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Lolla bought a balloon at the circus. She gave the clown six coins
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We have been graciously invited into some of the loveliest and warmest homes in Nashville and throughout the South (Birmingham, New Orleans) to host a private Buttermilk Road Supper. We've shared in birthday celebrations, holiday parties and intimate two person engagements that have damn near made us tear up and weep with the pure sweetness of it. We've also used private residences for our public Buttermilk Road Sunday Suppers – it's been such a wonderful thing to watch this idea of bringing people together over food for a small, intimate gathering grow some serious wings and take off across the Southeast. I'm honored to be at the helm of this ship.
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You can now will someone your Facebook. Well at least in Delaware you can.
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I too was concerned…even deleted the app from my iPhone. Then I spent a little time diving into the reality of the situation.
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I deleted Facebook Messenger this weekend after these privacy concerns hit the web. But I was pretty stoked to hear about a workaround!
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Facebook claimed "child indecency" after a mom posted a picture of her two year old's bare bottom on the beach. She was banned for 24 hours and the picture was removed. Upon return, she posted […]
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Rick Perry's presidential campaign has just announced the support of Nevada governor Brian Sandoval. "Our nation needs a leader in the White House who understands the role of government and our economy," Sandoval said in a statement released by Perry's campaign. "Gov. Rick Perry has the strongest record of job creation, fiscal discipline, and executive branch leadership among the presidential candidates. As a governor, Rick Perry created a tremendous blueprint for job creation and as President, I know he will get America working again. I consider Gov. Perry a friend and I am proud to endorse his campaign for President."
Maybe if Rory Reid weren't having to distance himself from his father to the point of forgoing his last name, Harry Reid would be more familiar with the idea of a Nevadan, Hispanic Republican. In his quest for the Nevada governorship, Rory Reid is getting trounced in polls at the moment by Brian Sandoval, a former federal judge, Attorney General, and...Hispanic Republican.
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My intent was never to convince anybody to change I just wanted to see if others had experienced some of the same frustrations that I had and apparently there are quite a few that for whatever reas...
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TALLAHASSEE — A ceremony to induct five men into Florida's Veterans Hall of Fame found itself briefly caught up in small protest over a decision not to include three others who fought for the Confederacy.
Sons of Confederate Veterans member David McCallister staged a one-man protest at the Tallahassee ceremony Monday night by waving a small Confederate flag in front of Gov. Rick Scott and 200 attendees.
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TALLAHASSEE—Rep. Alan Grayson manages hedge funds that use his name in their title, a practice prohibited by congressional ethics rules designed to prevent members from using their elected post for financial gain, according to a Politico report.
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TALLAHASSEE – Gov. Rick Scott is withdrawing his lawsuit alleging the Obama administration was "coercing" him to expand Medicaid through the Affordable Care Act by ending a separate voluntary Medicaid program.
The Low Income Pool pays hospitals and health care providers for care for poor and uninsured patients who often don't pay. It was slated to end Tuesday, but federal officials last month gave...Read more
TALLAHASSEE – Florida Democrats are elated with the U.S. Supreme Court's 6-3 decision Thursday to uphold subsidies for health plans on federal exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare.
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A $2.5 million bee-research center designed to help save Florida's pollination and honey industries was vetoed Tuesday for the second year in a row by Gov. Rick Scott.
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Going to battle on the Green hill
We met up early Saturday morning and were on the trails by about 10 AM.
Scott...Happytrailsinc - John...Kap - John...Junglemototrails - and myself
My new ride to go with my new screen name...
The weather warmed up to the high 80's but much better then the 100 degrees at lower elevations.
And fires raging around us...
But the smoke was blowing away from us so no problem there.
We did some remote camping close to this kick ass mountain cabin.
The trails were EPIC..!! But not a place for the weak...
We lost Kap early saturday with three broken toes and some stitches... Hope your feeling better John..!!
The trails were rocky and overgrown in places. The mountain fought back as we powered through.
