Why, she's human after all!

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Life is so strange.

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This that and the other...

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Well, how the h3ll am I....

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This just bites!!!!

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The end of things is never easy...

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Gods, I have no idea what is wrong with me today.

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My Country

The love of field and coppice,
Of green and shaded lanes.
Of ordered woods and gardens
Is running in your veins,
Strong love of grey-blue distance
Brown streams and soft dim skies
I know but cannot share it,
My love is otherwise.

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me!

A stark white ring-barked forest
All tragic to the moon,
The sapphire-misted mountains,
The hot gold hush of noon.
Green tangle of the brushes,
Where lithe lianas coil,
And orchids deck the tree-tops
And ferns the warm dark soil.

Core of my heart, my country!
Her pitiless blue sky,
When sick at heart, around us,
We see the cattle die-
But then the grey clouds gather,
And we can bless again
The drumming of an army,
The steady, soaking rain.

Core of my heart, my country!
Land of the Rainbow Gold,
For flood and fire and famine,
She pays us back threefold-
Over the thirsty paddocks,
Watch, after many days,
The filmy veil of greenness
That thickens as we gaze.

An opal-hearted country,
A wilful, lavish land-
All you who have not loved her,
You will not understand-
Though earth holds many splendours,
Wherever I may die,
I know to what brown country
My homing thoughts will fly.

Dorothea Mackellar

They REALLY need to give me....

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Not knowing is the hardest thing....

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Freakin' Heat Waves!

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Kicking Habits...

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And life can be sad too

This morning we lost a beautiful, cheeky light from this mortal coil...my wonderful neighbour, friend, adopted Grandfather, Francis Roy Hines. Goodbye my darling old man...you will be missed by all of us. And though we are left to weep at your passing, we know that you are now begining your greatest adventure to date.
Rest well you cheeky bugger, and no trying to put your smooth moves on the ladies! We love you Roy.

Life and other joys.

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