cooooooooooooeeeeeeeeeee aussie BBQ ,... (tea party cont..)

Hi there!
Cooooooooooeeeeeee from australia!
The BBQ is ready, the grass is cut and the snags are on!
Flowerpot can you please bring the deadhorse?
Have you all been practicing your aussie lingo?
Do you have your hats as it gets pretty hot over here!
Isis I have a fly swat for you to use so thatyour itchy trigger finger can get into action..hahaha the crocs are scarce these days......
Dont forget the cheesecake CoCo!!!
O.K I have posted this message somewhere else and I dont know where hahahah it went somewhere's.
Anyway... I tried to navagate the trecherous waters of this site so as to give you a little surprise and not knowing what I was doing I hope it worked.
Click on my name and go to my journal and view the photo's and you will find yourselves all at my house! (I hope)

see you all there!
Laura

ahahahahah that is soooooooooo cool!!!!!!!!! here's a direct link http://davesgarden.com/gj/its_me_Laura/viewentry/9622.html

You are so sweet! I felt like I was there, but I have to ask a question.....what is a snag??

Oh how wonderful you worked so hard on this.(Hanging my head going to practice my lingo)

My goodness!!! what a special treat!!!! So cool! Ya'll did good! What a great idea! (and ya really don't look that drunk!) Overall, what a great teat, I mean TREAT...I've thought of coming down your way many many times but just knew no one would understand my accent and felt guilty about that. Ya'll look like ya sure had a good time at that party! Thanks for the view...ya'll did good! Real good!

Thatis really neat and so wonderful of you to invite all of us to your BBQ. Everything looks soooooooooo goooooooooooood.
I have the same question as well. What is a snag/ Is that some sort of sandwich or something? Looked in my dictionary here and it says a tree stump but don't think that is what you are talking about here.(A tree stump sandwich..splinters and all...hehe)

Laura, thanks so much for the smile! I could smell it cookin' all the way down south...mmmmmmm!!!! Ya did good gal!

Gidday mates! I'm so glad you didn't leave me at the post, but the little kipper was here today. Him Mum picked him up
so I'm ready to go. Was a bit hows ya Father earlier today...I think it was due to the first ugly weather we've had in a while, but sheeel be right mate. This looks to be a BEWDY BBQ. KRYKIE! Those were BONZA pictures of welcome, Laura. It fair sucks of the say that you did all this getting ready in so short a time. I brought me billy can just in case....SOOOO tie me kangaroo down, boys and I will waltz Matilda. (Now...what in the world did I just say???)...anyhow...Thank you sooo much for having me in. Jo

roadrunner...you sure don't SOUND like you're from Arizona!
:>)

Well, one day we good ole Southerners will just have to teach our foriegn friends how to talk SOUTHERN. If we can lean aussie they will just have to learn "oil" and "all", Right? I was raised in WV and Va, so we can "larn em" a lot. Jo

Can I come too? I'm ready to go on a walkabout. LOL The only Austrailian I know is from Crocodile Dundee!
Joan

Hey, GH and I were running a little late, but we made it! Thanks for the welcome, Laura! :o) So...Do have a veggemite sandwich? LOL - that I remember from Men at Work's song "Land Down Under"!

Gidday Mates ows it goin. Sure Laura I'll bring the dead horse would that be for the snag. It's really nice down here, sorry I'm a little late but me olds were over for dinner and they just hit the frog and toad so now I can come to the barby. Great to see everybody, do you like my jeans and plaid shirt, I had to borrow a shirt from my DH cause I didn't have a plaid one. Oh this is really bewdy Laura. Hey roadrunner glad you made it, and Horseshoe I've been hearing about you, glad to finally met you."(ha ha just your story telling) gidday coco,mystic,tig,justmelisa isn't this great did you have a good trip everybody?

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This was just too cool. What a great way to say hello.

