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Post by jeanne on Sept 21, 2020 23:00:15 GMT 1
Another point in the list: paving all surfaces with cheap clinker bricks, also historical places, especially spots which could remain grassy. . Maybe they just want to avoid cutting the grass??
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Post by jeanne on Sept 17, 2020 0:12:59 GMT 1
Wow, congrats! Amazing results and they certainly didn`t say the last word. hahaha But it will give you a headache how to share your time with them so that nobody is neglected. Yes, so true! I had really kind of thought that I probably wouldn't have any more grandchildren, but it has been lovely news in the midst of this crazy pandemic where everything is uncertain and turned upside-down! Two additional children to love is positive, exciting, and hope-filled news!
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Post by jeanne on Sept 16, 2020 23:04:25 GMT 1
In the USA Mother's Day is celebrated on the second Sunday in May, so the date differs from year-to-year. Great, I'm glad to learn the young women are remembered and appreciated as well! That's the famous chivalry of Polish men! Wow, funny, a mobile holiday, just like Thanksgiving Day. Not so funny if you think of holy days/holidays in the Church; Easter, Pentecost, Ash Wednesday...all "movable" feasts, or "mobile" as you said! So there is precedent to the custom!
p.s. Father's Day in the US is the third Sunday in June!
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Post by jeanne on Sept 13, 2020 20:14:44 GMT 1
they were expressing their relief at their departure, but the Cardinal who was with them was expressing his worry at who would replace them, and he was right to worry... hahaha first I didn`t understand your words, I thought by that prophetic "worry" you mean the lack of priests and collapse of religion in modern Poland, hahaha now I know you meant the end of Nazi German occupation and the beginning of communism in post-war Poland. buhahaha Right...you got it!
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Post by jeanne on Sept 13, 2020 20:09:00 GMT 1
Funny, back in this thread I only had four grandchildren and one on the way...now I have seven grandchildren...six boys and one girl. Ha-ha, time for another update! Two of my daughters are now expecting babies! My oldest daughter who has one little boy is expecting in November (gender unknown as yet). My middle daughter who has three boys and a girl is now expecting another boy at the end of January! That will make a total of nine grandchildren for me! Yikes!
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Post by jeanne on Sept 13, 2020 19:43:47 GMT 1
At one point Trump was against mail-in ballots...I think he was afraid of fraud, etc. If I were you, I would fear the situation that Trump might fix the results. hahaha The update is that we can choose to vote by mail in the November presidential election. When I received the application from the town to vote in the state election earlier this month, there was a box to check if I wanted to vote by mail in all 2020 elections, so I'm choosing to. I liked voting by mail, because I got to do serious research on all the candidates before voting. Sometimes, I get lazy and don't research all the names that will be on a ballot, and when I walk into the polling site to vote, I don't know anyone except those in the most prominent races. Trump is unpredictable and anything is possible! But, as usual, the leftist press is looking for trouble to stir up to cause controversy regarding Trump. I try not to pay too much attention to such petty stuff... Have I said before I dislike politics...oh yeah, I've only said it about 100 times.
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Post by jeanne on Sept 13, 2020 19:32:29 GMT 1
I suspect a desire/longing to fly has been a part of the human experience since the beginning of time. I think a typical representative was Daedalus and his son. Yes, and his figuring out how to fly led to dire consequences for his son... But apparently, the lesson was not a deterrent for mankind to keep trying!
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Post by jeanne on Sept 13, 2020 19:24:51 GMT 1
now I have the hybrid still growing in the yard and looking pretty, and the old-fashioned, "real" lilac both looking pretty and smelling divine...so I'm happy... [/div][/quote] That`s the problem - better is the enemy of good. Those improvements are never perfect - there is always sth missing. [/quote] I agree! I don't think we should be messing with Mother Nature, and I'm sure you have the saying that we do: If it's not broken, don't fix it!
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Post by jeanne on Sept 12, 2020 22:37:08 GMT 1
I like this metal rock ballad by German Halloween with Am eagle motif. Excellent music and good lyrics, too. I suspect a desire/longing to fly has been a part of the human experience since the beginning of time. It's kind of amazing to think that with the help of man-made machines we can actually do that now. Most of the human race who lived before us would not believe it...
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Post by jeanne on Sept 12, 2020 22:29:20 GMT 1
I was looking forward to being able to pick some of the lovely blossoms to bring in the house on our first day there; unfortunately, the flowers were all ruined by the cold and snow... I hope that despite that damage, it turned out to be a good omen for your dwelling there if you say you still live there. It was a sort of a test that nature performed on you - it checked if you were going to be really good, devoted, caring owners or just accidental tourists??? No, there's no way you could call us "accidental tourists;" we are deeply "entrenched" in our house and neighborhood! There have been changes around us, but we are still there. At this point in my life, I can't imagine moving, whereas when I was much younger I wouldn't mind moving at all...
