Buffy ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I fell asleep on my back and fried my front, my sister fell asleep on her stomach and fried her back.
You needed somebody on the radio to tell you to turn over every half hour.
Growing up in South Florida we were always big on the notion of laying down a "base tan" in March before we did any serious laying in the sun. All of it very bad for our skin.
I fell asleep in a rowboat and got sun poisoning when I was 8, I think.
Tubes of Unguentine. Looks like you can still buy it, but it's clearly out of favor.
I got another really bad burn in Kansas at 14. I remember peeling the tops of my thighs off is sheeets . whitefonted for the serious squick.
You needed somebody on the radio to tell you to turn over every half hour.
At home we used kitchen timers, but being on vacation and in the middle of the reservoir, no one had a watch let alone a clock.
My sister's back burn was so severe that whenever she'd get a tan in subsequent summers, the freckles would appear everywhere except where her straps were during that burn. It wasn't until 15 years later when she was on her first Caribbean cruise and got tons of sun that those strap marks finally went away.
{{{javachick}}}
My best summer memories are after the screened in porch was built. Early summer days hulling mountains of strawberries we had just picked . Dark summer nights with crickets and bullfrogs singing and fireflies flickering
Hmm. My flight to NYC is now scheduled to land one minute after my flight from NYC is scheduled to take off.
that seems less than ideal Perkins. give me a holler if you get stuck, we have aerobeds at the ready.
In NE Oklahoma and a red tailed hawk just flew into our window. Now hopping with hurt wing. Humane society said call Game Warden. Anybody know of anyone else that might help hurt hawks?
--GW not answering phone number that HS gave.
food update:
finished jar of pickles, mac finished a bag of chips, yesterday finished some jam and a bag of coffee.
am tired.
need to finish packing the food I want to pack as well as toilitries that I don't think the movers will want to move.
that seems less than ideal Perkins. give me a holler if you get stuck, we have aerobeds at the ready.
Thanks!
Jet Blue gate agents are still claiming we are going to be on time, despite what the web site says, and what reality would suggest (we are scheduled to leave in 20 minutes, and still no plane). We shall see.