You are probably back at home in Victoria on this special day in April.
Your return to Vancouver Island coincides with Spring's arrival, too. That's perfect planning on your part! This can be the nicest time of year in the City of Gardens.
We hope your anniversary celebrations are as bright, happy and full of promise as springtime itself. Cheers to you today and always!
The comedian, Jack Benny, stopped counting his birthdays at the age of 39. Apparently, he considered it a "funny number" because he always got a laugh whenever he said that he was 39.
We hope your "real" 39th birthday is good for fun and laughter, too, Nathan. Here in St. Andrews, we will certainly enjoy our celebratory toast in your honour.
All of the action is over on Facebook, BJ. In particular, check out Lindsey's March 28th Engagement Party Album.
Besides seeing Lindsey, Patrick and many of their friends, I spotted the familiar faces of Diane, Michael, Shannon and Luke; Karen and Marty; Mary Ellen, Bob and Barbara; and Lui and Tricia.
Hi Lucy, I have seen the pictures of Lindsey's party. Bob always shows me any family pics that appear on face book. But I still like to see people on the blog.
Yes, BJ Margaret said she quickly entered "parsley" as her answer until she became aware of our struggle to solve the clue.
I can see that you were definitely able to pick up on Dave's line of thought: time-current and thyme-currant (two sets of homonyms with different spellings and meanings). I think I like this answer, too.
This charity quiz is published by the N.E. Fife Group of Coeliac UK. The entry deadline is August 31, 2009.
We are looking for: UK MOUNTAINS AND RIVERS
This example is given: Bill's friend precedes mixed blood vessels = BEN NEVIS
Apparently the clues are arranged in a significant order that may help. (Whatever that means!)
1. The French Gin confusedly goes to town. 2. Flows through Deal, Dover and Hythe. 3. Did Nanny slip here? 4. Occurs in every normal Monday morning. 5. Caution is stirred with a flag and a theologian. 6. Five hundred is ahead of a note and a point. 7. Do the Girl Guides hope to meet him? 8. This could have been a wheeled hawk. 9. Behold a horse gets stuck into tea. 10. Discover antler material here. 11. Delta drink for this beat. 12. An unknown chases after 2. 13. Point about dropped, before a predatory fish. 14. The spring follows a hesitation we hear. 15. Briefly sulphur, church, that is Henry Leo. 16. According to McGonagall this was "silvery" 17. My French mixes a Greek character, two fifties and New York. 18. They always flow freely at source in Wales. 19. A slide introduces a shortened corvid. 20. A deer's horn or a wild vetch we hear. 21. He is the last user. 22. A pale asp. 23. It is reported that the bad weather continued. 24. It sounds like a good question.
The remaining 6 clues are anagrams each containing a mountain and a river. For example: DEER TOWING MARC (2)&(1)= Cairn Gorm and Tweed
25. O.K. LAST NEWT. (1)&(1) 26. FEROMEN BROTH. (2)&(1) 27. LORD RIO HODGE. (1)&(1) 28. HOLLY SUE LEVEN. (1)&(1) 29. CHICK OR MERRY. (1)&(1) 30. PAY TOWN FYNE. (1)&(1)
Hi Lucy, Unfortunately, I'm tied up all day, so my input to the new quiz will have to wait until tomorrow afternoon.(sigh....) Maybe you will have solved it all by then. Good luck. Love, BJ
Happy FIRST Wedding Anniversary, Shannon and Luke!
As you mark the completion of the first year of your marriage, we wish you joy in reflecting back on good times, fun in celebrating today, and excitement in looking ahead to the future.
Hello Everyone! I think spring may have finally sprung in Calgary ... Just a quick update - I have added something new to Bjorn Blog Bjornbutcher.blogspot.com , I read that Both Louise and BJ like blogging more than Facebook and I think I would like agree this is more personal, So I'm going to make a new attempt to keep up with his blog. Take care everyone!
Melissa . . . thanks for telling us to check for new action on "Bjorn Updates". That's cute stuff. We'll watch for more from you here on "Ed's Edition", too.
BJ . . . how are you managing to solve any of the clues in this latest quiz? I live in the UK and I am getting nowhere.
Hi Lucy, I agree, this is an almost impossible puzzle. I am looking up names of mountains and rivers in the UK and trying to fit them to the clues, but there are so many that it is hard to find anything useful. Do you think the answers I have so far are feasible? they seem okay to me, but I am not really sure about some of them.
Explanations for answers so far. 4. norm(AL MOND)ay morning 6. D (roman numeral for five hundred; E note of musical scale E for East point of directions. 7. Baden-POWELL, founder of scouts and guides. 16. McGonagall wrote a poem in which he called the TAY river silvery. 22. WHITE for pale, ADDER for asp. 24. WYE for why? Anagrams 26 and 28 I just looked for rivers and mountains with some of the letters given. Not easy!!
