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Comment by booklover on February 9, 2013 at 12:47pm Beautiful Ian! Love her name also! Glad you had fun!
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Comment by Idaho Spud on February 9, 2013 at 12:31pm Thanks for the Ice Flowers Patricia. Never heard of them before. Interesting and beautiful.
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Comment by booklover on February 9, 2013 at 8:21am Love the deer looking in the window at the cat, and face-paw Ian! Glad you liked tazared cat Ruth! Steph, I love the look on that cat's face in the gif Steph. I learned something new today Joan! Ice flowers! Cool!
Happy Saturday Everyone~ Melinda
Thanks for the ice flowers, Patricia!
Comment by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on February 9, 2013 at 12:33am booklover, tazered cat made me laugh so much. Ice flowers are interesting; causing ozone depletion -have to learn more about that. Thanks for all your sharing, everyone. Nemo is snowing softly here, so far only a couple of inches accumulation. We had to cancel some plans till next week, when it's expected to get up to 54°. What a change. Did you all read that the expected El Nino didn't appear, and they're calling the long in between La Nada. Do I hear a faint echoing hollow laugh?
Comment by Joan Denoo on February 8, 2013 at 10:42pm Ian, violence in the home is always harmful. One of my boys at the boys ranch had a tiny little mother who regularly beat her big, gnarly, track-driver husband. He appeared helpless to protect himself or his children.
Comment by Ian Mason on February 8, 2013 at 10:30pm Patricia, I didn't know about ice flowers so thank you. They are stunning.
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