I have a Dr. Rick Gardner on my DNA page. "Thomas S. Fiske" <[email protected]> wrote: Dear MM, One of the members on the Drake List is also a Gardner. Rick Gardner. But he lives in Michigan, I think and is not likely a NC Gardner. Rick is a Drake in my line from about the year 1770 in Virginia. Tom Marilynn Masten wrote: > When you have nothing else to do, take a look at our Gardner/Garner Web Site http://www.usroots.com/~gardners/. We just wanted to prove the point that genealogical research need not be dry. > Marilynn > IBSSG > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message HRH "Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving > safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in > sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, body thoroughly used up, > totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO what a ride!" --------------------------------- All-new Yahoo! Mail - Fire up a more powerful email and get things done faster.

Tom, I LOVE IT! You are just the kind of teacher that age kid needs! Your stories, no doubt, went straight through their hearts and lodged in their brains. I think that's often the most effective route for learning! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas S. Fiske" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 6:28 AM Subject: Re: [ARMSTRONG] occupations > Dear Jill, > > When lessons were finished and there was maybe five minutes left in a > class, I would tell family stories, like "The Day My Wonderful Brother > Blew his Toe Off with a Shotgun." Sometimes I told family history > stories in which a murder took place. Or, I told stories about wacky > science. Each story had a moral and was edifying. The kids wanted > copies of the stories so I put them into a book called "Four on the > Floor." (My brother had only "four on the floor" on his right foot > after he shot his big toe off.) My son, an artist in Florida, drew > cartoons for each story. > > Tom

Wow, seems like a lot of A's are (or have been) teachers! John, I do like raising chickens, and I also like to drink beer! some people prefer to raise chickens... I prefer to brew beer...!!! Sincerely, John D Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. - Dr. Seuss Linda Hamid Sweetwater Poultry email: [email protected] web: www.sweeth2o.us

Marilynn, I feel for you. We think it's bad that our grandkids live about 4 hrs away in Roseburg, Oregon! I am sooo thankful for phones!!! Jill ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marilynn Masten" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 6:42 AM Subject: Re: [ARMSTRONG] Birds > When in Seattle, if you see the cutest little boy you've ever seen, with a > gorgeous mother and a frazzled father, they're mine. Say hello to them > for > me. I have ths misfortune to live in NC. > Marilynn > IBSSG

Marilyn, my Eliza Jane was born in 1845 in County Tyrone, Dungannon, N. Ireland. She migrated to New Zealand and married William Rylance. She died in 1917 and is buried in Auckland, New Zealand. I visited her grave site on my trip. For some reason she and her husband chose to not have a headstone but the gravesite is close to where my cousin Margaret's family is buried so we visited them all. I think Eliza Jane was a very popular name in those days, sort of like Jennifer these days! - Linda Hamid Hey, Linda... Do you know my grandfather had an older sister named Eliza Jane Armstrong born in Co. Tyrone? I know it was not an uncommon name so I won't get too excited about it yet...but it's an odd coincidence, isn't it. Do you know where your Eliza Jane was born and did she come to the USA? Marilyn Otterson

Mary, Sounds like you had a nightmare experience. I am preparing to teach ELL classes and am considering it for adults. Thanks for providing a view from the trenches. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 7:33 AM Subject: Re: [ARMSTRONG] occupations > Ah, teaching. Try an evening class of mixed gender and age, mixed ethnic, > non-native, college age, and older returning students!! I retired after > that > one. There are still some serious students, who come to class on time, > turn in > their work on time, etc. but they are in the minority, and replaced by > mouthy, > disrespectful, and manipulative (blank) Add to that some of them use > drugs, or > should be on them for their 'disorders.' > > And the pay is horrible. So that's my spiel on teaching. Mary in beautiful > weather now GA > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Cripes, Marilynn! You've had about 8 occupations! Talk about multi-tasking!! :-D Jill in Washington state ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marilynn Masten" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 10:13 AM Subject: [ARMSTRONG] Occupations > Would a full time mom of 5 plus two steps count as an occupation? Then > there were the hours of teaching genealogical research, working for Weight > Watchers trying to help people refind their stylish figures and 20 years > of teaching Suncay School. Oh, and YEARS of teaching dancing including > line-dancing which I can't do any more. Always thought I'd die happily on > the dance floor at age 94. I'm 84 and had to give it up. And am now > Project Manager for the Gardner/Garner DNA project. I do have a big mouth. > Would you say that is an Armstrong trait? > Marilynn > IBSSG

