845010837585715.post-26045186703302780832012-12-19T09:55:00.004-08:002012-12-19T10:07:11.942-08:00Lost Civilization of Buns<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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After Cuzco we explored another archeological site: Caral. </div>
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Caral is all the rage now. It's too recently discovered to be in all the guidebooks, so only <i>people who know </i>go there. Nancy and I now belong to this elite.</div>
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I'm glad we have a guide to the ruins, because otherwise I wouldn't make head nor cottontails of what's what. This is the town clock, apparently.</div>
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And that's me & Nance, in front of some other significant item. It's remarkably round, is all I know.</div>
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We didn't stay the night in Caral because all the hotels seem to be piles of interesting rubble. Instead we stayed in Huacho and took a walk along the beach. These kids were on their way home to dinner and wanted to know all about us. Showing your tummy must be some special Peruvian ritual greeting.<br />
Next: Lima!</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2834845010837585715.post-41522858296526721252012-12-18T08:28:00.002-08:002012-12-18T08:28:38.207-08:00Did I mention Roast Guinea Pig?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Why, yes! Piles of them, stuffed with herbs and spices, just waiting to be popped back into the oven for a last crisping & reheat.</div>
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And there you are!</div>
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Bon appetit.</div>
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Now there's Peru for you. High plains with snowcapped mountains in the distance.</div>
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Enigmatic ruins.</div>
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It's a fun ruin, but the steps are for giants!</div>
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Salt mines; got your salt mines.</div>
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And roast guinea pig! Very tasty, and only slightly cannibalistic.</div>
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These are my new buddies Helle and Christina. They do research on Lynch syndrome & stuff, but today we are leaving all that behind to go exploring in Peru. </div>
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Yes!!!</div>
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We are on the train to Machu Picchu even now!!!</div>
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This is The Train Guy.</div>
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And ZIP!</div>
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Well, not so much as zip, as a slow and easy clackety-clack across the fields and down the valleys, and then off the train in a town full of tourists and the people who try to sell them things. Then on the bus, bang-thump (careful of those other busses coming down - I thought this was a one-lane road) up up the mountain and here we are.</div>
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Machu Picchu</div>
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This place is so awesome that no exclaimation points are necessary. I would just have to put rows and rows of them.</div>
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The scenery is fantastic.</div>
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The ruins are really cool, with niches to display the Sacred Rabbit and to make offerings to him.</div>
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Back in the village we had a great lunch and a look around. </div>
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For the whole story of our South American Adventure, see Have Genes Will Travel (in the coming days), and I'll be back with more in a few days.</div>
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Those apples are really up high.</div>
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But they look really good.</div>
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My superhero cape is temporarily on the fritz, </div>
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but I am in luck!</div>
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Nancy has invested in this cool grabber thing.</div>
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Easy as pie!</div>
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And pie might just be on the menu.</div>
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I'll just stay and pick a peck of apples.</div>
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Um, it's fun up here, but I'm ready to come down now.</div>
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Hey, it's a great view, but could I come down?</div>
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Nance?</div>
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ow!</div>
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Thanks, but ow!</div>
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Hey, Bjorn, will you give me a hand picking these mirabelle plums, please?</div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Ah, sure. I'll be up there in a minute. I'll just start off by tasting these here in the basket, see if they're good. I wouldn't want us to spend all morning picking bad plums.</span></div>
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Aren't you done tasting yet? I could use a hand here!</div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Inna minnit! Ya gotta test a representative sample. What if 1% of the plums are bad? That requires a lot of testing. And what if the different branches of the tree are different? They don't all get the same amount of sunlight. Could make a big difference.</span></div>
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Are you done testing them yet?</div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Ah, almost! I'll be up there in a minute!</span></div>
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Too late. The box is full and it's time to go.</div>
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<span style="color: blue;">OOooohhh, my stomach hurts. The plums are all good, every one. Why is it that all together in my tummy they are bad?</span></div>
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I see you there in the rhubarb, Astrid! </div>
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Gotcha, Laars! Too, too obvious: a rat in the trash.</div>
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But where's Bjorn? I've looked everywhere!</div>
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I guess he's the winner today.</div>
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<i><span style="color: blue;">I knew this would be perfect! Who'd look for a rat in the clean laundry?</span></i></div>
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Alright rats, it's Easter, and it's time to see if the Easter Bunny hid any eggs in the yard.</div>
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Chocolate ones?</div>
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Gold ones?</div>
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Who knows!</div>
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I found a black rock.</div>
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I found a ball of merino yarn.</div>
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There's a seashell in the forsytha.</div>
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I found some ads...</div>
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Our basket is not exactly filling with chocolate.</div>
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Hey!</div>
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What do you have there, Chickie?</div>
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I have laid an egg at last! </div>
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Oh, my! That's a beauty!</div>
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Pure dark chocolate, with mini chocolate eggs inside.</div>
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I wonder what the rats will say when they realize that I said<i> if </i>the Easter Bunny left any eggs. I never said there actually <i>were</i> any...</div>
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Well, guys, the lawn is mowed. All this yardwork is tiring! </div>
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I'm hungry; let's have lunch.</div>
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How about omelettes? A nice, fluffy omelette sounds great. Fresh eggs, cheese, some ham in there...</div>
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Hey! No eggs.</div>
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No eggs here, either!</div>
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We'll just have to steal some from the chicken.</div>
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Ooooh, omelettes for lunch with stolen eggs, even better.</div>
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There she is!</div>
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She's sitting on something!</div>
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Your eggs or your life, chickie!</div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Oh, my goodness! Help! thieves! Brigands!</span></div>
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What's this? A ball of yarn?</div>
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<span style="color: blue;">But of course it's a ball of yarn. Fine merino, in fact. You don't expect me to sit on an egg all day, do you? Seriously! Those things are hard as rocks. My poor tender bottom. Bruised black & blue! </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Not to mention if it cracks. Then you've got an awful mess in your nest, and this one is so perfectly situated under the cherry tree. I'd have to find a new spot near the apricot, and the view just isn't as good there. An egg. The idea! Goodness me, I switched to yarn ages ago. Socks are good too: folded socks. Or a stuffed animal. See? That's very comfy.</span></div>
