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Haven't seen Little Audrey in ages. Your memory is as sharp as ever NE. Welcome to the farm Snowy. I will borrow from Debbie also, that is if you don't mind.
Hi everyone. Yep, Snowy is fine. Little Audrey says so.
Oh, Little Audrey says
"Save for a rainy day."
She saves, but every time it rains
She spends what she puts away.
She knows her proverbs, A to Z,
And knows the good they bring.
But when she has to follow them,
Well, that's another thing!
Oh, Little Audrey says
"While the sun is out, make hay."
Though she's not immense,
There's a lot of sense
In what Little Audrey has to say.
Oh, Little Audrey says
"Save for a rainy day."
She saves, but every time it rains
She spends what she puts away.
She knows her proverbs, A to Z,
And knows the good they bring.
But when she has to follow them,
Well, that's another thing!
Oh, Little Audrey says
"While the sun is out, make hay."
Though she's not immense,
There's a lot of sense
In what Little Audrey has to say.
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Greetings. I'm new here. New to Goodreads, though I have been on LibraryThing for a while, and Readernaut for a shorter while. I love books. I'm an artist/cartoonist. Graduating college this May. I can't say I love the English language, but I like to use it properly.I don't bite. Often. :)
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Heeeelllloooo Ben from the west coast.
Ben wrote: "Greetings. I'm new here. New to Goodreads, though I have been on LibraryThing for a while, and Readernaut for a shorter while. I love books. I'm an artist/cartoonist. Graduating college this M..."Welcome, Ben! Glad you're here.
Wow - Hi to all the new people - I've been AWOL too long.I'm Robyn, originally from New Zealand and now living in Beijing! Welcome
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transient and
emphemeral.
Words of the day, maybe.
It appears I have stumbled down Alice's rabbit hole... I live in Saratoga Springs NY. Like goodreads because it is a lively ensemble of individuals. I hope I am neither transient nor emphemeral. Since I am here, I shall give it a try. Where is everyone? Today is March 27...
Sleeping. I am on the West coast in California. Sometimes it is active on the weekends other times not as much. Welcome to the other side of the mirror Irene.
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Feel free to make noise where you will. We'll noise back, I promise.
(Just discovered our gas stove is broken -- just before Easter gang showing up. Choice: spend bundles on repair, or replace 12-year-old hunk a junk with a new one. Either way, not pleasant.)
I think the Good Wyfe would like a new one. Better yet BBQ for Easter. I don't know what will the weather be like back there, but we are suppose to have temps in high 70's low 80's most of the week.
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Newengland wrote: "Hi, Irene. Weekend's are quiet as a rule. Unless someone noisy comes down the rabbit hole (Irene's, not Alice's).Feel free to make noise where you will. We'll noise back, I promise.
(Just dis..."
Our disaster occurred last weekend...the plumber came on Sunday AND Monday. Good luck!
And I agree with Carol... Sorry to disturb your sleep, oh, wrong fairy tale. Thank you for the warm welcomes!
Bummer. I am lucky my husband can do some plumbing, leaky pipes etc.,but not replumb whole house.
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I don't think Easter will be that warm here. We already had our freak high temps. Back to a New England spring for us! Cold and wet, for the most part.
George Foreman Grill. Well if there is no stove there is a plus , no cooking.
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We've already bought this clunker 3 times over with repairs over the years. Enough already. Time to cook money over a new pit!
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What brand was that stove? I have had my stove top for over thirty years, the thing just won't die. The oven is a wall oven and it is thirty years old also. The stove top is a Jenn-air and the oven is a GE.
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So I propane a you get our Mike Diamond he can fix it on the phone. hahahahahaha. Good eating to you all.
Hi all. I'm Ree. Read too much for my own good. (well, not really... I can't get enough to read.) I'm 54 and still growing. (My mom was from Texas) I am a native Arizonan.
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um, yeah. But only when I'm in BIG trouble. It's Rose Marie. (Rose Maah Wreigh...) Ha!
I'm just joining the group and I probably won't post a lot, but as a writer I find the topic of langauge and grammar very interesting, and I'm not as good at grammar as I should be. I may have some grammar questions for the group from my own writing. Charles Gramlich
And now I have a question already: This is from a story I've been working on. The line is: "Between the army and the Confederate prison lay the river." Should the "lay" at the end here be "laid?"
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And palindromes are a lot of fun Sara.....know any more?
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No.
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Chas -- Lay is the past tense of lie (to recline).
Laid is the past tense of lay (to set something down).
Your sentence is using personification for the river reclining (ahhhhh! refreshing!).
Sara -- Hey there! Folks sure like their word origins. We actually have a thread devoted to just that. Now all you have to do is find it. (If I see it, I'll come back and give you directions, 'K?)
Welcome to both of you.
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Thanks for the answer to my question. I think adobe is specifically a building material but in some places they do refer to buildings made out of adobe by the term adobe.
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Hi guys I'm new to the group. My name's Ross,I'm from Malaysia, I live in Kuala Lumpur. I'm 26 and I'm currently teaching English at College. English is my first language and first love. I'm an avid reader, predominantly fiction and mainly fantasy. Teaching is a new experience for me as I've not done it before, and it's really opening my ees to the state of English in Malaysia, which needless to say, is not good!
Prabha wrote: "Hi - I'm a teacher from Malaysia, and very new to Goodreads. My interests are in special educational needs and ed psych. I'm a single mum, with 3 wonderful kids who teach me new lessons in life a..."Where do you teach Prabha?
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Oh dear, sorry didn't see the date, silly me.
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