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Post by whatagain on Mar 22, 2022 8:20:57 GMT
The birds are back here, i woke up hearing them some days ago.
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Post by questa on Mar 22, 2022 12:51:02 GMT
The spring has sprung The grass has rizz I wonder where dem birdies is De bird is on the wing, I heard..............but dat's absurd... Surely de wing is on de bird!
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Post by casimira on Mar 22, 2022 15:15:14 GMT
How long, casi, till the “old place” becomes the”new place”? At this point it will likely be a year before that happens. Lots of red tape and the level of the river plays a huge part in the construction. I wrote a lengthy reply in the Gardening Waffle.
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Post by casimira on Mar 22, 2022 15:50:38 GMT
How long, casi, till the “old place” becomes the”new place”? see reply #764 on page 26 in the Gardening Waffle thread Kimby Thanks for inquiring.
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Post by Kimby on Mar 22, 2022 16:14:56 GMT
New thread for me, after only 28 pages! Bookmarked now.
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Post by whatagain on Apr 4, 2022 20:20:42 GMT
Celebrating oldest daughter's birthday
A lovely day. The whole family together for once + JC.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 4, 2022 20:42:33 GMT
A very warm moment then!
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 12, 2022 11:23:03 GMT
30th annivesary of Disneyland Paris, the most visited tourist site in Europe
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Post by Kimby on Apr 12, 2022 13:26:50 GMT
Initially the most reviled tourist attraction, though, right? Like McDonald’s.
French are slow adopters, it seems.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 12, 2022 14:27:39 GMT
McDonald's was never reviled by the French. It was simply changed to suit French tastes. France was the first country where McDonald's offered salads, becuse the French demanded it. This article covers a number of the principal points, even though it is several years old. As for Disney, France kept the company afloat when it wasn't doing well in the 80's and 90's because US audiences had lost interest in their animated films, which the French have always loved. Now that it is the biggest media company in the world, people tend to forget that it had dropped to the bottom of the movie industry back then.
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Post by casimira on Apr 13, 2022 14:00:11 GMT
Today is my husband's 73d birthday. We are going to go to the museum (NOMA) and Botanical Gardens (both have free admission for Louisiana residents) and lunch afterward at one of our favorite restaurants. I'm hoping that the rain forecasted will hold off so that we can dine outside.
In the meantime, I hired my garden helper (who also cleans houses and condos etc.) to do a deep cleaning of our apartment. She doesn't want to charge me because she wants for it to be a birthday present for T.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 13, 2022 14:52:33 GMT
Happy happy birthday, dearest T! Sounds like the perfect day for the two of you & your garden helper is a peach!
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 13, 2022 14:59:12 GMT
Happy birthday Mr Casimira!
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 13, 2022 15:03:57 GMT
Free admission? That's not much of a birthday present. Wouldn't he prefer a hot air balloon excursion over bayou country?
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Post by casimira on Apr 13, 2022 15:37:17 GMT
Happy happy birthday, dearest T! Sounds like the perfect day for the two of you & your garden helper is a peach!Her name just happens to be Peaches. Thank you good people!! Kerouac, the thought of doing what you suggested crossed my mind but they were all booked up.
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Post by whatagain on Apr 13, 2022 15:56:54 GMT
Happy birthday Casimira. Have a great day.🤩🤩 Ignore remarks from curmudgeons about getting free presents ! 😂😂😂
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Post by questa on Apr 13, 2022 22:24:24 GMT
How you love your curmudgeons, Whatagain.!
Casi, have a lovely day doing favourite things.
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Post by casimira on Apr 14, 2022 16:05:16 GMT
How you love your curmudgeons, Whatagain.! Casi, have a lovely day doing favourite things. Thanks Questa and Whatagain but, it wasn't my birthday but my husbands. (he is also a curmudgeon) We had a lovely day.
