Where do you live?

[Pretty Mean Shawme]

Remember when Ms. Clancy posted beautiful pictures of her home town? Well, my home town isn't that beautiful, but I thought it would be nice to share pictures now and then of where we live, I just had to share an amazing Rocky Mountain sunset as seen from the prarie.

[Greeneyed Gypsy]

Oh that does it!! where is my camera?!?! :w2
Now I may WHINE about the lack of decent fabric stores ( and we do have them they are just stupidly expensive!) but I happen to be living on some of THE mose exclusive shoreline in the nation and as it is federal land out beaches have no public access and are like a dream from another time...

Star fish galore and sealions watching you from about 50 feet out....

and we have lovely WORLD CLASS pea soup fog most mornings :re

Greeneyed ( only 3 other places in the world have our fog and they are all in England and Ireland...) Gypsy

[Garnet Rose]

'Course the lake doesn't always have a rainbow and it disappears in the morning fog, but even then, I know it's there! (and count my blessings)

[Pretty Mean Shawme]

That is AWESOME Garnet Rose!

GG get out your camera!

(we get double rainbows here, I'll have to get a picture of one next time)

[Blazin' Cali Rose]

Oh wow!! Beautiful pictures. I live in the So Cal desert better known as hell and the only time it is even remotely pretty here (in my opinion) is around March/April after some rain when all the desert is blooming. Then, it is very different but it doesn't last long. :re


Cali

[Catawba Kate]

It might be kinda small but here are the Great Smokies in NC

[Catawba Kate]

And here is my home in NC. Ya'll come visit sometime. We've got plenty of room.!!! Sorry this pic is small too.

[Pretty Mean Shawme]

Ya know what. I am going to take you up on that Kate! I'll be there in oh say a couple of weeks. What are you doing on the 16th?

[Allie Mo]

Hello,

This was my new house! :18 Thank heaven we got it tore down. This is the "thing" that was on the 10 acres we bought.

I'll get you a photo of our current house (the one we are moving from when we get the new one built) at a later time.

I thought you might need some humor. ;)

Regards,

Allie Mo

[Allie Mo]

Darn fingers are out of control. I hit enter instead of apostrophe.

Here it is! :18 :re

[Allie Mo]

That was the side rear.

Here is the "Grand Entrance." :18

[Coffee Em]

Oh, poor little dome! I'm nuts for domes, round houses, octagonal houses, stuff like that, but that one got no love!

Hey, PMS, I don't get any picture at all with your first post, even here on the fast connection. Where's that purty scenery?

Cheers,
Coffee Em

[Allie Mo]

Just so you know, we really did tear it down. :18

Left the john for last. That's hubbie playing in the rubble.

I swear I did not live in that thing for one day! :18

[Fannie Kikinshoot]

South Carolina is just dripping with history and spanish moss.

[Fannie Kikinshoot]

After you go stay with Catawba Kate at her home in Asheville, you can come stay with me in Charleston.

[Nellie Blue]

Come visit me in December!

[Nellie Blue]

And here's where Nellie's Mom & Dad lives....

[Kid Sopris]

And I live right down the street from Nellie! Honest she told me so! :cgun :lasso

[Nellie Blue]

Yep...in this house...

[Pretty Mean Shawme]

Count me in Nellie!

[Allie Mo]

Kid,

That's a mighty fine lookin' house.

I LOVE palm trees. We've got two in front of our "real" house. Show y'all tomorrey.

Regards,

Allie Mo

[Nellie Blue]

And I HATE palm trees...good thing that the back yard is full of pine trees! :rofl

[Lizzie Marie]

And where do Nellies mom and dad live? that don't look like henderson to me

[Nellie Blue]

Definitely not Henderson! It's SW Louisiana...in the "safe" zone today! And it's home to me even if I don't live there! :)

One of these days I'm going to convince her to create her OWN login!!!

[Lizzie Marie]

Here is downtown Powell, WY at about 6:30 am....we are moving to here in about 2 years...

