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Who is waiting patiently?? Not me I tell ya!! I have been waiting since Thurs!!LOL But yes-I am glad Auntie M is back:)

Jaye-I have tried giving them road maps and all-they just don't have any sense of direction!!

Okay, took me forever to catch up here.

Tia, I am so sorry to hear about your great aunt and am sending much love and prayers to you and your family.

Linda Kay, been thinking about you a lots before, during and after your surgery. Hope you are doing okay and will be up to your usual speed soon.

Okay, Kim the exotic! Me and behaving? Now do you think all I do is get into trouble? Could be right about that one.

So very happy everyone is okay from Ike. Prayers answered for sure on that issue.

Tinky, yeap I am alive but wouldn't have given you a "plugged nickle" for me starting Friday through yesterday. Don't think I will have a seafood salad anytime soon for sure. One of my friends flew to Hawaii early Saturday morning. Sure hope she didn't get sick as she had the same thing. To make matters worse, the kids (mine) had a birthday party for me last night and I was very, very picky about what I could eat.

Yes, I did get boxes when I arrived home. DD had told me they had arrived on Thursday night when I spoke to her. So here goes: This arrived with the funniest card from--got to go get the card for all the names.

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Autie M-there was 1 more thing in that box that was little that I hope you found too....

Okay the card said Joyce, Joey, Linda Kay, Audrey, Kathy Cindy and Tinky. Also had the cutest ladybug magnet:
Thanks everyone I love it all but I must confess there is a little mystery here. 2 boxes came with no names.

heavenscape.... Oh my, those 'flusher' brugs are beautiful! I would give my left (_!_) cheek to have one.

This is absolutely adorable but no name--just signed the girls!

...and this cutey!!! An optic Ladybug mouse!!! Oh my!! No name?

Marion, if one of them is a Jim Shore item.... *Sisters*, that's from me.

Lolol Cathy! I'll root one for you!

Mariuon-the ladybug from the Girls are the same girls the card is from;)

...and this wonderful apron to work in my garden from Deborah. No way it will ever see the garden--gonna be my dress apron for sure!!!! Thanks so much Granny to be!!!

You so have to wirte what the card says;) And the hanging ladybug is done in automotive paint and can be put on a shepherds hook outside:) Just like mine and Jaye's:)

Nope, no Jim Shore item so far. My but you are a sneaky one for sure Jaye, noticed in one of my pictures I collect Jim Shore for sure. Never under estimate Jaye ladies!!!
Oh the excitement now of waiting for that!!

Okay the optic ladybug mouse?

Also a wonderful bag covered with ladybugs from Joyce. Battery is charging so I can take a picture of it. Used it pretty hard taking pictures of Lingernot in the gardens and the girls at my party.

OOoops I think I might have posted too soon .. lolol..
ok..Sistahs you all should be getting your other sistah's name by now. IF not, let me know please. And yes, Flamingo Kim finally signed up!

Other sistah?? For the 2009 swap??

I will take a picture of the card and post. To funny for sure!! Will also have to take picture of my what I saw when I went into my bedroom. Clever DD.

Thanks everyone so much for making this a very special birthday.

Just don't do what I did and eat a seafood salad and get sick--I do mean S. I. C. K. don't think I will crave any thing with shrimp or lobster for sometime to come!!!!

Yes dear dear Niece...2009 swap..
I never do seafood salad.. always broiled, boiled, baked or fried! Thanks for the warning Marion!

I am really getting into the 2009 swap--such a lovely idea and I like the fact we have some time to do something special to say thanks for being my sistah and welcome to 2009.


BTW, we did come up with a theme. Told the committee no theme, no going home!!!

"The Secret Life of Trees"--how trees benefit the environment other than the normal things that come to mind. Instead, home for insects birds feed upon, shelter for the birds, etc so on and so forth.

I hope Kim likes ladybugs! ROFL

---drooling over your gifts Marion---
you are loved!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What gives you THAT idea, Deborah :P

Poor Poor Kim.. she got to by now, eh!! LOLOL!!

If Kim doesn't then she's in for the sore eye. LOL Ladybugs unite!

"The Secret Life of Trees"-- is that the theme for the 2009 swap?

Well, Marion... I know my trees have a secret life... for sure... look at all the gnomes that use them for transport from garden to garden... and I know I've seen fairies flitting from branch to branch ... I think they're playing hide and seek with each other. And the trees seem to talk to each other too.. my pecan tree waves to the oak, and the oak bows to the pine, and the pine over looks them all with such dignity. There a whole secret life going on my my yard, and I think the trees are the leader of them all.