I have arrived at the land down under the one place I always wanted to visit.Here I am with my plaid shirt and my cork hat(well DD put unicorns on them since she knows I love them)But can't wait to go on a walk about. The kangaroo paws look wonderful wish I could grow them here..Sounds like great fun. Where's the barby?I am hungry!
Where is the food? lol

Hey Flowerpot, d'ya notice me Aussie hat? made outa gen-u-ine leather, but none of those corks flying around my face, thank you. I left me cowboy hat home, but did bring my big wooly sheep skin got this year from my DGD..ya'll are welcome to share it with me. Makes a fine place to sit. Now, who's going to teach me how to use this bloomin boomerang she brought me?? I chase it more than it chases ME! Jo

Gidday everyone! Laura, your pictures were worth the wait.Krykie, what a welcome...I'm so glad I came to your party. I brought my bewdy hat(notice ALL the corks?)and the food smells great,I mean bonza, can't wait to dig in!

Laura, What wonderful pictures! Are we to bring desserts with us? I must apologize for my hat, My sister thought it would look better, instead of corks, to use those free aol discs we get through the mail. How does it look, all these discs swinging back and forth all around the brim?
Doris

yeeeehaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
great to see you all down under!
A snag tig and Coco is a sausage! yummy on the BBQ. Its true that a snag can also be a root that can lie under the water and snag or catch you..... but in this case it is edible....wow thanks for the hyperlink! I couldnt figure that one out! XX

I am sorry that you all didnt have your name on a banner but at the time I looked up those that were at the tea party at the time cos i dont know everyone but you are SO WELCOME!
You all look great!

I realized later that I had my dorky ( dumb looking) glasses on.. how embarassing.... hahaha but if you take a pic thats bad, you can only look better from there right?

OMG! how could I have forgotten desserts!
can you make some? we could do it here if you like.... we could go to the market??
DJM I love your hat... "way to recycle"!
Sand! You have been practicing! well done...
Roadrunner.... I love your sheep skin.... now the secret of the boomerang is to throw up into the air with quite a slant... like your slicing the sky.... and then duck! they do come back! and you look great and that aussie lingo! very impressive strewth! (gee wiz)..
welcome mystic.... dig in.. the bbq is ready.....
put a sang in some bread with dead horse... and some onions...mmmmm
hi snowhermit! welcome to 'Oz"... take a seat under the gum tree and I will bring you a snag and a coldie!
does anyone have a guitar?
flowerpot! lovely to see you... the shirt looks great! and the lingo is impressive! pull up a chair or share the sheep skin ..... hmmm wonder if I can find my billy... we will be wanting tea later...
Hi garden hubby and wife.. yes of course we have vegimite! It is an aquired taste though but you can try a sanger (sandwhich) if you want to!
Come on over Joan!!! welcome to the aussie BBQ..... pull up a chair.... oh and by the way gang.. when it gets dark.. thats when we sit around the fire.. sing songs... and yes toast marshmallows and tell some real good yarns! a chin wag if you like!
Hay horseshoe! you should come on over..... there are no language barriers...... we can put you into training!
welcome all......... now... lets eat!

Laura

G'DAY!!! ay, tis a wonderful day (oops, irish!)...anyway, THANK YOU LAURA!

now, Flo P, what's the entertainment agenda? i really want roadrunner to recite that poem (could we all be a greek chorus and yell PURPLE when it comes about??). i've been stretching and focusing - where's that croc??

pass the fosters, please.....

Gidday sand you certainly do have a lot of corks on your hat ( to myself, she must have had fun collecting that many)ha ha ha wine bottle corks aren't they??? Doris that's a good idea for those disc's I've seen people hang them on the bow of their boat's to keep the birds off, but never on a hat, if you stand real still you could look through the hole's and be very mysterious.lol Jo I love your hat but what about the flies, when we go out to the country. I got it, Sand has so many she'd probably give you some of her's. Isis yes we have to get roadrunner to receit her poem when shell we start the chant PURPLE....PURPLE....PURPLE!!!!!!!
isis I hope Laura finds you a croc to wrestle, I'd be pretty much afraid if I was you have you seen their teeth??????? Weren't the pictures bonza that Laura organized for us? She sure is a bewdy host and her family too. Well I think I'm going to wonder around and see what it's like down here.

oh laura, after 40 something years of speaking redneck southern, it's too hard to learn something new, but your friends are really nice, they aren't even laughing. I'll take one of everything on the barby though:) I love good food. But then I better take a big tour of your garden, and see the sites while I'm here. This is one of my two places on earth I've been wanting to see!!! thank you for the invite:)

Laura, I hope it's ok. I invited two of my nicest cousins....and I have MANY cousins, to come along with us "downunder". LizH and Ginlyn should be along soon. They are both bewdy gals...even if they do think I'm the one who usually leads them into mischief. I'm going over "yonder" (southern term)and get a little boomerang practice in so when they get here I can impress them with my new found skills. I'll try not to chop the tops off your plants. What is the temperature here today anyhow?

