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Esther, from
Philadelphia,
a gal from the aapl
message board made a surprise visit last week, bringing
me the Christmas basket in the pic in the header
and a yummy
feast filling five foam containers! It was all covered in a section
of fabric having a Teddy Bear
motif, which can be seen in several of the pics -- what a delight!
Hey, there may be enough to make a bear, if I ever find the time
to be creative again.
Thank you, Esther.
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George, my
Dopelgänger from Florida
and Alabama,
member of the aapl
group, sent me a pre-Holiday package postmarked on 20
November via Parcel
Post -- it arrived on Monday, 23 December!
It is brimming with all kinds of southern delicacies which
will certainly add a kewl touch to my otherwise somewhat generic
culinary masterpieces.
Also included was a kewl brochure about the NASA
Relativity Mission and
an issue of the University of California, San Diego quarterly
science magazine, the National Partnership
For Advanced Computational Infrastructure, which had
several articles about wireless tech
in grids being used in astronomy, biomedical and anatomical
research, schools, and species distribution maps and models.
Fabulous stuff! Thanks
George, ol' pal!
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Marge, my
A+B Holiday
Exchange partner from North
Carolina sent me a box just brimming with treasures! A
conch shell, scallop and sand dollar (how did she know I had
my office at the museum in Madrid in the Departamento de Equinodermos which
I founded and was its curator?) collected many years ago by her
Mom along the beaches
at Long Beach
and Wrightsville Beach,
North Carolina.
A really cute Holiday
Teddy Bear, Green Tea (which I love), and chocolate
covered cherries
which is one of my two favorite candies, the other being choco-coated
raisons!
Then, to remind me of the world
renouned art potteries from her state, a really beautiful
covered sugar and creamer from Cole
Potteries of Sanford,
North Carolina, signed and dated! Oh, yes, and something
else for which I am eternally grateful. SMOOCHES!
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SunCat
got me(self) a bunch of stamps that my post office never had,
via the Postal Service web site. They were sent
out priority
by the same USPS
on 5 December (postmarked!) and only took 18 days to reach me!
Included are
[L - R] :
Duke Kahanamoku, Escaping The Gravity of Earth, American Bats
with First Day Covers, Teddy Bears with FDCs, John James Audubon, Andy
Warhol, Exploring The Solar System, Pan American Inverts, Landing
On The Moon, Space Achievement, and Probing The Vastness Of Space!
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What a surprise shocker!
Just as I was going to mop the kitchen, I found some nicely wrapped
goodies right by the door, and all the cats looking up at me
with smiles on their little furry faces! The kittys thought that
I merited something for keeping them fed and warm throughout
the year! [sniff] Bless their warm little hearts!
A Pablo tablet
for drawing, using the computer! WOWSERS!
What I have wanted for a couple years already! Now I have to
figure out how to use it. And three DVDs of some movies that
should provide me with a few hours of relaxing enjoyment. But
maybe the most exciting, cave warming gift was my very own Mastodon! I could
never find one of these critters anywhere, and now my screen
name, MyMastodon,
has more real fluffy meaning!
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WOWSERS! Pam and Robin from Illinois
sent me a surprise once again this Holiday!
Two packages of different Green
Teas and an assortment of Swiss chocolates -- and something I never
heard of before, a Shopping
Card good for Sam's Club
and/or Wal-Mart! They know
where I get my kitty's and my own food, and we all greatly appreciate
it -- purrrrrrrr!
Incidently, according to some friends on the aapl board, these kinds of shopping
cards seem to be cropping up at a lot of shops and are sort of
like phone cards. They replace sending actual cash and seem to
be a new marketing scheme dreamed up by retailers to keep people
using plastic whatevers -- now all we need are plastic job cards that are
simply run through a device every morning and evening providing
us all with a plastic
salary exchangeable at the company store for all kinds
of kewl goodies, necessary or not!
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Marion from
Florida and
a member of the AOL
aapl board, sent me with a kewl mug (and a message --
Sonny and his cat sleeping! -- hey,
even the nose looks just like mine!), topped off with some candies,
a cute felt Santa ornament and a
pair of wash cloths, just like my Mom
used, which will replace the ratty composition ones my cats love
to drag all over the kitchen!
Thanks Marion!
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What a surprise from Witchie
Poo Sybil in Minesota!
A most useful Rubbermaid food
container, which I always use for leftovers, filled to the brim
with.......... uhhhhhhhhhh......... ummmmmmmmmmm........... let's
see -- chock full of M+M cookies! Since it took about 2 weeks
to get here via Priority,
and the tracking # seems
to have gotten lost somewhere in cyber space because it wasn't
in the po system, which means it was never officially sent out,
when I opened the airtight container, all the cookies except
one turned to dust and crumbs, just like in Egyptian tombs! The
chocolate Santa and the cute birthstone angel ornie kit for January
(garnet) did
make it intact somehow!
SMOOCHES
-- you could have gotten the stuff here faster on your broom!
Have you checked out the newer, faster models in that shop in
Diagon Alley.
[this
is a local joke! And I was soooooo starved I actually ate all
the cookies before I took the pic -- and they were yummy!]
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