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Hey! Cutitout! Get'eroffme!</div>
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I think there's peanut butter for sandwiches, Laars.</div>
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Yeah, let's go have sandwiches.</div>
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You go get us something to eat, Harold. I'm going to knit a shawl for my poor old auntie.</div>
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Go get some fresh meat, she says. Yeah, sure. Always the same thing. Well, perhaps I'll find something.</div>
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I sure hope Harold comes back soon with some tasty dinner for us!</div>
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There's something lively!</div>
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Er, look at those claws. And those sharp teeth. And that way of pouncing. Too scary for me.</div>
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Tum te tum te tum.</div>
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AHA! A mountain of steak!</div>
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En garde, dinnerbeast!</div>
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Tum te tum te tum. Where's Harold? I'm coming over quite peckish.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Arrr!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Arrr!!!</span></div>
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Where <em>is</em> that boy?</div>
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arrr...</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">arrr....</span></div>
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it's just too fluffy.</div>
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Hey Marguerite! It's dinnertime!</div>
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Finally!</div>
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Ummm, what sort of bloody beast is this, Harold?</div>
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It's a potato.</div>
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A potato?</div>
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A potato.</div>
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I found it in the back of the fridge.</div>
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Well, it does <em>look</em> sort of beastly.</div>
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It fought valiantly, but I subdued it. Let's eat!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2834845010837585715.post-7158528286885259592011-12-24T20:58:00.000-08:002011-12-24T20:58:35.201-08:00Maurice and Astrid in China<br />
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Hey, bunnyboy, what are we doing in this airport?</div>
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We're going on a trip! It'll be fun!</div>
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Yeah. Says the rabbit.</div>
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Is this it?</div>
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I guess. Let's find out.</div>
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Hey look! We're in China!</div>
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Well whaddya know.</div>
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Not only are we in China, but here in this park we're part of the zodiac statuary.</div>
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That's cool. Does that mean they won't try to put us on the chop suey and eat us for dinner?</div>
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They would never eat us for dinner. We're honored guests.</div>
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Lunchtime! Thank goodness, I'm starving.</div>
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What's in there?</div>
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Ummm, I'm not sure. I think it's pork. Or chicken. Or beef. Or something like that.</div>
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All of those are Chinese zodiac animals! Are you sure this honored guest thing is going to work?</div>
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Sure it is. We're polyester. Wok us and we'll melt.</div>
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Well, that's reassuring.</div>
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Sam here is our guide, and he's going to take us up the world's longest cable car to the keyhole mountain.</div>
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How far is it?</div>
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8 kilometers.</div>
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I can't see the town any more. It's lost in the smog!</div>
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Here we are at the Special Fantabulous Keyhole Mountain. Only 990 steps to the top.</div>
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Are you sure we have to go all the way up?</div>
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Of course we have to go up.</div>
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Why? What's up there?</div>
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The top. You can't come all this way, a third of the way around the world, up the longest ever cable car, and then not go to the top.</div>
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I can.</div>
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No, you can't.</div>
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We made it! I am a Zen Bun.</div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2834845010837585715.post-18300786328869404752011-11-01T07:05:00.000-07:002011-11-01T07:05:02.952-07:00All Eyes<div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh6bhBclR0uLdFUntV0iNs28C6O6JJWRg1vVNh6_sXmIPntgh1LrKnCRDoa-l6Ny2jzWlbzQKsiM67H9907Q6CRsujdt1xL70EMW_hTHYXT-8YTSxAdQfu0fz6zY50NtiJ6sG9Clnf8KIX/s1600/DSC00490.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266px" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh6bhBclR0uLdFUntV0iNs28C6O6JJWRg1vVNh6_sXmIPntgh1LrKnCRDoa-l6Ny2jzWlbzQKsiM67H9907Q6CRsujdt1xL70EMW_hTHYXT-8YTSxAdQfu0fz6zY50NtiJ6sG9Clnf8KIX/s400/DSC00490.JPG" width="400px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Well, guys, it's that time of year again!</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;">Did you bring us candy? </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;">Sacks and sacksfull?</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;">Candy!!!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">No candy. I brought you these fine pumpkins to carve for Halloween.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD0jy7L-qYZcdnxJfXxgE3gPa_IQzj01kZO_f3QYvH_q5AC4hdsOBV42wiwcApvpm3anB8LJkVVHJPqZeAQfEre-M9gtdLX-RCftEbOhnGOki9-2xB4oRG8oSRyqKiGxz3un7jR2Rv126W/s1600/DSC00492.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266px" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD0jy7L-qYZcdnxJfXxgE3gPa_IQzj01kZO_f3QYvH_q5AC4hdsOBV42wiwcApvpm3anB8LJkVVHJPqZeAQfEre-M9gtdLX-RCftEbOhnGOki9-2xB4oRG8oSRyqKiGxz3un7jR2Rv126W/s400/DSC00492.JPG" width="400px" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: blue;">No candy?</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;">No matter! We are armed and ready to go!</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;">I get to do the eyes!</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;">No, I get to!</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;">I called it first!</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixV6IIsuF4H1WwJazg_ltcKuWLSKtemwAtJE0mpIjVgDl0fU2fWzXs813jCXwBzKrNaO1Gkt1e7MoaL2TU6oJqGebbi8ZNvi0B8S7yJ3D7TqfhgeapiRs2b3EyZVF6-DZQ0Q1ajBqaS27n/s1600/DSC00494.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266px" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixV6IIsuF4H1WwJazg_ltcKuWLSKtemwAtJE0mpIjVgDl0fU2fWzXs813jCXwBzKrNaO1Gkt1e7MoaL2TU6oJqGebbi8ZNvi0B8S7yJ3D7TqfhgeapiRs2b3EyZVF6-DZQ0Q1ajBqaS27n/s400/DSC00494.JPG" width="400px" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: blue;">That's a lotta guts, Maurice. You wouldn't think so many guts would fit into such a modestly sized pumpkin.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0IlD2ugcxJnYTVHRD5smeQMixU16jtfgNStgg9ZBcUh4hUKIXoeWtgFqA2kf2pzwUX15KWqdm0BiKwWgUDlcah7EnIW9IaMKY4p1-FcpwO6GYAv7uDdexPEnlDXoZiyPSqKAfSf84fAAO/s1600/DSC00496.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266px" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0IlD2ugcxJnYTVHRD5smeQMixU16jtfgNStgg9ZBcUh4hUKIXoeWtgFqA2kf2pzwUX15KWqdm0BiKwWgUDlcah7EnIW9IaMKY4p1-FcpwO6GYAv7uDdexPEnlDXoZiyPSqKAfSf84fAAO/s400/DSC00496.JPG" width="400px" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="color: blue;">Let's get to work.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ-7SAzWj29J66RYePWOicS6-929cf1CwRX5pxvMXbW_afD4HCYWIFnvJlhKTw0pqoGIs8FH1gpRbRa-ImhwvuxdwqSEW5orJX_qA3HTNWrV-f1B63JpGdnh81TWY-a7_jCKsHIxaxjUwE/s1600/DSC00498.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266px" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ-7SAzWj29J66RYePWOicS6-929cf1CwRX5pxvMXbW_afD4HCYWIFnvJlhKTw0pqoGIs8FH1gpRbRa-ImhwvuxdwqSEW5orJX_qA3HTNWrV-f1B63JpGdnh81TWY-a7_jCKsHIxaxjUwE/s400/DSC00498.JPG" width="400px" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Nice eyes you've carved there, Astrid.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8tJADSPL49HgBb9tmr94lq7OPq6pdnZJ3stfrqGQGVlEMTsUxeQdulogk31Mug7if1RBrMdigWwnMwCiZ3fmNI9FQSAnhPr5NUg7-ZHfgEf4Vj6gHKWWVyUWvUy6LDkzHfhl1kavMBl9_/s1600/DSC00499.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266px" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8tJADSPL49HgBb9tmr94lq7OPq6pdnZJ3stfrqGQGVlEMTsUxeQdulogk31Mug7if1RBrMdigWwnMwCiZ3fmNI9FQSAnhPr5NUg7-ZHfgEf4Vj6gHKWWVyUWvUy6LDkzHfhl1kavMBl9_/s400/DSC00499.JPG" width="400px" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Oh, and here's another one. Good job, Britta.</div><div style="text-align: center;">And there's another on the far side.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Did anybody carve anything but eyes?