The bushes would grab at your gear and pulled me off my bike and to the ground more than once.
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Gotcha... Junglemototours repairing a hole in his waterpump cover.
Yeah that's the trail.. This trail is called rocky ridge and it felt more like Moab in places...The trail would lead you onto big round rocks and you would have to look around for where the trail would contine at. and roll your way across the rocks to find it. The most challenging section for me.
We did about 50 miles of Single track and about ten miles of Forest roads each day
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Follow the leader... Shit..!! where's he going now...
J/K... Thanks for taking the lead Scott..!!
He had a plan and didn't even need look at the map.
But Scott seems to seek out the hard stuff as we parallel the easier stuff...
But we were down and the bikes powered through some tuff shit..!!
But this place is awesome... We explored mine shafts...
Lots of creeks and river crossings...
Killer meadows even in August
And Mountain Top lookouts..!! The adventure we were all looking forward too..!!
I got home just after 10 pm on sunday night.... What did you do last weekend ????
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"When she found out I was writing the book, she did everything to stop me," Mackenzie said. "I don't have history of mental illness, I have a history of addiction. I feel bad Michelle would do this. I think she is trying to protect the Mamas and Papas brand."
Chynna also defended Mackenzie against her mom.
"She doesn't have mental illness by the way," Chynna said about her sister. "I think my mom is angry... It's not something my mom wants plastered all over the papers."
On Wednesday, Mackenzie told Oprah Winfrey that she was first raped by her father in a hotel room when she was 18 while passed out after a drug binge but continued to use drugs and have consensual sex with him for years.
The relationship continued long after she married Jeff Sessler when she was 19, and ended only when she became pregnant and feared her father was the baby's father, Phillips said. John Phillips, she said, paid for an abortion.
Reading an excerpt from her new book, "High on Arrival," on Winfrey's show today, Phillips said of her first sexual experience with her father: "I woke up that night from a blackout to find myself having sex with my father. I don't know how it started."
"For a moment, I was in my body for a horrible truth," she said of waking up and realizing she had had sex with her father.
"I boxed it away. I started very early on in my life compartmentalizing. ... This was the mother of all difficult experiences. ... I [have spent] the last 30 years trying not to look at it," she said.
Mackenzie Phillips told Winfrey she confronted her father about the rape, but he characterized their relationship as romantic, Mackenzie said.
"After the first experience, I went to my father and said we need to talk about how you raped me. My dad said: 'Raped you? Don't you mean made love?' In that moment, I thought I'm really on my own here."
In 1980, soon after she'd been fired from "One Day at a Time" because of her out-of-control drug use, Phillips began to travel with her father's new band, the New Mamas and the Papas. It was during that time, she said, that she began regularly doing drugs and having sex with her father.
"It didn't happen every day, it didn't happen every week, but it certainly happened and happened many times," she said.
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Imogen Bain was born on April 17, 1959 in London, England, United Kingdom. She was an actress, known for The Phantom of the Opera (2004), Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) and Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008). She was married to Simon Holmes. She died on July 5, 2014 in London, England. See full bio »
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Call it "Apocalypto" for pussies -- a PG-13 rating, puh-leese! -- or prehistory for peabrains. Just don't call it friendo. 10,000 B.C. will take your money, rob your time and hit your brain like a shot of Novacaine. show more
Completely ridiculous, but fun to look at. show more
Within a few minutes into the ponderous prehistoric pseudo-epic that is 10,000 B.C., you find yourself longing for George of the Jungle to crash into a tree or the Geico cavemen to amble up and put an end to the droning seriousness of this tedious tale. show more
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to me i thought it was a good movie. not great. but good. the graphics were good and the storyline was good. nothing was great though
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It's a movie. For me, it was nice escape from the reality of the problem that we face everyday when I watch movies. This was every entertaining. Interesting story. I'm not saying it was worthy of an Oscar. It had my attention throughout and that is all I asked for. Better than some of the junk on TV - starting with news.