[Lizzie Marie]

Hey mom.....join and get your own name....then we can talk with you also
AND QUIT HIDING

[Nellie Blue]

Hehehehe!

Lizzie...that looks like heaven!

[Fannie Kikinshoot]

Hey, Nellie's Mom, you need to join. We'll make you a full fledge member right off the bat. :rofl :rofl

[Nellie Blue]

Unlike your daughter who will be a "Junior" member FOREVER!!! :rofl

[Tornado Alli]

Okay this is where I used to live:

[Tornado Alli]

Here is the view out the front:

[Tornado Alli]

And here is my parent's house just down the shoreline from my old house, which is really my aunt's house where I lived for about six months after my separation. What a place to land, huh?

[Greeneyed Gypsy]

thats depends ...you got a good night vision site on your high power rifle??

Greeneyed ( Hubbie's input...see what I live with??) Gypsy :re

[Black Hills Barb]

Here's a view of my little village from the top of cemetery hill. My house is pretty much in the dead center, behind that tree. The garage is what you have a better view of in the back.

[Allie Mo]

Alli, I always wanted to live by a lake or river. Guess, I'm not going to make it. I'm pretty happy with the 10 acres, now that "the thing" :18 is gone. I'll get some shots of the pine trees next time I go there. Maybe the Junior Girl will like them. ;)

Love the photos! Barb, that's a pretty little village.

Regards,

Allie

[Drydock]

Best I can do is this little place I planning to build when I get my job and land out here in Missouri.

http://www.houseplansandmore.com/floorplans/062D/062D-0031/062D-0031-front-med.gif

[Lizzie Marie]

Drydock, I already have my house plans picked out also....isn't it fun to go and look....course we have changed our minds a couple of times already :18

[Greeneyed Gypsy]

Beauty Drydock!

yep Lizzie's latest pick is my faverite...but they have all been beautiful...and they have a guest room...boy the drive to the monthly matches in WY are going to be somthin'!!! :sl

[Allie Mo]

Hey Drydock, nice plan. You gave me an idea. Here's the facade of house we're building to replace the "thing." :18 If you find the floorplan on-line, our interior is different.

Later for photos of the current house. I could get run over standing in the street. :re We live in downtown Sacramento, six blocks from the Capitol.

Regards,

Allie Mo

[Wallaby Jack]

Well,
To the left of centre is a farmhouse that I live in.
The house on the right at the bottom is my parents (all them gardens), and the house to the lowr left is where my sister lives.

This pitcher is fairly old and the dairy has been rebuilt since..... but, everything is in the same places.

This is where I grew up, and the dairyfarm is still functioning.
(for those of us with "chopped-off" pitchers..... it's the house you CAN see)

[Pretty Mean Shawme]

Can I come visit? :)

[Allie Mo]

Hey PMS,

Who ya talkin' to?

If it's me, you betcha can come visit (as soon as the house is finished...please let it be soon)!

Regards,

Allie Mo

[Kid Sopris]

Well Here's a picture at night where I used to live. Mount Sopris, Colorado. My place would have been all the way down to the left out of picture. Why am I in Las Vegas? Don't have to shovel SUNSHINE...YET!

[Blazin' Cali Rose]

Damn but that is a beautiful picture. Not sure I could do snow since I've been a desert rat most of my life but I'd sure be willing to try if i got to see that out the window every morning.


Cali

[Pretty Mean Shawme]

Well Here's a picture at night where I used to live. Mount Sopris, Colorado. My place would have been all the way down to the left out of picture. Why am I in Las Vegas? Don't have to shovel SUNSHINE...YET!


Yeah but you don't get views like that!

[Wallaby Jack]

C'mon under any ol' time :)

[Drydock]

Consider this a standing invitation to any of you passing thru Missouri in the future. I've got a family cabin down on the Lake of the Ozarks I can put y'all up in until mine is built, even!

[DogWoman]

Sunrise and a sunset. Sunrise over the Wahsatch foothills and sunset over the Great Salt Lake.

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Buck&Sue's bunk house

[Doc workday]

Well this is where I live
Doesn't Carrie do nice landscaping?

