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Pretty close. I eat fresh-water fish that my family catches (DH makes a mean walleye batter!) but that's about it. I do like *looking* at the sea and walking along the beach, though! :) The wind probably has something to do with it....makes me feel like I'm home! Ask Dawne...we get lots of wind. And Bruce, I've been on ferries quite a few times, albeit not on waters like that!!! You can keep that "excitement". :)

Everyone sing now: Oh give me a home where the buffalo roam, where the deer and the antelope play. Where seldom is heard a discouraging word And the skies are not cloudy all day

Home, home on the range Where the deer and the antelope play Where seldom is heard a discouraging word And the skies are not cloudy all day

How often at night when the heavens are bright With the light from the glittering stars Have I stood there amazed and asked as I gazed If their glory exceeds that of ours

Home, home on the range Where the deer and the antelope play Where seldom is heard a discouraging word And the skies are not cloudy all day

Where the air is so pure, the zephyrs so free The breezes so balmy and light That I would not exchange my home on the range For all of the cities so bright

Home, home on the range Where the deer and the antelope play Where seldom is heard a discouraging word And the skies are not cloudy all day

Oh, I love those wild flow'rs in this dear land of ours The curlew, I love to hear scream And I love the white rocks and the antelope flocks That graze on the mountaintops green

Home, home on the range Where the deer and the antelope play Where seldom is heard a discouraging word And the skies are not cloudy all day

Joan

What a wonderful way to celebrate. I love Venice. we had two stops in Turkey, three in Italy, 2 in Greece, 1 in France and the ship left from Barcelona so we went to Barcelona for a couple of days beforehand. That food market is amazing. Ruby

Pretty close. I eat fresh-water fish that my family catches (DH makes a mean walleye batter!) but that's about it. I do like *looking* at the sea and walking along the beach, though! :) The wind probably has something to do with it....makes me feel like I'm home! Ask Dawne...we get lots of wind. And Bruce, I've been on ferries quite a few times, albeit not on waters like that!!! You can keep that "excitement". :) (snip of what should be our prairie national anthem. Have you heard Ian Tyson sing it??)

Indeed--we had gusts up to 70 km last night (no top down on the convertible with that going on!), and I tucked myself in listening to the wind shaking the big evergreens in my yard and rubbing bare tree branches against the roof. It is a feeling of almost uncompared contentment to be inside and warm with a good prairie wind howlling outside; nothing makes the house seem so comfortable. (Curling up under a nice blanket on the couch with a cat and a coffee and watching a blizzard you don't have to go out in is wonderful.) Can't imagine life without that wind.

Dawne

Hadn't, but found it online and am listening now. *Very* relaxing!

Me, either! For as much as we complain about it, I'd really miss it...keeps the air so nice and fresh. Those winds got down here mid- morning and it looks like Fred's sending us some more snowflakes later tonight, so it will be a nice night to stay in! After I brave the wind and cold to feed the horse, that is! :)

Joan

has it. You can download it in a couple of different ways or you can have it sent by snail mail. Not affiliated etc etc.

Eimear

Ordered!! THANK YOU!! :-) Jinx

Enabling is always fun!

Eimear

Well I just did something totally stupid! I *thought* oddsandinsonline seemed familiar. Well as I was out running errands after ordering, I wondered if I had an account using a previous email that I lost some time ago to phishing. When I got home, I tried logging in using that old email, and what do you know, I have an old account with them. Not only that, but I had bought this exact same pattern from them in 2005. Dumb! Well maybe not totally, because I have no idea where that pattern or any of the others I ordered back then would be now. I built this computer from scratch last year, so I'm sure they were saved on some backup file somewhere that I never put onto this new computer. Oh well! Now I'll just have to keep better track of this one. Sad part is, this isn't the first time I've bought the same pattern twice. I've got a stack of them to put up on eBay sometime before I move at the end of the month.

Jinx

Just so that you know, Jinx; there is an auction site on O&I. If you scroll down the tools section on the right you will come across the Auction. There are about 700 items on there right now, all being sold at a cheap price by other stitchers, including me! (username gillianm). It is a good way to acquire things cheaply, and get rid of excess stash. You have to sort out the wheat from the chaff; the good thing is that there is no charge to participate, either as a buyer or seller.

Gillian

Not paying a fee on items that don't sell is a good thing--makes it easier to post cheap or low demand patterns. On patterns you sell, do you notice that you can get better prices on O&I than eBay? I do have quite a few out of print patterns I'd rather not see go for pennies. I waffle between keeping them because they're OOP, and just selling the whole shebang off just to get rid of the overload. Plus, my tastes have definitely changed over the years. I'm moving in December, so it'd be great to pare down before then, not to mention having a little extra cash to decorate the new place with.

J.

I don't sell, or buy, anything on Ebay anymore...haven't for quite some years! I like Paypal, but will not pay the fees required to have a Business account. I only sell to people who have a cash balance, or it is from their bank account. Currently on O&I, there is a dearth of buyers, and pretty much the same sellers.

There have been some new names recently, I noticed. You can put a reserve on your item, so you don't have to give it away for pennies. Some of mine I price super-low just to get rid of them, and tempt people to see what else I have,...and others I may ask more. It is fun when two women fight over the same chart. I just sold one for $4.01, that I started at $1.00.

There are nice folk there, and I have made some nice cyber-friends. You could register, then try one or two, and see how you feel. One gal is selling all the charts she can lay hands on..she is paying tuition for her daughter at a private school with the proceeds. The rest of us just do it for fun.

Gillian

IME, it has nothing to do with stomach and everything to do with inner ear. I don't actually throw up, but I get so miserable that I'm not any fun to be around.

Elizabeth

I think you're probably right and it is inner ear. The only thing that might make me feel differently is that I'm highly allergic and have ear problems because of mucous backing into the eustachian tube.

I guess I'm lucky because I never got sea sick on a cruise ship or even in a 50' sloop where the owner was in the Coast Guard for years and my husband who claimed to never get seasick were both in such bad shape that they told me I might have to guide the boat back in. I panicked at the thought so they were able to get themselves together long enough to get us back to land.

I, of course, never let my strong, macho husband live that down.

Lucille