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BAD MOVIE!!!! just plain bad, words cannot describe how bad it is. Camilla Belle delivers a razzie worthy performance


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Chidejika (地デジカ chideji Digital Terrestrial Television + shika deer) is the official mascot of National Association of Commercial Broadcasters in Japan (NAB), which was revealed on April 27, 2009 to promote transition from analog television to digital terrestrial television (DTT) in Japan. He might be considered to become a mascot for the 2020 Summer Olympics if Tokyo wins the bid, however, his name and outfit will have to be changed.
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He said there should be room for the study of "intelligent design."
How then, does the intelligent design movement (ID) persist, in the face of so much damning contrary evidence?
Last time I checked, not even Santorum was waving the creationism (or intelligent design) banner in this race.
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GAO discussed the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) tax debt collection practices. GAO noted that: (1) each year, billions of dollars in taxes remain unpaid; (2) impediments to improving tax debt collection include the lack of accurate and reliable accounts receivable data and effective collection tools and programs, a backlogged receivables inventory, outdated collection processes, and antiquated computer systems; (3) some accounts receivable may be overstated, not valid, or owed by deceased or unlocatable taxpayers and defunct businesses; (4) IRS is modernizing its information and processing systems, but these actions will not be completed for several years; (5) although IRS use of private debt collectors could increase tax collections by locating and encouraging taxpayers to pay their delinquent taxes, they cannot actually collect taxes; (6) some states have successfully used private debt collectors to increase their delinquent tax collections; (7) IRS accounts receivable have been designated a high-risk area, but IRS cannot make major changes in its business operations by itself; (8) IRS needs a comprehensive strategy to guide its efforts to improve tax debt collections, starting with having accurate and reliable information; and (9) IRS could adopt private industry practices and use private debt collectors in some collection-related activities.
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Electricity Generation Projects:Additional Data Could Improve Understanding of the Effectiveness of Tax ExpendituresGAO-15-302: Published: Apr 28, 2015. Publicly Released: May 28, 2015.
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Just out of curiosity, but can Poser users now save in the DSON file format with this or is it just an importer ?
This tool allows you to use Genesis (and Genesis-Content) inside Poser, you can't save with it in the DSON file format.
In that case this is yet another no brainer by DAZ, I've just seen a post over at Rendo where someone done with Genesis what they normally do with other figures, ie load the figure, dial up a morph, apply a texture, load clothing and hair, and save it back to the figure library, 400 MB of their disk space vanished doing that, it wont take long to fill a 1TB drive doing that.


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I swear by my pretty floral bonnet, I will end you.
Originally posted by Souldrainer
As opposed to " Fanboy writer is Fanboy...."
That just doesnt really work. If he didnt already preorder the game at least he had a mind open enough to the possibility of his mind being changed. And whats worse is it wasnt. In fact it seemed he was more cemented in his plans to not make a purchase after trying it. But it was only ten minutes.
As Ive said several times, I actually thought the article was well written enough. It made sense. But at the same time he only had ten minutes to play it so I dont know........
Did those ten minutes do anything to change his mind? Hell no, obviously. Would an hour have made a difference instead? I have doubts it would have. Was his mind open to being changed? I think so perhaps. But I dont know the guy so I have no real idea.
But I have a hard time imagining him waiting all that time in line just to write a bad review he was already intent on writing. Im sure he saw a lot of it being played too before he got a chance to try it. So in reality the ten minute play time might not be the only factor. He might not have liked what he saw as others played it either.
Its fair. There's some favorable preview articles involving Swtor too. Not sure how balanced it is, but they're out there.