[Rev Willy Dunkum]

Wallaby,

Nice layout, but what is that big green mound in the back??? Here I am in the flat land prairie of Illinois where you can see for miles and miles and only corn and beans for scenery! This is the family homestead before remodeling in '85.

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a275/willy51/farmstead0001.jpg


We used to have a saying, come to Illinois and surf the corn!

Really tho, when you are sitting outside at night, you can hear the wind through the corn and it is relaxing. You can hear the rain coming by hearing it on the crops. Its nice to be able to see the lights from towns that are 20-30 miles away on a clear night. We talk about going somewhere else, but we were both raised here. I've lived in Denver, Kentucky, California and I keep coming home.

I am envious of some of the scenery you all wake up to tho! It is breathtaking.

Rev

[Allie Mo]

Howdy Folks,

I finally got brave enough to cross the street to take a photo. The city just replaced our sidewalks and curbs, so there are no cars parked in front of the "money pit," oh er, I mean house. Seems like we just painted, replaced the steps...and they need it again. :re

Regards,

Allie Mo
Who lives in an almost period-correct house; it's circa 1900.

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Mo, I'm glad it's you guys that have to paint that, I've got a thing about ladders. Am I counting three story's or is that a raised foundation?........Buck :cgun :fm

[Kitty Phann]

Great house. Looks like alot of windows to wash besides the painting.

Kitty(who doesn't like heights or ladders)Phann

[Allie Mo]

Mo, I'm glad it's you guys that have to paint that, I've got a thing about ladders. Am I counting three story's or is that a raised foundation?........Buck :cgun :fm
Buck,

We hired a fellow to strip it, then Jess and I painted it. I'm not partial to heights either, so Jess had to paint the top floor and attic area by himself. It's three stories, plus an unfinished attic. The basement (or first floor) has a lower ceiling. It is where Jess has his "playroom" and we have a pool table there too. Then there are two full stories.

A lot of houses in Sacramento have the main floor at least six feet above ground because it flooded in the winter before they built the levees.

Kitty, thanks for the compliment. We both have problems with our hands and the upkeep is getting to be too much. We've lived here since 1973. So, you can imagine, we get one thing fixed or replaced and something else breaks. That's one reason that we're moving.

Regards,

Allie Mo

[Kitty Phann]

Allie, I know what you mean. Houses can sometimes be a money pit. You just about get one thing done and then another thing goes. We have a house that is 12 years old and I have been slowly trying to de-pink the house. The previous owners love mauve (you know 1970) and it is all over the house. Don't get me wrong I like color it is just she over did it. She had mauve floors,sinks and walls.

[DogWoman]

Oh do I know that color overdo! Our house was built in 1972 and avacado green was big. The kitchen was carpeted in shades of green, walls green, green appliances. Then the rest of the house overflowed in GREEN!

We are getting the kitchen ripped out in November and NO MORE GREEN! The only green left is one bedroom. That will go in the not too distant future.

[Allie Mo]

Ooh ooh DogWoman,

I don't think you'll like our new house (if it ever gets built, still no foundation). I am thinking of painting it a pale grey-green with white trim and raspberry door/accent trim.

You can't see it too well. The current house is pale blue with white, darker grey-blue, and lavendar trim. I like using a multi-color scheme. However, it is tedious to paint.

I just got rid of my last bit of avocado green. It was an electric skillet I received as a wedding present in 1971. Avocado green and harvest gold were big then. :18

Kitty, I like that term "de-pinking." I think we just get tired of excesses in color.

Regards,

Allie Mo

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Ah, yes, avocado and harvest gold. Saw a bunch of that go through the plant back then. Mostly fry pans and washers/dryers. Some of the new stuff ain't much better with all those shocking colors.........Buck :cgun :rofl :eek:

[DogWoman]

Yep, that's why I like stainless steel and white.

Our one bedroom has pond scum green shag carpet. I'd like to strangle the moron who designed shag carpet!

[Catawba Kate]

Yep, that's why I like stainless steel and white.

