lisah, I probably missed this (I couldn't keep up and haven't gone back) but peeectures, pretty please???

I was so amused to see the advances in canine-feline interaction at the msbelle house in the 2 weeks between my visits. There was studious ignoring when I was first there. Last week, there was some definite attention rivalry/engagement. Mild change , but noticeable.

Here's a pic up on the fb:

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Aw, so earnest and yearning! I like her freckles.

Warnings! And a mailbox: [link]

So there was Emergency Vinegar under that jellyfish sign? That's very hospitable.

And that mailbox is hilarious.

Yep. emergency vinegar. All along the beaches there.

We stopped specifically for the mailbox. Heh. It's probably one of the most photographed in AUS. Or at least Queensland.

Yeah, I used to barf out the window when we were little and drove to the country through sugar cane fields. They like to insist that sugar cane fields don't have a smell, so there's no need to wind up the window.

Me barfing out the window kinda supported both the up and the down arguments, but I like the variation with no puke anywhere.

Luckily the smell doesn't set me off anymore. But the taste of any sugar between wet sugar and the actual cane still does.

The problem with the porta fridge options is that I can't put the pill bottle in my bag for a movie/plane flight/random other thing not at work or home and have something to reach for when it gets rough. It's not very useful if it's not within arms each and I'm paranoid about them keeping it warm enough to "spoil" although I don't know what the threshold is. I just know I ruined the first one, because I totally missed that instruction.

Blargh. If it worked really really well, I'd make it work. But it's not actually that effective even when chilled, sadly.

I would have kept the stack of seasickness bags for you from the ship to the Reef

Bingo! They have barf bags at the ER that pack up real small. I'll ask a nurse to give me a few.

You should totally cosplay Martha Washington!

This might just have to make its own occasion. And I can assemble at least one of her outfits army surplus cheap.

ita_!, you are pretty much the ONLY person I know who is exempt from the "Friends Don't Let Friends Dress Like The Crow" rule. Because you would pull off that costume so damn well, and I want to see it.

I want to do the black chick version of that *so* badly. Not as easy as Martha, but easier than Storm. I did have the pieces for that a while back, but the Halloween event we were dressing for didn't happen.

Warnings! And a mailbox: [link]

See, those signs look entirely sensible to me. I am now obliged to share this, one of the most hilarious routines I've ever seen: Billy Connolly on Australian animals, including the stinger. [link]

Here too is my Australian sign, from the Northern Territory: [link] Now that the Autobahns all have speed limits, I believe this is the last place (in a developed country at least) where there are roads that have no speed limits whatsoever.

But does it apply to ROADTRAAAAIIIIIN? Seriously, encountering those things on unsealed road was all madmax.

Boys were sad to not confront a cassowary. And what was the rat-like other thing? Not a wallaby, something I'm told is now largely gone.

billy, we went to Lara, the end of the paved road to N. QLD. Shop, gas, school, repair garage.

Something is wrong with me that I think of Billy Connelly as the replacement for Howard hesseman on Head of the Class

Something is wrong with me that I think of Billy Connelly as the replacement for Howard hesseman on Head of the Class

Why is that wrong? That happened.