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi5hjbg2gjM8F2a7TvRs0Hn-lPutP16ZBcb9LlsTcAJNpsUAQR8TDSm2SaRWp8153HTpEz4xNu6fM3t7KwtjRUfRYBnoq1xy1vvTiTBhmHhk9ZVtwi84sXW4lv4iRwSvi7pSF27_-kzREG/s1600/DSC00502.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266px" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi5hjbg2gjM8F2a7TvRs0Hn-lPutP16ZBcb9LlsTcAJNpsUAQR8TDSm2SaRWp8153HTpEz4xNu6fM3t7KwtjRUfRYBnoq1xy1vvTiTBhmHhk9ZVtwi84sXW4lv4iRwSvi7pSF27_-kzREG/s400/DSC00502.JPG" width="400px" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZOjsHooEg83U0HM9D-p5W1yvezIadNhNTQHfI_erO2Lb_FxNz0ZyHNPuuRNfHxZvU1NoY9DsS-i0ZIa2WwtR_x5gFd58fOVaksuUo856AOrcHiOfx5J98HPnf8erlansZlzVimzul-pYx/s1600/DSC00504.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266px" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZOjsHooEg83U0HM9D-p5W1yvezIadNhNTQHfI_erO2Lb_FxNz0ZyHNPuuRNfHxZvU1NoY9DsS-i0ZIa2WwtR_x5gFd58fOVaksuUo856AOrcHiOfx5J98HPnf8erlansZlzVimzul-pYx/s400/DSC00504.JPG" width="400px" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Looks great, rats; let's take it outside.</div><div style="text-align: center;">This Jack-o-lantern will see 'em coming from all sides.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJR8QPsun38-uDzTJsCWzq7ruJpB44YVpvbD2txGjL0mIWAMbAmJlz14wiOoczx_5LPhAXJmm_cJhUYDZ_o9xfZgjYDhhTVSvrXjzjXVmJcI927SLfVNDUUKUGj05k-go3rdD3Tmw6mfuc/s1600/left-pumpkin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="303px" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJR8QPsun38-uDzTJsCWzq7ruJpB44YVpvbD2txGjL0mIWAMbAmJlz14wiOoczx_5LPhAXJmm_cJhUYDZ_o9xfZgjYDhhTVSvrXjzjXVmJcI927SLfVNDUUKUGj05k-go3rdD3Tmw6mfuc/s400/left-pumpkin.jpg" width="400px" /></a></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">Hey, guys! What about this one?</div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">we could maybe give it a mouth and some scary teeth...</div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2834845010837585715.post-78546372914618663432011-10-13T08:34:00.000-07:002011-10-13T08:37:01.453-07:001001 uses<div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">Why so glum, Maurice ? You’re not looking so pink today.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglwLMrq-xBOiS95BJrr8liN8R3_ylfhnhkeZlhZ6tU4Q5-dnaXNPt-GjTj2AmYhCZ7BlVMckiIRH5Q9opcK1lahhvlQdCOOxQ2C09fu9zhH7R7SZdM_5exYJz6q2rIFf6y9Qj_EZ9OU_qp/s1600/DSC00448.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266px" oda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglwLMrq-xBOiS95BJrr8liN8R3_ylfhnhkeZlhZ6tU4Q5-dnaXNPt-GjTj2AmYhCZ7BlVMckiIRH5Q9opcK1lahhvlQdCOOxQ2C09fu9zhH7R7SZdM_5exYJz6q2rIFf6y9Qj_EZ9OU_qp/s400/DSC00448.JPG" width="400px" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;">*Sigh* Well, Laars, this paper has come back rejected again. Nobody likes my results ! I admit, they are modest, and represent but a small incremental step in the march toward Understanding. But they’re solid results, succinctly put.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA1QlZZpevwgxHeVl3EqzUvHLHGQ7Dmqpuxy5N2F18WxhMJvbeeo4H_IZafZGwFXqtc_5MezOFY9RAW1oPQA2vmtircMsUxaDTUaxF7b4LZjIxPRhyphenhyphenm1mO7EF9NfLIC8RGVg7PSocKv7-K/s1600/DSC00449.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266px" oda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA1QlZZpevwgxHeVl3EqzUvHLHGQ7Dmqpuxy5N2F18WxhMJvbeeo4H_IZafZGwFXqtc_5MezOFY9RAW1oPQA2vmtircMsUxaDTUaxF7b4LZjIxPRhyphenhyphenm1mO7EF9NfLIC8RGVg7PSocKv7-K/s400/DSC00449.JPG" width="400px" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">Hm. Many big words. Any pictures in there ?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpMeMw46T4VGmD2eRg9KkxXtP0fLPKyLRvPX1vboImBkQt9sHCRHk3y2d6xnLK-CP257B0O8LQEI9RW00vZAT0iEgQ61xPDQ9iKcgw9j6Y-vGQgNyl34hHlWkWGl4SuQHVZDCIPeN3rFvM/s1600/DSC00450.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400px" oda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpMeMw46T4VGmD2eRg9KkxXtP0fLPKyLRvPX1vboImBkQt9sHCRHk3y2d6xnLK-CP257B0O8LQEI9RW00vZAT0iEgQ61xPDQ9iKcgw9j6Y-vGQgNyl34hHlWkWGl4SuQHVZDCIPeN3rFvM/s400/DSC00450.JPG" width="266px" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;">Yes, of course ! Look at this beautiful histogram of flowgram values !</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">Err, I was thinking more cartoons. It is a nice little paper, though.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;">I think so too, but alas, the Reviewer and the Editor did not. </span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;">The boss’s orders are to add some « pep » to it and send it out again, quick.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">Ah, Pep.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">...</div><div style="text-align: center;">Um, what does that mean ? <br />
Is there some secret neato-keen data we can add to it ?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;">No.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Is there some astonishing new conclusion to be drawn ?</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;">No.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">Does it go faster than light ? <br />
Can you work the Higgs boson in there somehow ?</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;">Ummm...</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">How about this ?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA7b4KkKPsVSwstMG5G2b5aix8rSbT1yGe_N646H8wqdEcChrd0YwLR2CJ2ClDo1WdZcZvGM2A23bgc0VRPVpmGAb46vNBbbm72v79y_tLNwyx1wtbKti1GJpiwiaro5mQeGnWSOMXoW0o/s1600/DSC00451.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266px" oda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA7b4KkKPsVSwstMG5G2b5aix8rSbT1yGe_N646H8wqdEcChrd0YwLR2CJ2ClDo1WdZcZvGM2A23bgc0VRPVpmGAb46vNBbbm72v79y_tLNwyx1wtbKti1GJpiwiaro5mQeGnWSOMXoW0o/s400/DSC00451.JPG" width="400px" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;">Hey ! That’s just the ticket !</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrFQvsWDjRUdapLVZrVG1ZOR5t5ALOsJL9YaohVOoEMq7wY7NevjIEY5Sfqf2qll1fDnm7-LuekNfvKCid3U72IZU4XuOwAWxOENSsKhaeeOz1ZAcLIBkTIctWSheyc-qkffUYBVb0lORi/s1600/DSC00452.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266px" oda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrFQvsWDjRUdapLVZrVG1ZOR5t5ALOsJL9YaohVOoEMq7wY7NevjIEY5Sfqf2qll1fDnm7-LuekNfvKCid3U72IZU4XuOwAWxOENSsKhaeeOz1ZAcLIBkTIctWSheyc-qkffUYBVb0lORi/s400/DSC00452.JPG" width="400px" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;">This has gotta work.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;">.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2834845010837585715.post-61638921177949767182011-09-08T09:00:00.000-07:002011-09-08T09:00:16.173-07:00A rabbit goes to Stockholm<div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvAKwXb0NxpoZFxE9hQMsdSlURbnNJvDzV0u0aPqLeAZEBmzoZ6fCtkS0uythdhaUTHJ-fWbkW_nz_28lOiWGhu5JW-v3YRq1Ml1XWFCxCWNwbcmOo1QnLV5fEnLxPmtxwg5YcIqZ9APLT/s1600/DSC00297.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266px" nba="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvAKwXb0NxpoZFxE9hQMsdSlURbnNJvDzV0u0aPqLeAZEBmzoZ6fCtkS0uythdhaUTHJ-fWbkW_nz_28lOiWGhu5JW-v3YRq1Ml1XWFCxCWNwbcmOo1QnLV5fEnLxPmtxwg5YcIqZ9APLT/s400/DSC00297.JPG" width="400px" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> The train! The train to Stockholm! Here it is!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPFMEfj7ssL7hCWMtMUXNzWvyFJMN8CqaE0BpLSLEpSFftfquhEcvDjP6gL_0XwmDc26bDVtUcAAA-112IGNbwfMMl15CbME0xP-vnKFGFaBxRIe5HECKvJeLIMTYc_xn0Wlm5JT4Kb3Q2/s1600/DSC00278.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266px" nba="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPFMEfj7ssL7hCWMtMUXNzWvyFJMN8CqaE0BpLSLEpSFftfquhEcvDjP6gL_0XwmDc26bDVtUcAAA-112IGNbwfMMl15CbME0xP-vnKFGFaBxRIe5HECKvJeLIMTYc_xn0Wlm5JT4Kb3Q2/s400/DSC00278.JPG" width="400px" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> This is my buddy Luis. He and Mev live in Lund, but we went to Stockholm last week, just to see it.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Because it's there.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYPuRYCeZxHB-ESwtg40B_-KUcc0qD6IirdPepBkwseGsZxUsu4kSPEPF6uh15ML0VYGmjOjrKbT-189RSZW7T-CjpO0FFpOpDHwDI9VkCIxHS3bVcWHm03hXYOJ3NhcWSaYcvg6cK6Xax/s1600/DSC00307.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400px" nba="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYPuRYCeZxHB-ESwtg40B_-KUcc0qD6IirdPepBkwseGsZxUsu4kSPEPF6uh15ML0VYGmjOjrKbT-189RSZW7T-CjpO0FFpOpDHwDI9VkCIxHS3bVcWHm03hXYOJ3NhcWSaYcvg6cK6Xax/s400/DSC00307.JPG" width="266px" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> I met lots of fun characters in Stockholm. They were everywhere!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOgEGWZVkdnYnMrS46EFRUfV0io9ut2UmJo6gNQeCfFny4Isvg-evzLQZ2IPPmdxUyVvVo39u34eucb2pmE_nR6bo4r4O3ZyF5mS-FlzlbYudfUb1mxlxLCyHkrc6uksxRAjL05GQw2d82/s1600/DSC00312.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266px" nba="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOgEGWZVkdnYnMrS46EFRUfV0io9ut2UmJo6gNQeCfFny4Isvg-evzLQZ2IPPmdxUyVvVo39u34eucb2pmE_nR6bo4r4O3ZyF5mS-FlzlbYudfUb1mxlxLCyHkrc6uksxRAjL05GQw2d82/s400/DSC00312.JPG" width="400px" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> This fox-lady sitting by one of the canals was very nice. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Didn't even try to eat me.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitu5FhyphenhyphenEASJmkodvrwH2pHrL866Z2YYJEn3WqADL8SpBA-L0NOUk_F3cJ-SeZZhKhpUxleCzRE0QnR-1yAT2I9C8DBp9UYv-KqxTdnF_QLoZ3RiDASCu2cn9y8phEKOgNCjXbvD4eLqKwg/s1600/DSC00328.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266px" nba="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitu5FhyphenhyphenEASJmkodvrwH2pHrL866Z2YYJEn3WqADL8SpBA-L0NOUk_F3cJ-SeZZhKhpUxleCzRE0QnR-1yAT2I9C8DBp9UYv-KqxTdnF_QLoZ3RiDASCu2cn9y8phEKOgNCjXbvD4eLqKwg/s400/DSC00328.JPG" width="400px" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Swedish pastries are excellent! I like to taste the pastry wherever we go. I could just live on pastry.</div><div style="text-align: center;">The coffee was alright.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-vBSzuvCoIWNei6D9T8GB_RjecHenCBgSHrVrE50ycMN-vWMxHM0ZjA_Cg9_phBlq4lDK2ZIgb5_g0NliOMmhd_-_vGwB5qkkSrEuK5d-tCw4qyBH6DCd8uMe57n0zHvgf75V-V2kUi21/s1600/DSC00382.