Our one bedroom has pond scum green shag carpet. I'd like to strangle the moron who designed shag carpet!
Believe it or not but shag is back IN!!! :18

[Hugh Damwright]

Believe it or not but shag is back IN!!! :18

Glad you said that Kate!! I STILL have my authentic orange shag bedroom carpet! I knew if I kept it long enuf, I would be "in". :)

[Four-Eyed Buck]

That's one thing I can do without.......Buck :re :18

[DogWoman]

So...does anyone want some real VINTAGE pond scum green shag carpet. I can let it go for a real song! Yep..song...any CD will do....

Don't delay on this folks!!! It's way too good to pass up!

[Kid Sopris]

Now there is a real offer! I know some folks that live out near Area 51, that would make a great toupe!

[Pretty Mean Shawme]

Believe it or not but shag is back IN!!! :18

I bought a beautiful cobalt blue shag area rug that I just fell in love with. It looked soooo cool in my living room. But then.... a day later, it had collected every little thing in my home, like a magnet, all the dog and cat hair was magically attracted to it, sticks, stones, things that I never see on my floor were all of a sudden embedded in this rug!

Okay, so I'm thinking, "I'll just have to vacuum this daily” I get out my handy dandy Dyson vacuum cleaner and "RRRRIRIRIRR” it makes the most horrible noise, I can't use that vacuum on that rug. I would have to use my old vacuum, and I would vacuum and vacuum and still there would be %$^)## in my not so beautiful now shag area rug.

I now understand why shag didn't last and it won't last this time around either. That area rug got ripped up off my living room floor, beaten hosed off (images of Velvet glove hosing down her beautiful gowns running through my head) dried, rolled and tossed in the basement.

Friends don't let friends buy shag carpet. Please let this be a public service announcement to anyone thinking thoughts of shag carpet.

[Garnet Rose]

Those who don't learn from history must repeat it.

Way back in the Dark Ages, our first apartment had olive green shag carpet. And of course, since we were renting, there wasn't a thing we could do about it. However, my little sister was kind enough to give us a "carpet rake" which saved my sanity.

[Kitty Phann]

True confessions.....I tried to tell my friend not to buy it for her new house but she wouldn't listen! I keep asking her how she likes her new carpet and she still says she love it....I can't believe it! Guess in this case you can lead a horse to water but you can make them drink!

[DogWoman]

And shag carpet is exactly WHY I love laminate flooring!

You haven't lived until you have a dog with diarrhea targeting the shag...

[Poney Racer]

I have lived on this1406

For better part of 4-5 years

And then here1407

For the better part of 3 years - Key west was no nice:)

Poney Racer

[Clancy]

And shag carpet is exactly WHY I love laminate flooring!

You haven't lived until you have a dog with diarrhea targeting the shag...


OMG dog woman i just about choked, here i am enjoying my cottage cheese and gherkin relish on crisp bread for lunch and i get to read your thread....


:18

Mo, your home is just goreous, i would die to have a house like that...Although i think i would tire of the stairs pretty quick...

[Four-Eyed Buck]

The one place we lived back then had ORANGE shag in almost every room.........Buck:18 :re

[Allie Mo]

Hello,

Thanks Clancy.

I was too embarassed or whatever to mention this before...my first apartment had charcoal grey shag in the bedroom (1970). I tore it out and found linoleum. The manager said "what are you doing" when I carried the rug to the dumpster. I told him I was getting rid of the carpet. He said he'd have to keep my cleaning deposit. I told him that I was cleaning the apartment. When I moved out, I got my deposit back.

Regards,

Allie Mo

[Poney Racer]

My first CO - Commanding Officer on that ship I lived on had shag carpet removed from his Cabin along with a 60's looking love seat that screamed - this is the Coast Guard we go to flea markets for our furniture - cheap flea markets.

He said he lived as a 20 something through the sixties and sure as "He.." was not going to live through it again on his ship.

