YES!!! The "I'm So Happy!" thread - 2011

[chasw]

Enjoy it Diane,and I'm sure you will fill your time no problem

[Brian Ellis]

Hope you like this one it made me laugh

Childbirth at 65 


With all the new  technology regarding fertility recently, a 65-year-old friend of mine  was able to give birth. When she was discharged from the  hospital and went home, I went to visit.

'May I see the new  baby?' I asked

'Not yet,' She said 'I'll make coffee and we can  visit for a while first..'

Thirty minutes had passed, and I asked,  'May I see the new baby now?'

'No, not yet,' She  said.

After another few minutes had elapsed,

I asked  again, 'May I see the baby now?'

'No, not yet,' replied my  friend.

Growing very impatient, I asked, 'Well, when can I see  the baby?'

'WHEN HE CRIES!' she told me.

'WHEN HE CRIES?'  I demanded. 'Why do I have to wait until he CRIES?'
 
'BECAUSE I  FORGOT WHERE I PUT  HIM,O.K.?'
 

[ranunculus]

I'm sure I would have loved that joke, Brian ...the trouble is I forgot the opening before I reached the end.   

[Paddy Tobin]

Santa Claus is coming to town.
Paddy

[Hoy]

To Olivia:




Picture: http://www.hihm.no/Hovedsiden/Campus-Evenstad/Forskning/Forskningsnytt-oekologi-og-landbruk/Bedoevelse-av-Svalbardrein

[Paddy Tobin]

To Olivia:




Picture: http://www.hihm.no/Hovedsiden/Campus-Evenstad/Forskning/Forskningsnytt-oekologi-og-landbruk/Bedoevelse-av-Svalbardrein

Oh, I think she will have to grow up a little before she is able to handle that one.

Lovely animal.

Paddy

[Hoy]

Paddy, it is the smallest breed available! All from Svalbard: (I have been there but all my pictures are old slides






Picture: http://alnakka.net/w/index.php?title=Svalbardrein

[art600]

Diane

I am 13 years retired and still enjoying it, tho' I must say that in the first year I sometimes thought I would like to go back to work for a rest - the thought passed very quickly.

I feel sorry for people who have no hobbies to look forward to in retirement - that won't be a problem for you.

Enjoy

[Martin Baxendale]

I've been working for 41 years. Only six years to go until the time that I won't be able to afford to retire. Might be time to start panicking   

[Paddy Tobin]

Wow, Hoy, what a photograph and what an animal. Marvellous.

Olivia will be delighted.

Paddy

[Anthony Darby]

There are two populations of reindeer on South Georgia, introduced as an alternative food source for whalers fed up with eating whales, seals and penguins. They were scheduled for elimination but this won't happen as they are now the only herds unaffected by Chernobyl.

[Hoy]

There are two populations of reindeer on South Georgia, introduced as an alternative food source for whalers fed up with eating whales, seals and penguins. They were scheduled for elimination but this won't happen as they are now the only herds unaffected by Chernobyl.

The reindeer on South Georgia were introduced by Norwegian whalers and stem from Valdres in 1911 and from Hardangervidda (1925). They also introduced horses, cats, dogs, poultry, geese, goats, sheep, cattle, red foxes and apes. Only the reindeers have survived - together with brown rats and mice!

Reindeer calves have been brought from South Georgia to The Falkland Islands too.

Some  Frenchmen have introduced Swedish reindeer to Kerguelen where it is a population of 3000-5000 animals (South Georgia: 2300). It is also a wild populations of black and white cats and European rabbits on that island.

South Georgia: http://www.sgisland.gs/index.php/Main_Page

[Brian Ellis]

http://www.carlsonschool.umn.edu/holiday11/

Bet you think the security man is a spoilsport

[ranunculus]

Excellent, Brian ... much appreciated.

[Brian Ellis]

Cliff I thought it was about time I got festive, now I'll carry on with the papering