I think I see a pattern in that, so far, every even number is a river. That might make every odd one a mountain. However, if your number 7 is correct, I am wrong.
Yes, turf the dratted thing! It really is too complicated and the solving of it more frustrating than puzzling (which is fun). So let's accept defeat and retire gracefully.
I keep forgetting to check this blog! My dashboard lets me know when a new blog entry has been posted on the blogs that I am following, but these are comments and not new posts, so it doesn't pop up daily. I am going to have to try to remember to get back here on a regular basis. Looked like I didn't miss getting any answers on the last quiz anyways...
The April 16th flower petal from my 2009 calendar bouquet urges me to "celebrate for no reason at all".
However, this morning I was already in celebration mode. I will simply have to save that thought for another, less important day. Even before I picked the calendar petal, my Happy Birthday thoughts were winging their way to you in Ottawa.
I hope your 70th birthday is as sparkling, special and spirited as the wine we raise in celebration of YOU today.
Here's a Scottish Wildlife Trust Quiz that looks like fun. We have until September 21st to submit our entry form.
The answers can be words or phrases, but they all contain the word "bird" or the name of a bird. eg: a hen pecked husband
1. A simple drink (6,4) 2. Do a short turn on duty (6,5) 3. In spring, this daft bird breaks out of the egg (8) 4. Ape! (6) 5. Found when you cultivate a lettuce. (4) 6. Could be a granny or couldn't (4) 7. She's needed for writing (1,3) 8. An architectural feature of houses (4,5) 9. An insomniac feline (9) 10. This bird fights, then fights again (7) 11. In Scotland(!)you can't see these (9) 12. Duped on your summer holiday (1,13,4) 13. A bird lost its energy and joined the Queen and was transformed into another bird. (9) 14. Does he sing in the bath? (7,7) 15,16,17. A twitcher? No but he's on course to tick these:- 15.(1,6) 16.(2,5) 17.(2,9) 18. An invoice from the canteen (1,9) 19. On seeing these birds, little girl does a dance in the road (9) 20. Jonathan? (5) 21. Where people kept their dentures! (2,1,8) 22. This bird from Aberdeenshire river appears on TV-sounds fine (1,1) 23. Not quite the right way to conduct a quarrel (3,3,3) 24. It's got nothing to do with me (3,3,2,6) 25. One equals 2? So it seems! (1,4,2,3,4,2,5,3,2,3,4) 26. An elegant gathering to celebrate the end of the male (1,8,5) 27. Frozen panorama (5,3,4) 28. An underwater swimmer and a runner on land, but this Scandinavian sounds out of breath (1,9,6,3) 29. You'll see them tomorrow (9,4,3,5,6,2,5) 30.I hope all you staid and douce folk doing this quiz never suffer this (4,6)
Holly ... Congratulations! Like you, David and I were delighted to receive our MSA originals from the artist himself. In your case, that must also mean that Marty was in Regina for a visit. How nice!
As you know, Marty's first and third prizes are displayed here in our St. Andrews home. They evoke memories of Vancouver Island shores and of the Rocky Mountains. Tell us, what is featured in the second prize?
Lucy, I am teaching all day, so don't have much time for the quiz. The only one I recognize immediately is #25: A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. I will work on the rest later.
The painting is of a bird in the water - Uncle Marty told me the name of the bird twice and still I have forgotten it, though in my defense, the four kids were ecstatic to have "Auntie Smartie" (as Ellie calls him) come over to play with them and were somewhat distracting! : S
Uncle Marty, what is the bird again? I will write it down next time. Oh never mind, I found it in my trusty Audubon field guide - an American Avocet. The composition is amazing! I love it and it has joined my other MSA original on my mantle.
Thanks Sonia. The quiz IS tough. I think #6 is a NANA bird # 7. A PEN (female swan) #14 some kind of warbler #26 some kind of bachelor bird. i will follow up on the puffer later. Maybe it could be a Norwegian Puffer - - -?
Your birthday follows so quickly on Betty Jo's that I get to stay in celebration mode for two days running.
Our Friday is well under way here in St. Andrews. We are practically ready to raise our glasses in a special toast in your honour. We will make it a double of the finest, to wish you a wonderful day and another good year.
Just got back from Regina and Theodore. We also went to visit Karen's family. Theodore is 30 minutes from Yorkton.
It was great to see my family in Regina once again. I missed the Mom.
Holly That is coool that you found the American Avocet in your research, just by recognition...although it may have been easier to flip the painting over.
#10. Perhaps PHOENIX is a better answer than ROOSTER? # 13. Could this be GYRFALCON? The bird 'FALCON' lost GYR from enerGYR and joined with a 'ROYAL': g (YR) f (AL) c (O) n to become GYRFALCON. Convoluted, but maybe possible?