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266px" nba="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-vBSzuvCoIWNei6D9T8GB_RjecHenCBgSHrVrE50ycMN-vWMxHM0ZjA_Cg9_phBlq4lDK2ZIgb5_g0NliOMmhd_-_vGwB5qkkSrEuK5d-tCw4qyBH6DCd8uMe57n0zHvgf75V-V2kUi21/s400/DSC00382.JPG" width="400px" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLipjWVAe-1aC8NEGuSzFCHC5fNJ982rVPnNjLSE4DM7ZZzfeh2M2b9NBpqNr61wJWZAdzCPr5dBXXoTyt1-yE_vhwAReTmzAJ70AiOnOjKP2vhUDnbix_gv9YXSSleQKW4pCbtahTd5xp/s1600/DSC00384.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266px" nba="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLipjWVAe-1aC8NEGuSzFCHC5fNJ982rVPnNjLSE4DM7ZZzfeh2M2b9NBpqNr61wJWZAdzCPr5dBXXoTyt1-yE_vhwAReTmzAJ70AiOnOjKP2vhUDnbix_gv9YXSSleQKW4pCbtahTd5xp/s400/DSC00384.JPG" width="400px" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> hey? feeling okay?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdKmkNuM1VU-sYVqQwqmVxQiLTvft1yUGaUpLvZptH4O0a75-R1W0bWwhQGgIYjntnRWpTxYYYIh7_KqKyb1GYXrAJdowFwxDiekaBnZkEz8IFUDXWUcq3THYTJdmFhH9aAPdZvF-CgyLK/s1600/DSC00385.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266px" nba="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdKmkNuM1VU-sYVqQwqmVxQiLTvft1yUGaUpLvZptH4O0a75-R1W0bWwhQGgIYjntnRWpTxYYYIh7_KqKyb1GYXrAJdowFwxDiekaBnZkEz8IFUDXWUcq3THYTJdmFhH9aAPdZvF-CgyLK/s400/DSC00385.JPG" width="400px" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Mmmm! raspberry crumble and beer for lunch!</div><div style="text-align: center;">This vacation thing is a deal!</div><div style="text-align: center;">Really, the hot sandwiches were on their way, and not all the beer was mine...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrp3cAbZdNQJ5PiUCYDQghGE8-qfXEpqbYj6dTw2Y1ZOxj3KpfNjIlvaOZIw8GDnNCXCmPHZ7QIwVknFFJmJmygXc9z1OBCAe4gMWvmD6O_969qoYyfKzBpWzb9nWJMULXx7LcpElnld5J/s1600/DSC00389.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266px" nba="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrp3cAbZdNQJ5PiUCYDQghGE8-qfXEpqbYj6dTw2Y1ZOxj3KpfNjIlvaOZIw8GDnNCXCmPHZ7QIwVknFFJmJmygXc9z1OBCAe4gMWvmD6O_969qoYyfKzBpWzb9nWJMULXx7LcpElnld5J/s400/DSC00389.JPG" width="400px" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Another interesting character. Strong, silent type.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXhpwE8JMOSt0kcAXJ97GQ9K6IgP0x4LU5Al5ariOy7NAdZCZATvMSTa_-Y6hhwtrAidYpW2nnlMZGSbsaTLDn3mnXeeFQXaGpSGAfOu2JCph8v2Y9c4ESamfuLGOSCN1JP-ZUOFG6nwlP/s1600/DSC00427.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265px" nba="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXhpwE8JMOSt0kcAXJ97GQ9K6IgP0x4LU5Al5ariOy7NAdZCZATvMSTa_-Y6hhwtrAidYpW2nnlMZGSbsaTLDn3mnXeeFQXaGpSGAfOu2JCph8v2Y9c4ESamfuLGOSCN1JP-ZUOFG6nwlP/s400/DSC00427.JPG" width="400px" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">I don't know what this guy was speechifying about, but he did have a crowd.</div><div style="text-align: center;">After that it was time to go home.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2834845010837585715.post-89945292732375793992011-08-23T08:31:00.000-07:002011-08-23T08:32:44.369-07:00Blackberry adventure<div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQarXW5aoE2y_c3yWNzmvDYOGDJak57zfcATh2UGci2DonygmilJM7B-u6zlPJA-DWz6LX8u-ix1nmT5xaoOPDPhkzBEr0wxJacx5K-Gv2MWGO0JdvHCDdGqz357K1x4ASFFesYClq2JND/s1600/DSC00204.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266px" qaa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQarXW5aoE2y_c3yWNzmvDYOGDJak57zfcATh2UGci2DonygmilJM7B-u6zlPJA-DWz6LX8u-ix1nmT5xaoOPDPhkzBEr0wxJacx5K-Gv2MWGO0JdvHCDdGqz357K1x4ASFFesYClq2JND/s400/DSC00204.JPG" width="400px" /></a></div>Hey, Astrid, let's go blackberry picking with Marie-Laure and her mom!</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">Yeah! Let's go!</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnS5KM_AyK9SpaH8PerP0EMwsodOgTNOV3vndsLXGCUgpS3M_YQJwsanJBIEESdrvSAVHgX-H3xRd236qXRtc86fx_y_r745tUQIja_AHDIwZTWJDnYrkgEF53CfegVUIwDn4lFw3Ro5Qx/s1600/DSC00194.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266px" qaa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnS5KM_AyK9SpaH8PerP0EMwsodOgTNOV3vndsLXGCUgpS3M_YQJwsanJBIEESdrvSAVHgX-H3xRd236qXRtc86fx_y_r745tUQIja_AHDIwZTWJDnYrkgEF53CfegVUIwDn4lFw3Ro5Qx/s400/DSC00194.JPG" width="400px" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Ow ow. The berries are nice, but the plants are really mean!</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9wtW6yRaPz-YO9Z2LfVqQzd5YDcv4J34jZVpjyp7WU848gV_dwVtlb1BHpjb-WMqSZF1iHOX5j-7gjBe1Ryk1gPVS7sOpt2Pupul1j60ro1IJfVwDfqW72pEoEI7NVYf9HTgVDXaWFNp2/s1600/DSC00196.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266px" qaa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9wtW6yRaPz-YO9Z2LfVqQzd5YDcv4J34jZVpjyp7WU848gV_dwVtlb1BHpjb-WMqSZF1iHOX5j-7gjBe1Ryk1gPVS7sOpt2Pupul1j60ro1IJfVwDfqW72pEoEI7NVYf9HTgVDXaWFNp2/s400/DSC00196.JPG" width="400px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Ouch! I'm stuck in the brambles.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis26IL7nkb6lcEPJkIPEjmFaKMxUjrJLiKH08BS-7X5whU_A2oFC6XMjeXT4Swxj_obwe4aUrwhoBuNM1XMbew6RFNGg2JqHnwFqOI1UWJUsWZHsBQpoE-NBBjoMUO_bv_99WQ0TNFG_04/s1600/DSC00195.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266px" qaa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis26IL7nkb6lcEPJkIPEjmFaKMxUjrJLiKH08BS-7X5whU_A2oFC6XMjeXT4Swxj_obwe4aUrwhoBuNM1XMbew6RFNGg2JqHnwFqOI1UWJUsWZHsBQpoE-NBBjoMUO_bv_99WQ0TNFG_04/s400/DSC00195.JPG" width="400px" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbk2cnQTK-KogXL9PNk6NkzdZFfFYKQMlvnl3pO7nC-dZD3zXT8MbkOMweimgXyFSs7Fmoc7iRP2jt4GeFgzu7SMdtGCiyWnp9V-5fYDUn6rV-_KGhwoJxYB6C93w1qAQMNcn_4eq5Y8yV/s1600/DSC00198.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213px" qaa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbk2cnQTK-KogXL9PNk6NkzdZFfFYKQMlvnl3pO7nC-dZD3zXT8MbkOMweimgXyFSs7Fmoc7iRP2jt4GeFgzu7SMdtGCiyWnp9V-5fYDUn6rV-_KGhwoJxYB6C93w1qAQMNcn_4eq5Y8yV/s320/DSC00198.JPG" width="320px" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Hey guys! There are plenty over this way!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXryFb06HU5rGOjyIH0RkwcQHkrHdVK9e5dIQg_evHCc61Jg12rlyJVaBHQtZFNVPOzJVZ2wzqwLsAx03xkuZWafGE8iRLe1PwFsONFoppzyc4Bavx5gf88sPVFxkN1ac9vWjqriF0Mvaj/s1600/DSC00192.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266px" qaa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXryFb06HU5rGOjyIH0RkwcQHkrHdVK9e5dIQg_evHCc61Jg12rlyJVaBHQtZFNVPOzJVZ2wzqwLsAx03xkuZWafGE8iRLe1PwFsONFoppzyc4Bavx5gf88sPVFxkN1ac9vWjqriF0Mvaj/s400/DSC00192.JPG" width="400px" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Aïe! This blackberry business really hurts!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixbTGUTubIUEJIkRep10JnAQTLF9T61-YrgAOtKrxi1SbTvogACYmtfB-rv4kRexFluOTkTygvivuwOiyJH1zrM1B-8ByN_Wft4RPcxsl2vrv1wS3V9HkOWprLdb-4jAXXl9xLujamPhh-/s1600/DSC00199.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400px" qaa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixbTGUTubIUEJIkRep10JnAQTLF9T61-YrgAOtKrxi1SbTvogACYmtfB-rv4kRexFluOTkTygvivuwOiyJH1zrM1B-8ByN_Wft4RPcxsl2vrv1wS3V9HkOWprLdb-4jAXXl9xLujamPhh-/s400/DSC00199.JPG" width="266px" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> OW OW OWWW</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaxlw_9HZNjgJ-V1QZnx4oM7bYDcEG-qaI9lkv4m9TosqhMpYmx7MQ2PpE7AW3k2e92qADHiDvZoSIaNVGAuYy283z5eR0AfhgCdeGFZIGTDs1mvA4fNLkDyl0nXbpnuRtnefC95PQRo-d/s1600/DSC00206.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266px" qaa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaxlw_9HZNjgJ-V1QZnx4oM7bYDcEG-qaI9lkv4m9TosqhMpYmx7MQ2PpE7AW3k2e92qADHiDvZoSIaNVGAuYy283z5eR0AfhgCdeGFZIGTDs1mvA4fNLkDyl0nXbpnuRtnefC95PQRo-d/s400/DSC00206.JPG" width="400px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Time to go. Our basket isn't full yet, but the chicken in the oven is done, so it's time to head home for lunch.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAP2d4OW0ygGdenlwN96W4hQXeSWartZyyYOrnsWlrYG8Hd-gmWIOKgSZ_mihREzJMs1jPfyeb3qoKz5X1BR4kh4NALssPCOxoHDlB2y5Txvrko0hoq7_aWWxtCQRRuBag8h2Kf0Uk-ejJ/s1600/DSC00207.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266px" qaa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAP2d4OW0ygGdenlwN96W4hQXeSWartZyyYOrnsWlrYG8Hd-gmWIOKgSZ_mihREzJMs1jPfyeb3qoKz5X1BR4kh4NALssPCOxoHDlB2y5Txvrko0hoq7_aWWxtCQRRuBag8h2Kf0Uk-ejJ/s400/DSC00207.JPG" width="400px" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Marie-Laure and her mom have gathered a good kilo or more.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL4sbj1XZlfCqD30o87isCW9gO7GS8lxgarvokLSeMuw5pc9UvJw-GG3_1ny14z88Q3yeMUZZW2Af33LH9i4HeJf_kbDSubRuojamBnJOM70boCQm4xWeSv2kOae9QXwIoU7wjZZ9IKEf_/s1600/DSC00208.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266px" qaa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL4sbj1XZlfCqD30o87isCW9gO7GS8lxgarvokLSeMuw5pc9UvJw-GG3_1ny14z88Q3yeMUZZW2Af33LH9i4HeJf_kbDSubRuojamBnJOM70boCQm4xWeSv2kOae9QXwIoU7wjZZ9IKEf_/s400/DSC00208.JPG" width="400px" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">This is our share.<br />
