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 Angela   Send message Joined: 16 Oct 07 Posts: 13130 Credit: 39,854,104 RAC: 31 
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In celebration of our 18th wedding anniversary, Eric and I drove a few hours down the state for a short vacation in the central coast area of California.  I am LICHEN Paso Robles!  Look! Up on that road cut... it's a bird; it's a plane. No, it's fossil man!  Oh DEER!  The grape vines haven't started to leaf out yet...  This flag, with a palm tree in the picture background, just struck me as funny.  The hills are alive...  Old habits die hard...  Still handsome after all these years. (Morro Rock in the background.)  On a hike through an old growth oak forest.  Of course, it just wouldn't be a hike with 'Ol Pookers if he didn't have me wandering through another type of oak... ID: 1202263 ·  |
Carlos  Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 29848 Credit: 57,275,487 RAC: 157
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Should have called. I could have shown you some really special areas. You were in my back yard. ID: 1202267 · |
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Scarecrow Send message Joined: 15 Jul 00 Posts: 4520 Credit: 486,601 RAC: 0
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Wow! That's some beautiful country! These old Nebraska cornfields pale in comparison. Thanks for sharing!! ID: 1202271 · |
zoom3+1=4  Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65757 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49
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Very nice pictures there, and of You and Barney Rubble, er Eric... ;) The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's 
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Uli  Send message Joined: 6 Feb 00 Posts: 10923 Credit: 5,996,015 RAC: 1 
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Wow! That's some beautiful country! These old Nebraska cornfields pale in comparison. Thanks for sharing!! Did you make your reservation yet? Pluto will always be a planet to me.  Seti Ambassador Not to late to order an Anni Shirt ID: 1202311 · |
Robert Waite  Send message Joined: 23 Oct 07 Posts: 2417 Credit: 18,192,122 RAC: 59 
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Congratulations on hitting the 18 year marker Angela. We celebrated our 27th anniversary today. I do not fight fascists because I think I can win. I fight them because they are fascists. Chris Hedges A riot is the language of the unheard. -Martin Luther King, Jr. ID: 1202312 · |
Mike  Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 34258 Credit: 79,922,639 RAC: 80
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Very nice pictures Angela. And congratulations to your anniversary as well Angela and Eric. With each crime and every kindness we birth our future. ID: 1202316 · |
John Clark  Send message Joined: 29 Sep 99 Posts: 16515 Credit: 4,418,829 RAC: 0 
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Congratulations on your anniversary, and sharing with the photographs It's good to be back amongst friends and colleagues  
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Angela Send message Joined: 16 Oct 07 Posts: 13130 Credit: 39,854,104 RAC: 31
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Congratulations on hitting the 18 year marker Angela. Congratulations to you, my friend, and to your lovely wife! (And a little birdie told me it is 28, not 27 years!!!) ID: 1202379 · |
Jim_S  Send message Joined: 23 Feb 00 Posts: 4705 Credit: 64,560,357 RAC: 31
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Congratulations Eric & Angela...BTW Beautiful Pics. ID: 1202399 · |
Bill Walker  Send message Joined: 4 Sep 99 Posts: 3868 Credit: 2,697,267 RAC: 0
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Congrats to both of you. The pictures brought back good memories of our 3rd (or was it the 4th?) anniversary trip to the same area, many many moons ago.  