We hope your Monday birthday celebration is a happy start to your work week.
Here in St. Andrews, morning has already dawned sunny and clear. It makes us want to send you birthday greetings that match Nature's own warm welcome to another day of living.
Here's to you on your birthday, Martin! May you be happy and healthy in Houston today and throughout the coming year.
#19. STARLINGS perhaps. ST could stand for street or road and the letters 'girl' or 'gal' are not consecutive and could be said to be dancing in the word.
Well, BJ I'm on my way to bed without having cracked another clue in this quiz. I'm making notes of all your suggestions, though. The way I figure it, we are down to our last two posers: #11 and 24.
Lucy, Do you think #24 could start with: It's not my..... or You are an...... or Not for my.....
#11 What are we not seeing in Scotland? The vowels e, i and u are not in the word Scotland. Could that be some kind of clue? What else is not in the word?
I think #11 is Gyrfalcon because apparently you are not likely to see one in Scotland. This is a quote from the Wildlife Herbrides website: '...they are so scarce on mainland Scotland that some birdwatchers would brave the Minch just get a glimpse of a Gyrfalcon of any colour.' I don't know what it is but I'm sure Louise could give us a rundown on the Minch.
You guys are so far ahead of me in solving these things that all I can do is add controversy to answers already given!!
Well done, Lui, Now get to work on #24. It has me completely stymied and I think it should be an easy one to get, given the number of letters.
Also, controversy is good in solving puzzles. That's how we eventually come up with the right answers. Check out a few of the other answers. Some are pretty iffy,
Today you get to celebrate what may be called your "Pearl Birthday". Appropriately enough, that precious and promising jewel signifies both durability and change.
We hope that you have a very happy day with family and friends eager to share this milestone in your life. Congratulations!
Here in St. Andrews we raise three cheers - one for each of the three decades in the life of our own pearl. Hip-hip-hooray!
We wish you health, happiness and good fortune, Barbara.
Well, Lui, I didn't know anything about the Minch until you mentioned it. Apparently it is a Strait in NW Scotland. It separates the Scottish Highlands from the Northern Hebrides. I found out that the Minch is 40 to 70 km wide with rapid currents and great depths. There are ferries that serve the people who live on the outer islands but weather conditions can be unpredictable and extreme at any time of year.
So, now that we have transferred "GYRFALCON" from #13 to #11. what will we put in its place?
And what about #24 ... it's got nothing to do with me (3,3,2,6)?
Vic & I saw BJ's answer to #1 which was purple dove, but Vic says what about the drink 'Yellow Bird' 1 oz. Bacardi Rum 1/2 oz. Galliano liqueur 1/2 oz. vodka 4 oz. sweet & sour mix
Pour all alcoholic ingredients into a highball glass. Stir sour mix in a mixer and fill glasses.
We'll be back. Vic wants to peek at some of the other unsolved ones!
Welcome, Vic! The more the merrier! We have really struggled with some of these "flighty" answers. Check them all, please and don't be reluctant to call us on any of them. We want to get them right.
I like the yellow bird but neither it nor the purple dove sound all that "simple"!
I like Yellow Bird better than Purple Dove for #1. How about looking at all the clues, Vic, not just the unsolved ones. Some of them we are very sure of. Others are pretty iffy. eg: #s 2,8,19,22. And we are desperate for answers to #s 13 & 24. BJ
Hi All, Thanks for the welcome to Vic. Her mind seems to work likes yours when it comes to puzzles. I'm just along for the ride!!!Having fun! We saw that #13 and #24 were unsolved and tried our best, but haven't found the answer yet. Vic wonders if the beginning of the answer to #24 is: It's not my.............. (Insert proper bird on dotted line).
BTW: I just checked the Internet, and sure enough this is what it says about It's not my pigeon: Not of material interest to oneself. Not one's business. Not an activity one would typically engage in under normal circumstances. Hurrah for Peggy.
Could #13 be BLACKBIRD. The common blackbird of nursery rhyme fame (four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie) was a Thrush. Perhaps the thrush lost its energy when baked in the pie and turned into a blackbird when it began to sing. There is a queen (eating bread and honey) in the nursery rhyme. There are also the initials HRH (her royal highness)in thrush. Okay, okay, I'm reaching here, but I can't seem to think of any other solution.
Hi Lucy, I will keep looking at the quiz in case some other things come to mind. The ones I think are a sure thing are #3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 14, 15,16,17, 18, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, and 29.
Thanks for the recap, BJ. Like you, I am confident of several of our answers. However, it's a bit discouraging to have "iffy" responses on 8 of 30 items.
I will be sure to enclose a self-addressed envelope with our entry form so that we at least get an answer key when the quiz winner is announced.