That and a thousand blackberry stickers!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin5Yh7MrhsJmbn6ZNrujznTH3uKAh7CW0OduiUx3Mzq75OduSYg2JIJe8kBTPrqXzYGnoky17f-EXs4f1WSauvZI4eefpSWKAAVrg74HMR3xOWojFIiMBaezSF80ADosqMcy_I-v1DmQgZ/s1600/DSC00210.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266px" qaa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin5Yh7MrhsJmbn6ZNrujznTH3uKAh7CW0OduiUx3Mzq75OduSYg2JIJe8kBTPrqXzYGnoky17f-EXs4f1WSauvZI4eefpSWKAAVrg74HMR3xOWojFIiMBaezSF80ADosqMcy_I-v1DmQgZ/s400/DSC00210.JPG" width="400px" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Oooh, that's going to be some good jam.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2834845010837585715.post-5248174417509073132011-07-21T08:46:00.000-07:002011-07-21T08:46:03.130-07:00Bun Dublin<div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCXhTE0bPdgASyedcYXDip72pZ8JXALzzephCkZkpc3SlaHPbAuAbyiivcKaDl3DRPh4wl8h_4u6Fn7HoudIirNOmNlX4sIhAzfnrlvi0s7URojNHMrS2VueklZMOFmRUAWQ-gSlrFxfas/s1600/SAM_0500.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCXhTE0bPdgASyedcYXDip72pZ8JXALzzephCkZkpc3SlaHPbAuAbyiivcKaDl3DRPh4wl8h_4u6Fn7HoudIirNOmNlX4sIhAzfnrlvi0s7URojNHMrS2VueklZMOFmRUAWQ-gSlrFxfas/s400/SAM_0500.JPG" t$="true" width="224px" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"> Yes, folks, this is two, <em>count them: TWO</em>, posts in the very same week!</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv1uzCD_A4Zyr0svcmfYkq7Az-2PMy-yaFke95tHW_FhUquJQ4PgScl_jcqo-feJn03qBmlJdNKZkeWWyuq9_DHZLU93rS2ia-AqzHO1lDu5hG-F7zJp1TQm8mJL6qXro664_9w0JistFw/s1600/SAM_0459.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="224px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv1uzCD_A4Zyr0svcmfYkq7Az-2PMy-yaFke95tHW_FhUquJQ4PgScl_jcqo-feJn03qBmlJdNKZkeWWyuq9_DHZLU93rS2ia-AqzHO1lDu5hG-F7zJp1TQm8mJL6qXro664_9w0JistFw/s400/SAM_0459.JPG" t$="true" width="400px" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"> I got to play on some of the statuary.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY9rBKbYHpAhpQ_0X3JmNN6exljaXg_ZS4AEWEqFokkPSi14xB1nzIm5BaSUHatGIu7ZDFkxhuzN67k8mMaBjyosAFDUrJ4Q_5pU8lbEbX5OCAOxIw9Afgbeni9q9gY5ItEsN0ywpbjcnE/s1600/SAM_0464.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="224px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY9rBKbYHpAhpQ_0X3JmNN6exljaXg_ZS4AEWEqFokkPSi14xB1nzIm5BaSUHatGIu7ZDFkxhuzN67k8mMaBjyosAFDUrJ4Q_5pU8lbEbX5OCAOxIw9Afgbeni9q9gY5ItEsN0ywpbjcnE/s400/SAM_0464.JPG" t$="true" width="400px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz18NhbNrPgL7N4W95P9TAC7yC_c_E857Rkz7ATd8D8QV0q0y3zan_HJEdEe3zX0DQEjSn-5tIkoYSwgEipLtYNRSggK9jmSsd5v6umj4dOJnx0Xh_nAd0EdNTMWxbbyb7Wd_VrAJTrQfU/s1600/SAM_0469.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="224px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz18NhbNrPgL7N4W95P9TAC7yC_c_E857Rkz7ATd8D8QV0q0y3zan_HJEdEe3zX0DQEjSn-5tIkoYSwgEipLtYNRSggK9jmSsd5v6umj4dOJnx0Xh_nAd0EdNTMWxbbyb7Wd_VrAJTrQfU/s400/SAM_0469.JPG" t$="true" width="400px" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"> This guy seemed nice, but he wasn't very talkative.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXstzf34SAXKEN9k7QVYOC5xkl_UNZaWMbvzZ8_Ahxbq_6dz_dZAg2tuWT3y5VMyHEYL3K-aC6wsyDbIBpTkErI36NmYlKqks3HzUP0M7Sul8lGQ6bx9sInl84O1pn1uCu6tSfjFj6Hhif/s1600/SAM_0457.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="224px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXstzf34SAXKEN9k7QVYOC5xkl_UNZaWMbvzZ8_Ahxbq_6dz_dZAg2tuWT3y5VMyHEYL3K-aC6wsyDbIBpTkErI36NmYlKqks3HzUP0M7Sul8lGQ6bx9sInl84O1pn1uCu6tSfjFj6Hhif/s400/SAM_0457.JPG" t$="true" width="400px" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">I like Dublin parks - no dogs to chase you, and nobody tries to use you as a football.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">Now if they would only serve Guinness to Rabbits, it would be perfect.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw7LAz1PJ0SJae3GFRv6qBHOAVq3JgUw5lnQuWjlXrlhpgsB89nOIjKp1hy8eNBE3Dp7k8lAv4pO9hRRPqJ5-rTVvuVaOjQFl-9Z5pqbzDtwo8O5g9wLgaDgqhWs-3nNmzCXZ-dCOSP43q/s1600/SAM_0448.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="224px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw7LAz1PJ0SJae3GFRv6qBHOAVq3JgUw5lnQuWjlXrlhpgsB89nOIjKp1hy8eNBE3Dp7k8lAv4pO9hRRPqJ5-rTVvuVaOjQFl-9Z5pqbzDtwo8O5g9wLgaDgqhWs-3nNmzCXZ-dCOSP43q/s400/SAM_0448.JPG" t$="true" width="400px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">And that was my trip to Ireland.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">See you later this summer, once the rats think of something fun to do in the yard.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2834845010837585715.post-41867491975630300582011-07-20T09:46:00.000-07:002011-07-20T09:46:00.659-07:00Bun in Ireland<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkO2qMe5KnG_evFzevg3-LcdNNwqWms1u5glBZrfmMcr8rDcpH0M-iwxYugToHT_37tH6h-Emukp7xFOGR5z_ewxDTSCkOJjNDBHLo2tN-J7SPjZk5Ou7OheyO8fCtz5KOkWZT1YMhuPmi/s1600/SAM_0331.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkO2qMe5KnG_evFzevg3-LcdNNwqWms1u5glBZrfmMcr8rDcpH0M-iwxYugToHT_37tH6h-Emukp7xFOGR5z_ewxDTSCkOJjNDBHLo2tN-J7SPjZk5Ou7OheyO8fCtz5KOkWZT1YMhuPmi/s400/SAM_0331.JPG" t$="true" width="400px" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Hello hello! </div><div style="text-align: center;">Yes I know, I've been away far too long. </div><div style="text-align: center;">What can I say? I've been in Ireland.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaNhZpJ9QlQZHZQDu4KcYc-XW0HaXtcDqtsdTfCvvxEKZW9SNzyombBBk1OQqhCbO1k1-5yo0oPRuAELAhfU3rVxUJcdY4qOmacrJ83WJ78kT3-t5rJ7rPnnC0MdllOHnXGeG4iUOvkiXo/s1600/SAM_0266.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaNhZpJ9QlQZHZQDu4KcYc-XW0HaXtcDqtsdTfCvvxEKZW9SNzyombBBk1OQqhCbO1k1-5yo0oPRuAELAhfU3rVxUJcdY4qOmacrJ83WJ78kT3-t5rJ7rPnnC0MdllOHnXGeG4iUOvkiXo/s640/SAM_0266.JPG" t$="true" width="360px" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> I went to the Tall Ships Festival in Waterford, where there were tall ships in the water and strange creatures on the quay.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8MNaK30YCLnV8PVPNYF5G7lUxQESD0XYaFZz0BWKySmEd83vMAtMTE8bidAb0q8XCMVNznOCK6VZ7UuA8n2U6xJvPQOXOLiITJGtvxniUq7neg7lDnK8vtO76d72-7xpI_P-mlwC7w5el/s1600/SAM_0281.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8MNaK30YCLnV8PVPNYF5G7lUxQESD0XYaFZz0BWKySmEd83vMAtMTE8bidAb0q8XCMVNznOCK6VZ7UuA8n2U6xJvPQOXOLiITJGtvxniUq7neg7lDnK8vtO76d72-7xpI_P-mlwC7w5el/s400/SAM_0281.JPG" t$="true" width="225px" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> And I got to see old castles, and sit on the furniture from time to time. </div><div style="text-align: center;">This is me being King.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXqqVffp05VlWN9eLiQ-nbBncCraHLqkBmpUh1Yi2pqN_ZQt-C5DeqZ2fyYfl28FUfkhCj5Ymhn55ZXvZ8bxMXOsskUb0QZoU1Dk7-y_vnVwGtzEcN-hQ3L78OSnGuUpWTKmVy5maCxrF-/s1600/SAM_0295.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXqqVffp05VlWN9eLiQ-nbBncCraHLqkBmpUh1Yi2pqN_ZQt-C5DeqZ2fyYfl28FUfkhCj5Ymhn55ZXvZ8bxMXOsskUb0QZoU1Dk7-y_vnVwGtzEcN-hQ3L78OSnGuUpWTKmVy5maCxrF-/s400/SAM_0295.JPG" t$="true" width="400px" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> I got to ride a rocket. </div><div style="text-align: center;">It seemed to be broken, though. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKqQYttjqkU-A9BqQPhdKBubvdTf8fKXQi3We3ZhJdcqYA0ITwXKLpzpzSIJYTihV9cX8ok00KFlPVNqAME3_TLRfSNW-T82MbE9WhgqjdMlMcqj4zXaNIV8CPMEFGj9mHQRgpREO3YzaQ/s1600/SAM_0333.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKqQYttjqkU-A9BqQPhdKBubvdTf8fKXQi3We3ZhJdcqYA0ITwXKLpzpzSIJYTihV9cX8ok00KFlPVNqAME3_TLRfSNW-T82MbE9WhgqjdMlMcqj4zXaNIV8CPMEFGj9mHQRgpREO3YzaQ/s400/SAM_0333.JPG" t$="true" width="225px" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> The best part was hanging out with Darrell</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbDBdDniCEnq7VZGo699vYjTQ7nQ0pgCf8D5ittvA9pZ_IMXuDMCqhzGsCRoRAVRG_VOvQ5pFmBHv1hoUUtQApWkc23YXTnojdBngCKO0p2wY5HJELWtqZD2BpARXDF7H0PgIRGT9WSNHl/s1600/SAM_0339.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbDBdDniCEnq7VZGo699vYjTQ7nQ0pgCf8D5ittvA9pZ_IMXuDMCqhzGsCRoRAVRG_VOvQ5pFmBHv1hoUUtQApWkc23YXTnojdBngCKO0p2wY5HJELWtqZD2BpARXDF7H0PgIRGT9WSNHl/s400/SAM_0339.JPG" t$="true" width="400px" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> and meeting new friends. These are hitchhikers from Dublin.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSk9M-d8fxdyumZm1mcXdXZbGYLEfPRZRY3iGn256X3p3MEy97ETZeu-pl1zQKqNaiEUvoNTZdYHlgjqkbSeP5A6Kr-Lr4iFt1WUDLW7w9rYPEVLSa4ghc4tLHRq7Ltrl_8sbe985Cg6tj/s1600/SAM_0440.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSk9M-d8fxdyumZm1mcXdXZbGYLEfPRZRY3iGn256X3p3MEy97ETZeu-pl1zQKqNaiEUvoNTZdYHlgjqkbSeP5A6Kr-Lr4iFt1WUDLW7w9rYPEVLSa4ghc4tLHRq7Ltrl_8sbe985Cg6tj/s400/SAM_0440.JPG" t$="true" width="400px" /></a></div><div align="center">And of course, you can't go to Ireland without being surrounded by Green.</div><div align="center">Here it is!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2834845010837585715.post-79358614271362634442011-06-20T10:38:00.000-07:002011-06-20T10:42:32.580-07:00Apricots<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD-fSBQRvZW-Cb82Pge951HTl9HDlxyxsnDOG9t_UWEuH91RfDQ7IQoZVoKWozijWpEh0WM76ONZ_A4AY8ESv0kLGbAHORRQ5d5l-bihUQC4RhrECKWsjTgea5QDAsLd9_WDvgVcfx1fEK/s1600/DSC06902.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #990000;"><img border="0" height="266px" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD-fSBQRvZW-Cb82Pge951HTl9HDlxyxsnDOG9t_UWEuH91RfDQ7IQoZVoKWozijWpEh0WM76ONZ_A4AY8ESv0kLGbAHORRQ5d5l-bihUQC4RhrECKWsjTgea5QDAsLd9_WDvgVcfx1fEK/s400/DSC06902.JPG" width="400px" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;">It's summertime, guys! The cherries are over, but the apricots should be just right.</span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzo5vF-cv1oTrvQp5LbAkcvYn5J1HUcNUlap27_Lx6kGptRGTtw4K9M-15L7eRrU9MlcHlPRKilhIp00pkjksZs_ajN0LspmljnLVhYouoTHBAC5AKwV6zC33yIC7tBkzGuQIcHBRBORCo/s1600/DSC06903.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #990000;"><img border="0" height="266px" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzo5vF-cv1oTrvQp5LbAkcvYn5J1HUcNUlap27_Lx6kGptRGTtw4K9M-15L7eRrU9MlcHlPRKilhIp00pkjksZs_ajN0LspmljnLVhYouoTHBAC5AKwV6zC33yIC7tBkzGuQIcHBRBORCo/s400/DSC06903.JPG" width="400px" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;">Apricots? </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: blue;">We don't see any apricots.</span><br />
Well, you have to have superhero vision this year. There are two up there.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;">Oh, yeah!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;">Yeah, whatta crop!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ3jJwXTbeQwsXjyqfPQUG80t1hF_vEKOYz8SZW5DSmuA0gxLQScztQ5wiUa3ZMCnLyDMji3xUNwZWMNr5RVEewpkz8YhX9TYs4Vjlooru0RbNpeL_Bhb1Df7keq41o54dIFX3QwY-2h_R/s1600/DSC06905.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #990000;"><img border="0" height="266px" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ3jJwXTbeQwsXjyqfPQUG80t1hF_vEKOYz8SZW5DSmuA0gxLQScztQ5wiUa3ZMCnLyDMji3xUNwZWMNr5RVEewpkz8YhX9TYs4Vjlooru0RbNpeL_Bhb1Df7keq41o54dIFX3QwY-2h_R/s400/DSC06905.JPG" width="400px" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;">This ladder isn't quite tall enough to get up there.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;">Here, let me stand on your head.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: blue;">Now you, Britta, climb up on top of us.</span><br />