Poney Racer

[DogWoman]

Gee...now I know where some of that ship furniture went. My husband's office was furnished from an old battleship somewhere. You could see the holes in the legs where it was bolted to the floor of the ship.

When he went to his home office, they asked if he needed the desk. Are you kidding???? He told them to keep it. We bought him an old desk at a garage sale and cleaned it up.

And speaking of houses....

Our kitchen is getting REMODELLED starting November 14. We are having a ball picking out cabenets, flooring, etc. On Saturday, I went through 429 pages of knobs for the cabinets. (http://myknobs.com) We are getting knobs that look like the SASS badges. I think we are carrying this Cowboy Action Shooting thing too far...

I'll send before and after pics when it's done.

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Alright, Dog Woman!:bow Now that's a kitchen. I've got switch plates with badges on them in my loading room........Buck:cgun

[DogWoman]

http://www.myknobs.com/kncaknandpuw31.html

This place has the coolest knobs. I wanted moose anlters but husband didn't. After looking at 8,580 knobs, we finally agreed on the stars.

[Chihuahua Floyd]

Anybody want a couple of small chunks of black shag carpet. Chipmunk's room had black shag when we moved in. Now it is carpeted with clothes.
CF

[DogWoman]

Are you sure Chipmunk doesn't know my daughter????? Her room is also carpeted with clothing. I really forgot what color it actually is!

[Wallaby Jack]

I don't got carpet..... I live alone an' I know'd I were gunna do tha floor coverin's with clothes........ yew know......walkon closet.


:fm

[Nellie Blue]

:rofl :rofl :rofl I can relate!

[Carolina Chipmunk]

Are you sure Chipmunk doesn't know my daughter????? Her room is also carpeted with clothing. I really forgot what color it actually is!
I was gonna say you could see a large section of my floor...but then I decided to rearrange my furniture and reorganize all of the clothes in my drawers...I guess this must be one of those things that has to get worse before it gets better. :D

[Carolina Chipmunk]

I don't got carpet..... I live alone an' I know'd I were gunna do tha floor coverin's with clothes........ yew know......walkon closet.


:fm
Most of my closet is a walk-on closet right now...I spent half of Friday night trying to find an outfit to wear to the shoot...guess I forgot to hang all of it back up... :fm

[Allie Mo]

Woo Hoo!

I finally have good news. Our house got framed last week. Now, we need trusses and no, it's not going to be flat. :18 It will have a 32 foot front porch too.

Here's the progress. Incredibly, it only took three days to frame. I posted a picture on page 4 of how I hope it will look. We didn't have room for transoms.

I'm so relieved to be moving forward.

Regards,

Allie Mo

[Allie Mo]

Here's part I'm really looking forward to using. This is the South side of the house. The window on the left that you can see through and out another window is where the master bath tub is. That door is a direct entrance from hubbies shop to the master bath. No tracking through the house.

I'm soooo excited.:tban

Regards,

Allie Mo

[Greeneyed Gypsy]

WOW Mo it is looking good...its very cool to watch something like this come to life...congratulations!!:tban :tban

[Lady Fleur]

This is in my backyard(sorry not catholic). The statues in the cemetary are amazing !
http://www.sanluisrey.org/

[Kitty Phann]

I toured that mission when we were stationed in SD! If only I knew all you guys back then! Small world, huh.

[Drydock]

I move into my little house in my tiny town on thursday. I'll take some more pictures, then hopefully find someone to scan them in.

[Greeneyed Gypsy]

DO you all have snow yet? I miss Nebraska winter...they had real snow we are just too far west and south now...dont miss driving in it though...not at all...

[Lady Fleur]

Small world... did you know there is a small "village of the first buildings of oceanside " behind it! http://www.rancholasbrisasapts.com/virtual/lifestyle/ca/images/heritagepark.gif
I grew up with the caretakers son! I would love to create a event!
It has a jail, dr office, saloon , assorted stores,museum, church, gazebo in the square and is so gorgeous!

[Ida Hands]

Well, Miss Fleur, I live just a hop and skip away from you over by the Qualliseum! I am in SD county too! By SDSU. I never knew about Rancho Las Brisas(although it does sound familiar).

