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    Post by orphaned Wed Apr 22, 2015 9:12 pm

    JustTheFacts wrote:Definitely cool owls! And funny kitties!
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    Pinterest is most amazing .. are from there.


    That bedspread just blows me away  > looks like feathers !!
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    Post by orphaned Wed Apr 22, 2015 10:44 pm

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    should have warned y'all when I first arrived !!


    OOOOOOOPS !!!  Embarrassed Snicker Belly laugh 



    well, for future reference ....  


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    mea culpa  ...
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    Post by JustTheFacts Thu Apr 23, 2015 9:57 pm

    INCOMING!

    Red Alert Dragoneers!
    BUMP!


    Today is the 24th of April, Friday of the last April weekend, and we are all enjoying our lovely March release Gemshards, Rivers and Colossi. And what always happens on one weekend every month?


    Oh my God! Monthly release new dragon breed, this weekend! OH!


    And I'm full to the brim with Earth Day eggs and hatchlings come Saturday!
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    JustTheFacts wrote:
    INCOMING!

    Red Alert Dragoneers!
    BUMP!


    Today is the 24th of April, Friday of the last April weekend, and we are all enjoying our lovely March release Gemshards, Rivers and Colossi. And what always happens on one weekend every month?


    Oh my God! Monthly release new dragon breed, this weekend! OH!



    Half Flower


    AW FUDGE !!    grrrrrr

    Okay ... chocolate then.  Chocolate num Chocolate num

    doubled even ... 

    thought it would be NEXT weekend  !!!  meh

    no offense but hope you are premature ...

    as just captured all the ones I wanted Wub

     S*D*H*B*B*


    Cry Cry Cry
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    Post by JustTheFacts Thu Apr 23, 2015 10:17 pm

    I hope I'm premature too! I have 7 beautiful Earth-related eggs, with another coming on the weekend. I hope maybe the runners of the event have been told in confidence that it would be safe to schedule it for Earth Day, and TJ would run the April release following weekend. 

    And don't forget, have DCs birthday coming up 8th of May I think it was, and also our anniversary as dragon mummies!! Happy bounce Wub We've been insane a whole year? And nobody noticed?  Hmm...
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    Post by orphaned Thu Apr 23, 2015 10:26 pm

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    hmmm ..

    still find many of the Cave's workings a mystery ... Hmm... 



    a whole year !!

    here !!!  OMG !!

    yet feels as though have always been here ...

    no place like our Dragon home .... Wub
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    Post by JustTheFacts Thu Apr 23, 2015 10:58 pm

    A year is such a long time for me and my obsessions. I should be getting bored within the next month or so. That would be me. And it's part of the playing HOPAs again. I'm hoping, if I do slow down (can't see me stopping - after all, I could spend just half an hour a day at DC and still make progress. It's all the other stuff that takes a whole day to do. I'm a born bureaucrat. Just love creating paperwork  Rolling Eyes

    So, I'm hoping to re-obsess with the games and reviews. I have already got 100+ games I haven't played except for the demo! May as well play them obsessively and the reviewing is good intellectual exercise. My psych implied I was not getting enough intellectual stimulation with Dragon Cave. I got in a huff, of course! Juggling 21 rambunctious babies while deciding on breeding partners for the grown up children, and ensuring I make all possible efforts to rescue them from the AP takes a LOT of intellectual activity!
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    Post by orphaned Thu Apr 23, 2015 11:06 pm

    JustTheFacts wrote:A year is such a long time for me and my obsessions. I should be getting bored within the next month or so. That would be me. And it's part of the playing HOPAs again. I'm hoping, if I do slow down (can't see me stopping - after all, I could spend just half an hour a day at DC and still make progress. It's all the other stuff that takes a whole day to do. I'm a born bureaucrat. Just love creating paperwork  Rolling Eyes

    So, I'm hoping to re-obsess with the games and reviews. I have already got 100+ games I haven't played except for the demo! May as well play them obsessively and the reviewing is good intellectual exercise. My psych implied I was not getting enough intellectual stimulation with Dragon Cave. I got in a huff, of course! Juggling 21 rambunctious babies while deciding on breeding partners for the grown up children, and ensuring I make all possible efforts to rescue them from the AP takes a LOT of intellectual activity!
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    looking after dragons takes military precision and planning  ..

    a pox on thy shrink  !!