Still not tall enough. You know what that means...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRoPm5j2w9aFjh0-HHPc_74c5Lb3Ov7IdFnflw0uULWav35-tScr71GYacnGOiFyXeHczdT_TywRlW1eryC5dqwgbKCaop8VYA4evdS5IaNCO-Caeo7S6ts-c1xKWafmjX80qqdRVcfpB9/s1600/DSC06906.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #990000;"><img border="0" height="266px" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRoPm5j2w9aFjh0-HHPc_74c5Lb3Ov7IdFnflw0uULWav35-tScr71GYacnGOiFyXeHczdT_TywRlW1eryC5dqwgbKCaop8VYA4evdS5IaNCO-Caeo7S6ts-c1xKWafmjX80qqdRVcfpB9/s400/DSC06906.JPG" width="400px" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444;">(oh, look, Blogger is having fun deciding which way the photos go, again.)</span><br />
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Hey, smarty, why don't you just use your superflying cape, whizz up there, and get them on the flyby?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-aAXe-4bwmwT55a5bnqmi2SmPPcjpLFhyRyokVQhHbOpTnW1pXaDwyEjgO9774raOe0U96SjsK8FF-WC6CHmC7Vw0X4B2TmJ_Ng8IALhQcernZJ8yjp04VMkq9BHfv6vzHwuVCxWBpSe7/s1600/DSC06911.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #990000;"><img border="0" height="266px" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-aAXe-4bwmwT55a5bnqmi2SmPPcjpLFhyRyokVQhHbOpTnW1pXaDwyEjgO9774raOe0U96SjsK8FF-WC6CHmC7Vw0X4B2TmJ_Ng8IALhQcernZJ8yjp04VMkq9BHfv6vzHwuVCxWBpSe7/s400/DSC06911.JPG" width="400px" /></span></a></div><span style="color: #990000;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw5_vM8FGBDM4jXcBuz9veTO3MeudrDu5cLDWcvLZAbt61CvdfIjVYJRsDRWxxQQGEk41gEUHALpaCrewz9Of5y3xS6ePO-6gBwVrTLAV6Ct1817EbI9XAD9W2Ci9eXdCWPhqjBS8zz_qq/s1600/DSC06909.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #990000;"><img border="0" height="266px" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw5_vM8FGBDM4jXcBuz9veTO3MeudrDu5cLDWcvLZAbt61CvdfIjVYJRsDRWxxQQGEk41gEUHALpaCrewz9Of5y3xS6ePO-6gBwVrTLAV6Ct1817EbI9XAD9W2Ci9eXdCWPhqjBS8zz_qq/s400/DSC06909.JPG" width="400px" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6SII8PlPwYq1VG1kDsWHK12rSh24Oz5laCBKt_9W1kQfKPLCdLFwQ6KYv1F2ouAvRrX7Td33B-3iW0EpsN-A-ddCtc4knAANG13ZBxdjs2bgrv-dP8pgj2aScmHtxbYG2lRK-oEjqum2C/s1600/DSC06910.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #990000;"><img border="0" height="266px" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6SII8PlPwYq1VG1kDsWHK12rSh24Oz5laCBKt_9W1kQfKPLCdLFwQ6KYv1F2ouAvRrX7Td33B-3iW0EpsN-A-ddCtc4knAANG13ZBxdjs2bgrv-dP8pgj2aScmHtxbYG2lRK-oEjqum2C/s400/DSC06910.JPG" width="400px" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;">ooff!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;">uh. The cape seems to be having technical difficulties. Can you think of anything else?</span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZwaqD6ifs5C4y34TFhyGt4wbSSP_nvPlotdb_v1ukV_DzMcTgZwnhDi_ow2fkO45TOSynDn-Od1uG0a-nk-JzFMViaTgV1P8M-YouVaGz_u6b2hqBB5WP6xC_KTAYohwTamcO3hgqYDW8/s1600/DSC06914.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #990000;"><img border="0" height="266px" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZwaqD6ifs5C4y34TFhyGt4wbSSP_nvPlotdb_v1ukV_DzMcTgZwnhDi_ow2fkO45TOSynDn-Od1uG0a-nk-JzFMViaTgV1P8M-YouVaGz_u6b2hqBB5WP6xC_KTAYohwTamcO3hgqYDW8/s400/DSC06914.JPG" width="400px" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;">Sure! We're rats! Just climb.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMXRRPEcKywaFsV-oV7EJ9eDeiNgTrMZzkHQDUGr5tBNoEsmjBWvI5b7RnyZjUcAU3NKU4rS8OjeQqaLOUtI8hBXTbv8nVvOrXGe3xC9owmqEjmcbFz4k_ybfIPWhcoVAzNgpG5CiwS1KB/s1600/DSC06915.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #990000;"><img border="0" height="266px" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMXRRPEcKywaFsV-oV7EJ9eDeiNgTrMZzkHQDUGr5tBNoEsmjBWvI5b7RnyZjUcAU3NKU4rS8OjeQqaLOUtI8hBXTbv8nVvOrXGe3xC9owmqEjmcbFz4k_ybfIPWhcoVAzNgpG5CiwS1KB/s400/DSC06915.JPG" width="400px" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: blue;">Easy peasy!</span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihcrEj02oJAyNpRQbY89d4xiwdBNJnKEn252cQLxcgqBy9j6Fg6nU2uTvwZbRQom2SGbOSPcuEHnnrvoNihCe3u81Ylc5RPWET__2nvEUECtF-tZlIvX15XNz2tdXRE3RoVN5yUH7T9n_b/s1600/DSC06916.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #990000;"><img border="0" height="266px" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihcrEj02oJAyNpRQbY89d4xiwdBNJnKEn252cQLxcgqBy9j6Fg6nU2uTvwZbRQom2SGbOSPcuEHnnrvoNihCe3u81Ylc5RPWET__2nvEUECtF-tZlIvX15XNz2tdXRE3RoVN5yUH7T9n_b/s400/DSC06916.JPG" width="400px" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: blue;">Hey, no fair! All that effort, and they're not quite ripe yet.</span><br />
We'll have to do this all again in three or four days.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;">All of it?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><br />
Well, perhaps we can skip the falling on the ground part.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz_ye9iIJqRSvpSFtWCtgkbDuiRILyETzrxxUzNH4wGgGcL2MRCBKazRk2x0fy2yryqrTl5l28EfFbgFpFd4ffMn6dw9PzGgtKS5DCmaXPTq97rqJvPTYXjEMjqd_b8Up5d8v4tYTMSwUF/s1600/DSC06918.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #990000;"><img border="0" height="266px" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz_ye9iIJqRSvpSFtWCtgkbDuiRILyETzrxxUzNH4wGgGcL2MRCBKazRk2x0fy2yryqrTl5l28EfFbgFpFd4ffMn6dw9PzGgtKS5DCmaXPTq97rqJvPTYXjEMjqd_b8Up5d8v4tYTMSwUF/s400/DSC06918.JPG" width="400px" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;">On the bright side, all that messing around did manage to dislodge the one ripe apricot on the other side of the tree.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcrofPB_xnSrlKz05DBu6yM1SfyLH4wHKMldLq3IcuDAZWKyxloS_zKFols8_Ouiq00d4iH2C1Wcg9m6LF-PqiFbxkVtlChWVPmtvzGwhQWwiCvXjp8U2a560LgA_OQ-YGnzzFYjjBC9FN/s1600/DSC06919.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #990000;"><img border="0" height="266px" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcrofPB_xnSrlKz05DBu6yM1SfyLH4wHKMldLq3IcuDAZWKyxloS_zKFols8_Ouiq00d4iH2C1Wcg9m6LF-PqiFbxkVtlChWVPmtvzGwhQWwiCvXjp8U2a560LgA_OQ-YGnzzFYjjBC9FN/s400/DSC06919.JPG" width="400px" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;">Let's eat!</span></div></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2834845010837585715.post-5640674494011588762011-05-10T09:17:00.000-07:002011-05-10T09:38:58.234-07:00Watering<div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih6nfT_z5ZE__AQno48x2tayE4NW6DxIxm_4K5s7anv_kVKEf-37t-wape6wBwA0I4-Q2MvHLCrbxoLGPKBA_6tsq-294GjhRcQy1dkf6UXNd6KgvrHyOexBgYpNebob73lSK0Kxp9CPJb/s1600/DSC06833.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="cssfloat: left; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266px" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih6nfT_z5ZE__AQno48x2tayE4NW6DxIxm_4K5s7anv_kVKEf-37t-wape6wBwA0I4-Q2MvHLCrbxoLGPKBA_6tsq-294GjhRcQy1dkf6UXNd6KgvrHyOexBgYpNebob73lSK0Kxp9CPJb/s400/DSC06833.JPG" width="400px" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;">Hey, Superboy, whatcha doin'?</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;">I'm taking this pot of water to the garden. The tomatos are thirsty.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;">Why don't you just use the hose, like normal people do?</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;">We're having a drought, in case you haven't noticed, and this is grey water collected from the kitchen</span>.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVYUzDuVShA0hF3XzWMrrVX8LNut911rfLFxWaOqa68Goztd7ryIHAky94Uovc6VfUBatSWXw33c1_oPKo4f2EG57Cdyy_KyyyAuRNMkqaSrFSi8nzZLL511jknBjUMhCOeYVrQwbkFKqb/s1600/DSC06834.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="cssfloat: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266px" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVYUzDuVShA0hF3XzWMrrVX8LNut911rfLFxWaOqa68Goztd7ryIHAky94Uovc6VfUBatSWXw33c1_oPKo4f2EG57Cdyy_KyyyAuRNMkqaSrFSi8nzZLL511jknBjUMhCOeYVrQwbkFKqb/s400/DSC06834.JPG" width="400px" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;">Yep, that's grey all right!</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;">What's in it?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;">Bjorn is in it! Yech!</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;">Nothing bad. Just water from washing the dishes and from washing hands, and rinsing the coffee pot. No sense in putting all that water down the drain when the basil will be very happy to have it.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;">Now how about if you guys give me a hand getting it over there.</span><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1TyLeFcynu7zU2i0MDoHr93ihhzQ0G2QZVRnTj23A7jayDg3W3vltSYgqqTQLjhOuJKzIHF0XzcHlHpsVtc9FFq8I7yhDm1lWXZIejvKnSN0nZKD3-ZDMZF1Lgpf3tB5QjO4oblhG70qk/s1600/DSC06836.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266px" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1TyLeFcynu7zU2i0MDoHr93ihhzQ0G2QZVRnTj23A7jayDg3W3vltSYgqqTQLjhOuJKzIHF0XzcHlHpsVtc9FFq8I7yhDm1lWXZIejvKnSN0nZKD3-ZDMZF1Lgpf3tB5QjO4oblhG70qk/s400/DSC06836.JPG" width="400px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;">Ow!</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;">Hey, this water is heavy.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaL0nMQhtlu74oS1FK4jkFB5RB1avFpamVXnnVPg83SmFH5zMrtLo8RVpZdwY0fUrzOQFMI4xUkl-k9jMkfBoYTT8N-QPL3pU8ABGJ3NvW9OPUoJAMvQUG4HGye0j3Tylbbdcd0sIl0yqS/s1600/DSC06838.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266px" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaL0nMQhtlu74oS1FK4jkFB5RB1avFpamVXnnVPg83SmFH5zMrtLo8RVpZdwY0fUrzOQFMI4xUkl-k9jMkfBoYTT8N-QPL3pU8ABGJ3NvW9OPUoJAMvQUG4HGye0j3Tylbbdcd0sIl0yqS/s400/DSC06838.JPG" width="400px" /></a></div><div class="" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;">How did we get shanghai'd into this?</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe6WYunftOEZkw-KDNPrMPVobCArWR8tv1OK5a4ZhoHfSAKq45MWTZDB3hqfjEq6WdTN0O6Fe2cxajJPBpK67hErvz2PV3zZe4-6NkMD4Ud_a5Kv6v_pSNt6Vs2Nn6zH87-YIOqa0219jC/s1600/DSC06840.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="cssfloat: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266px" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe6WYunftOEZkw-KDNPrMPVobCArWR8tv1OK5a4ZhoHfSAKq45MWTZDB3hqfjEq6WdTN0O6Fe2cxajJPBpK67hErvz2PV3zZe4-6NkMD4Ud_a5Kv6v_pSNt6Vs2Nn6zH87-YIOqa0219jC/s400/DSC06840.JPG" width="400px" /></a></div><div class="" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;">Thanks, rats! Now I'm going to water the corn patch so it'll grow tall and make lots of corn so we can have a huge cornfest this summer.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdgPRztyLbZ2TLAGpkv745tNBVxCxDOpwuFxug-dfhdX8G9DTRYrSnPt8bjiDa1fUGe-c7UQIgdWFA9gVjWM6_CBfsgKp34jpRMqGdGEm0pCrbtlmeQImKjbgpGN7CAZMX-mK7pFWLju8H/s1600/DSC06842.