The 39th TPBM Perfect Timing - Summer's Here, Let's Chat Thread

Miniflash wrote in post #10625899
I went to the Ontario science center when Dax was a kid it was a great place .Also the Airforce museum in Dayton Ohio it was real interesting ,well worth the visit

Deb, doesn't your FIL work at the natural history museum?

short5 wrote in post #10625854
I didn't know you were a Va. boy for a time.

I also lived in Virginia for most of a year while I was in the Navy. I was stationed in Norfolk.

After that I was transferred to Orlando, FL, but I got to spend a couple weeks at home first. The first time I said "Norfolk" within earshot of my mother she flew into a rage. I'd been there long enough to learn to pronounce it like the natives, but she thought I was intentionally saying it that way, goading her as if I were swearing or something. I honestly don't think she still believes that's how it's pronounced...

short5 wrote in post #10625854
I hope you plan to come to D.C. for at least a few day trips. We have the National Zoo and the Air and Space museum. There is also the Baltimore aquarium. Diane knows how to get here, I have seen her do it.

I didn't know you were a Va. boy for a time.

Four years while my dad was stationed at the Naval Surface Weapons Lab at Dahlgren...

Permagrin wrote in post #10625885
lol. so you keep me unblocked for coffee? That works? Maybe I should post a "hey, unblock me for coffee" thread.

I'm envious. I would love to head East. I would spend days in the natural history museum. I may never leave it actually. I know Dan would love to tour as many historical sites as possible.

I'd love to make it to Gettysburg while we're there, but I don't know if we're going to have the time to do everything we'd like to do.

It would be nice if you guys could make that trip. We're sure going to try...

thomascanty wrote in post #10625918
After that I was transferred to Orlando, FL, but I got to spend a couple weeks at home first. The first time I said "Norfolk" within earshot of my mother she flew into a rage. I'd been there long enough to learn to pronounce it like the natives, but she thought I was intentionally saying it that way, goading her as if I were swearing or something. I honestly don't think she still believes that's how it's pronounced...

I never though about that, Lonnie....since we have plenty of counties in England named similarly like that in pronunciation...

Still cracks me up, when people pronounce places like Warwick over here...and Gloucester....they don't try to say Worcestershire though

Skrim17 wrote in post #10625837
yellow belly?

You never watched Yogi Bear?
They frolicked there with their picinik basket.

Permagrin wrote in post #10625885
and okay cool. My dog experts have weighed in so Hale's going swimming later.

*crosses fingers, toes, shins, dogs, pretzels cat...*
and I SO want to go to Y but I have no idea how my life will be at that point.

Yay for Hale.

I don't know for sure where my life will be, but I do know that it is only getting shorter.

BearLeeAlive wrote in post #10625941
You never watched Yogi Bear?
They frolicked there with their picinik basket.

Yay for Hale.

I don't know for sure where my life will be, but I do know that it is only getting shorter.

aww Jim your memory is getting shorter too. LOL. Yogi and Booboo frolicked in Jellystone.

short5 wrote in post #10625793
Nice words Kody, really.
I quoted so Cat wouldn't miss it. She reads my posts

LOL, maybe we need some pictures of her.
Yo

hahaha so true. There's always hope she'll see it now that you've quoted me!!!

We do.. i just haven't snapped any good ones lately.

Harm wrote in post #10625934
Still cracks me up, when people pronounce places like Warwick over here...and Gloucester....they don't try to say Worcestershire though

Hmmm... Ok. I'll try.

Warrick
Glouster
Wooster

How'd I do?

Harm wrote in post #10625934
Still cracks me up, when people pronounce places like Warwick over here...and Gloucester....they don't try to say Worcestershire though

Warick, Gluster and Woostershur is how I say them.

Permagrin wrote in post #10625959
aww Jim your memory is getting shorter too. LOL. Yogi and Booboo frolicked in Jellystone.

Methinks he's confusing Jellystone with Jelly Bellies...

Permagrin wrote in post #10625959
aww Jim your memory is getting shorter too. LOL. Yogi and Booboo frolicked in Jellystone.

Well, I have heard it somewhere.
Maybe in the depths of my fragmented mind.

thomascanty wrote in post #10625986
Methinks he's confusing Jellystone with Jelly Bellies...

That's it.
Thanks for sleuthing out my thinkin' Lonnie.

Miniflash wrote in post #10625877
Thanks ,everyone for the concern about Paris , I'll keep you informed if anything changes .
Sigh , Feel overwhelmed but thats nothing new these days ,
Zaney hi ..nice seeing you .
you made me laugh with the pig joke about the dreaming ,,hahaha

Hang in there Deb

monkeygirl wrote in post #10625883
Zane, those are on our list of things we want to do, along with meeting up with you, Jon, Wool, Leyla, Jenn and anyone else that will be able to come

I also lived in VA for 4 years (Navy Brat)

Cool

Permagrin wrote in post #10625885
I'm envious. I would love to head East. I would spend days in the natural history museum. I may never leave it actually. I know Dan would love to tour as many historical sites as possible.

and okay cool. My dog experts have weighed in so Hale's going swimming later.

I think I have mentioned Leyla worked through Natural History for years while she got her masters. We used to wander behind the scenes and open all the millions of little drawers and boxes of collections not on display. Only a tiny bit of what the Smithsonian owns is ever on display. I know a lot has been moved to the big archive places they have but I always found it sad to see someones old research just stuffed in a hall behind the scenes. I remember a case of little drawers with hundreds of birds collected somewhere in the 1930s just pushed aside.

thomascanty wrote in post #10625918
I also lived in Virginia for most of a year while I was in the Navy. I was stationed in Norfolk.

After that I was transferred to Orlando, FL, but I got to spend a couple weeks at home first. The first time I said "Norfolk" within earshot of my mother she flew into a rage. I'd been there long enough to learn to pronounce it like the natives, but she thought I was intentionally saying it that way, goading her as if I were swearing or something. I honestly don't think she still believes that's how it's pronounced...

Lol, I remember you saying that.

JWright wrote in post #10625926
Four years while my dad was stationed at the Naval Surface Weapons Lab at Dahlgren...

Neat. We had a Navy Surface Weapons lab just about 4 miles from here in White Oak. One of the bunkers blew up about 10 years or so ago and people felt it for miles. The closed the facility and have made it something else.

okay, now pronounce "Quayside" - no cheating allowed