John, I was on Majuro from Dec.1985 til Feb. 1988. Went to assist the local Baha'i community and to teach school in a private, non-parochial cooperative school begun some years earlier by former Peace Corps people who had married locals and wanted a U.S. grade education for their kids. The Marshallese govt gives funding to ALL schools, public & private, because it can't afford to provide teachers and school buildings to house all its kids. There is very little land (Majuro atoll is only about 30 mi. long and in several places a guy could throw a rock from oceanside to lagoonside) and very many kids, and that's BEFORE kids come in from the outer islands. Admittance at the public high school is through a competitive process due to lack of space, and not all islands even have a high school. At that time, teachers were poorly prepared, knew little about classroom management, and had few or no books. The education system was a mess. I lived in a Marshallese neighborhood, in a tin-roofed, plywood shack that had, unlike the neighbors, electricity, refrigeration, and an electric cooking stove. We had govt imposed water hours, so when we heard on the radio when those were, we tried to have someone at home to fill the 30 gal garbage can we kept for just that purpose. (I got so good at conserving water that I could shower and wash my hair with the water in one toy sand bucket!) When it rained, people would stand under the eaves and shampoo their hair. One year, we didn't have ANY water hours for 2 wks! Droughts and rising sea levels are devastating there. High elevation was less than 20 feet, so with such limited land, any loss is major. Our neighbors cooked outside using coconut husk fires; they also washed & hung their laundry outdoors. The children readily took in our son Jim, and taught him how to use a soup can lid cutter to make sail boats from aluminum pop cans. They were very resourceful; most kids, even as young as three or four, could juggle the coral rocks.They'd play ball using old pieces of plywood or sticks for bats and coral rocks or rubber balls to hit. And talk about accuracy-- I swear those kids could throw a rock and hit anything they targeted! :-) I was on Kwaj (paradise of the Pacific) two times, once on my way to Ebeye, and once returning. I was thoroughly disgusted, and my blood still boils at the thought of the injustices of that situation. Because I am white, no one noticed when I wandered away from the landing area and moseyed into the Kwaj grocery store. I couldn't believe my eyes: fresh veggies that could've been in any U.S. supermarket. Everything was spacious, clean, and well-stocked.Even in the capital city (Majuro) we didn't have access to that quality of goods. And the physical area was like a well-tended U.S. golf course, manicure, watered, green LAWN (not just grass), painted and maintained apartments. Meanwhile, just three miles away via a diesel-stinking 'cattle car' of a shuttle boat, was Ebeye, home of the under-paid Marshallese workers who did the maintenance and service jobs on Kwaj. Conditions caused Ebeye to be called the hell-hole of the Pacific. Over-crowded into rotting plywood and tim-roofed shacks, Marshallese had barely enough room to pass another person between 'houses.' There were no patches of grass, only a few isolated strands due to heavy foot traffic, lack of space and lack of water. There was no source of fresh water except what the U.S. base on Kwaj brought over in a tanker a couple of times a week. There may have been a few private wells which tapped into fresh water lenses (there were on Majuro), but I didn't see any. No space for gardens. There was one basketball court-- yippee. And in the grocery store, it was absolutely shameful: the produce shelves were empty except for a few squishy, brown celery stalks fit only for pigs. I am still aghast at the disparity of conditions and the lack of conscience shown by the U.S. govt toward the Trust Territory peoples. And I won't EVEN go into the Bikini bomb test fiasco. It is another case of misrepresentations, lies, and broken or half-kept promises just like the American Indian mess. (The Brits did the same to their Pacific island trustees.) Governments just use and abuse the powerless. I hadn't really had the opportunity to see that before. Before I left, they were constructing a desalination plant on Ebeye so there would be fresh water available. And, of course, the Trust Territory is no more, the Marshalls having been 'granted' free association status. I've never been completely sure of just what that entails, but I do know that Marshallese citizens can move into the U.S. freely. Living in the Marshalls was, in many ways, like rolling back U.S. time 30 years and more. For example, few businesses even had phones; bank casheirs still did math with pencil/paper and the lines were long and slow-moving. But at the same time, there was inundation by video and TV, creating awareness of and desire for 'stuff'. And, unfortunately, it was these media that provided many people with their major source of English language experience (God forbid!) and with their ideas of appropriate and 'normal' U.S. lifestyle, behavior, etc. Meanwhile, the traditional Marshallese culture has taken huge hits. People's traditional roles are, for the most part, no longer available and there was, at least at that time, nothing to replace them, so break-ins, juvenile drinking, etc. was becoming a problem; unemployment was high, and wages were pathetic. Since life on the OUTER islands, such as Mili, was still relatively cashless, families on Majuro were strained to the max when relatives came in to try to find work or waiting get to the airport to go to Honolulu for medical issues. All in all, living in the Marshalls was, hands down, the most stimulating, awareness-raising, and valuable experience I've ever had!!! It was hugely enriching, and it made me aware of the difference between being a toursit and living in another culture: it's the difference between being among, observing and being an active part of. I find that I am no longer fulfilled by being a tourist. John, I'm not going off on you personally. I just have to clear my pipes on the subject occasionally. :-) No offense intended. I'd be interested in your experiences there. Jill in Washington state ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Armstrong" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 9:08 AM Subject: Re: [ARMSTRONG] occupations > Jill, > When were you in the Marshall Islands??? > I lived on Kwajalein from Jan 1958 to April of 1959.. > > I retired from farming at the age of 17 > and chose a 30 yr career in the US Navy.. > > Sincerely, > John D > A little SoWest of North >>College works, though. Taught an education class in the Marshall Islands >>(in >>the central Pacific). What an experience! The government assigned >>'teachers' >>to be sent to the outer islands, but none had any teaching background. In >>fact some were nurses, etc. So I had to design a course on >>everything-you-need-to-know-to-manage-students-and-teach. Challenging, but >>very satisfying! >