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Post by questa on Apr 14, 2022 22:58:05 GMT
Alas! I should have put "together" at the end of the sentence 'cos I knew it was his birthday, not yours.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 15, 2022 5:37:18 GMT
Notre Dame and the Titanic share an anniversary today.
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Post by casimira on May 4, 2022 14:23:49 GMT
Hard to believe but today is the 1-year anniversary of our house fire.
Still waiting for the level of the river to go down to 11...
Army Corps of Engineers predicts that it will be down by May 16th.
Can only hope.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 4, 2022 14:44:31 GMT
It seems like it was so long ago and yet so recent at the same time.
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Post by casimira on May 4, 2022 16:12:52 GMT
I agree Kerouac. That's very perceptive of you. The days, weeks and months seem to have flown by but at the same time it is now a memory that happened a long time ago.
I just had a visit with our landlady next door to thank her for her reaching out to us that very day and offer us shelter. T. knew her but I did not. I remember her taking our dog for a walk to get him away from all the mayhem as the 44 fire personnel, trucks etc. were overwhelming and freaking him out. Our cat made his exit and hid out until it was all over.
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Post by lagatta on May 4, 2022 16:15:56 GMT
Such a relief to save your pets!
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Post by casimira on May 5, 2022 14:08:25 GMT
Indeed Lagatta.
Today is Karl Marx's birthday. I noted that he only lived to be 64.
Also, the annual celebration of Cinco de Mayo commemorating the victory of the Mexican in the battle of Puebla against the French. (Here it is just an excuse for people to drink copious amounts of tequila, mezcal and act like fools)
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Post by kerouac2 on May 8, 2022 11:49:32 GMT
I imagine that everybody knows what May 8th represents for most of Europe already, so I would just like to commemorate the anthem of the French resistance Le Chant des Partisans, written by Russian immigrant Anna Marly. Anna Betoulinskaïa came to France with her mother, sister and nanny in 1920 to flee the revolution. Her father had been executed. To get a job with the Ballets Russes, she took the name Marly out of a telephone directory. She later became a singer in various Parisian cabarets. WW2 took her to Spain, Portugal and London, where she became a mess hall worker at the French HQ. She wrote the lyrics and melody of Le Partisan in Russian, and the French lyrics were later adapted by Joseph Kessel and Maurice Druon. The music was used to open the French programmes on the BBC in a whistled version that could still be identified through the radio jamming by the Germans. After the war, she went to South America and Africa before settling in the United States. In 2000, she came to Paris to sing Le Chant des Partisans at the Panthéon to commemorate the 60th anniversary of De Gaulle's call to arms. She died in Alaska in 2006, age 88.
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Post by whatagain on May 8, 2022 12:32:05 GMT
It is mothers day in Belgium.
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Post by mickthecactus on May 8, 2022 13:37:59 GMT
Very interesting k2. Thanks.
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Post by casimira on May 30, 2022 17:36:05 GMT
Today is Memorial Day in the U.S. commemorating and honoring veterans of all wars and battles.
Growing up it was a favorite holiday because it heralded the start of the summer season and the arrival of friends and families from NYC and surrounding areas who for generations spent their summers in our village.
It also represents the annual dive into the Atlantic that a small group of us did. The water was freezing cold but hell or high water we did it.
So, it intrigued me to read that there is a ritual/custom all over the continent of India, thousands of Indians of all ages take a dip in whatever river is closest to them.
The ritual commemorates "Moon less Monday".
(nothing to do with Memorial Day, it just so happens that this year the days coincide.)
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Post by whatagain on Jun 18, 2022 11:07:50 GMT
207 years ago, some 2 miles from my home more than 50 000 men in bright uniforms lost their lives, bringing an end to Napoleon's era.
82 years ago a man mostly unknown, from.a beaten country that signed an armistice delivered on the BBC a speech largely unheard. Yes 5 years later he had managed to have a reoresentative present at germany's capitulation. De Gaulle gave back honourvto the French on that day. Blood would be required.
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