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266px" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdgPRztyLbZ2TLAGpkv745tNBVxCxDOpwuFxug-dfhdX8G9DTRYrSnPt8bjiDa1fUGe-c7UQIgdWFA9gVjWM6_CBfsgKp34jpRMqGdGEm0pCrbtlmeQImKjbgpGN7CAZMX-mK7pFWLju8H/s400/DSC06842.JPG" width="400px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;">Ooof!</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;">HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;">Superboy: he <em>may</em> be strong, he <em>may</em> be able to fly, </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;">but he's still a klutz.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #990000;">I am not! I slipped on this dandelion...</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;">But he does his part for the planet.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;">Yes. We must give proper credit for that.</span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2834845010837585715.post-66034925089720014022011-04-19T09:13:00.000-07:002011-04-21T10:09:50.769-07:00Flat Stanley, part 2<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX0Ik2C4u_DTj7LgcVrPAmGuRfrqjI1jY9VcaQmDGp9PaSEQYKBGoITZjdNbMnv4RrBXPT4bOUcHpiw4dypwx6IifRfeJv37kwnqgvZKiFUmZijM-VALs-7b__R-uwQlsfxUawo8aEy8A0/s1600/DSC06803.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597328983151114466" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 266px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX0Ik2C4u_DTj7LgcVrPAmGuRfrqjI1jY9VcaQmDGp9PaSEQYKBGoITZjdNbMnv4RrBXPT4bOUcHpiw4dypwx6IifRfeJv37kwnqgvZKiFUmZijM-VALs-7b__R-uwQlsfxUawo8aEy8A0/s400/DSC06803.JPG" border="0" /></a>So here we are in downtown Clermont-Ferrand. One thing typical of European towns is a big empty space smack in the center. Often this used to be the original market place, with people coming with carts or tents of things to sell rather than fixed stores. Today in Clermont-Ferrand this square is used for political and social demonstrations, seasonal events, gatherings, and when our team is in a big game, like the ASM winning the national rugby championship, or when the French team won the World Cup, they put up a gigantic TV and <em>everybody</em> gathers to watch right here, together.<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF7J_rwGCqsTpZOA-bmwisTK5-SaBPqI7QWWDcNohantbfN1lCOMxjY_JeAYNb3KOLxS6rICeHtbSeCNIaPsmck7GqVkU48B2cWjnIWHyG6gxS31bPIc290In5Ant02LaHhz5QnYuSCWOj/s1600/DSC06805.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597328976913865458" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 266px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF7J_rwGCqsTpZOA-bmwisTK5-SaBPqI7QWWDcNohantbfN1lCOMxjY_JeAYNb3KOLxS6rICeHtbSeCNIaPsmck7GqVkU48B2cWjnIWHyG6gxS31bPIc290In5Ant02LaHhz5QnYuSCWOj/s400/DSC06805.JPG" border="0" /></a>This is the statue honoring one of the local heros, Vercingetorix. 2000-odd years ago this local chief managed to get enough warriors together (and more importantly, got them organized and disciplined!), and threw Ceasar out of the region. Victory didn't last, though, and the Romans were back not long after.<br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCxGJShAa25T9sJSxFUMU8ZsdtHM_RPK3N9Mi1DLJaeniLhKsXLA9w44q4ofltO0VQBabEjnFbMNQaFMUPv1M0-sdfQnRZwV3txNc6DqgYTx6kG_js8si5i58sYhXJJbvRrDcu_xCaslZJ/s1600/DSC06806.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597328972401511106" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 266px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCxGJShAa25T9sJSxFUMU8ZsdtHM_RPK3N9Mi1DLJaeniLhKsXLA9w44q4ofltO0VQBabEjnFbMNQaFMUPv1M0-sdfQnRZwV3txNc6DqgYTx6kG_js8si5i58sYhXJJbvRrDcu_xCaslZJ/s400/DSC06806.JPG" border="0" /></a> Most days he wields just a sword, but this year it's the flag of the ASM.<br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfQBO1cYgaffTzLf0pzkBflDKPZSyzBiW78P-yBnbI_QVAH4nAZE-sK8hYOUH9asNQ4LLf6zdRQGhPIw6T8HrrPX-8syCMAep2laNGt-chfoWM2Rfmw04AdrIikAFBMNWWC6n2ImuYbvhJ/s1600/DSC06809.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597328858520229106" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 266px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfQBO1cYgaffTzLf0pzkBflDKPZSyzBiW78P-yBnbI_QVAH4nAZE-sK8hYOUH9asNQ4LLf6zdRQGhPIw6T8HrrPX-8syCMAep2laNGt-chfoWM2Rfmw04AdrIikAFBMNWWC6n2ImuYbvhJ/s400/DSC06809.JPG" border="0" /></a> Being a volcanic area, monuments and statues in the Auvergne region are often made of this wonderful black lava. The grain of the stone is very fine, and it's exceptionally hard and resistant to weathering. This particular monument to Pope Urban the 2nd is quite new, but the details on the 15th-16th century cathedral are almost as sharp.<br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjORJ2Hc0vIdomxdxa6WXcvXQ_YS5cIsAW2lWflkr5P6zfXyTHM-e9_y6EZZvBfcRWO7mHU6FX-KmwR9QocNBPxd7pY6f18AKALw70KVypkTo-tn7Vf0b4zJbIYQr2OeakGsjll-yuvBoPl/s1600/DSC06810.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597328844156045170" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 266px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjORJ2Hc0vIdomxdxa6WXcvXQ_YS5cIsAW2lWflkr5P6zfXyTHM-e9_y6EZZvBfcRWO7mHU6FX-KmwR9QocNBPxd7pY6f18AKALw70KVypkTo-tn7Vf0b4zJbIYQr2OeakGsjll-yuvBoPl/s400/DSC06810.JPG" border="0" /></a> There's Urban, preaching the First Crusade. He was based in Clermont (just "Clermont". At the time, Clermont was a town centered on religion and government, while Montferrand, on the next hill over, was a town based on commerce. The two towns merged later.), which for a while was the seat of the papacy. The different popes moved all over the place during the midieval period, and sometimes there was more than one at a time.<br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFMsxImgrRoJNlTVugZJ2QMcy7HNF8P-O7DsoqTXYsnhYQdQzIi8_1YjBtZeBI-e8pMCmrW8PaK0pWP-ew3PCh__XMWIm8NNjnc9cwEpsKywAfNjlCRiPJFxbvfdSuCKMwbJoCBDqCJpvm/s1600/DSC06811.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597328836090253490" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 266px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFMsxImgrRoJNlTVugZJ2QMcy7HNF8P-O7DsoqTXYsnhYQdQzIi8_1YjBtZeBI-e8pMCmrW8PaK0pWP-ew3PCh__XMWIm8NNjnc9cwEpsKywAfNjlCRiPJFxbvfdSuCKMwbJoCBDqCJpvm/s400/DSC06811.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdnLHv_ddgokgAHDdxB5E7tKGGTEfcsXaevy-i9ASY1K1zaPNn4P2Siyu8ZxuYkGCfUj9-EhWBqbyawqrl9jHkBFz-0Xhyphenhyphenh83kEn0PbmK8td0_I8sDB8pXw9-xCdYck_ZTrhzUD-2N6TJg/s1600/DSC06814.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597328649594198242" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 266px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdnLHv_ddgokgAHDdxB5E7tKGGTEfcsXaevy-i9ASY1K1zaPNn4P2Siyu8ZxuYkGCfUj9-EhWBqbyawqrl9jHkBFz-0Xhyphenhyphenh83kEn0PbmK8td0_I8sDB8pXw9-xCdYck_ZTrhzUD-2N6TJg/s400/DSC06814.JPG" border="0" /></a> While church attendance is dwindling continuously and many fabulous old cathedrals and churches are now historical monuments supported by the state, a different weekly gathering of the masses is growing. No game today, though.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAjeIlpsA2T8y-q-a6rZwxz1ccOIYQrOrTF2flVLn1w6RBloWswzNKDtJLgxlJ18wSqRjCzaidOIXSCXJ_cy6l6n690S7oULcdGdKOdaHaT3dx4SarjcA32OuZBIY8hyqV8rRla-a6Y57T/s1600/DSC06815.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597328642797963970" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 266px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAjeIlpsA2T8y-q-a6rZwxz1ccOIYQrOrTF2flVLn1w6RBloWswzNKDtJLgxlJ18wSqRjCzaidOIXSCXJ_cy6l6n690S7oULcdGdKOdaHaT3dx4SarjcA32OuZBIY8hyqV8rRla-a6Y57T/s400/DSC06815.JPG" border="0" /></a> Whew, all that walking around town made me hungry for another French thing: pastry!</div></div></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2834845010837585715.post-44935544685724686152011-04-18T09:26:00.001-07:002011-04-18T10:08:45.323-07:00Flat Stanley, part 1<div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhodOo1Et5FuPjI_V5AdzPLqGldxVFeilRO5mjZDAT4547lTrdlP7mCzosrQcFtfNlx5Hn1HD7vezmGyYABCtx9FxkE8lzNFxi8bnh5KIRpjYcc5hALOTyvq1rSSmZrgxXNtlMi6CmPzgdj/s1600/DSC06785.JPG"><span style="color:#990000;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5596961994732057106" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 266px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhodOo1Et5FuPjI_V5AdzPLqGldxVFeilRO5mjZDAT4547lTrdlP7mCzosrQcFtfNlx5Hn1HD7vezmGyYABCtx9FxkE8lzNFxi8bnh5KIRpjYcc5hALOTyvq1rSSmZrgxXNtlMi6CmPzgdj/s400/DSC06785.JPG" border="0" /></span></a><span style="color:#990000;"> What's this, Britta?</span></div><br /><div align="justify"><span style="color:#990000;"><span style="color:#000099;">Hmmm, "Flat Stanley". A stagiaire of some sort, Maurice.</span> </span></div><br /><div align="justify"><span style="color:#990000;">Okay; let's show him around. </div></span><br /><div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFhnDnUdElu-Ai0xcTO-8DF2sV2H14O_pWVUaGuod45dlmJvXMiiu2GeZqpwOSQVE6Y1oSdCYz0zsZAcYkXkLVA0kTaPz9031tsw1JnSA4q7BNfNg2jKo4rGbNAuYpATTZwX-NUJ9fUDfh/s1600/DSC06786.JPG"><span style="color:#990000;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5596961984313795570" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 266px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFhnDnUdElu-Ai0xcTO-8DF2sV2H14O_pWVUaGuod45dlmJvXMiiu2GeZqpwOSQVE6Y1oSdCYz0zsZAcYkXkLVA0kTaPz9031tsw1JnSA4q7BNfNg2jKo4rGbNAuYpATTZwX-NUJ9fUDfh/s400/DSC06786.JPG" border="0" /></span></a><span style="color:#990000;">Look, Astrid: it's Flat Stanley! </span></div><br /><div align="justify"><span style="color:#000099;">Quiet chap, isn't he?</span></div><br /><div align="justify"><span style="color:#990000;"><span style="color:#000000;">And why's he all plain? A nudist? </span></div></span><br /><div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_Wqvoeh1paRDUz2mA5rmXH5_oV7sKVZ0l0VV0KQQ653NQbXFpJmCJwB7Gg94lrTpBlpfFSonBcGNJEtEHupOv1CdVkSYVaSHZry8yyFFXZu4f_0jTQEzASf5pxuYlS6c5p1X9mIDDBUpx/s1600/DSC06787.JPG"><span style="color:#990000;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5596961980682210914" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 266px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_Wqvoeh1paRDUz2mA5rmXH5_oV7sKVZ0l0VV0KQQ653NQbXFpJmCJwB7Gg94lrTpBlpfFSonBcGNJEtEHupOv1CdVkSYVaSHZry8yyFFXZu4f_0jTQEzASf5pxuYlS6c5p1X9mIDDBUpx/s400/DSC06787.JPG" border="0" /></span></a><span style="color:#990000;"> </span><span style="color:#000099;">Maybe it's a superhero!