G'Day ya'll....Glad I could drop down(under)hehe. I've got 2 big trays of brownies...Laura point me to the store for ice cream...I was afraid it might melt. Hopefully there will be a picture of me saying goodby to Rhodie before heading out the door. She's pouting 'cause she has to stay home...she's been having too much fun lately and besides if all this wonderful food was within her reach it would be gone in a blink!! http://davesgarden.com/showforumphoto.php?imageid=5347 Boy am I hungry!!! Durn..forgot my hat..anyone got a spare?? no need for corks or CDs as I'm used to flys and skeeters at home.

Laura, we're having a great time. and as Flo-P says, I have plenty of corks if you want some Jo. I wish I had thought of the discs djm, I would have saved myself from a big headache(I didn't say hangover FloP)actually I have one rule "never drink alone" and I see there are lots of people here!!!yeah :)

Sand, come on over here and plunk down on my sheep skin...then we won't be alone and we can liberate enough corks for my hat. no second hand corks for us, eh? I'm a bit how's your father about Ginger. Did you blokes see that thing she refered to as RHODIE? I think she meant RODE HE (only it's a she?...fair suck of the day! ..OK... RODE SHE.Looks to be a bewdy animal. Mystic, I do hope you didn't get the last piece of coco's cheese cake. When does iris wrestle the croc anyway. May I have her dessert if she's not as good at it, as we hope she is? Jo

Yeah, well, sand you never invited me, to "help" yah with the "wine". Maybe, you wouldn't have had, such a "headach". he he he "(hang over)"shh don't tell!!!! So would you mind if I joined you, Jo and Sand? The sheep skin looks so soft. Oh Jo it's isis that's wrestling the croc, Iris went away for the weekend, and might not have seen the note to come here yet. That's quit a dog you have there Ginger what breed is she? Isis did you ask Jo about doing her "PURPLE" thing? Flo P

Krykie, isis, so sorry, ya see, mate,I lost the sigt in me left eye a couple of years ago, and sometimes have trouble with things on my left....like other peoples shopping carts, anything sneaking up on me on that side...so, what say ya'll keep to my right here. Strewth, I can see that we need to share with Flo P though. Plop yourself down and help us out a bit. Jo

sensarional gang....

you lot are real bonza!
Now a small correction in the lingo if I may...
The term is " fair suck of the sav" meaning come off it or give me a go...

fair suck of the day....hmmmmm well over here a suck is someone...ummmm how can I put it into your terms...a nerd.... its a freindly teasing term and not a nasty one though.... a sav is another word for sausage! when I think about it... it all seems a little strange to even me! hahah

When I first met my husband we had problems with the lingo as he is from cananda... not too major but a couple of words that are used over there are really rude ones over here! its funny when I look back now....

anyways.... we are quite a multicultural lot arnt we? so later when its dark and the crickets are singing.. the stars are out.. we will light the fire and have a sing a long... a song from each country I think dont you all?

for now.. here is the fosters nice and chilly and some good australian wine....a pav is in the oven (pavlova) and a summer fruit salad is on the way.. hubbby is madly chopping it all up fr us.
GingerH the corner store is literally just around the corner so if yu could get the icecream for the fruit salad that would be great!