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Angela Send message Joined: 16 Oct 07 Posts: 13130 Credit: 39,854,104 RAC: 31
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Congrats to both of you. The pictures brought back good memories of our 3rd (or was it the 4th?) anniversary trip to the same area, many many moons ago. Oh you men and your little year jokes!!! So... Eric and I went into a winery in Paso Robles to do a little tasting. The charming woman behind the bar started chatting us up, in hopes that we would leave with many, many bottles I am sure. Anyway... Wine Server: Are you from around here? Angela: No, we're from up north. Wine Server: And are we celebrating a special event today? Angela: Yes! Our wedding anniversary. Wine Server: Oh, that's wonderful!!! How many years? Eric: 700. And since I'm telling Eric stories, I may as well regale you all with another one that happened on our vacation. Allow me, please, to set the scene. Eric and Angela walk into a poorly lit hotel room. It is a little difficult to tell how clean or well maintained the place is with the lighting so low. Angela (looking nervously around): There sure have been a lot of stories in the paper lately about bed bug infestations in hotel rooms. Eric: Don't worry. They keep this room well stocked with spiders in order to keep the bed bugs from being a big problem. Angela: What?!!! Eric: And then, of course, they encourage mice to keep the spider population in check. Angela: Huh?!!! Eric: But naturally the venomous lizards native to the area keep the mice from over-populating. Angela: Eric!!! Eric: Fortunately all the poisonous snakes around here keep the lizards from taking over. Angela: And I love you too, dear. Yep, eighteen years of bliss and counting... ID: 1202451 · |
AndyW   Send message Joined: 23 Oct 02 Posts: 5862 Credit: 10,957,677 RAC: 18
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HAHA, Fantastic stories and lovely pictures. Congratulations both and thanks for sharing more of your wonderful country. ID: 1202458 · |
rob smith   Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22216 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380
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Wine Server: Are you from around here? I trust you both managed to keep straight faces, and didn't spoil the server's day. Congratulations to both of you Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? ID: 1202459 · |
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Bill Walker Send message Joined: 4 Sep 99 Posts: 3868 Credit: 2,697,267 RAC: 0
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Note to Eric: sometimes it seems like 700 years, but try to keep that to yourself. Note to Angela: here is our little "year" story. A couple of years ago we bought new rings, having both lost our original rings. (long stories.) While arranging dates to pick up the rings, we had this little conversation: Store Clerk: have you set a date? My wife (with dead straight face): The 11th of May. Clerk: Oh how nice. This year or next year? Wife (still with straight face): Let me think. 1974.
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John Clark Send message Joined: 29 Sep 99 Posts: 16515 Credit: 4,418,829 RAC: 0
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Yes! The 18th anniversary is some achievement! Sheila and I still have our original rings - both engagement and wedding. Sheila's wedding ring has to be protected as it's so soft (a 24 caret gold band with Fleur-de-Leigh on an octagonal base). Engagement ring bought on 21st February 1966, and married 21st September 1968. No remission for good behaviour? It's good to be back amongst friends and colleagues
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kittyman  Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004
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Warm congratulations to Eric and Angela. Many more to come for you both. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster 
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Angela Send message Joined: 16 Oct 07 Posts: 13130 Credit: 39,854,104 RAC: 31
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We have a ring story too. Our rings are still both the originals, but Eric tried to lose his ring twice on our honeymoon!!! 'Ol Pookers was pretty skinny when we married and his ring was a little loose at the time. Eric was drying his hands in the men's room of a restaurant and I guess the thing just slipped off into a paper towel. (Or so he says!!!) I noticed it was missing when he came back to the table and Eric did manage to retrieve it without too much shuffling through the trash. Then, gosh darn it, about a day later he tried to lose that ring again. We were parked at a trail head and he was sitting in the open hatchback of our car. While he was putting on his hiking boots, that ring pretty much just flew off his finger and went bouncity-bounce-bounce right across the parking lot. It was then and there that I decided that my husband needed some serious fattening up and that I had better get right on that. After about 10 years of marriage he had to have his ring enlarged. I am very good at following through on my plans. ID: 1202530 · |
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zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65757 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49
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I still have My Mom's Diamond wedding ring, one of My nieces has the engagement ring, the engagement ring came off easily, but the wedding ring was too tight and was in need of enlarging as it was cutting off blood flow to that finger, so it had to be cutoff, it's still cut and unrepaired to this day, She thought it was a gold ring, it may have been gold plated at one time as it's a copper ring with a Diamond set in it. The Diamond is about 1/8" across. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's
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James Sotherden  Send message Joined: 16 May 99 Posts: 10436 Credit: 110,373,059 RAC: 54
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Angela Im glad you an Eric had a great get a way On your Anniversary. Those are some great photos .  [/quote]Old James ID: 1202615 · |
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