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saying someone is wronge is flat out rude and selfish just because he has a diff opion on a game..if he dont like it ..well he just didnt like it...why is it alright to have a million posts about this game being the holy trinity of mmos but when someone questions it in a differant manner they are scolded with a hot pan'o'gritz...if he didnt care for it then just question why ...no reason to say hes flat out wronge just because he doesnt like it...but then again the whole new genra has turned into a flock of sheep
Originally posted by Corehaven
You can't make an informed opinion on anything in 10 minutes. Just because the artile is well written, which basically means he use punctuation in the right way, DOES NOT mean he gave anything more than a short opinion piece. That, in and of itself, is fine - what isn't is how people react to it without looking at what he said and how he stated it. He obviously had a negative bias towards the game, is that not evident? So how is it people can look at that article and say "OH SHIT IT'S GONNA SUCK BECAUSE THIS GUY SAID SO, LOL I WAS RIGHT ALL ALONG"?
You yourself stated "As Ive said several times, I actually thought the article was well written enough. It made sense. But at the same time he only had ten minutes to play it so I dont know........" All that says is, it's well written but the guy didn't have enough of a preview to formulate a good opinion.
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Originally posted by Dameonk
Pretty much "this".
There is nothing in this artcile that we haven't known before. One eiter likes it or they don't.
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Originally posted by SovrathOriginally posted by Dameonk
I agree. Who cares what he should have already known and who cares about an in depth review by some !#|!? who rants from 10 minutes of game play lol
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"what a boring life, HATING everything" -Gorilla Biscuits
Originally posted by empyros
(Yeller) Please show me a single post in this thread that says anything like that? I don't think I've seen more than a handfull of users on this forum ever say anything that was remotely like that. Why argue with a mythical group of posters?
(OJ)The people who actually know what the game is like when actually played (not demoed) can't talk here about what the game actually is, how it plays, whether there are "grindy quests"
(which is subjective as grind only feels like a grind, to those who feel like they've been grinding. Hell I see ex swg players who say skilling up "never" felt like a grind.)
As others have said, save the I told you so for when people can actually debate these subjects as they really are.Yes your posts are coherent as well as basic questions to ask about any MMO in development, are they accurate at all? Those of us who know, aren't gonna tell ya.
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Originally posted by Quesa
Errrm.....yea. I'll just have to agree.
I could play any great game for only ten minutes and you could ask me what I thought and Id say, " Ummm....I dont know. "
So maybe the article should have been titled, " I played Swtor for 10 minutes and still have no idea! "
Its the article I would have written anyways. It would have been short. In fact I'll do it now!
" Well I got to play Swtor after standing in line for more time than somebody ought too...for anything. It smelled like an mmo, looked like one, and Im pretty sure it was one. The guy behind me breathed on my hair while I was trying to figure this thing out. There was a lot of noise so I couldnt hear it. There are some running animations and you can attack things. Thats as far as I got. What do I think of Swtor? I have NO FREAKIN IDEA. Thanks for reading "
Was that good? I thought it was. Boy....I should start doing this for a living. Boy howdy.
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Hmmmm, so the writer is upset that he wasn't given access to more than the tutorial and a pvp zone?
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Post prego bewbies feel amazing!!
Well while SWG was the one that introduced me to MMOs, its theme and game mechanics just couldn't compare to the games that followed. After WoW it was all over for them. Plus a SW MMO just doesn't seem to suited as an MMO. Consoles should be where it stays at.
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Originally posted by Quesa
What I thnk it is funny that everyone saying...'o how can you say a game is good/bad if you've never played it, you have to experience it for yourself'.
Really?....We have played it, go to the gamelist here and pick one...we've played it, its an MMO, we can test a game and in 10 mins, tell how the gameplay is going to be at lvl 1 or 100...that is what an mmo is...game mechanics.
You are hanging your hat on story and voice over? Well we have experienced that too...try KOTOR 1 n 2. Its all there just now its multiplayer.
Please don't use the lame argument that we haven't played it yet...what game in the last 5 years surpassed the hype surrounding it? I'll save you time...none. Not one game was better than the hype leading up to its launch.
All I ask is be reasonable and realize that you have played the game...we all have.