[Lady Fleur]

Well one day we must meet and do lunch perhaps in the new year? Mayhaps a tv/sass/belles san diego luncheon/tea?:jp

[Ida Hands]

That sounds fabulous! It would be great to get together for a luncheon/tea/thingie. If you do put an event together, just let me know. I'd love to help. http://georgehernandez.com/h/xComputers/Communicating/eSpeak/media/y6/69.gif

[Lady Fleur]

I'll surely add you in!
I will post all details here and on tv site too!

[Ponderosa Starr]

Since I just joined up here I am going through the past threads and found this one. It is nice to see where every one lives.. I have a couple of pics of my place, that I want to share. I am in the midst of re doing a lot - just repainted it on the outside - same basic colors with a little touch added here and there. And next will be to re do the landscape. Living here on the So. CA high desert, especially in Apple Valley, the water rates have gone through the roof the last few yrs. I can't afford the nice grass anymore.. So It is in the process of being replaced with drought tolerant colorful plants and shrubs. I will post a pic when it is all finished. I really think I am going to like it a lot better too...

Front yard:

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid201/paf5ce8b3ec6bb786f0325e75639a97ea/effc53f6.jpg

Back yard:

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid201/p6c3cbc9520ff1a25947547f1c1091e5a/effc5393.jpg

[DogWoman]

You will like not having the grass. Nothing to MOW!

Our dogs are working on the back yard re-landscaping and we've been doing the front, tearing out heavy water loving shrubs and going to drought tolerant perenniels and smaller plants that are native.

We hope to tear out three trees this summer (or more if I have the energy!).

Nice having you on the board!

[Drusilla]

I am new to the forum also, here's some pics from the AZ/Mexico border, just outside Tombstone town.
Don't laugh, my house is named "Little Yellow House on the Prairie". I wanted a cheerfull color....
And the barn and my old pal and 25 year old endurance horse, Dot with my current workhorse Buddy.
And no Dot is not preganant, just fat and retired. That mare has 20,000 endurance miles, has done Tevis, and has a 23 mile and hour trot. :-))))

[Clancy]

For those that didnt see the pics before, this is the land down under, well the part i live in. I live in the equivalent of your Washington DC, Canberra is Australias capital (not sydney), well i live over the border, but work in Canberra, which is also know as the bush capital. population of not more that 330,000 people. 21/2 drive to sydney, 11/2 hr drive to the coast and 11/2hr drive to the Snowy Mountains.

[Clancy]

Our house of parliament

[Clancy]

yes it does snow in Australia... this is the mountains near us called the Brindabellas

[Clancy]

and the back of our house we are about to pull down

[Kid Sopris]

Clancy Nice House, but love those mountains..I suppose you got no big game to hunt except them roos and wally's HUH?:ty

[Ponderosa Starr]

Since I just joined up here I am going through the past threads and found this one. It is nice to see where every one lives.. I have a couple of pics of my place, that I want to share. I am in the midst of re doing a lot - just repainted it on the outside - same basic colors with a little touch added here and there. And next will be to re do the landscape. Living here on the So. CA high desert, especially in Apple Valley, the water rates have gone through the roof the last few yrs. I can't afford the nice grass anymore.. So It is in the process of being replaced with drought tolerant colorful plants and shrubs. I will post a pic when it is all finished. I really think I am going to like it a lot better too...

Front yard:

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid201/paf5ce8b3ec6bb786f0325e75639a97ea/effc53f6.jpg

Back yard:

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid201/p6c3cbc9520ff1a25947547f1c1091e5a/effc5393.jpg




I wonder what happened to my pictures? They were here yesterday, when I posted them, now they are gone:snifles

[Ponderosa Starr]

I am new to the forum also, here's some pics from the AZ/Mexico border, just outside Tombstone town.
Don't laugh, my house is named "Little Yellow House on the Prairie". I wanted a cheerfull color....
And the barn and my old pal and 25 year old endurance horse, Dot with my current workhorse Buddy.
And no Dot is not preganant, just fat and retired. That mare has 20,000 endurance miles, has done Tevis, and has a 23 mile and hour trot. :-))))


