Any Body Heard from Dave?

Me too, for now i am staying! if things change too much and i don't like it anymore, then i will leave. but if, IF, i do, i will be sure to exchange email addresses with you all!
isaac

Oh, I'm confused even more now. If you all decide to leave, please invite me along. I've never joined this site because I did not see the usefulness for me, I'm only really interested in tropical growing not temperate or especially, cold weather gardening. So, I have no access to the other parts of the forum and now, it seems it is even less worthwhile. I guess I have to make myself get more involved in the Spanish forums, they are not as easy for me to read and my grammar is atrocious so I get embarrassed. Heh! Maybe I should just spend more time in the garden and less time on the internet!

extranjera... I have been where you are!!! Finally became understood a lot better and I have taught Spanish as well. The one thing that helped me was music, especially on the radio in the car. I heard them often enough that I could 'sing along' with them and - trained my tongue to get around the words. Also picked up Italian easily because I used to sing along with Pavoratti at home. Works wonders!

Heh! When no one is home, or when I am driving alone in the car, I sing along to Vicente Fernandez. He's my favorite singer and partly that is because he enunciates well and I can understand him easily. I can really belt out those mariachi songs when I'm alone. I do take classes as well, I will always be in school in some way I think, and we've been using some songs along with a lot of literature. One song that is permanently stuck in my mind (and I don't even like it much) is called Ingrata by Café Tacuba and is a take off on one of those really fast, Mexican country songs about lovers who don't love you back. God, it's so irritating but I can't stop singing it in my head.

Here it is, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEfaxwK3mn4

Oh, no you don't! I don't need your song stuck in my head!! lol

I love the music of Miguel Aceves Mejia - classic mariachi. When those 'clarins' start out I get chicken skin all over!!!!

Still here too, although haven't had much time to post. Glad to see we haven't lost everybody!
Expanding my horizons like RJ as soon as I have time to see what's up...
Jenn

i will continue at both sites for now.
wherever we go, we should all stick together! :-)
isaac

This was taken of our highest tide ever recorded......so unusal to get any waves here, as we are an Island off the Great Barrier Reef

cheers Mya

WOW!

How high was the tide?

That's really nasty looking.

We too are having unusually high tides but, thankfully, no waves - just water, water everywhere.