And, the lilac bush is still there and producing copious amounts of blossoms. After a couple of years I figured out that it wasn't an "old fashioned" lilac, but a newer hybrid one, designed to produce more blossoms. Unfortunately, I could tell the blossoms did not have the same aroma as a "true" lilac and I started wishing I had the old-fashioned kind that I knew from my childhood. When my daughter and her husband bought their old farmhouse in Vermont, there was a very old lilac bush that had been there for years. I dug up a couple of shoots from that and brought it home and planted them. In the five or six years it's been here, it is thriving and growing tall. I have refrained from cutting any blossoms until this year in order to let it get established. But I did cut some blossoms this year and bring them into the house. It was wonderful to once again experience one of the delights of my childhood.
Now I have the hybrid still growing in the yard and looking pretty, and the old-fashioned, "real" lilac both looking pretty and smelling divine...so I'm happy...
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Post by jeanne on Sept 11, 2020 19:17:46 GMT 1
I am a pessimist about coming back to real schools in September. The infection rate is still high and refuses to drop. Even if we return for a while, the quarantine will be brought back sooner or later in autumn. So, here we are in September...what is going on with school...are you proceeding as usual, or have changes been made to keep everyone safe from spreading/catching the virus??
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Post by jeanne on Sept 11, 2020 19:11:59 GMT 1
Do you mean Mother`s Day is celebrated on 10th May in the USA? In the USA Mother's Day is celebrated on the second Sunday in May, so the date differs from year-to-year. Yes, of course, I should have known! Great, I'm glad to learn the young women are remembered and appreciated as well! That's the famous chivalry of Polish men!
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Post by jeanne on Aug 26, 2020 22:39:39 GMT 1
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Post by jeanne on Aug 5, 2020 20:22:19 GMT 1
The old image is posted, but I can't see the new image...what happened? it has been happening quite often here. Photos which don`t end with .jpg show up in the forum for a while after posting but later tend to disappear. I guess it is some built-in protection of legal owners against using them by external sources. Look at it again. It did show up, and I did see the new image. Several years ago, a made-for-TV movie about John Paul II was filmed in Poland, and there were a couple of scenes shot in this courtyard. There was one scene I remember of seminarians running along the upper portico and looking at the departing Germans...they were expressing their relief at their departure, but the Cardinal who was with them was expressing his worry at who would replace them, and he was right to worry...
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Post by jeanne on Aug 5, 2020 20:15:11 GMT 1
What? US grandparents want to keep away from small kids?? Where did you get that idea?? From the Polish book about life in America which I used to quote long ago. Americans work hard all their lives and can enjoy some free time only during retirement. It is then when they want to spend their accumulated wealth and have fun in life, mostly travelling. Taking care of grandkids isn`t such a priority for elder Americans. You must be an exception. Bonobo, You are definitely "painting" all American grandparents "with the same brush!" And, I know you know what that means! I know very many grandparents who help their children out by babysitting their grandchildren while their parents are at work! Now more than ever since so many mothers are in the workforce! I think perhaps you are deliberately trying to provoke me here...!
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Post by jeanne on Aug 5, 2020 20:07:18 GMT 1
I saw in the sky above me a beautiful male Bald Eagle soaring in flight, his head shining in the sun. It must have been really bald if it shone. Was it an eagle or a vulture? NO... it was NOT a vulture!! Male Bald Eagles have dark feathers, except for their heads which are white, thence the name "bald" eagle. The brightness of those white feathers in contrast to the dark brown was impressive in the sun. I just saw one this week as well... I do believe I am influencing you to appreciate birds more!
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Post by jeanne on Aug 5, 2020 20:02:07 GMT 1
It's well-known that single men live shorter lives because of this factor of wife-care. Yes, I read about it several times. But I also read it is enough to get a pet like a dog or cat and you will make up for the lack of wife. Do I detect some lack of appreciation in this post?
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Post by jeanne on Aug 5, 2020 19:54:16 GMT 1
We bought our first house (the one we still live in) in 1977. We "passed papers", or completed the sale on May 12th. I will never forget that two days before on May 10th, we had a snow storm. The trees were heavy with leaves already, so many had damage, or were toppled. In the yard of our new home, there was a lilac tree in full bloom before the storm...I was looking forward to being able to pick some of the lovely blossoms to bring in the house on our first day there; unfortunately, the flowers were all ruined by the cold and snow...
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Post by jeanne on Aug 5, 2020 19:47:12 GMT 1
Yes, to all, of course, but why did you post it on 10 May while the Day is celebrated on 26 May in Poland? I did specify that the good wishes were for those who were celebrating on May 10th. I leave the Polish holidays to be commented on by the Polish members of the forum...in other words...YOU! That's great that you do that; what about your daughter? She must help in preparations for Mother's Day at least, doesn't she? How does that work with young girls? Are they honored as young women on Women's Day?
