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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DallasFanForever" data-source="post: 371617" data-attributes="member: 13221">Thank you for saying that ‘Lashes! It’s much appreciated cause sometimes I read my posts back and I do wonder if I do. How’s your weekend going? I’m just curious, what is the average price of fuel over there these days? Right now over here where I live I’m noticing it’s around $4 per gallon. This made me laugh! Especially the part about spending a lot of money there and having nothing to show for it. I guess I never looked at it that way before. I like going to them for the snacks and drinks but I guess that’s because I’m outside all day. I remember reading that. It was early in this thread in a conversation between you and Bowie Girl. Yes, we call them baseboards here and I had never heard of skirting boards until you said it. I thought you were talking about something that gets added to the bottom of a dress or something. I never realized just how many words and phrases we say differently but I kind of like that, as I know you do too. My favorite part is using them over here and seeing the reaction I get. Okay, that’s good to hear cause I thought I had frightened you terribly. I was picturing Long Lashes hiding under a table or a chair every time I mentioned a hurricane was on the way and I felt bad LOL!! Air-con outside here is my dream in life! I wish it were possible. So you have patio heaters? You know I just realized I haven’t used the word heater in almost 30 years ‘Lashes? It was a real treat, I gotta say. I just wish I had paid more attention to it when I lived there but I guess when we’re younger we really don’t get into that kind of stuff as much. It would definitely mean a lot to me. Almost as much as visiting there again one day would. That place has been calling to me a lot lately and I’m having a hard time ignoring it. I do hope no psychiatrists are reading this ‘Lashes. This was so awesome to read! Thank you for sharing this. I often wonder if I would even recognize someone I grew up with if I ran into them now and vice versa. Will you be staying in touch with this person now? She really was! I remember her crying when I told her and asking me how it still looked and all these questions, but I don’t think she ever expected me to go back there for a visit. Again, when you’re a kid growing up I think we tend to be thinking about so many other things and we take the important stuff for granted. At least I know I did. That house meant the world to her and to me it felt like just a house and once we moved I was just happy to move on. She’d say “I miss our house so much” when we first moved down here and she’d cry and I’d just roll my eyes cause I had no plans of ever going back again. And then I went back again. It was about 9 years later. Standing there at 28 as opposed to being 19 when we left put everything in a different perspective. I finally understood why that house meant so much to her and even more importantly I now knew what it meant to me. I just went there to see it, never expecting to feel what I felt standing there. It may have been the most emotional thing I’ve ever experienced. I still don’t have words to describe it. So of course when I got back to Florida I had one more thing to do, and that was eat crow and do the one thing I always hated the most in life; tell my mother she was right. I planned on the gloating and “I told you so” and you know, the usual stuff they like to say but I received none of that. It was actually quite different and I was so glad I told her what I had done. It meant the world to her that I had gone back and I’m so glad the way it happened now.  I didn’t know it at the time but in less than five years she’d be gone. So that’s really why that visit in 2003 meant so much to me. Are you sure I don’t babble ‘Lashes? You might be wrong on that one my friend. I’ve always said ‘Mom’ Or Ma’. Now you guys say ‘mum’ over there, correct? Another difference in our language. I’m really amazed at all the different little quirks we have! Thank you! Your last sentence especially was so nice to read! I do often wonder what others think of it though. One person thought it was the house on The Brady Bunch. I like how you constantly change avatars though. It’s always something to look forward to. I like seeing what you’ll do next. I’m enjoying it. Between the eagles and the plants, I’ve learned a lot. These are things I wouldn’t have appreciated very much at one time. There’s no way anyone can read about Michelle and all the plants she’s rescued and not get a little teary eyed. I read all of that and it certainly puts life in perspective. If she can take the time to type something so personal and dear to her as when one of her plants died and share that with us then the least I can do is read it. I can tell when someone is serious, and you and Michelle obviously took those eagles seriously, as I know you both still do. When you alerted everyone that Soap had fallen out of the nest I actually jumped reading that. It’s so hard to not get attached to those eagles. I had never watched an eagles nest until I joined this site so going back and read all of that was quite the experience for me. Too funny! I guess unless you’ve actually read the thread or watched the nest yourself it’s a little hard to understand. I’ve tried explaining the eagles to a few people I know and they had no interest. Chat was hilarious! He was so happy to just stay in the nest and have everything done for him. It’s so funny how they each had their own little personalities and differences. I’m sure they are! Hopefully Chat is now hunting his own food and not still standing somewhere having  Soap bring it to him. You’re welcome my friend and I always get what it is you’re trying to say.Which is odd cause I don’t always get what I’m trying to say sometimes  ‘Lashes. Let’s face it, it’s easy to misconstrue words on a computer screen with no emotion behind them. That’s why I think the emojis are such a good idea at times. But I would never even consider you offending someone. That is the furthest thing from my mind whenever I read one of your posts. Lurk away ‘Lashes. You’re more than welcome over there anytime! I know you didn’t watch a whole lot of Dallas and fear you might not know what you’re talking about but most of us over there have no idea what we’re saying anyway most of the time. I hope you’re having a great weekend my friend!! And that goes for everyone else here!!</blockquote>

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