Nice place Drusilla.. Wow, that is something about your mare having so many endurance miles on her, and she still looks GREAT !! You obviously, have taken great care of her.. :)

[Ponderosa Starr]

yes it does snow in Australia... this is the mountains near us called the Brindabellas


Clancy: Yeah it snows -- in JULY! :lool
What is it like to have Christmas in the middle of summer? How can you have Santa and Rudolph and the sleigh? And the Christnmas songs of "Winter Wonderland, Frosty the Snow Man, Jingle Bells -- and not have snow???


Your place - the picture of the mountains with the house and the Eucalyptus trees - reminds me of the San Bernardino Valley area of Southern CA about 20 yrs ago!!!

[Drusilla]

WOW!:ty
Very neat pic of the mountains and country Clancy. Why are you pulling down the house? Looks pretty neat.

[Four-Eyed Buck]

I think she meant the wood over the patio part, Dru. Not the whole house. Probably replacement time.........Buck:rofl :cgun

[Clancy]

extsnion is going on, making the house bigger (more cleaning), adding on another master bedroom doubling our family room and putting in a fireplace

[Ponderosa Starr]

Your house is really nice Clancy..

[Drusilla]

Yes, it looks big, I like the brickwork. We just added a cement pad on the front of the "Little Yelow House", and will be adding an enclosed porch this summer. Here's a small view of Miller Peak on the Huachuca Mountains where we live. We are experiencing a terrible drought here, and have had one small dusting of snow, so I took a pic, just as the sun rose and touched the top.
We are at 5,000 feet and the peak is at about 9,000.

[Clancy]

Clancy: Yeah it snows -- in JULY! :lool
What is it like to have Christmas in the middle of summer? How can you have Santa and Rudolph and the sleigh? And the Christnmas songs of "Winter Wonderland, Frosty the Snow Man, Jingle Bells -- and not have snow???


People here do a lot of christmas in July celebrations... As to hot summer christmas', we do bbq dinners, or the big thing is fresh seafood, oz has good seafood...The only drawback is you have to eat your christmas chocolate really fast...

We have santa in boardshorts and his zinc cream on his nose and hat for sun protection (slip slop slap), and he gets around in a sleigh pulled by boomers (kangaroos) not reindeers

and her is the aussie version of jingle bells

Dashing through the bush,
in a rusty Holden Ute,
Kicking up the dust,
esky in the boot,
Kelpie by my side,
singing Christmas songs,
It's Summer time and I am in
my singlet, shorts and thongs

Oh! Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way,
Christmas in Australia
on a scorching summers day, Hey!
Jingle bells, jingle bells, Christmas time is beaut!,
Oh what fun it is to ride in a rusty Holden Ute.

Engine's getting hot;
we dodge the kangaroos,
The swaggie climbs aboard,
he is welcome too.
All the family's there,
sitting by the pool,
Christmas Day the Aussie way,
by the barbecue.

Oh! Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way,
Christmas in Australia
on a scorching summers day, Hey!
Jingle bells, jingle bells, Christmas time is beaut!,
Oh what fun it is to ride in a rusty Holden Ute.

Come the afternoon,
Grandpa has a doze,
The kids and Uncle Bruce,
are swimming in their clothes.
The time comes 'round to go,
we take the family snap,
Pack the car and all shoot through,
before the washing up.

Oh! Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way,
Christmas in Australia
on a scorching summers day, Hey!
Jingle bells, jingle bells, Christmas time is beaut!,
Oh what fun it is to ride in a rusty Holden Ute.