Dear Linda, All through high school it was my intent to become an architect. I had won prizes for Architectural Drawing. However, when college was discussed, my father explained that the cost of a college education was not, and would never b,e within the family budget. Therefore, since the Korean War was threatening to make my plans for me, and against Dad's wishes, I enlisted in the Marine Corps. That led to a brief career in communications. I was trained as a teletype operator and assigned to a large headquarters in San Francisco. There, I met a beautiful student nurse. She told me that if I wanted to go to college she would be happy to support that goal. After my discharge, we headed to Pullman, Washington and applied for entry into the Veterinary Medical program. We supported this part of our lives by accepting a small grant from Harry Truman's GI Bill, my wife's job as an bookeeper, and me also mowing lawns and various summertime construction jobs, usually involving a shovel. After graduation, and seeing no possibility of having enough money to set up a practice, I sought a commission in the Air Force Veterinary Corps. After one short tour of duty at a small Air Force base in Reno, Nevada, I applied for an advanced program in Nuclear Physics at the University of Rochester in New York. After receiving my Master's Degree I was assigned to a teaching position at the Air Force's Medical Service School, where I taught new physicians about the medical effects of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons. The Air Force later granted me the opportunity to serve overseas. The first half of my South East Asian assignment was in northern Thailand, where for six months I vaccinated water buffalo and Zebu oxen for the Thai government's Department of Agriculture. The second six months was caring for 70 working dogs at a fighter base in central Thailand. After my return from South East Asia, I again taught the medical and physical effects of nuclear weapons to classes of flight surgeons, but this time at the School of Aerospace Medicine. Next was an assignment in Europe which we stretched into two assignments and a total of six years there. It was a great job as it provided me, my wife, and children with the opportunity to travel all over Europe and get a real education. Therefore, within my chosen occupation, I have seldom practiced real veterinary medicine. However, I did care for a lot of military working dogs. After my military retirement I had to get a job, so I found a position in the Houston Health Department as the Chief of the Rabies Control Bureau. "Read here: head dog catcher." This job lasted nine years. I am now retired, collecting two pensions, and enjoying life. However... I still can not tell you much about the private practice of a veterinarian, which was what I might have called my chosen profession. I now write magazine articles, two novels, and lots of short stories about the history of my Armstrong family and my wife's Tompkins family. -- Sincerely, Bob Armstrong in Houston, TX picture "I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily and without regret." Roderick Haig-Brown ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Robert E. Armstrong, DVM, MS, member Dog Writers Association of America, author of the veterinary mystery/thrillers, CANIS - paperback, ISBN 0-595-29795-1 or eBook, ISBN 0-595-75078-8 and INDEX OF SUSPICION - ISBN: 0-595-20485-6 Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble Visit my home page at http://home.houston.rr.com/rarmstrong9/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Dear MM, One of the members on the Drake List is also a Gardner. Rick Gardner. But he lives in Michigan, I think and is not likely a NC Gardner. Rick is a Drake in my line from about the year 1770 in Virginia. Tom Marilynn Masten wrote: > When you have nothing else to do, take a look at our Gardner/Garner Web Site http://www.usroots.com/~gardners/. We just wanted to prove the point that genealogical research need not be dry. > Marilynn > IBSSG > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >

I, too, have a son in Seattle, but he has forgotten our phone number. Tell him to call home if you see a handsome young man, as yet unmarried...his mom misses him. Mary

Ah, teaching. Try an evening class of mixed gender and age, mixed ethnic, non-native, college age, and older returning students!! I retired after that one. There are still some serious students, who come to class on time, turn in their work on time, etc. but they are in the minority, and replaced by mouthy, disrespectful, and manipulative (blank) Add to that some of them use drugs, or should be on them for their 'disorders.' And the pay is horrible. So that's my spiel on teaching. Mary in beautiful weather now GA

Dear Mary in beautiful GA. Not so long ago I taught a short course in writing memoirs to a group of senior citizens, living in an assisted living center. I thought they were very attentive and eager to learn. I also gave a brief talk to two classes of advanced placement students at a nearby middle school. I told them about my childhood, college, and military life and how I got started "really living." Afterward I received a very nice card from each class, and every student had written inside the card. Makes an old man feel more than a little useful. I also spoke to a small college literary honor society, and believe it or not, they all got the jokes. Sincerely, Bob Armstrong in Houston, TX [email protected] wrote: >Ah, teaching. Try an evening class of mixed gender and age, mixed ethnic, >non-native, college age, and older returning students!! I retired after that >one. There are still some serious students, who come to class on time, turn in >their work on time, etc. but they are in the minority, and replaced by mouthy, >disrespectful, and manipulative (blank) Add to that some of them use drugs, or >should be on them for their 'disorders.' > >And the pay is horrible. So that's my spiel on teaching. Mary in beautiful >weather now GA > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- Sincerely, Bob Armstrong in Houston, TX picture "I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily and without regret." Roderick Haig-Brown ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Robert E. Armstrong, DVM, MS, member Dog Writers Association of America, author of the veterinary mystery/thrillers, CANIS - paperback, ISBN 0-595-29795-1 or eBook, ISBN 0-595-75078-8 and INDEX OF SUSPICION - ISBN: 0-595-20485-6 Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble Visit my home page at http://home.houston.rr.com/rarmstrong9/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

We traveled a lot but missed the places you went. However, my daughter honeymooned in Greece and LOVES it. She wants to live there. Charles Armstrong <[email protected]> wrote: We put a bunch of photos on a free page provided by Earthlink. Don't know why I can't insert the link, but here is the address. Unfortunately, the site linits the file size and I could not include all of those shots from the Croatian skinny-dipping beaches. http://home.earthlink.net/~mutinyct/index.html Cousin Chuck > [Original Message] > From: Linda Hamid > To: > Date: 9/29/2006 5:28:34 PM > Subject: [ARMSTRONG] Photos to the list/birds > > To share pictures with the list you can create a Webshots account (free). > Then you can store your pictures on their server and anyone can view them. > Here is the link to mine: > > http://community.webshots.com/user/lhamid100 > > I have a bunch of albums, New Zealand is from my trip in February to > Auckland where I met my cousin Margaret. Our grandmothers were sisters > (daughters of Eliza Jane Armstrong from County Tyrone, Ulster). > > As I mentioned before chickens aren't that dumb. I had a pair of hens that > were buddies. Ethel was a big bird and Lucy would sleep under her wing at > night. They roosted outside the coop instead of in with the others. One day > when they were free ranging in the yard a neighbor's dog attacked the flock. > He killed a bunch of birds, including Lucy. For the next week Ethel barely > ate, and continued to sleep outside on the perch she had shared with her > friend. Finally she started sleeping inside with the other birds. She > clearly missed Lucy. Studies show that chickens can recognize up to 200 > other chickens. They really are interesting birds. > > Linda Hamid > Sweetwater Poultry > email: [email protected] > web: www.sweeth2o.us > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message HRH "Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving > safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in > sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, body thoroughly used up, > totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO what a ride!" --------------------------------- All-new Yahoo! Mail - Fire up a more powerful email and get things done faster.