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I swear by my pretty floral bonnet, I will end you.
Originally posted by r3zs1ckn3ss
Oh God....you cant say....that word here. It starts with a C and ends with "soles".
I sort of agree with you. Okay right behind ya. RUN! RUN FAST!
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"what a boring life, HATING everything" -Gorilla Biscuits
Originally posted by Socman75
Yeah we heard ya the first time, I guess no one felt it was worth the effort to reply.
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Originally posted by Corehaven
What I'm saying is, the article seems to have one single complaint about something we've known for 3 years. I can sum it up in one sentence. "I don't like SWTOR because it uses action-bar combat, as other games have done." There, done. Clearly, he writes a whole article bashing the game, because he is emotional and negative in himself. Aside from the fact that I largely disagree with him and, as I said, I'm going to hate his favorite game when it comes, I found that his opinion was too narrow and outdated to warrant a whole article.
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Originally posted by Distopia
and it will get posted again until people quit saying 'you don't know anything until you play it' :)
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Originally posted by Socman75
I think Socman is trying to say you dont need to stick your foot in hot lava to know it burns. But what do I know.
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"what a boring life, HATING everything" -Gorilla Biscuits
Originally posted by Socman75
KNowing what MMO"s play like and what single player games play like isn't exactly representative of how the two feel when fused together in the way they are. It could be good or bad, right?
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
It is a sign of a defeated man, to attack at ones character in the face of logic and reason- Me
Originally posted by Socman75
No opinion about anything that is meant for weeks/months of consumption is truely formed after 10 minutes, sorry...not gonna buy that at all. It just means you had a previous bias that took over when you "formed" that opinion.
The guy played a preview of a preview. 10 minutes with a pre-formed character, restricted to a specific area of the game in, likely, loud environment. If you actually would READ the article, you could get the negative vibes from the very first paragraph.
In no way am I attempting to say the game isn't overhyped (nor did I even cover that but...I guess you thought I did), is going to be bad or good - my point is that people are being ridiculous using this as a reason that their opinion is somehow validated about how they feel the game is going to be much in the same way the other people use the positive reviews with no real basis in the oposite.
I did read the article.
He talked about the gameplay. (Obviously he didn't like it) amongst other irrelavent stuff.
Tell me the MMO you played that the entire game mechanics changed at endgame from what it was at the beginning?
You can easily get a feel for game mechanics from 10 mins. of gameplay, content no, grouping dynamics no, story no, but gameplay mechanics yes, yes you can in fact that's what keeps me playing past the first 10 mins.
Forming an opinion of the combat style of a game isn't the same as forming an opinon of THE GAME. You're picking 1 aspect of a game and superimposing it as an informed opinion of the entire game. You are right in your context but not mine.
A good example of a major shift in gameplay would be with AoC. You're exposure to things are very limited when you first start a game. Things are simpler and less dangerous to the player. AoC had great beginning experience with the full voice overs and different quests - but you get out to the world post-20, nothing is voice over, the quests are all the same and you learned that PvP was shit. You could never have found that out in 10 minutes, not even during beta when the XP was accelerated.
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First, the part in blue :
- While I agree, it's a very short time to get a real sense of a game, it's still a demo. Couldn't you also argue that it's the developers responsibility to make their demos reflect well on their game, no matter the length. If they failed to do this, I'm not sure the length really matters. Their showcasing their own game. If they can't do that well, then how is the actual game supposed to be better?
Second part :
- I absolutely agree on all parts. I think the hype for this game is too much / mismanaged. I also think that people are using too many of these 'previews' as gospel about the game (for good AND bad). However, can you really blame them? The amount of known info on this game is quite small in ratio to what's being marketed. With so little actual info to go on, most people really have no other option than to base their opinion off of hear-say. Some of us are lucky enough to either be in, or know someone in beta, so we have a much more well rounded picture of the game. Most aren't.