Truly wonderful gifts you got there Marion... what a wonderful b'day you had (other than having to be sick for it all, that pretty much sucked).

She does and comical frogs!! Scared to death of frog but does collect the funny looking one--strange!! Well you know what they say about apples not falling very far from the tree? LOL

Thanks Jaye, I do feel so very much. I also got the nicest gifts from the GDs--they made theirs and are adorable. I have an original painting from the oldest one and a bug collection made from pom pom by the youngest. So cute!! Ds, DIL and DD got me a really nice dremel set with flexible hose attachment. Now the trouble will start for sure.

Yes, Cat that is the theme for our 2009 festival. One of the nurseyman's speciality is trees so the group decided to go with a tree theme --never used them before.
They have already gotten a group of people involved to do a display, seminar, handouts for our largest room in the welcome center so things are going forward rapidly!! Am I ever glad as the theme is the biggest hurdle sometimes.

I am just curious what the shirt will look like but the designer was really enthused about the tree idea so here is hoping...........

Ladybug, Marion, the bag with the fire siren wasn't to put out your candles, it was to warn the ladybugs to stay clear of the flames. Just like the origins of the nursery rhyme:

Ladybug ladybug fly away home,
Your house in on fire and your children are gone,
All except one and that's little Ann,
For she crept under the frying pan.

In Medieval England farmers would set torches to the old hop vines after the harvest in order to clear the fields for the next planting. This poem was sung as a warning to the ladybugs that were still crawling on the vines in search of aphids. The ladybugs' children (larvae) could get away from the flames, but the pupae, referred to as "Anne" or "Nan" in some versions, were fastened to the plants and thus could not escape. Pupae are the larvae when they have formed a cocoon and are changing into adults.
http://www.connectexpress.com/~ips/lady/rhyme.html

Cat-Marion chairs a local festival and that is why she was gond for her Bday THurs-to go to the committee meeting and decide on a theme-totally seperate from the Welcome 2009 one for here on DG...

Marion-was it a life size Johnny as Captain Jack in your bedroom????

Deb-you know so many things I never had a clue about!!

:Yep... I feel smarter just for knowing Deborah. I never knew all that about lady bugs...

--me neither--

Aw shucks, y'all. I'm not smart I just learnt stuff from Mr. Google.

me neither and I thought I knew alots already. Duh!!

Oh sorry Cat, no the theme I posted is for a festival NOT the 2009 swap!! That would be a hoot for sure.

Tinky, nope not life size but you are on the right track for sure!!!

Well ladies, I am off to bed. Do feel better but think I need to get some more shut eye.

Be safe everyone and will chat tomorrow. Have the coffee ready, please.

Nite Marion, glad to see you posting. That means you are starting to get your energy back.
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Deb, You sure know a lot of things! I'd never heard all of the ladybug song before, and I sure didn't know how they lived! I like to learn stuff like that, too!
Will someone post a link to the 2009 swap?I need the particulars!

double post see below. Late night, can't sleep.

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Most nursery rhymes have an interesting origin. Most were sang by kids back in the day to make light of a serious situation. Take Ring Around The Rosy for instance. Ring around the rosy, A pocketful of posies,"Ashes, Ashes", We all fall down!
The nosegay was carried in a pocket and called a posie. These flowers were placed under their nose to offset the stinch of the dead during Europe's Bubonic plague, the Black Death. Ashes, Ashes, (the cremation of the bodies), We all fall down, (everyone was dying). Most of these origins are only speculations of the meaning.
http://www.rhymes.org.uk/ring_around_the_rosy.htm

And another origin of children's nursery rhymes is said to have originated at a prison in the UK. 'Here we go round the mulberry bush" began in the Walkfield prison and the mulberry bush (actually a tree) is still living on the prison grounds today. Mothers inside the prison confines walked their children inside the grounds of the prison and made up this song and played out it's verses to entertain their children.
"Here we go round the mulberry bush,"
"The mulberry bush,"
"The mulberry bush."
"Here we go round the mulberry bush"
"On a cold and frosty morning".
http://www.wakefield.gov.uk/CultureAndLeisure/HistoricWakefield/Buildings/WakefieldPrison/default.htm

tia, so sorry to hear about your auntie. you are in my thoughts and prayers

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