Do you provide water for the winter wildlife?

[MoonShadows]

Pleasure I've been retired 17 years!

We're going off traipsing across Northern India soon.

Good for you!

 

[MoonShadows]

Yep, 58 countries are a lot to get to. But keep in mind as @Bootsy lives already in England, she can count the "countries " really close to her. As the same distance as our USA States are to us. @MoonShadows . I am on a cooking forum, where lots of my UK friends will just pop down to France, so from the UK to France its like going to Florida for us. If you take all of UK it does not even cover the size of our long California. Over here, in the USA, we count how many states we visit, then countries are outside of the USA.

Had to look it up. was wrong in my judgement. miles from England to France is 608 miles, or a 10 hour drive. That is like for me to leave my house in PA and go to the west edge of the next state over which is Ohio. wow, France is closer than I thought to England.

Never thought of it that way, @Esther Knapicius...makes sense. Now I feel like a world traveler...been to 18 States and Canada!

 

[MaryMary]

Never thought of it that way, @Esther Knapicius...makes sense. Now I feel like a world traveler...been to 18 States and Canada!

If it's Tuesday, this must be Belgium!!

 

[Bootsy]

Yep, 58 countries are a lot to get to. But keep in mind as @Bootsy lives already in England, she can count the "countries " really close to her. As the same distance as our USA States are to us. @MoonShadows . I am on a cooking forum, where lots of my UK friends will just pop down to France, so from the UK to France its like going to Florida for us. If you take all of UK it does not even cover the size of our long California. Over here, in the USA, we count how many states we visit, then countries are outside of the USA.

A lot of the countries that I've been to are much closer to you than to me! But a lot are just - far away.

If you're counting states in the U.S. that I've been to it's (from memory) California, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Texas, Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Vermont and Maine. Moving further afield (apart from 11 Caribbean islands) we've been to Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela, Guyana, French Guiana, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Java, India, Bhutan, Australia, New Zealand, Turkey, Egypt, Israel, Algeria, South Africa, Mozambique, Zanzibar, Mauritius, Morocco, Seychelles, Tunisia, Madagascar, Namibia, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, - can't think of others (apart from the European countries).

So there are certainly a lot of them that you can get to easier than we can.

Had to look it up. was wrong in my judgement. miles from England to France is 608 miles, or a 10 hour drive. That is like for me to leave my house in PA and go to the west edge of the next state over which is Ohio. wow, France is closer than I thought to England.

At its nearest point, France is 22 miles from mainland England (by boat or tunnel) and closer to some of our Channel Islands. But London to Athens (Greece) is 2,000 miles.

P.S. - I think Bootsy is a "he."

I was, last time I looked!

 

[Esther Knapicius]

P.S. - I think Bootsy is a "he."

now that you mention that, I think so to.

 

[MoonShadows]

If it's Tuesday, this must be Belgium!!

OMG...we are old to remember that old line!

 

[Esther Knapicius]

BTW @MoonShadows your only 2 hours from where I live.

 

[Bootsy]

If it's Tuesday, this must be Belgium!!

OMG...we are old to remember that old line!

The film was made in 1969

Suzanne Pleshette, who was the leading lady in the film, died ten years ago this week.

 

[MaryMary]

OMG...we are old to remember that old line!

I learned about the movie when I was in college. My Spanish professor was telling us that we (Americans) are so accustomed to traveling distances, that when we go to Europe, we plan too much too fast. He said that we run around like a bunch of kids at an amusement park. We only get a week's vacation, (two if we're lucky,) so we try to see everything!!

He tried to use the movie as an example.

 

[Esther Knapicius]

I am lucky, I get 6 weeks vacation and a week of specific holiday time, due to being with this company 15 years.

 

[MoonShadows]

That's a nice bit of vacation, Esther. And, I'm sure with all your interests, you put those weeks to very good use with your hobbies and interests.

 

[Bootsy]

I get 52 weeks a year but it has taken a lifetime to build up that entitlement

 

[MoonShadows]

I get 52 weeks a year but it has taken a lifetime to build up that entitlement

Me too, @Bootsy, except for my home biz, and I like tending to that. Can't beat it with a stick!

 

[Logan]

@MaryMary for the bird bath i pour a kettle of hot water in it, it cools down fast so the birds won't get scolded.

 

[johnny canoe]

I do the same as Logan but when the temp in below -15C the birds have to survive on snow.