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With Thanksgiving and the holidays upon us, I'm getting excited about get-togethers with friends and family to celebrate the season of giving. But since I'm not a good cook, this means I also start to panic thinking about "what to bring" as a hostess gift – especially on Thanksgiving weekend. Hmmmm…. Bingo! What better "thought" from the Rambos (or any other beach comber) would be to give a gift of shells as a thank you? Doesn't everybody love shells? My fave part of the whole gift is the packaging so I'll show you how I easily I made a beautiful coastal package without drilling any holes in any of the shells. I'm tickled with my fall-ish colors I used to wrap up this small package tying seashells as a gift tag and adding beach bling to add that flavor of a coastal feel.
I got this idea from Alyson E. on iLoveShelling Facebook page last year after she saw my post about hundreds of DOSINIAS at Lighthouse beach. She showed a picture of the gift tags, earnings and ornaments she and her daughter make out of them- brilliant. I've been collecting them ever since for shell necklaces and gift tags of my own but if you've been on the Sanibel beaches in the last month, you've seen lots of DOSINIAS again.
Yes, they are just white CLAM shells but I can't help but pick them up…. just in time for the holidays.
I choose the shells that have the pre-drilled holes in them to bring home. (You don't know why the holes are in these shells? Check out my post What Makes The Different Holes In Seashells – its fascinating!)
After the shells have been rinsed and dried, write your note with a magic marker inside the shell.
You can use twine, raffia or any other thin string to thread through the hole in the tip of the shell.
I added a beautiful yellow "harvest" SEA WHIP to brown craft paper to start the fall color theme but couldn't help myself… I had to add something aqua. I just had to so I added aqua raffia as a base to hold everything together then twisted a WORMIE in through the knot of the DOSINIA shell. For this package, I found a similar size DOSINIA to put a cover on the gift tag. I don't know, I just thought it looked so cute- like a little secret you have to peek inside to see what's there.
To finish the look, I added an OLIVE shell with the tip missing like I use in making the OLIVE string bracelets and then tied on a SAND DOLLAR- easy peazy since there are lots of holes to choose from- heehee. Lastly I added a wider ribbon to hide all the knots in the raffia. It's done! I didn't have to cook a darn thing and my friend will have something to keep after the holiday is over.
Wondering what my "thought" is inside the beautiful package? My friend loves pink so I put one of my photographs with pink hues on an easel along with more beach bling. I think it will make a pretty little vignette somewhere in her house or office. I hope she likes it!
I'm very thankful I can share this love of shelling with you and I also hope this will give you an idea or two of how you can use some of those shells you've collected over the years.
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Gulfside City Park had some new beach treasures washing after a few days of heavy rain and wind across the Gulf Of Mexico. There were lots of DOSINIAS (DISK and ELEGANT) and other CLAMS lined up along the waters edge at low tide yesterday.
While walking along the water's edge with my good friend Mary (who has an exshellent shelling eye), I noticed the water had gotten churned up again with the wind so it was a little difficult to see the bottom even in the shallow water but that's where all the shells were washing up. In another second, I watched Mary scoop up that marvshellous PAPER FIG (in the first photo) right before my eyes… and I didn't even see a thing. Wow! Marvshellous Mary! I need to tune up my shelling eye- haha.
I was happy to know my shelling eye wasn't completely out of focus, I spotted this sweet SAND DOLLAR wash right up at my feet…
Beautiful sisters Bronwyn and Brenna from California have been visiting Sanibel for 20 years and were thrilled to be here this week with complete shelling eye focus.
They were finding hundreds of double COQUINAS to make shell flowers. They try to join the shell crafters at Sanibel Community House each time they are here on Sanibel so they can learn more crafting secrets. Fun!
I didn't see many new shells washing up at Blind Pass Captiva yesterday…
I saw some interesting BLING tangled in some of the fresh weed lines at Blind Pass Sanibel and also some nice shells in the surf… so finding some goodies might be pretty productive on that beach today or tomorrow.
