freeing the bees and

:confused: What does? Cheerfulness or The Plague? :D Indeed! So sorry you all are going through so much. :grouphug:

the flu too should be making it's rounds in there somewhere too. Who knows? Maybe we'll even see the return of the bubonic plague? :glare:

This thread should be made into a sticky.:thumbup:

You think this bush fire was set on purpose. That's horrible! I agree with your dad!

I go to BJ's wholesale club. They let you use coupons and they give you rebate checks if you pay with a BJ's credit card. It really helps. I don't know about Costco or the others, but the money I save at BJ's on milk, cheese, eggs, soaps and detergents alone pay for my membership many times over. If you have coupons (they have BJ's coupons and they also take manufacturer coupons from the newspaper) you save even more and with the cash back checks they give you it really adds up to a lot in the course of a year. I had a shopping trip there not too long ago where I bought over a hundred dollars in goods and with my coupons and rebate checks I only had to pay $5.00 our of pocket.

I use Dove bar soap and shop at wholesale clubs. It pays for my membership and then some. It's good for larger families.

Yikes!! What next! :eek: Floods, cyclones, fires. :svengo: This isn't a good year for you all. :grouphug: Praying.

Awww poor kitty. :) I've heard that cats only meow at people. I think he's telling you how much he's missed you and how glad he is to be home. :grouphug:

That's wonderful! I'm so happy for them. I'd be a proud mama too! :) :party: :hurray:

Your so close, mama, just hang in there. It won't be much longer. :grouphug:

:grouphug::grouphug::grouphug: You guys are really going through the wringer. I"m so sorry. :( My prayers will be with your mom and her partner as well as all of your countrymen in the path of this storm. If it stays this strength when it makes landfall it will be very dangerous. I hope she has somewhere safe to go if her roof is not up to snuff.

Yikes! :eek: And with all of that water and flooding they've just had up there that's not going to bode well either. Water feeds these storms and as long as there is warm water for them to get strength from they can stay strong even over land. Does Queensland have any mountains? That will help shear the storm if they do. This is really bad. Let's hope it goes through an eye wall replacement before making landfall, that usually weakens them somewhat. People are going to have to evacuate or hunker down some place really strong for this one though.

I'm going to tell dh about the air handler filters. Our outside unit is new. We got it over summer and we try to hose it down once a month and never run the air conditioner when the lawn guys are out there with their weed whackers and leaf blowers nor when there are clothes in the dryer (as the dryer vent leads right outside next to the air conditioning unit.

I love the old hymns. I sing them when I have my devotions. I use The Baptist Hymnal that I got from Family Christian back when it was still The Baptist Bookstore many, many, many moons ago. I love it because it is organized so that you can find hymns by Bible verse, by theme, by Person of the Trinity, by title, by first line and by the hymn's author. It's a substantial book and it wasn't expensive (when I bought it) and it has all of my favorites in there as well as some new ones that have become my favorites after using it. It's wonderful. :)

they're about the tu-tus

:party: :hurray: THAT'S WONDERFUL!! Oh I"m so glad. Doing the happy dance. :party: :)

so many babies at the same time. Ya'll are making me long to have another one, but I can't. :(

Great! Yeah, water and my son don't really go good together. Ask me why we don't put the humidifier in his room anymore when he gets sick.:glare:

tu-tus at the bees

entomology collection when suddenly

:iagree::iagree: I have two and they last forever! :)

in their own ink

and closing the doors.

mopped all the floors.