</span></div><br /><div align="justify"><span style="color:#990000;"><span style="color:#000000;">Yeah - the Flat Ghost.</span> </div></span><br /><div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvD9qiuatIZInmdKNzyR89a9X2zX_e7rEcz_ESZUrIxqTJcvdaa1dOOi_qPycdZXa37jryEWClm4WrOwXAoV-McTiXlqfdEXnJU1T-1CIOaLe1yWez9IdPXAGhcdnF7QZO9VHZAhuQW3CI/s1600/DSC06788.JPG"><span style="color:#990000;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5596961827467492546" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 266px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvD9qiuatIZInmdKNzyR89a9X2zX_e7rEcz_ESZUrIxqTJcvdaa1dOOi_qPycdZXa37jryEWClm4WrOwXAoV-McTiXlqfdEXnJU1T-1CIOaLe1yWez9IdPXAGhcdnF7QZO9VHZAhuQW3CI/s400/DSC06788.JPG" border="0" /></span></a><span style="color:#000099;"> If it's a superhero, let's give it the Super Strength Test. </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghpUhFogADZ_QfETXFvTx2MQcOZ1rT-_E_gxjsHQB5ZWlSgJQBp4ip8LbXja6dtx5R1AW_gOoC2qKx779g2dG1KpsXsplMzx7PNycrRUl2fm_gOWQ9ZpsFu9QHuDdCYGbEKQDD1GmtSXAt/s1600/DSC06791.JPG"><span style="color:#990000;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5596961817916628610" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 266px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghpUhFogADZ_QfETXFvTx2MQcOZ1rT-_E_gxjsHQB5ZWlSgJQBp4ip8LbXja6dtx5R1AW_gOoC2qKx779g2dG1KpsXsplMzx7PNycrRUl2fm_gOWQ9ZpsFu9QHuDdCYGbEKQDD1GmtSXAt/s400/DSC06791.JPG" border="0" /></span></a><span style="color:#006600;"> erfff!</span> <span style="color:#000000;">It's making noise!<br /></span> <span style="color:#990000;"><span style="color:#000099;">But it's not moving the brick. What kind of superhero can't get out from under a brick? <br /><br /></span>There are many sorts of super powers. Not all of them involve moving bricks. I, for example, can fly.<br /></span> <span style="color:#990000;"><span style="color:#000099;">pfff!<br /></span> </span><span style="color:#990000;"><span style="color:#000000;">>snerk<</span> </span><span style="color:#990000;"><span style="color:#000099;">yes, Maurice, we've seen you "fly"...<br /></span> </span><span style="color:#990000;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj__dqd2AjUu-d9GwwJAyq4zKgEzU4vDVONwJKSiXHOJBIdG8T5GZRpePvAdJ98jQ08rAOLvFq9fpUPGTHNaALDrUYnCoZxVZwzyy8xHatD5_QSv8qFHHwF5Oivr60GrF0gQqz8oMzKoYq9/s1600/DSC06792.JPG"><span style="color:#990000;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5596961710572057090" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 266px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj__dqd2AjUu-d9GwwJAyq4zKgEzU4vDVONwJKSiXHOJBIdG8T5GZRpePvAdJ98jQ08rAOLvFq9fpUPGTHNaALDrUYnCoZxVZwzyy8xHatD5_QSv8qFHHwF5Oivr60GrF0gQqz8oMzKoYq9/s400/DSC06792.JPG" border="0" /></span></a><span style="color:#990000;"> </span><span style="color:#000099;">But look, he's completely unscathed. Not a dent.<br /></span> <span style="color:#990000;">Ahaaaa.... Total brick resistance! Held down, but not harmed in any way.<br /></span> <span style="color:#000000;">Let's give him the setting on fire test!<br /></span> <span style="color:#990000;"><span style="color:#000099;">Yeah!!! </span>No, come on guys, it's just a regular Flat Stanley. </span><span style="color:#990000;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggTd1fZL7Ha-zxoUiks1nBTdBon8Lr_ly6VB5FEfTRAxBZqM04e_mO4aHzjxM5YYQU3T3P9LlX3e1BxadkFl3uLyljNaUsKr10KsMvt51X9824Lx6MqW8yTPxKgUyYHZv9-5ieFHlHbuEc/s1600/DSC06793.JPG"><span style="color:#990000;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5596961704080684018" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 266px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggTd1fZL7Ha-zxoUiks1nBTdBon8Lr_ly6VB5FEfTRAxBZqM04e_mO4aHzjxM5YYQU3T3P9LlX3e1BxadkFl3uLyljNaUsKr10KsMvt51X9824Lx6MqW8yTPxKgUyYHZv9-5ieFHlHbuEc/s400/DSC06793.JPG" border="0" /></span></a><span style="color:#990000;"> With a rugby uniform on, that's a lot better.</span> <span style="color:#000099;"><br />Yellow and Blue for the ASM!</span> <span style="color:#990000;"><br />Rugby is a team sport appreciated all over Western Europe and in the Commonwealth. It's the precursor of American football, and is classically played 15 players on each side, for two halves of 40 minutes each.</span> <br /><span style="color:#990000;">Play is pretty much continuous, stopping only for serious injuries, penalties, and after a score. Touching the ball down across the goal line is called a "try" and is worth 5 points. The team scoring a try gets to kick the ball between the uprights for an additional 2 points. At any time during play, a player can attempt a kick through the uprights: this is called a "drop" and is worth 3 points. Penalty kicks are also worth 3 points.</span> <br /><span style="color:#990000;">Rugby is a very fast-moving and physical game. Only the player with the ball may be tackled, and thus when he's about to be tackled, he often makes a lateral pass to a teammate. This passing prowess led our local rugby team, the ASM, to the national championship last year.</span><br /> <span style="color:#990000;">There are several international tournaments. Every year the 6-Nations tournament is held between France, England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and Italy. England, Scotland and Wales are all now part of the same country, the United Kingdom, but in rugby they have their own national teams and play their own national anthems and fly their own flags. Ireland is now divided into two countries, the Republic of Ireland, and six counties in Northern Ireland belonging to the United Kingdom. The Ireland team, however, is composed of Irish citizens from all parts of Ireland. This year's tournament was won by England.</span> <br /><span style="color:#990000;">Every four years there is a World Cup Rugby tournament. This is a tournament year, and it is being hosted by one of the greatest rugby nations: New Zealand. </span><span style="color:#990000;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpA1AD9j0PlSx7hDkPbJFsnsePCNFCo-P0zQWZuKTJZxuteYtk1dghWQayBy3lzEgK5aTPSnGxOzzPBuZdPL-ILr6oaTdnCWQwsAp9Z3KR_mzuDIyi0mEW1SY-H10hj9DFIj-1-f04nGoI/s1600/DSC06795.JPG"><span style="color:#990000;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5596961587759653138" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 266px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpA1AD9j0PlSx7hDkPbJFsnsePCNFCo-P0zQWZuKTJZxuteYtk1dghWQayBy3lzEgK5aTPSnGxOzzPBuZdPL-ILr6oaTdnCWQwsAp9Z3KR_mzuDIyi0mEW1SY-H10hj9DFIj-1-f04nGoI/s400/DSC06795.JPG" border="0" /></span></a><span style="color:#990000;"> Alrighthen, let's play a little rugby: you rats Laars, Ingmar, Bjorn and Britta; against me, Stan, Astrid, and the chicken. </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0R7ud3hmcm9uAqb-buAbB_r7eqajTxnEm30CxhyJ1M7e8BebLEfFE9h3gJKs5Xwy4P1TzGGiEXgmOLRXFew8RaajuP4-1N809W38TWzynlX2JbRpufs2IeZg7qQh6kqYsFVj6wpPHLRu6/s1600/DSC06796.JPG"><span style="color:#990000;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5596961576575545890" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 266px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0R7ud3hmcm9uAqb-buAbB_r7eqajTxnEm30CxhyJ1M7e8BebLEfFE9h3gJKs5Xwy4P1TzGGiEXgmOLRXFew8RaajuP4-1N809W38TWzynlX2JbRpufs2IeZg7qQh6kqYsFVj6wpPHLRu6/s400/DSC06796.JPG" border="0" /></span></a><span style="color:#990000;"> Scrum!!! </span><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8ANuImC0srLiIK0iT2attWluc1pulPLjkFMq6XJ5L9xVqtQFmyOld8-oWgSVVfLyhjJbphJ7l4vgAgffX_70GW7M6gK84Q4RpOYC5Jk8BQRx4mgWv7C01GSrNXBy051lyM1v8YaU-Tlj6/s1600/DSC06798.JPG"><span style="color:#990000;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5596961415297649938" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 266px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8ANuImC0srLiIK0iT2attWluc1pulPLjkFMq6XJ5L9xVqtQFmyOld8-oWgSVVfLyhjJbphJ7l4vgAgffX_70GW7M6gK84Q4RpOYC5Jk8BQRx4mgWv7C01GSrNXBy051lyM1v8YaU-Tlj6/s400/DSC06798.JPG" border="0" /></span></a><span style="color:#000099;"> Ingmar is breaking away with the ball!</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#990000;">Get him, Stan! </span><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOXsaWrEzHRhtNNaUyOac9b61XqgWOfk4GJJ1i2sA__oxPt1GaW3hHTSPjWkhb7qOyeO_QYW116VMRNyPLnNWSdJ1Tjpf2wI32klmut3UhcJ-5KPVJpUmlEs_ruyoUoQwjZnAnc4qPjbVj/s1600/DSC06799.JPG"><span style="color:#990000;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5596961060671679186" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 266px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOXsaWrEzHRhtNNaUyOac9b61XqgWOfk4GJJ1i2sA__oxPt1GaW3hHTSPjWkhb7qOyeO_QYW116VMRNyPLnNWSdJ1Tjpf2wI32klmut3UhcJ-5KPVJpUmlEs_ruyoUoQwjZnAnc4qPjbVj/s400/DSC06799.JPG" border="0" /></span></a><span style="color:#000000;"> Oof. </span><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh50NBuDrccjVSddfpx6Ij9wiYXOPajMW-56UGyqh5WgIWHuQmLmVFeytVYxGCAH_I57QDsNtmX-cYhs-dTUMuaUzGhih1kauCtxHgb-M2kDrHWn1jlvryTiz44MiWYni3nX_iaEvXuoyAo/s1600/DSC06800.JPG"><span style="color:#990000;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5596961052449014770" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 266px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh50NBuDrccjVSddfpx6Ij9wiYXOPajMW-56UGyqh5WgIWHuQmLmVFeytVYxGCAH_I57QDsNtmX-cYhs-dTUMuaUzGhih1kauCtxHgb-M2kDrHWn1jlvryTiz44MiWYni3nX_iaEvXuoyAo/s400/DSC06800.JPG" border="0" /></span></a><span style="color:#990000;"> And Stan scores! </span><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLjikwgsCNIjc-iYn-9yvjP_IQu_qiE-596oaFufM5wRpuUi19-Qpqc2qCE3EudU4OjS1f36erL8djDAUXgkvhoK1fPr8oNtCdRXCUytMUtXNGtgHNaXVrEYZVNfdohj1R9ByWxB5sChCv/s1600/DSC06802.JPG"><span style="color:#990000;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5596960909340033234" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 266px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLjikwgsCNIjc-iYn-9yvjP_IQu_qiE-596oaFufM5wRpuUi19-Qpqc2qCE3EudU4OjS1f36erL8djDAUXgkvhoK1fPr8oNtCdRXCUytMUtXNGtgHNaXVrEYZVNfdohj1R9ByWxB5sChCv/s400/DSC06802.JPG" border="0" /></span></a><span style="color:#990000;"> Hooray for Flat Stanley!</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#990000;">.</span></div></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3