Great stuff, Barbara! You've given us a perfect reason to raise a wee dram in a congratulatory toast to you on your academic and professional achievements.
Our Book of Days says that a 35th celebration may be remembered with a gift of CORAL. As you know, coral is a sturdy, often hidden substance that is colourful and surprising.
So, we wish you a great Coral Birthday, Christopher - one that celebrates YOU.
Cheers, and may today's celebrations be followed by a year that brings lots of good things your way.
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Happy Anniversary, Marcia and Dennis!
You are probably back at home in Victoria on this special day in April.
Your return to Vancouver Island coincides with Spring's arrival, too. That's perfect planning on your part! This can be the nicest time of year in the City of Gardens.
We hope your anniversary celebrations are as bright, happy and full of promise as springtime itself. Cheers to you today and always!
Lots of love,
Louise and David
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Happy Birthday, Nathan!
The comedian, Jack Benny, stopped counting his birthdays at the age of 39. Apparently, he considered it a "funny number" because he always got a laugh whenever he said that he was 39.
We hope your "real" 39th birthday is good for fun and laughter, too, Nathan. Here in St. Andrews, we will certainly enjoy our celebratory toast in your honour.
Have a great day!
Love and best wishes,
Louise and David
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There's not much activity on this thread. Where is everybody?
...So I'm bench pressing 330...340...345...4 o'clock...Whenever I get to the gym.
All of the action is over on Facebook, BJ. In particular, check out Lindsey's March 28th Engagement Party Album.
Besides seeing Lindsey, Patrick and many of their friends, I spotted the familiar faces of Diane, Michael, Shannon and Luke; Karen and Marty; Mary Ellen, Bob and Barbara; and Lui and Tricia.
Nice pics of a night to remember, Lindsey!
Love, Louise
Hi Lucy,
I have seen the pictures of Lindsey's party. Bob always shows me any family pics that appear on face book. But I still like to see people on the blog.
I know what you mean, BJ. So do I.
BTW . . . David thinks the answer to clue #16 might be CURRANT. Can you see the connection?
Lucy
Yes, Lucy, I see the connection. The time is current; current time. And I think it is our best answer yet. Did Margaret have an answer?
BJ
Yes, BJ
Margaret said she quickly entered "parsley" as her answer until she became aware of our struggle to solve the clue.
I can see that you were definitely able to pick up on Dave's line of thought: time-current and thyme-currant (two sets of homonyms with different spellings and meanings). I think I like this answer, too.
Thyme for a new quiz!
Lucy
This charity quiz is published by the N.E. Fife Group of Coeliac UK. The entry deadline is August 31, 2009.
We are looking for:
UK MOUNTAINS AND RIVERS
This example is given:
Bill's friend precedes mixed blood vessels = BEN NEVIS
Apparently the clues are arranged in a significant order that may help. (Whatever that means!)
1. The French Gin confusedly goes to town.
2. Flows through Deal, Dover and Hythe.
3. Did Nanny slip here?
4. Occurs in every normal Monday morning.
5. Caution is stirred with a flag and a theologian.
6. Five hundred is ahead of a note and a point.
7. Do the Girl Guides hope to meet him?
8. This could have been a wheeled hawk.
9. Behold a horse gets stuck into tea.
10. Discover antler material here.
11. Delta drink for this beat.
12. An unknown chases after 2.
13. Point about dropped, before a predatory fish.
14. The spring follows a hesitation we hear.
15. Briefly sulphur, church, that is Henry Leo.
16. According to McGonagall this was "silvery"
17. My French mixes a Greek character, two fifties and New York.
18. They always flow freely at source in Wales.
19. A slide introduces a shortened corvid.
20. A deer's horn or a wild vetch we hear.
21. He is the last user.
22. A pale asp.
23. It is reported that the bad weather continued.
24. It sounds like a good question.
The remaining 6 clues are anagrams each containing a mountain and a river. For example:
DEER TOWING MARC (2)&(1)= Cairn Gorm and Tweed
25. O.K. LAST NEWT. (1)&(1)
26. FEROMEN BROTH. (2)&(1)
27. LORD RIO HODGE. (1)&(1)
28. HOLLY SUE LEVEN. (1)&(1)
29. CHICK OR MERRY. (1)&(1)
30. PAY TOWN FYNE. (1)&(1)
How's your geography?
LOL, Lucy
Hi Lucy,
Unfortunately, I'm tied up all day, so my input to the new quiz will have to wait until tomorrow afternoon.(sigh....) Maybe you will have solved it all by then. Good luck.
Love, BJ
I have a few minutes before taking off again. I'll try a few easier ones, although I don't think we are going to finish this quiz.