[Clancy]

and the translation to the song

Below is the translation from the Australian language to English.
1) Answer. Holden is a make of car, its main opposition in Australia is Ford or Toyota. See below. Ute is an abbreviation of utility. The ute is usually based on the current model car and is thus about the size of a car and not usually as large as what Americans call a "pick up truck" so "dashing through the bush in a rusty Ford pick up truck" is a translation. Pronunciation Holden - hold den. Ute to rhyme with boot.(boot is the trunk)

2)Singlet -wife beater, thongs- flip flops

3) Answer. An esky is a portable cooler to keep your drink and food cool. Say 18 inches long by 12 wide by 15 height. A clip on lid and a handle, we put ice in them to do the cooling. Very well insulated,

3) Answer. A kelpie is an Australian breed of dog. Much like a Border Collie only a rougher coat. Traditionally trained to herd sheep and is a farmers best friend.
4) Answer. Swaggie is an abbreviation of Swagman. These were men who during the depression tramped the country side with their few possession in a swag on their back. The english translation would be similar to a tramp.

5) Answer. Don't tell me you have not, run off and left your mum to do the washing up of all the dirty dishes after a meal. Shoot through means leave suddenly. This line means load the presents into the car and leave before the washing up is done.

[Wallaby Jack]

Doggone it Miss Clancy, ya done gone an' told 'em all our secrets :scared

Now what have we got ta keep secret.... ? ....... my dazzling wit an' good looks ?? ......... I thimk not !!


:wallaby:scared:wallaby

[Kitty Phann]

I wonder what happened to my pictures? They were here yesterday, when I posted them, now they are gone:snifles


They are here! post #96 page 10 but it is nice to see them again!


Clancy, so your real Christmas is like having it in California, except that it is alot warmer. Hey, and that is cool to celebrate Christmas twice bet the kids love it.

[Lizzie Marie]

Clancy, so your real Christmas is like having it in California, except that it is alot warmer. Hey, and that is cool to celebrate Christmas twice bet the kids love it.


Why would they celebrate twice? The Aussies celebrate it the same time we do, December 25th, only it is their summertime there......

[DogWoman]

For more aussie translations.
http://www.dunway.com/html/aussie_slang.html

On another board we had an Aussie. I can't tell you the laughs we had over a couple years with him. We had a 'food' contest or Taste of Australia vs Taste of America.

America won. Apparently, the Aussie had difficulty with the milk covered herring. *grin*

During that time, I had the pleasure(?) of tasting vegemite and musk flavored life savers.

Never had 'em? Go to your medicine cabinet, take out the Old Spice and take a swig and you have the same flavor as a musk life saver.

Vegemite??? Take your favorite lager, let it dry in the glass, scrap out the dregs and spread it on your favorite cracker.

[Clancy]

For more aussie translations.
http://www.dunway.com/html/aussie_slang.html

During that time, I had the pleasure(?) of tasting vegemite and musk flavored life savers.

Never had 'em? Go to your medicine cabinet, take out the Old Spice and take a swig and you have the same flavor as a musk life saver.

Vegemite??? Take your favorite lager, let it dry in the glass, scrap out the dregs and spread it on your favorite cracker.


Thats funny Dogwoman, i eat vegemite every morning on my toast and i havent had musk lifesavers forever...but i do like them.. i guess it comes down to what your brought up on......a bit like LIVERMUSH

[DogWoman]

The first time I ate a musk lifesaver, it left my mouth so fast it put a hole in the sheet rock. My DOGS looked at it, sniffed it, and left it lay on the floor.

Now vegemite was another thing altogether. My Aussie friend said he has it on toast for breakfast. So..I decided to give it a whirl. The smell told me to use if VERY sparingly.

I tried to drag my tongue across sandpaper to get the taste off! The ONLY thing that got it out of my mouth was drinking a swig of BEER. My kids looked at me at 9:00 a.m. drinking a beer!

NO WONDER you guys like lager so early in the day!!!!

It did my heart good to see a friend send him the herring in milk sauce....

[Allie Mo]

This will be the view up my driveway in a few months, minus the snow.

[Nellie Blue]

Beautiful!!! :wv But are you going to be able to get in there in the winter time?

[Sarah Bernhardt]

Allie Mo,
I can't wait to see more. The entrance to your new abode is so beautiful. Please post more picture when you get a chance.