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Does the birthday cake mean someone has a birthday this month?

Yes! Mine and my twin sister. We will be 81 on Sunday, Nov. 12th.

Happy Birthday to both of you!!! My mom's birthday was on Nov. 11th & my Dad's was the 12th. She always said that she had caught up with him for 1 day. Have a GREAT DAY!

Thank you. I have a cousin whose birthday is on the 11th. We have 4 birthdays to celebrate so will be going out to brunch on Sunday with about 15 people.

Happy Birthday elijah13 & your wonderful sister!! I wish you both all the best!!!
Enjoy your day & have fun!!!

Thank you.

Have a great tomorrow!!! Sounds like a great way to celebrate your Birthdays!!

Thank you.

Happy Birthday dear elijah! Hope you & your sister had a great day today & celebrated this special day, surrounded with your family & friends!!!

My best birthday present really wasn't a present--My "unfriendly" neighbors next door FINALLY cut the bushes between our houses. It was starting to come over onto my property. However, now it is all piled up by his fence. Will see how long it takes to get that moved to the street for pick-up. They have lived there about 3 years and never had cut those bushes!

We were in same situations 3 months ago. They did not trim the trees & bushes which had came over the wall between our houses! Every single day we had to clean our backyard, because all the tree brunches were coming over our house & leaves were everywhere! Finally we sent our gardener to their door!!! Then they decided to trim all those mess from our property!!!! YAY....

I think my unfriendly neighbor was working in his fenced yard this morning. Still has some things outside of his fence to put by the street to be picked up. Will see how long that takes. Glad you got your problem solved--at least for a while.

I understand you both...the house on the east is a rental we are lucky if they even cut the grass until it is way too high and then never cut or trim any bushes or trees that are along our fence. Same is true of two the ones behind us don't keep their yards or trees cut back, the third house behind us & our neighbors on the west are great they keep thing cleaned up. Our house is like a funnel in the fall for all the leaves to blow all the leaves in our front yard when the wind is from the South. They don't pick up their leaves and the means we get 3/4 of neighbors leaves on the circle.

PS...Think last year we had 53 30gal. bags of leaves and the city charges extra to pick them up after 10 bags. This year hubby is using his riding mower to chop them very fine & are using it for mulch.

Smart man you have! Our yard trash day is every Wednesday. You have to have it in bags or tied up. Is it 10 bags each time or how is it calculated?

10 bags each year....We have 2 dumpsters but have to pay extra for the second one they pick up on our street on Fri. & we get one of a big pick up a year free, but that is for large things that won't fit in the bin. We have a compactor so most of the time usually only 1 bin & if it is our regular man he don't care what is in the bin, so I can get rid of a lot of things that are not to be in our regular pick up each week. Can get about 2 30gal big bags or if we have limbs that have come down in storms in each of the bins.

Also are going to have our sewer line about 30 foot replaced from the back of the house to the main line the Monday after Thanksgiving and that not cheap, we to have policy that covers up to $4000 of that work so that helps with it, not cheap but the house was build in 72 I think.

I know where you are coming from. I have a back door that needs to be replaced. One of the window panes cracked into tiny pieces. I said just replace the door since it is old and not working well. Of course, it's a "special order" and only one company makes it. Supposed to be in by the 21st--I hope. Rick and my niece are biking on Florida west coast and coming back Wednesday. Hopefully my door will be in and he can put it up right after Thanksgiving weekend. Since it's special order, I have no idea what the cost will be. Time will tell.

Meant to type, How ever we know this is what the Lord wants. Too tire to concentrate I guess!!

I hate moving.We moved 3 times in the 5 years since we moved to Virginia. We finally found the perfect place thanks to some friends at church. We are renting from one of the Deacons in a trailer on 5 acres with privacy. Could not ask for better., Good luck with your new place God bless you too and hope you get some rest.

Prayers for a safe and happy new beginning.

Good luck Glenelle in your new home! Be safe and we'll miss you till you get back.

May you find another little corner of peace. And deal with the town! God bless you too, Glenelle. Hope the move goes smoothly for you.

Moving house is one of the biggest causes of stress, so I feel for you. You will know if it is God's will for you, just keep praying. I would hate to move at this point in my life and I have been here for 16 years. Trying to downsize so I don't leave a big mess for someone else to clean up. Hugs Glenelle.

My Mom has been downsizing like crazy. She's hoping to sell the cottage next year. She basically downsized when moving from the farm on Manitoulin Island but now she's downsizing big time. The hope is to get an apartment so selling the cottage and moving into the new place can work together. Take care, Aussie and have a great day. Hugs!

My uncle has a cottage up in Mich. - about 40 families go up there. There's dining facilities on the premises too. All of the families know each other - each family has been coming there for 4 generations.

I've lived at this address for 16 years and lived in this town for 25 years. I did move away for 3 years.

Hello Glenelle ~ hope the move went well! And yes, our NZ kingfishers are a very different colour. I like watching them around here and they are so pretty. Lots of water places around here at Te Aroha :) Bless you.

What you said about the kookaburras and their laughing brought back a pleasant but vague memory of singing a song in elementary school about laughing kookaburras. Now in the back of my mind I'll be trying to remember the words. What a good memory!

The quote about gratefulness is so very true. If we are grateful for what we have, we can be happy with just barely what we need. God bless you and many hugs, aussie.

Globug - Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree,
Merry, merry king of the bush is he.
Laugh, kookaburra, laugh, kookaburra,
Gay your life must be, haha,
Gay your life must be.

Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree. Merry, merry king of the bush is he! Laugh kookaburra, laugh. Gay your life shall be!

I still remember it...why, I have no idea. That was around 50 years ago!

Here you go globug - must admit I have never heard of the second version of this song and there is a word used in both versions which would be "politically incorrect" these days

Kookaburra sits on the old gum tree,
Merry merry king of the bush is he.
Laugh, Kookaburra, laugh, Kookaburra,
Gay your life must be!
Kookaburra sits on the old gum tree,
Eating all the gum drops he can see.
Stop Kookaburra, stop Kookaburra
Save some there for me!
Kookaburra sits on the old gum tree,
Counting all the monkeys he can see.
Laugh Kookaburra, laugh Kookaburra
That's not a monkey, that's me!
Alternative verses
Kookaburra sits on the electric wire,
Jumping up and down, with his pants on fire.
Ouch, Kookaburra, ouch! Kookaburra,
Hot your tail must be!
Kookaburra sits on a rusty nail,
Gets a boo-boo in his tail.
Cry, Kookaburra, cry, Kookaburra,
Oh how life can be!
Kookaburra sits on the old gum tree,
Eating all the gum drops he can see.
Laugh Kookaburra, laugh Kookaburra
Gay your life must be!

Thank you aussie, Taffi and aknan. That's the song! The first version "sounds" like the one I remember.
;)

Thank you, aussie. Never heard the other verses, but they made me laugh!

:) all. Hugs.