4.ALMOND river
6.river DEE
7.POWELL river
16. TAY river
22. WHITEADDER water
24. river WYE
20. HELVELLYN (mountain) and OUSE (river)
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Happy Birthday, Cory!
Today our glasses are raised in a birthday toast in your honour.
May the working part of this Monday be an easy start to a new week; and may your evening be a perfect celebration of YOU at 36.
Cheers, best wishes and lots of love,
Louise and David
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Happy FIRST Wedding Anniversary,
Shannon and Luke!
As you mark the completion of the first year of your marriage, we wish you joy in reflecting back on good times, fun in celebrating today, and excitement in looking ahead to the future.
Cheers to both of you on this happy day!
Lots of love,
Louise and David
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One more answer:
26. BEN MORE (mt.)and FORTH (riv)
Hello Everyone! I think spring may have finally sprung in Calgary ... Just a quick update - I have added something new to Bjorn Blog Bjornbutcher.blogspot.com , I read that Both Louise and BJ like blogging more than Facebook and I think I would like agree this is more personal, So I'm going to make a new attempt to keep up with his blog.
Take care everyone!
Melissa, Al and Bjorn!
Melissa . . . thanks for telling us to check for new action on "Bjorn Updates". That's cute stuff. We'll watch for more from you here on "Ed's Edition", too.
BJ . . . how are you managing to solve any of the clues in this latest quiz? I live in the UK and I am getting nowhere.
Louise
Hi Lucy,
I agree, this is an almost impossible puzzle. I am looking up names of mountains and rivers in the UK and trying to fit them to the clues, but there are so many that it is hard to find anything useful. Do you think the answers I have so far are feasible? they seem okay to me, but I am not really sure about some of them.
Explanations for answers so far.
4. norm(AL MOND)ay morning
6. D (roman numeral for five hundred; E note of musical scale E for East point of directions.
7. Baden-POWELL, founder of scouts and guides.
16. McGonagall wrote a poem in which he called the TAY river silvery.
22. WHITE for pale, ADDER for asp.
24. WYE for why?
Anagrams 26 and 28 I just looked for rivers and mountains with some of the letters given. Not easy!!
Gosh, BJ
I wonder if it's worth the effort?
I think I see a pattern in that, so far, every even number is a river. That might make every odd one a mountain. However, if your number 7 is correct, I am wrong.
What do you think? Shall we scrap this one?
Lucy
Yes, turf the dratted thing! It really is too complicated and the solving of it more frustrating than puzzling (which is fun). So let's accept defeat and retire gracefully.
it's too hard for me :(
..So it's not just me...
Done!
Lucy
I keep forgetting to check this blog! My dashboard lets me know when a new blog entry has been posted on the blogs that I am following, but these are comments and not new posts, so it doesn't pop up daily. I am going to have to try to remember to get back here on a regular basis. Looked like I didn't miss getting any answers on the last quiz anyways...
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Happy Easter,
Happy Spring,
Happy, happy everything!
Love, Lucy
Happy Easter, and what Lucy just said!
Love, BJ
Just received my MSA original personally delivered by the artist himself! Second prize rocks! Can't wait for football season to start up again!
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Happy Birthday, Betty Jo!
The April 16th flower petal from my 2009 calendar bouquet urges me to "celebrate for no reason at all".
However, this morning I was already in celebration mode. I will simply have to save that thought for another, less important day. Even before I picked the calendar petal, my Happy Birthday thoughts were winging their way to you in Ottawa.
I hope your 70th birthday is as sparkling, special and spirited as the wine we raise in celebration of YOU today.
Buon compleanno! Cin, Cin!
Lots of love,
Louise and David
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Here's a Scottish Wildlife Trust Quiz that looks like fun. We have until September 21st to submit our entry form.
The answers can be words or phrases, but they all contain the word "bird" or the name of a bird.
eg: a hen pecked husband
1. A simple drink (6,4)
2. Do a short turn on duty (6,5)
3. In spring, this daft bird breaks out of the egg (8)
4. Ape! (6)
5. Found when you cultivate a lettuce. (4)
6. Could be a granny or couldn't (4)
7. She's needed for writing (1,3)
8. An architectural feature of houses (4,5)
9. An insomniac feline (9)
10. This bird fights, then fights again (7)
11. In Scotland(!)you can't see these (9)
12. Duped on your summer holiday (1,13,4)
13. A bird lost its energy and joined the Queen and was transformed into another bird. (9)
14. Does he sing in the bath? (7,7)
15,16,17. A twitcher? No but he's on course to tick these:-
15.(1,6)
16.(2,5)
17.(2,9)
18. An invoice from the canteen (1,9)
19. On seeing these birds, little girl does a dance in the road (9)
20. Jonathan? (5)
21. Where people kept their dentures! (2,1,8)
22. This bird from Aberdeenshire river appears on TV-sounds fine (1,1)
23. Not quite the right way to conduct a quarrel (3,3,3)
24. It's got nothing to do with me (3,3,2,6)
25. One equals 2? So it seems! (1,4,2,3,4,2,5,3,2,3,4)
26. An elegant gathering to celebrate the end of the male (1,8,5)
27. Frozen panorama (5,3,4)
28. An underwater swimmer and a runner on land, but this Scandinavian sounds out of breath (1,9,6,3)
29. You'll see them tomorrow (9,4,3,5,6,2,5)
30.I hope all you staid and douce folk doing this quiz never suffer this (4,6)
LOL, Lucy
Holly ... Congratulations! Like you, David and I were delighted to receive our MSA originals from the artist himself. In your case, that must also mean that Marty was in Regina for a visit. How nice!
