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You're allowed...
Just get busy real soon. Off to catch up with your doings.
posted by
word.smith
on January 7, 2007 at 2:25 PM
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word
Well...er..em....it means that I've been busy stuffing my face and being a lazy so-and-so. I didn't even make any New Year writing resolutions, word. Soorrrreeeeee!
posted by
johnmacnab
on January 6, 2007 at 7:16 AM
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John,
I hope this means you've been busy writing.
posted by
word.smith
on January 5, 2007 at 8:50 PM
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mneme
And a Happy - Hic - New Year to you, mneme.
posted by
johnmacnab
on January 1, 2007 at 12:07 PM
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word.smith
And a Happy New Year to you, word.smith.
posted by
johnmacnab
on January 1, 2007 at 12:06 PM
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johnmacnab
Happy New Year (hic!...)
posted by
mneme
on January 1, 2007 at 4:52 AM
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Happy New Year to you JohnMcNab!
posted by
word.smith
on January 1, 2007 at 2:49 AM
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ginnie
Great to hear from you, ginnie. Merry Boxing Day to you. What I like about Boxing Day is the law that says you don't have to do anything
at all, apart, as you say, from reading your Christmas present books and checking out the other presents. It is a delicious NON-DAY. Happy Hogmanay to you, Ginnie, and go easy on the Malt.
posted by
johnmacnab
on December 28, 2006 at 8:25 PM
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TAPS
Sigh! I suppose I'll have to accept the blame,TAPS - yet again, as Ell would say. The pencil buoys which mark the 30 meter deep channel in the St Lawrence Seaway, are just slimmer than the normal ones and I don't think they have flashing lights on them.
posted by
johnmacnab
on December 28, 2006 at 8:21 PM
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Methinks you are more Canuck than you realise, Mac!
We talk about Boxing Day and get the strangest looks..Boxing Day = leftover turkey, board games, reading new books, listening to new music and staying in yer pjs all day when I was up yonder with family. Tis a great day!! Loved your story here...just clicked on to read a few and was glad to see you're still posting! Happy Hogmanay to you John MacNab!!
posted by
ginnieb
on December 28, 2006 at 2:35 PM
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Johnmacnab - Its your fault
You made me want the pics because you described that catamaran and the harbour with its pencil markers (which I've never seen) and such so well that it makes me want to see them. I'd say you are doing fine with the writing.
posted by
TAPS.
on December 28, 2006 at 1:19 PM
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TAPS
LOL, TAPS. I couldn't see me wearing boxer shorts in this weather, but the neighbor across the road was wearing shorts yesterday as he swept the snow off his car - but then he is a Canadian, and I'm still a learner. Boxing Day is called that because in medieval times, that was when the Lords of the Manor handed out boxes of goodies to their serfs. Also the churches opened up their 'poor' boxes and handed the money out to the poor. In the UK, it was the day for soccer matches and recovering from the merriment of the day before - I suppose it is the same here. As well as that, it is the day for Boxing Day sales, when the retail trade make a heck of a lot of money selling off all the crap they couldn't get rid of earlier in the year.
As for the photographs, TAPS, I suppose I could post them, but I joined Blogit to practice my writing. BTW, I am blushing here from the compliments - Thank you very much.
posted by
johnmacnab
on December 28, 2006 at 12:41 PM
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mneme
It was the perfect place to park a ship, mneme. Perhaps they just pulled over and went in to get some takeaway food - ha ha.
posted by
johnmacnab
on December 28, 2006 at 6:38 AM
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Johnmacnab
It is your posts like this one when I start wishing that you would take pictures and post them for us. You have the most interesting things going on where you live. I'm so glad that you do not "burrow" and that you write for us here on Blogit. I just love the things that you write. Did you do anything interesting for Boxing Day? We do not celebrate that here in MO so I don't know what one does on that day. Do you prepare Box Dinners? Do you watch boxing matches? Do you wear boxer shorts on that day instead of BVD's?
posted by
TAPS.
on December 28, 2006 at 4:22 AM
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johnmacnab
that was obviously a good place to pull over - perhaps the light-ship was a sign...
Must have been a good feeling to have a little piece of history float past your window... had an experience a bit like that once (perhaps a post coming on sooner or later!). Happy New Year to you both.
posted by
mneme
on December 27, 2006 at 3:26 PM
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Original Influence
It is, Original - very soothing to the soul. Thank you for your good wishes. A Happy New Year to you and yours.
posted by
johnmacnab
on December 27, 2006 at 10:33 AM
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Sounds like a nice way to pass some time. Belated Merry Christmas to you!
posted by
Original_Influence
on December 27, 2006 at 9:18 AM
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Whacky
We had a wonderful Christmas, Whacky and we hope you did also. The website is fascinating. We can look up when the ships come through the locks, work out how long it takes to sail to our location and practically look out of the window now and say - 'that's the 'such-and-such,' as it comes into view.
posted by
johnmacnab
on December 27, 2006 at 6:35 AM
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Pat_B
I had to look up why Seattle was known as the Emerald City, Pat. I assumed that it was Irish because Ireland is known as the Emerald Isle, but I was intrigued to find out it was because of a contest to find a nickname for the city. Living near the Mighty Mississippi sounds magical. (The only river whose name I can spell because of a rhyme I learned at school.)
posted by
johnmacnab
on December 27, 2006 at 6:31 AM
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That is so neat that you can find what is floating down the river
as you look out at it. Hope you had a peaceful Christmas!
posted by
Whacky
on December 26, 2006 at 9:14 PM
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Lights on the water... I can almost hear the boatwhistles...
How reminiscent for me of Seattle and riding the ferry on Puget Sound, coming back from Bremerton or Bainbridge Island about sundown and watching the "emerald city" light up. Here, I'm a few miles from the Mighty Mississippi, and the lights of tugs docked along the side shine nicely on the muddy water. Sounds like a very enjoyable evening. :)
posted by
Pat_B
on December 26, 2006 at 5:53 PM
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