We put a bunch of photos on a free page provided by Earthlink. Don't know why I can't insert the link, but here is the address. Unfortunately, the site linits the file size and I could not include all of those shots from the Croatian skinny-dipping beaches. http://home.earthlink.net/~mutinyct/index.html Cousin Chuck > [Original Message] > From: Linda Hamid <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Date: 9/29/2006 5:28:34 PM > Subject: [ARMSTRONG] Photos to the list/birds > > To share pictures with the list you can create a Webshots account (free). > Then you can store your pictures on their server and anyone can view them. > Here is the link to mine: > > http://community.webshots.com/user/lhamid100 > > I have a bunch of albums, New Zealand is from my trip in February to > Auckland where I met my cousin Margaret. Our grandmothers were sisters > (daughters of Eliza Jane Armstrong from County Tyrone, Ulster). > > As I mentioned before chickens aren't that dumb. I had a pair of hens that > were buddies. Ethel was a big bird and Lucy would sleep under her wing at > night. They roosted outside the coop instead of in with the others. One day > when they were free ranging in the yard a neighbor's dog attacked the flock. > He killed a bunch of birds, including Lucy. For the next week Ethel barely > ate, and continued to sleep outside on the perch she had shared with her > friend. Finally she started sleeping inside with the other birds. She > clearly missed Lucy. Studies show that chickens can recognize up to 200 > other chickens. They really are interesting birds. > > Linda Hamid > Sweetwater Poultry > email: [email protected] > web: www.sweeth2o.us > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

When in Seattle, if you see the cutest little boy you've ever seen, with a gorgeous mother and a frazzled father, they're mine. Say hello to them for me. I have ths misfortune to live in NC. Marilynn IBSSG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jill Johnston" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 8:18 PM Subject: Re: [ARMSTRONG] Birds > Marilyn, > We're in SW Washington, abt 2 hrs south of Seattle & an hour north of > Portland, Oregon- genuine 4 seasons here.. > Jill > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Marilyn Otterson" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 6:43 AM > Subject: Re: [ARMSTRONG] Birds > > >> That's interesting, Jill...for some reason I thought they were southern >> creatures. But I guess if there are some in Alaska, roosting in trees >> surrounding John's house (scaring off the moose), then they must be >> hardy. >> >> Where are you? >> >> Marilyn >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Jill Johnston" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 9:22 AM >> Subject: Re: [ARMSTRONG] Birds >> >> >>> Thanks, Marilyn. >>> Yes, by the time we'd returned home, the feather was gone, but the >>> damage >>> had already been done. >>> >>> We've been surprised at Turkey's ability to survive. Last winter we had >>> some >>> horrendous winds and some really cold (for here) weather, near zero, but >>> he >>> fared just fine. My thought is that he must've found a more sheltered >>> roost >>> than his big fir tree, because that was high enough that there was no >>> protection from the elements at all. >>> >>> Jill >>> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Marilyn Otterson" <[email protected]> >>> To: <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 5:18 AM >>> Subject: Re: [ARMSTRONG] Birds >>> >>> >>>> Oh, that's kind of a sad story about Turkey. It's too bad you can't >>>> catch >>>> him and get the feather out...or is it out of his eye by now? I'm >>>> surprised >>>> he didn't get an infection. >>>> >>>> I don't know where you live but do peacocks winter-over OK there? >>>> Anyway, >>>> hope for the best for Turkey and you, too, of course. >>>> >>>> Marilyn >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

Dear Jill, Teaching was my second career. My first career was in mass production manufacturing, mostly small appliances. At the end I was managing two divisions of a manufacturing company & one of them was in Canada. Little kids in school were not much of a problem. But in industry we hired people for endurance, usually large, hulking types with small amounts of patience and powerful unions. Those folks were the Backbone of America (and Mexico) types. They presented more of a problem than 7th graders. Tom Jill Johnston wrote: > Tom, > I admire anyone who can enjoy teaching middle schoolers. I tried the older > ones, but it wasn't a very productive match. :-) > > I find 3rd and 4th more my speed. They're old enough to have some > independence and todevelop abstract understandings, yet young enough to be > unabashedly curious. And most of them haven't yet discovered 'mouth.' > Younger ones are too dependent for my taste. > > C