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    hmm ... Wolfie also not amused ..


    methinks thy psych knoweth thee not


    as you only get out of something what you put into it ..

    and you always give 1000% per cent (not a typo)


    ya gotta do what ya gotta do, l'il lady !!
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    Post by JustTheFacts Thu Apr 23, 2015 11:17 pm

    Speaking of military - and we definitely ARE!. is ANZAC day tomorrow, where we commerate the sacrifice Australians made at Gallipoli (yeah the movie one), 100 years ago. Was also Dorothy's birthday - although she was merely an evil intention on her father's part back then. She was born in 1928! Still miss her every day, just handle it better now.
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    My psych is an intellectual snob. When I told her I read mostly Stephen King and such, she thought I should be reading Jane Austen. I've read Jane Austen, and studied her life and her works. The only special thing about them was 1. Female author. 2. Subtle condemnation of socially accepted rules of her time! Hmmph! I'll read what I want, and as you say, turn the whole experience into an intellectual process.
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    Post by orphaned Thu Apr 23, 2015 11:27 pm

    JustTheFacts wrote:Speaking of military - and we definitely ARE!. is ANZAC day tomorrow, where we commerate the sacrifice Australians made at Gallipoli (yeah the movie one), 100 years ago. Was also Dorothy's birthday - although she was merely an evil intention on her father's part back then. She was born in 1928! Still miss her every day, just handle it better now.
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    as long as you keep her in your heart, she will always be with you.

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    The Anzac Day tradition

    What is Anzac Day?

    Anzac Day – 25 April – is one of Australia’s most important national occasions. It marks the anniversary of the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War.

    What does ANZAC stand for?

    ANZAC stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. The soldiers in those forces quickly became known as Anzacs, and the pride they took in that name endures to this day.

    Why is this day special to Australians?

    When war broke out in 1914 Australia had been a federated nation for only 13 years, and the new federal government was eager to establish its reputation among the nations of the world. When Britain declared war in August 1914 Australia was automatically placed on the side of the Commonwealth. In 1915 Australian and New Zealand soldiers formed part of the expedition that set out to capture the Gallipoli peninsula in order to open the Dardanelles to the allied navies. The ultimate objective was to capture Constantinople (now Istanbul), the capital of the Ottoman Empire, an ally of Germany.
    The Australian and New Zealand forces landed on Gallipoli on 25 April, meeting fierce resistance from the Ottoman Turkish defenders. What had been planned as a bold stroke to knock Turkey out of the war quickly became a stalemate, and the campaign dragged on for eight months. At the end of 1915 the allied forces were evacuated from the peninsula, with both sides having suffered heavy casualties and endured great hardships. More than 8,000 Australian soldiers had been killed. The Gallipoli campaign had a profound impact on Australians at home, and 25 April soon became the day on which Australians remembered the sacrifice of those who died in the war.
    Although the Gallipoli campaign failed in its military objectives, the Australian and New Zealand actions during the campaign left us all a powerful legacy. The creation of what became known as the “Anzac legend” became an important part of the identity of both nations, shaping the ways they viewed both their past and their future.

    Early commemorations

    In 1916, Anzac Day was held on 25 April for the first time. It was marked by a wide variety of ceremonies and services in Australia, a march through London, and a sports day in the Australian camp in Egypt. In London more than 2,000 Australian and New Zealand troops marched through the streets; a London newspaper headline dubbed them “the knights of Gallipoli”. Marches were held all over Australia; in the Sydney march convoys of cars carried soldiers wounded on Gallipoli and their nurses. For the remaining years of the war Anzac Day was used as an occasion for patriotic rallies and recruiting campaigns, and parades of serving members of the AIF were held in most cities.
    During the 1920s Anzac Day became established as a national day of commemoration for the more than 60,000 Australians who had died during the war. In 1927, for the first time, every state observed some form of public holiday on Anzac Day. By the mid-1930s all the rituals we now associate with the day – dawn vigils, marches, memorial services, reunions, two-up games – were firmly established as part of Anzac Day culture.
    With the coming of the Second World War, Anzac Day also served to commemorate the lives of Australians who died in that war. In subsequent years the meaning of the day has been further broadened to include those who were killed in all the military operations in which Australia has been involved.
    Anzac Day was first commemorated at the Memorial in 1942. At the time, government orders prohibited large public gatherings in case of a Japanese air attack, so it was a small occasion with neither a march nor a memorial service. Since then, Anzac Day has been commemorated at the Memorial every year.

    What does it mean today?

    Australians recognise 25 April as an occasion of national remembrance, which takes two forms. Commemorative services are held at dawn – the time of the original landing – across the nation. Later in the day, former servicemen and servicewomen meet to take part in marches through the major cities and in many smaller centres. Commemorative ceremonies are more formal and are held at war memorials around the country. In these ways, Anzac Day is a time at which Australians reflect on the many different meanings of war.