As you know, Marty's first and third prizes are displayed here in our St. Andrews home. They evoke memories of Vancouver Island shores and of the Rocky Mountains. Tell us, what is featured in the second prize?
Louise
Happy Birthday, Mom!
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
( for BJ )
The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.
-English Proverb
Happy Sweet 70, BJ.
Love ya,
ME
xoxoxoxo
Nice one, ME!
BTW ... Betty Jo, my friend Margaret was over for a quick visit this afternoon. She asked me to post a birthday greeting on the blog from her to you.
So... Happy Birthday from the Strachan family, Margaret, Peggy and Isles!
Thank you, David and Lucy, Kenneth, Mary-Ellen, Margaret, Peggy and Isles. What an abundance of greetings. I feel well-celebrated.
Love, BJ
Lucy,
I am teaching all day, so don't have much time for the quiz. The only one I recognize immediately is #25:
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
I will work on the rest later.
Happy Birthday, BJ! That quiz is a toughie!
The painting is of a bird in the water - Uncle Marty told me the name of the bird twice and still I have forgotten it, though in my defense, the four kids were ecstatic to have "Auntie Smartie" (as Ellie calls him) come over to play with them and were somewhat distracting! : S
Uncle Marty, what is the bird again? I will write it down next time. Oh never mind, I found it in my trusty Audubon field guide - an American Avocet. The composition is amazing! I love it and it has joined my other MSA original on my mantle.
Happy Birthday BJ!
That quiz is tough.... Maybe #28 has the word "puffer" in it??
Thanks Sonia.
The quiz IS tough.
I think #6 is a NANA bird
# 7. A PEN (female swan)
#14 some kind of warbler
#26 some kind of bachelor bird.
i will follow up on the puffer later. Maybe it could be a Norwegian Puffer - - -?
Nice work, BJ
#3. NUTHATCH
#5. TEAL
#9. KITTIWAKE
Lucy
#23. TIT FOR TAT
Good night!
Quiz:
4. PARROT
27. BIRDS EYE (frozen food brand) VIEW
29. BLUEBIRDS OVER THE WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER ("tomorrow, just you wait and see")
#26. A BACHELOR PARTY
#28. A NORWEGIAN PUFFIN DOG
#12. A MEDITERRANEAN GULL
#14. AQUATIC WARBLER
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Happy Birthday, Vic!
Your birthday follows so quickly on Betty Jo's that I get to stay in celebration mode for two days running.
Our Friday is well under way here in St. Andrews. We are practically ready to raise our glasses in a special toast in your honour. We will make it a double of the finest, to wish you a wonderful day and another good year.
Cheers and lots of love,
Louise and David
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We are making inroads on this latest quiz!
David got these three answers (and so he should!)
15. A BIRDIE
16. AN EAGLE
17. AN ALBATROSS
He also told me that the Aberdeenshire River is the NAIRN. AI is in the AIR part of that word so ....
22. AI (i.e. A-one or a bird called Ai)
Lucy
Ooops an ai is a sloth, not a bird. It's back to the drawing board on #22.
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
( for Vic)
How beautiful a day can be,
When Kindness touches it.
-George Elliston
That's my sister Vic --- Kindness, and she touches so many people with her gentle nature, and adds beauty to their day.
Happy Birthday Vic. Have a beautiful day!
Love,
ME
xoxoxoxoxo
Hey Guys
Just got back from Regina and Theodore. We also went to visit Karen's family. Theodore is 30 minutes from Yorkton.
It was great to see my family in Regina once again. I missed the Mom.
Holly
That is coool that you found the American Avocet in your research, just by recognition...although it may have been easier to flip the painting over.
Love,
Marty
Nice work, David. Great answers that we might not have got otherwise.
Too bad about the sloth. I can't imagine what the answer to #22 could be.
#20. SWIFT
18. A SPOONBILL
10. ROOSTER?
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Dear Abby ...
(I couldn't resist that salutation)
Belated Birthday Greetings!
Somehow, I overlooked the fact that you share an April 17th birthday with two other people in the family.