There will be some pics of my garden uploaded soon and maybe tig could put another hyperlink on for me when I get it done.... there is a croc on its way! so lets hope it wasnt all talk! hahahahahahaa

stand back though...they can swallow you in one gulp!


its a hot balmy day today folks about 36celcius... make sure you have your sunscreeen and also the aroguard.... if not there is some over on the table.. help yourself!

laura

This is a really a yummo party. I brought my bathers in case you have a billabong within cooee. I know I am a blow-in, and can be something of a boofhead, but I do try to show a little cack. I'm sitting here on my bum, giving the Aussie salute, enjoying my sanger and tim tam. Not knowing what the weather would be like I brought along my sunnies and stormstick. This is great tucker...my tucker chute is going to make me a salad dodger real quick. I'm afraid that Sand and I will need a little vegemite after all these plonk corks we've liberated. Being a fair dinkum person, I admit that I do have a tendency to ear bash, and I do love to yabber. Now, maybe Laura will translate for me!! LOL Jo

OOOOOOOOHHHHHHHH that's pretty warm 36celcius is around 95 degree's "Farenheit" Wow, Laura we're just starting into our cool weather here, all though today we had 20 celcuis about 80 degrees "Farenheit" but droping by the weekend.
MMMMMMMMMMpavlova, such a good dish never made it myself, but I've had it. DH and I love the Lindemans Australian white wine has a lovely taste. Where's Sand gone, she'll have to try this one. Hey Jo I'll stay on your right side so you can keep an eye on me. Thanks for sharing your skin. Where about's in Canada did you DH hail from Laura?

I love all the greenery you have in your garden! It's beautiful! It's really neat getting to meet all your family! Gotta run and grab a brownie before they are all gone!

Hi Laura, I'm sorry I'm late mate, Got a bit lost in me travels , Great looking fam you got there!! What a great BBQ you got going!, Wish I'd came a bit earlier! Well, It's a tus hot here, I think I'll go grab some of that sunsreen on the table, And if you don't mind , Sure would like to try out a couple of them snag's, Back in a bit mate ...

Hi Iris yah goin to try some dead horse on that snag??

Krykie(I'm even saying that in my sleep!)I didn't mean to leave you out Flo P when I was..um..saving corks, but if you plunk down here on the skin with me and Jo we'll pass around the bottle. Anyone else want some wine? We have plenty . Ginger..Jo and I have corks if you want to some and I'm sure Laura has an extra hat! I'm glad it's warm here, back home in NY at night it's in the 40's Farenheit.brrrr We're in for a good time...croc wrestling,boomerang throwing, good food,singing, and especially BONZA friends !! :)

Hey, sand. My bums getting tired from sitting here. I'm going to wander ( or is that wobble?) around this lovely garden. Laura and her DH has done a fantastic job here. Besides, I've lost me blommin boomerang! I think it may be behind that lovely wishing well. Laura does have a fine family, doesn't she? I wonder how she got them all to participate in her "photo session"? I would have had to issue a DECREE...."you be here of ELSE"! Does anyone else feel like they are "upside down" being on the bottom of the world like this? Maybe it's not the wine at all! Jo

Hey Laura great BBQ. I love the food and the company is wonderful. Best kind of food there is, it can't add an ounce to you. Give me another helping.

LOL, DH. Me, too! :o)

wow jo! you are yabbering away in the aussie lingo better than me! well done!
mmmm lindemans saturn.. yummy...... they make great wines... I will make sure that the supply keeps on a comin!
Hubby come from calgary alberta!
hi iris! no problem that your late.. plenty of time... food and friendship going around.... not to mention the dedicated collection of 'corks'!

hahah you could be upside down! never thought of it.. yes your boomerang is over there by the well but you will have to go into the next paddock or you may well hit someone instead of a kangaroo!
hey there hubby and wife.. pull up a pew and rest a bit ( pull up a chair)... here's a snag for you.... dead horse??

keep an eye on the pics..you never know what will turn up!

laura

Hey, has anybody been to the "lou" yet? When you flush the water goes in the opposite direction then at home. Oh thanks Sand I was only teasing you, but I will sit and join you. Oh he's a westerner, I've only been to Calgary once a long time ago, and was only in the airport, we were on our way to Banff Springs, up in the mountains. What a beautiful place. It's probably like you down here, you always intend on these trips, within your own country and just don't seem to do it. Well i'm going wandering back in a while. Flo P

LOL...yes Rhodie is a BIG girl..116lbs at last weigh in. She is a Rhodesian Ridgeback..one of 2 we have. There is a pic of both on the photo forum..Rhodie and Payne. Got the ice cream. Thanks for the borrow of a hat and corks...pass the bottle and I'll be helping to get more. Great BBQ...great weather...great friends!!