“Up, up and away, in my beautiful balloon”
Oh, sorry, that’s a song written by composer Jimmy Webb.
Colors drifting skyward
I feel a bit awkward
Floating with no tether
Thank god for the weather
Sunny and rather warm
Oh look down there! That farm
And the rows, perfect lines
Suppose they use a combine?
Look at those lakes, oh I wish
We’d take a pole to catch some fish.
This balloon is getting very high
Wonder if you can feel clouds in this sky?
The mountains over there
Getting near would give a scare.
Floating, drifting in the breeze
My nerves just starting to feel ease.
Such a beautiful way
To spend my day.
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We only discussed plagiarism yesterday I’m shocked you haven’t learnt π
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A little picky aren’t you?
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No I don’t think so.
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Why is that she asked looking for a compliment
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Name your compliment, I forgot what we were talking about.
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Men!
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I’m a slow learnerπ
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As long as you learn eventually I guess
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Watching Bladesmiths on the history channel program named Forged in Steel. Looks like fun.
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Apart from the unescapable heat working in a forgery always did look like fun.
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They’re making big knives. Amazing how fast they work. They had to take metal from an old car.
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Yeah it’s definitely a skill and an art
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Apparently this is an ongoing series after my fave, Vikings. Cool beans!
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Pirates beat vikings!
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In American football? I’ll have to see I think the pirates are baseball. Minnesota Vikings is FB.
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Pffft Pirates beat vikings in everything!!
I’ve got the lyrics of a pirate metal band to prove it. But no viking metal band I have sings about beating pirates! π
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No contest. Huge strong Vikings would beat those wimpy pirates
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In the words of Alestorm the Pirates of the heavy metal world.
“You put your faith in Odin and Thor!
We put ours in cannons and whores!
Your viking gods won’t save you now
When the pirates strike from the starboard bow!”
Pirates win!!!
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Nope, nope, and nope.:p
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I can’t help it if you want to believe a false history
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Nothing false, they weren’t in the same time period
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So you say
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So I know
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Pirates are still around today reeking havoc therefore they win because they are better π
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They weren’t around in Viking times.
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Thats because the viking knew they were coming and got scared
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But I guess the v were sort of pirates themselves, according to some stories.
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Pirates with horns!!
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Actually they only wore those horns in religious ceremonies or other occasions, not usually.
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Not according to many historical stories, that’s why I joke about it. So many shows claim to be historically accurate but claim vikings wore horns all the time.
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Yup. Cartoon characters do.
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Hagar The Horrible is what all vikings were like.
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Not my Ragnar.
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I bet in secret even he aspired to be Hagar the Horrible.
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He was vicious but also sweet and loving. Violence was part of their everyday existence.
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You do realise that things you see on TV aren’t real? π
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Yes, dear. My sister researches it, and they give real facts on a subsequent show after the series.
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Next you’ll tell me the news is real and Donald Trump will be president π
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π³π±ππ€ππ₯
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It’s zero now and snowing. I suppose you’re having a pleasant 65 F temp
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Ummm might be a bit higher than that, it’s about 32c whatever that is
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Says 89 degrees f is 32c. Whoa!
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Going to be 36 on Saturday, we’ve probably got 6 or 7 weeks of this ahead, little rain, thunderstorms that start bush fires when it does rain and temps from mid 20’s to 40’s
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There’s about four inches of snow already.
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That’s more snow than I have ever seen π
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First year we moved from Texas to Colorado, 1972 there was a big snowstorm, kids loved it and built a huge snowman.
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We have been to the snow, it’s even snowed up on the hill 10ks from here but we’ve never woken up to anything more than a frosty ground. There was snow on Mt Bulla in Mid Decemeber and that place is only about 2 hours from where I am sitting. I can see the peak on a clear day.
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Cool
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Sunday it might warm up to fifty here. Crazy weather!
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Thats what we said at the start of summer when it rained for 3 weeks π
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So you have weeks of rain but it’s still dry most places?
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We are all in drought but it varies. We aren’t that bad but a week of hot weather and everything is dry. An hour away it’s so dry they don’t need the heat to dry things out. In NSW and QLD they’ve had floods but also bushfires. In WA it’s always dry because of heat no rain and so much barren land. NT is monsoonal so Summer is there wet season and it’s so wet up there tourists don’t even bother going up there.
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I didn’t realize how large Australia was. Such varied landscapes. Here in WY there are lots of brush fires, grass fires all summer.
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It’s about 4000ks across and 4000 ks top to bottom. It is big and we have lots of different climates, but something like 95% of people live close to the coast and 80% of people live in the capital cities or something. We have a lot of barren land where even the toughest of 4wd’s struggle for days to travel 10ks.
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The story of the first ones to cross the Nullarbor was vicious.
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The stories of some of those who have done it since with a lot more gear are vicious too. I used to be quiet heavily into the 4wd scene and the stories some people told about crossing the desert, driving the Tanami Rd or Driving the Gibb River Road are amazing
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map overlay of australia and usa Google
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Oh yeah we are tiny compared to the US but when comparing like for like we have a lot more unusable and uninhabitable land, that why the majority of the population is close to the coast.
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Yes, just thought it was interesting comparing them. I’m afraid it’s a fight here to keep any land free of being taken over. The national park and forest systems do pretty well. And of course there always celebrities who can afford to buy huge amounts of land and keep it natural. Robert Redford is one.
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We are loosing National Parks thanks to idiot governments but the middle of australia is mostly inhabitable for the vox pop who wouldn’t survive five minutes living on tank water, let alone no water.
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You look about the same really.
The USA has a land area of almost 10 million square kilometres. Australia’s land area almost 7.7 million. The 48 contiguous states if the US, which excludes Alaska and Hawaii is just slightly over 8 million square km. So the US and Australia are very similar in area.
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Seriously? I must say I haven’t compared the to since grade school but I was sure there was a huge difference. Maybe we used to include South America
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Yup, Pittsburgh pirates is baseball.
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Vikings would make mincemeat of pirates, you lose
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No way, pirates beat vikings that’s why there is still pirates but no vikings π
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Check out my post!!ππππ
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Pirates win!
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Did you see I fixed the plagiaries
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No I haven’t looked at anything, been busy harassing my nieces and writing.
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Something new on your site?
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Nope
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I can’t even get the site. I can’t see my Bonnie post either. Sooooo irritating
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Which site? Bonnie the dog?
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It is weird. Technical difficulties
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No I had a server reset, it happens most servers only guarantee a 99% uptime it’s just like a computer it needs rebooting occasionally.
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Can’t get your site.
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Oh well there was an error according to the error log but it was only for a minute or two while the server reset. I haven’t been using the site constantly but I also haven’t noticed any other issues.
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Now they have five days to go home and make a Viking sword.
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Maybe they should try making viking horns I hear they were very popular in viking history…..of the 1990’s π
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Man won 10,000$ for a beautiful sword, almost too heavy for the judges!π³π
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I got to play with wooden swords in a school play once, but the teachers took them off us because we started to hurt each other π
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Boys!
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You bet, we wanted to be pirates and they didn’t muck around so neither did we.
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I’m missing something…….ok, don’t start
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Ok I stopped.
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