Maybe you and Joshua are making a weekend of celebrating a happy ending to one year of your life and a promising beginning to the next. We hope so.
Anyway, Abby, today we will be raising a toast to yesterday's joys and to all of tomorrow's hopes. Cheers!
Love and best wishes,
Louise and David
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Belated birthday wishes to you, too, Kelly!
We hope that yesterday was a happy day, with Dehlia, Piper and Tim on hand to enjoy a special family time with you.
One day after the fact, we want to join in the celebrations by posting our greetings on this family blog site.
Here's a toast to you, Kelly. May the coming year bring good health and much happiness to you and to your family. Cheers!
Love and warm wishes,
Louise and David
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# 21. IN A NIGHTJAR
#22. could it be A J? (sounds like A JAY)
# 1. PURPLE DOVE (cocktail)
1 part Vodka
1 part Grenadine
1 part Blue Curacao
Lemonade
Ice
Put 1st three ingredients into a shaker. Shake well.
Now pour contents into a Collins glass filled with ice.
Fill to top with Lemonade. Enjoy.
#8. Could this be WOOD ORIEL? (kind of iffy, but then so are some of my other answers.)
#10. Perhaps PHOENIX is a better answer than ROOSTER?
# 13. Could this be GYRFALCON? The bird 'FALCON' lost GYR from enerGYR and joined with a 'ROYAL': g (YR) f (AL) c (O) n to become GYRFALCON. Convoluted, but maybe possible?
#30. COLD TURKEY. Staid folk are not likely to have to quit anything 'cold turkey'
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Happy Birthday, Martin!
We hope your Monday birthday celebration is a happy start to your work week.
Here in St. Andrews, morning has already dawned sunny and clear. It makes us want to send you birthday greetings that match Nature's own warm welcome to another day of living.
Here's to you on your birthday, Martin! May you be happy and healthy in Houston today and throughout the coming year.
Cheers and lots of love,
Louise and David
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#19. STARLINGS perhaps. ST could stand for street or road and the letters 'girl' or 'gal' are not consecutive and could be said to be dancing in the word.
#2. CUCKOO CLOCK?
Well, BJ
I'm on my way to bed without having cracked another clue in this quiz. I'm making notes of all your suggestions, though. The way I figure it, we are down to our last two posers: #11 and 24.
Well done, you!
Lucy
Lucy,
Do you think #24 could start with:
It's not my..... or
You are an...... or
Not for my.....
#11 What are we not seeing in Scotland?
The vowels e, i and u are not in the word Scotland. Could that be some kind of clue? What else is not in the word?
I think #11 is Gyrfalcon because apparently you are not likely to see one in Scotland.
This is a quote from the Wildlife Herbrides website: '...they are so scarce on mainland Scotland that some birdwatchers would brave the Minch just get a glimpse of a Gyrfalcon of any colour.'
I don't know what it is but I'm sure Louise could give us a rundown on the Minch.
You guys are so far ahead of me in solving these things that all I can do is add controversy to answers already given!!
Well done, Lui,
Now get to work on #24. It has me completely stymied and I think it should be an easy one to get, given the number of letters.
Also, controversy is good in solving puzzles. That's how we eventually come up with the right answers. Check out a few of the other answers. Some are pretty iffy,
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Happy Birthday, Barbara!
Today you get to celebrate what may be called your "Pearl Birthday". Appropriately enough, that precious and promising jewel signifies both durability and change.
We hope that you have a very happy day with family and friends eager to share this milestone in your life. Congratulations!
Here in St. Andrews we raise three cheers - one for each of the three decades in the life of our own pearl. Hip-hip-hooray!
We wish you health, happiness and good fortune, Barbara.
Lots of love,
Louise and David
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Well, Lui, I didn't know anything about the Minch until you mentioned it. Apparently it is a Strait in NW Scotland. It separates the Scottish Highlands from the Northern Hebrides. I found out that the Minch is 40 to 70 km wide with rapid currents and great depths. There are ferries that serve the people who live on the outer islands but weather conditions can be unpredictable and extreme at any time of year.
So, now that we have transferred "GYRFALCON" from #13 to #11. what will we put in its place?
And what about #24 ... it's got nothing to do with me (3,3,2,6)?
Lucy
Vic & I saw BJ's answer to #1 which was purple dove, but Vic says what about the drink 'Yellow Bird'
1 oz. Bacardi Rum
1/2 oz. Galliano liqueur
1/2 oz. vodka
4 oz. sweet & sour mix
Pour all alcoholic ingredients into a highball glass. Stir sour mix in a mixer and fill glasses.
We'll be back. Vic wants to peek at some of the other unsolved ones!