    The Dawn Service

    It is often suggested that the Dawn Service observed on Anzac Day has its origins in a military routine still followed by the Australian Army. The half-light of dawn was one of the times most favoured for launching an attack. Soldiers in defensive positions were woken in the dark before dawn, so by the time first light crept across the battlefield they were awake, alert, and manning their weapons; this is still known as the “stand-to”. As dusk is equally favourable for battle, the stand-to was repeated at sunset.
    After the First World War, returned soldiers sought the comradeship they had felt in those quiet, peaceful moments before dawn. A dawn vigil became the basis for commemoration in several places after the war. It is difficult to say when the first dawn services were held, as many were instigated by veterans, clergymen, and civilians from all over the country. A dawn requiem mass was held at Albany as early as 1918, and a wreathlaying and commemoration took place at dawn in Toowoomba the following year. In 1927 a group of returned men, returning from an Anzac Day function held the night before, came upon an elderly woman laying flowers at the as yet unfinished Sydney Cenotaph at dawn. Joining her in this private remembrance, the men later resolved to institute a dawn service the following year. Thus, 150 people gathered at the Cenotaph in 1928 for a wreathlaying and two minutes’ silence. This is generally regarded as the beginning of organised dawn services. Over the years the ceremonies have developed into their modern form and have also seen an increased association with the dawn landings of 25 April 1915.
    Today’s dawn services include the presence of a chaplain, but generally not of dignitaries such as the governor-general. Originally, the services were simple, and usually followed the military routine. Before dawn, those who had gathered would stand while two minutes’ silence was held. At the end of this time a lone bugler would play the Last Post and then conclude the service with Reveille, the bugler’s call to wake up.
    In recent times more families and young people have taken part in dawn services. Reflecting this change, some services have become more elaborate, incorporating hymns, readings, pipers, and rifle volleys. Other services, though, have retained the simple format of the dawn stand-to, familiar to so many soldiers.

    The Anzac Day National Ceremony

    At the Australian War Memorial the National Ceremony takes place at 10.15 am in the presence of people such as the prime minister and the governor-general. Each year the ceremony follows a pattern that is familiar to generations of Australians.
    A typical Anzac Day National Ceremony may include the following features: an introduction, hymn, prayer, an address, the laying of wreaths, a recitation, the Last Post, a period of silence, the playing of either the Rouse or the Reveille, and the national anthem. After the Memorial’s ceremony families often place red poppies on the Tomb of the Unknown Australian Soldier or beside the names of relatives on the Memorial’s Roll of Honour, as they do after Remembrance Day services.
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    Post by orphaned Thu Apr 23, 2015 11:33 pm

    JustTheFacts wrote:My psych is an intellectual snob. When I told her I read mostly Stephen King and such, she thought I should be reading Jane Austen. I've read Jane Austen, and studied her life and her works. The only special thing about them was 1. Female author. 2. Subtle condemnation of socially accepted rules of her time! Hmmph! I'll read what I want, and as you say, turn the whole experience into an intellectual process.
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    but good ones are truly few and far between ..


    the self is the last undiscovered country ...

    and .. as I said ... think she knoweth thee not

    not that you would make that difficult ... Snicker
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    Post by JustTheFacts Thu Apr 23, 2015 11:40 pm

    She perhaps doesn't know me as well as she thinks. But often she is like you, can't resist seeing if I'll take bait.  Fishing
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    Post by orphaned Thu Apr 23, 2015 11:49 pm

    JustTheFacts wrote:She perhaps doesn't know me as well as she thinks. But often she is like you, can't resist seeing if I'll take bait.  Fishing
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    nono

    I never bait you   ..

    do suggest possibilities

    and always how I see it ...  Hmm...

    you can be hard to read and/or understand, my little iceberg ...

    as you keep so much of you deeply hidden

    and therefore safe ..
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    Post by JustTheFacts Thu Apr 23, 2015 11:55 pm

    Seriously, it is really weird to me. This observation has been brought to my attention several times lately. And it is all news to me! Even my father says I've always been a "stiff upper lip" kinda kid! I thought I wore my heart on my sleeve, and just distanced myself from the emotional content by intellectualizing, but I guess, nup! I was also not letting anybody know what that was!!
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    For Frodo ...

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    a Gathering of Dragons ..

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    Frodo ...

    we have your back ...

    miss your face though   Snicker   REALLY !!!  Hug 



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