As the Middle Gulf beaches on Sanibel looked to be the best for this week, a little birdie told me that Lover's Key has been pretty productive too. 😉
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CLAMS, SCALLOPS and OYSTER shells. That's what we've been seeing washed up on Sanibel beaches this week. Some experienced beachcombers might think this is a little boring since they have plenty of these bivalves and there weren't many WHELKS and CONCHS to fill up their shell bag. But we always find interesting things and when Clark and I met Ilene, Dawn, Hudson and Ethan from St Petersburg, FL we saw they weren't disappointed at this gorgeous evening either.
Ethan picked up an ARK SHELL with a hole in it and began telling me why certain shells drill holes in different areas of other shells. Oh wow- I just did a post on the different holes in shells last month so I wanted to know more. He told me that the further away the hole is from the hinge (what I call the "nose"), the predator mollusk is more stressed. If the predator drills near the hinge, he can get to all of the meat easily…but the shell is thicker there so it may take longer to drill. If the predator mollusk drilling the hole into the other mollusk is pretty desperate, he picks a spot that's thinner and easier to drill but may not get much meat since the other mollusk might fight back or can slip away easier. A sign of a desperado. Thanks so much for such cool information, Ethan! BTW, Ethan teaches classes about Paleoceanography .
If I didn't put you asleep on that explanation and you think this stuff is interesting too, here's a photo of what I'm talking about. See the DOSINIA on the left with the perfect hole in the nose area and then look at the hole in the desperate CALICO CLAM with the hole in the middle of the shell. Why so desperate Mr. Murex? Okay, I'm not positive it's a MUREX that made the hole but in my humble opinion, it sure looks like an OYSTER DRILL hole (part of the MUREX family). Take a look at my other post What Makes The Different Holes In Seashells?
Okay, lets get back to the beautiful shells… While we were all talking near Lighthouse Beach, Ilene showed me her pretty DOSINIA then I saw Hudson reach down and pick "candy" (juvie HORSE CONCH) right out of the shells at our toes. Clark then made a scoop in the water and pulled out a TRUE TULIP then gave it to them. Hmmmm, the shells looked like they were starting to come in but it was getting too dark to see.
Dawn just posted on iLoveShelling Facebook page this morning that they found all of these shells at Lighthouse Beach. Yes! The WHELKS and CONCHS are finally coming in… not that we were feeling desperate or anything. LOL
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I like Dogs, Horses
My dog has an ingrown tail so I have to have him exRayed to find out whether or not he's happy!
My favorite restaurants are the Canaletto in the Venitian in Vegas, the Five Crowns in Costa Mesa, PF Changs anywhere, and the Polo Lounge.
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Moonlight in Vermont, Jack Frost roasting on an open fire, August in Barstow, Costco, electricity, water, heat, Charmin, and brakes.
I love traveling, dining out, going to the theater/movies/Del Mar/Vegas, reading, spending time with my kids and grand kids, learn things, playing the piano, golfing, and levitating.
I get a dozen magazines and two newspapers, so I'm never at a loss for things to read. Just finished History of the Roman Army, Killing Patton, Killing Jesus. PS Do you know what Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye" was hoping to catch?
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|What he is looking for
|6'2" (187cms)
|5'0" (152cms) to 5'9" (175cms)
|Body type:
|About average
|Slender, About average, Athletic and toned
|Black, Blue, Brown, Green
|Light brown
|No preference
|No Way
|No Way
|Social Drinker
|Social Drinker
|Sales / Marketing
|I'll tell you later
|$50,001 to $75,000, $75,001 to $100,000, $100,001 to $150,000, $150,001+
|No preference
|Have kids:
|Yes, and they live away from home (3)
|No preference
|Wants kids:
|No preference
|White / Caucasian
|No preference
|Christian / Catholic
|Christian / Catholic, Christian / LDS, Christian / Protestant, Spiritual but not religious
|English, French
|No preference
|Graduate degree
|No preference