Love,
ME xoxo
Welcome, Vic! The more the merrier! We have really struggled with some of these "flighty" answers. Check them all, please and don't be reluctant to call us on any of them. We want to get them right.
I like the yellow bird but neither it nor the purple dove sound all that "simple"!
LOL, Lucy
I like Yellow Bird better than Purple Dove for #1. How about looking at all the clues, Vic, not just the unsolved ones. Some of them we are very sure of. Others are pretty iffy. eg: #s 2,8,19,22. And we are desperate for answers to #s 13 & 24.
BJ
Oops, Lucy and I had the same idea at the same time. And I like Lucy's "flighty" better than "iffy".
Hi All,
Thanks for the welcome to Vic. Her mind seems to work likes yours when it comes to puzzles. I'm just along for the ride!!!Having fun!
We saw that #13 and #24 were unsolved and tried our best, but haven't found the answer yet. Vic wonders if the beginning of the answer to #24 is: It's not my.............. (Insert proper bird on dotted line).
Love,
ME & Vic
xoxo
yep, ME, that's my line of thought, too. But which bird fits on the dotted line?????
Lucy
Hey, BJ, ME and Vic, our neighbour, Peggy, says that there is an expression, "It's not my pigeon", meaning that it is not my affair or concern.
How about that?
Lucy
Way to go Peggy,
Now, on to #13.
BTW: I just checked the Internet, and sure enough this is what it says about It's not my pigeon: Not of material interest to oneself. Not one's business. Not an activity one would typically engage in under normal circumstances. Hurrah for Peggy.
Could #13 be BLACKBIRD.
The common blackbird of nursery rhyme fame (four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie) was a Thrush. Perhaps the thrush lost its energy when baked in the pie and turned into a blackbird when it began to sing. There is a queen (eating bread and honey) in the nursery rhyme. There are also the initials HRH (her royal highness)in thrush.
Okay, okay, I'm reaching here, but I can't seem to think of any other solution.
That sounds good enough to me, BJ. I especially like it when you take me through your line of thinking.
I have entered BLACKBIRD for our answer to #13. The quiz is finished now unless anyone else wants to make revisions.
Lucy
Hi Lucy,
I will keep looking at the quiz in case some other things come to mind. The ones I think are a sure thing are #3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 14, 15,16,17, 18, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, and 29.
Not so sure: 1, 2, 8, 10, 13, 19, 22, and 30.
Thanks for the recap, BJ. Like you, I am confident of several of our answers. However, it's a bit discouraging to have "iffy" responses on 8 of 30 items.
I will be sure to enclose a self-addressed envelope with our entry form so that we at least get an answer key when the quiz winner is announced.
Love, Lucy
HOW SWEET IT IS!!!
Dear Vic, Mary Ellen, Marcia, Christine and Therese, I am thinking of you on this Sweet Adeline competition weekend in Calgary.
Have a ha-ha-happy, harmonious and winning time! I am with all of you in mind and spirit.
Lots of love, Louise
Ditto what Lucy said!!
Love, BJ
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Happy Birthday, Brant!
We can't help but think that Santa Clarita on an April day must be a very nice place to be.
Things become even more special when you make that the 27th day of April, add birthday celebrations and mix in family fun in the Pinvidic household.
Here in St. Andrews, we raise a birthday toast to you, Brant. Here's to your health, happiness and good fortune - today and in the year ahead.
Best wishes and lots of love,
Louise and David
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Congratulations to Barbara Brockett Weisgerber, who yesterday completed her LPN course with 4.0 GPA and an A in Sociology. Way to go, Barbara!
Hi everyone! Thank you so much for the birthday wishes and the congrats on my courses! Love and hugs to all!
Barbara
Great stuff, Barbara! You've given us a perfect reason to raise a wee dram in a congratulatory toast to you on your academic and professional achievements.
Cheers and lots of love,
Louise and David
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Happy Birthday, Jacob!
J am a lot of fun into
A Birthday
C elebration that's full
O f surprises for a
B oy who is 5 today.
Warm wishes and lots of love,
Louise and David
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Happy Birthday, Keenan!
Recent weather reports out of Saskatchewan suggest that you may be happy to mark the end of this particular April with a warm birthday celebration.
No matter what the weather, though, we hope your April 30th birthday is a day of present enjoyment and future promise. Cheers!
Love and best wishes,
Louise and David
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Happy Birthday, Christopher!
Our Book of Days says that a 35th celebration may be remembered with a gift of CORAL. As you know, coral is a sturdy, often hidden substance that is colourful and surprising.
So, we wish you a great Coral Birthday, Christopher - one that celebrates YOU.
Cheers, and may today's celebrations be followed by a year that brings lots of good things your way.
Lots of love,
Louise and David
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Hey guys
I can't find the New Post.
Marty
http://edsedition.blogspot.com/2009/05/may-1.html
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