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Post by jeanne on Aug 5, 2020 19:39:53 GMT 1
That is why I have done sth completely new - I told my students to get their books for the new school year on their own. Usually, I collected orders in September and got the books for willing students from a representative with a 20% discount. It matters when some books (SB and WB) cost about 40$. But it always took a lot of time and for the first 3 weeks of September we didn`t have any books. Now, I changed it coz I don`t want to waste time - students are supposed to have their books on the very first lesson. Wow...now I know why the school systems in the U.S. are in trouble financially...the schools always provide the books for students. The guideline for public school here is "free, accessible, and equitable," so books are provided, or it wouldn't be a free education!
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Post by jeanne on Aug 5, 2020 19:28:29 GMT 1
I guess what has happened to the school year in the spring of 2020 makes all the above posts appear as nothing notable. Nothing notable means unimportant? No, why? The summer holidays are here as usual. I was only calling attention to the differences between life as it was in 2019 and as it is in 2020. You were concerned about the length of school holidays then, and it seems to me from your posts a couple of months ago, that teaching online was a challenging adjustment!
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Post by jeanne on Jul 30, 2020 23:14:23 GMT 1
Mail like by regular post or email??? haha So here it was also possible during the last elections but you had to register for the service a few days before. I had to request by phone or email an application to vote by mail. The application came to me via the postal service, then I had to return the application to the officials (I dropped it in a slot at the Town Hall that is there for that purpose; the Town Hall is closed to the public for now)...then they mailed me the ballot.
This all happened for the town election back in June, but the process will be the same for the State election. As I mentioned, I'm not sure how the federal election will be handled. At one point Trump was against mail-in ballots...I think he was afraid of fraud, etc.
This has to be done more than just a few days before the election to allow for delays in mail service, etc.
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Post by jeanne on Jul 28, 2020 21:03:32 GMT 1
In my state of Massachusetts, for state elections we can do mail in ballots to avoid crowds at the polls. I'm not sure what is going to happen with the federal election in November...
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Post by jeanne on Jul 28, 2020 20:55:32 GMT 1
Glad to see they are following the guidelines for safety. Will the schools be opening as usual in the fall? Or will you be doing online teaching again? Or hasn't that been decided?
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Post by jeanne on Jun 26, 2020 21:26:21 GMT 1
Wow...pretty towns, both the gingerbread town and the actual town! A lot of painstaking work goes into making the gingerbread one...all those little icing windows and outlines of bricks, etc. I enjoy seeing the finished product! Not bad, but this prettines solely depends on bright colours, not on elaborate sophisticated architecture. E..g, most of those tenement houses around the Market Square are deprived of fancy decoorations like the ones in Gdańsk or Wrocław. I guess you are right about that...I wasn't thinking of the color, I was admiring the architecture! When I first started reading your post, I thought you were going to say the gingerbread houses were not bright enough!
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Post by jeanne on Jun 25, 2020 0:54:38 GMT 1
Wow...pretty towns, both the gingerbread town and the actual town! A lot of painstaking work goes into making the gingerbread one...all those little icing windows and outlines of bricks, etc. I enjoy seeing the finished product!
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Post by jeanne on Jun 25, 2020 0:42:21 GMT 1
hahaha I see you got really interested in a criminal case. I have one more in the sleeve, even worse. Soon. I hope by "worse" you mean only the crime is worse, not the outcome in court. I prefer to see justice done for those who break the law...especially when harm is done to innocent creatures, be they human or animal! p.s. When English speaking Americans use the phrase, we say "I have one more up my sleeve." I don't know what they might say in Britain.
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Post by jeanne on Jun 25, 2020 0:32:47 GMT 1
So far about 1300 people died according to official statistics but it can be twice as much. Silesia region is affected the most, especially in mines where hundreds of miners get the virus. Experts are flabbergasted coz 95% of infected miners don`t show any symptoms. This is, indeed, the great danger of this virus; many carriers show no symptoms and can easily infect others. The U.S. finally figured that out and started testing many more people. This was what made the number of cases climb so high so rapidly.Better to know accurate counts than to take false comfort in faulty data! Things are doing better in my state of Massachusetts now. Daily cases are in the low 3-digit counts whereas for weeks they were in the 1,000 to 2,000 range. In my state alone, to date there have been 107,611 cases and 7,938 deaths. U.S. totals are bleak: Cases, 2,336,615 and deaths, 121,117.
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Post by jeanne on Jun 24, 2020 23:51:34 GMT 1
They have to shoot them coz they reproduce too fast. How about this supposition?: Hunters are blood thirsty people, they were born with such instincts and need to relieve them from time to time. If we forbade it, they they would start hurting other people, beginning from their own families. It is better to allow them to kill animals to feel happy. That is why hunting will stay here and everywhere like other controvercial activities that people are prone to practise to get rid of tensions and stress of everyday life. This is sad, but probably true...it's all part of living in an imperfect world.
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Post by jeanne on Jun 23, 2020 18:28:14 GMT 1
This can`t be called pro-abortion movement - rather anti anti-abortion. Displaying shocking images in public space is a stupid idea so no wonder some people try to put a stop to it. Yes, the images are shocking. I would not want to see them, but what does that tell us? It tells us that abortion is even more shocking...
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