Who's the last one to post on this thread?

POSTED BY: ItsaWash
UPDATED: Friday, March 7, 2008 01:55
VIEWED: 189970
PAGE 95 of 130

PREV PAGE 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 NEXT PAGE

MAGDALENA

Sunday, October 15, 2006 4:30 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by traveler:
Wombat in snow.
So it snows in Australia.
I wondering if they got snow in the down under.

Wow! Thank you Penguin & Traveler!! I love my wombats!!

Yes, it does snow in Australia - but only in small areas and only up high! We don't get snow in the cities at all - though I think it has snowed in Hobart (southernmost state capital, Tasmania) a few times, it never remains on the ground! Any city that gets snow makes the headlines! We do get lots of rain and chilly winds though! ... though not enough rain this year - we are facing the toughest water restrictions in history... starting today!

This isn't from my own collection (I will take photos though when my folks come back from the UK with their digital camera!) but it is still cute...

TRAVELER

Sunday, October 15, 2006 5:21 AM

The wombat looks like minature brown bear. As cute as they appear, I suspect you don't walk up to one and start petting it.

Oh, how I wish we did not get snow in the cities up this way. We can get buried in twelve inches in just a few hours. It is nice for the children, but driving is impossible. We won't see any real snow fall until late December. But this year western New York state got a heavy snow fall just a few days ago. That was a surprise. Its these huge lakes in this area. A storm goes over them and picks up extra moisture and then dumps it when it get back over land. I just love living in the north.

Traveler

MAGDALENA

Sunday, October 15, 2006 7:10 AM

It sounds amazing Traveler! We have to drive for about 3 - 4 hours to get to the snow fields - though I won't complain about that! I only saw snow for the first timein my life when I was 20 & actually saw it snowing when I was about to turn 34! It still looks like magic to me!

Wombats will generally ignore you, but if they feel threatened they do have very strong teeth! I can vouch for that!! I was bitten when I was 19 and had a sub-dermal bruise for months! I was lucky that I had on strong, new jeans, because the same wombat took a chunk the size of a golf ball out of a ranger's arm the folowing week - that's when they moved him away from the camp-sites... but he was feeling threatened by a group of kids who were chasing him, and he was old, and I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time! That's how I came to collect them... You really notice them after something like that!

So, you live near the Great Lakes? I saw the snow falls on the news last night - we are having record hot spells and you are having record snow falls... and they tell us the world is doing fine?

...another corner of my paradise!

TRAVELER

Sunday, October 15, 2006 8:34 AM

We have our assorted creatures in Wisconsin. Raccoons and skunks love to turn over garbage cans. We have black bears, but they are few and shy. But once when we were camping in northern Wisconsin we drove out to the local dump, at night, and waited in the dark for an hour and when we heard a noise we turned on the car lights and there was a black bear searching in the garbage. But deer are everywhere. We have to many. They follow the rivers right into the city. Can you imagine a deer jumping out into traffic when everyone is going home from work.

You have such beautiful scenery. I have to travel hundreds of miles to see sites like that. Wisconsin isn't to bad. We have rolling hills and forests in the northern half of our state. But to see mountains and canyons you have to cross the prairies. Either through the Dakotas or Nebraska. Those are some long flat states. Ask anyone who has passed through them. My family came out of Nebraska. When your driving down the highway you know you're nearing a town because you can see the trees from miles away. That is Nebraska. Small towns and corn.

We have had summers when we were not allowed to water our lawns because it was so dry and the city wells were getting low. This was a good year. So our farmers must have done well.

Traveler

PHOENIXROSE

Sunday, October 15, 2006 9:21 AM

Oh man I can't stand driving through Nebraska. It has the strangest signs and the flatest land and it's just not a great place to be, in my opinion.
And that's all I have. Look, I'm last again!

http://www.bigdamnthankyou.com - show 'Versal your gratitude!

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure. - Gautama Siddharta

MAGDALENA

Sunday, October 15, 2006 9:55 AM

I love this... I have read and re-read the books of Laura Ingalls Wilder more times than I can count... and I did count until I'd read each of them 11 times by the age of 12!! I read her version of traveling from Wisconsin through Dakota and on...

Australia does have it's less picturesque vistas too... but where I live, in Melbourne, there are low mountains (some of my friends overseas scoff that we even call them mountains) on the horizon, there are reasonably safe beaches in the bay & surf beaches just 1-2 hours down the road... there's bush and clean air and wildlife just 20 mins away from my home... Then there's the city with its river, cafes, trams, theatres, shopping centres, book shops and historic, Neo-Gothic buildings from our boom era - the gold rush lasting from the 1850s - 1890s!

The Nullabore Plain literally translates as 'No Trees Plain' - it is totally flat and at night you can see the lights of an oncoming vehicle for ages before you actually pass them...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nullarbor_Plain

... oh look - I'm last!!

PHOENIXROSE

Sunday, October 15, 2006 10:04 AM

Ah, is this where you went, jie-jie? Nic was just saying it was taking awhile for you to get your glasses

http://www.bigdamnthankyou.com - show 'Versal your gratitude!

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure. - Gautama Siddharta

HEROUVCANTON

Sunday, October 15, 2006 11:21 AM

no..............I'M LAST!!!

prove me wrong~

Dear Diary: Today I was pompous and my sister was crazy. Today, we were kidnapped by hillfolk never to be seen again. It was the best day ever.

PHOENIXROSE

Sunday, October 15, 2006 11:43 AM

*proves HerouvCanton wrong*

No power in the 'verse can stop me!

http://www.bigdamnthankyou.com - show 'Versal your gratitude!

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure. - Gautama Siddharta

PUMAMANREDUX

Sunday, October 15, 2006 1:56 PM

Can I pop in to say this is my first and hopefully last post in this thread?

PREV PAGE 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 NEXT PAGE