Nice web site Chuck... After all my years Cruising with the Navy, I always thought it would be nice to take the wife for a cruise to some of those exotic ports I visited.. Unfortunately, she is not an ocean going type person, and now we just do our cruising in matching recliners watching the History Channel, sipping home made wine.. Sincerely, John D A little So West of North Charles Armstrong wrote: >We put a bunch of photos on a free page provided by Earthlink. Don't know >why I can't insert the link, but here is the address. Unfortunately, the >site linits the file size and I could not include all of those shots from >the Croatian skinny-dipping beaches. > >http://home.earthlink.net/~mutinyct/index.html > >Cousin Chuck > > > > >>[Original Message] >>From: Linda Hamid <[email protected]> >>To: <[email protected]> >>Date: 9/29/2006 5:28:34 PM >>Subject: [ARMSTRONG] Photos to the list/birds >> >>To share pictures with the list you can create a Webshots account (free). >>Then you can store your pictures on their server and anyone can view them. >>Here is the link to mine: >> >>http://community.webshots.com/user/lhamid100 >> >>I have a bunch of albums, New Zealand is from my trip in February to >>Auckland where I met my cousin Margaret. Our grandmothers were sisters >>(daughters of Eliza Jane Armstrong from County Tyrone, Ulster). >> >>As I mentioned before chickens aren't that dumb. I had a pair of hens >> >> >that > > >>were buddies. Ethel was a big bird and Lucy would sleep under her wing at >>night. They roosted outside the coop instead of in with the others. One >> >> >day > > >>when they were free ranging in the yard a neighbor's dog attacked the >> >> >flock. > > >>He killed a bunch of birds, including Lucy. For the next week Ethel >> >> >barely > > >>ate, and continued to sleep outside on the perch she had shared with her >>friend. Finally she started sleeping inside with the other birds. She >>clearly missed Lucy. Studies show that chickens can recognize up to 200 >>other chickens. They really are interesting birds. >> >>Linda Hamid >>Sweetwater Poultry >>email: [email protected] >>web: www.sweeth2o.us >> >> >>------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> >> >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > >

Jill in Washington wrote: "I'd be interested to have the Armstrong listers weigh in regarding their chosen occupations.Any takers?" I think that sounds interesting Jill. I worked for Hewlett-Packard for 24 years. Started as a clerk in the Corporate mailroom. I later worked as a secretary (called Adminsitrative Assistant). Then HP paid for me to go to college and after I got my degree I worked as internal technical support. HP offered me early retirement last October and I took it. (Glad I did, my entire department has since been laid off). My husband worked as a tax assessor for Sacramento County (California) and hated it. He quit and we bought a Take and Bake pizza store (no delivery, no cooking, we make pizzas to order and customer cooks it at home). I cashed out my pension and we are using that $ as down payment on a second business, a sandwich shop. So I am not really retired, more like a career change and I am now my own boss. The chickens are more of a hobby. The birds pay for themselves. I make a little money but it mostly goes to finance my hobby. Linda Hamid

Janet found in the O.E,.D. (Oxford English Dictionary) as well as my Funk and Wagnalls (from Ir. and Gael, cauch, Sc. quaich, queff, a drinking cup); 1. to drink deeply 2. drain (a cup) in long draughts 3 to drink copiously quaffer 1. one who quaffs.. :-) Sincerely, John D a Little SoWest of North JANET KLIVEN wrote: > Quaffing????? Never heard that one. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: John Armstrong <mailto:[email protected]> > To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 9:32 PM > Subject: Re: [ARMSTRONG] What we are > > Mary, > I've never heard the term Glugging.... > is it a typical GA word?? > chugging, slurpin, sippin, quaffing, I've tried... > how does one go about Glugging??? > > Perhaps I could try it when my next keg attains it's correct "born on > date"..!! > > some people prefer to raise chickens... I prefer to brew beer...!!! > > Sincerely, > John D > > > > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> wrote: > > >Ah Marilynn, > > > >Your procedure with your elbow invites the Armstrong response. > Was it bent > >while glugging on brew? No doubt, John D will have a reply for you. > > > >My experience with needles is too gory and too sad, so I'll not > share. But > >heal soon. We need your input. > > > >Mary in getting cooler GA > > > >------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of > the message > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of > the message >