Russell Island, AGAIN...

[Jackie]

‘Ottoman’, not ‘automan’.

And there is a difference between a deck and a verandah. 

Awesome story, though. Had me riveted.

Boru

I am sure it did.

My name is Trump as if you didn't know. I am fucking perfect too.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I have a little pear tree,
Nothing does it bear-
I talk to it quite nicely,
It doesn’t seem to care.

The farmers in the district
All think that I’m insane
For standing ‘neath my pear tree
Naked in the rain.

Boru

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

‘Ottoman’, not ‘automan’.

And there is a difference between a deck and a verandah. 

Awesome story, though. Had me riveted.

Boru

I am sure it did.

My name is Trump as if you didn't know. I am fucking perfect too.

Ok.

Boru

[Jackie]

This was the piece of driftwood that would get submerged in high tide.

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If there was a reason to visit the islands off of Yeppoon Australia this would be it.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

This was the piece of driftwood that would get submerged in high tide.

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If there was a reason to visit the islands off of Yeppoon Australia this would be it.

Ok.

Boru

[Little lunch]

This was the piece of driftwood that would get submerged in high tide.

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If there was a reason to visit the islands off of Yeppoon Australia this would be it.

Wow, how did you get to see one of those?
I've only seen the quills of dead a one...stuck in my tyre...air hissing out...on a dirt track, in the scrub, out the back of woop woop.

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‘Ottoman’, not ‘automan’.

And there is a difference between a deck and a verandah. 

Awesome story, though. Had me riveted.

Boru

I've always thought a verandah has a roof and is part of the house. Usually rectangular.
They can be open with no windows or shut with windows and then it's a sunroom, if it's facing the sun in the morning.
But a deck is a joined on bit and can have a roof or no roof. Usually square. :-)

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

This was the piece of driftwood that would get submerged in high tide.

---

If there was a reason to visit the islands off of Yeppoon Australia this would be it.

Wow, how did you get to see one of those?
I've only seen the quills of dead a one...stuck in my tyre...air hissing out...on a dirt track, in the scrub, out the back of woop woop.

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‘Ottoman’, not ‘automan’.

And there is a difference between a deck and a verandah. 

Awesome story, though. Had me riveted.

Boru

I've always thought a verandah has a roof and is part of the house. Usually rectangular.
They can be open with no windows or shut with windows and then it's a sunroom, if it's facing the sun in the morning.
But a deck is a joined on bit and can have a roof or no roof. Usually square. :-)

Yeah, pretty much that. A verandah is usually roofed and a deck isn’t. 

Boru

[awty]

The veranda discussion made me remember this.

My aunt Sherry (6 years older - we were more like sisters) married a man named Andy the second time around. Andy was very country southern...very! He had an interesting way of speaking that we as a family dubbed "Andyisms".

He kept telling Sherry that they needed to get one of them thar hibachis. (He pronounced it HIGH - batch - ee with some twang thrown in). Sherry couldn't figure out why they needed one because they had a perfectly good BBQ grill. My aunt Rhonda and Sherry were discussing it one day as Andy was obsessed with the idea. Rhonda asked Sherry if Andy planned to cook her and since she's so small he just needed something little to cook her on. (Yeah, that's the sort of family I have.)

One day Sherry and Andy were driving into town and Andy whipped the car in to a driveway, pointed, and said there - there's one of them thar hibachis I was talkin' about.

It was a gazebo.

Pretty much everyone in my family has called a gazebo "one of them thar hibachis" since then.

[Hillbillyatheist]

little lunch, me and Brian were visiting the great keppel islands during our stay in Australia last year, and ran across that critter. I never heard of it before, it looked like a porcupine mated with an ant eater. I took that photo. I also got a video of it. I tried to mimic Steve Irwin talking about a dangerous animal, though Brian kinda ruined the effect because he can't resist gootsy, gootsy gooing all animals. LOL

so imagine Steve Irwin trying to catch a Cobra saying Crickey this is scary! while Terri Irwin is behind him going aw you're so cute, little fella, gootsy gootsy goo. LOL

kidding aside though it was a blast, and a broke guy like me never would have had a chance to see something like that so I'm grateful for Brian's generosity paying for the air fare, and of the kindness of our Australian friends who gave us a place to stay and rides in the car.

[Little lunch]

The veranda discussion made me remember this.

My aunt Sherry (6 years older - we were more like sisters) married a man named Andy the second time around.  Andy was very country southern...very!  He had an interesting way of speaking that we as a family dubbed "Andyisms".

He kept telling Sherry that they needed to get one of them thar hibachis.  (He pronounced it HIGH - batch - ee with some twang thrown in).  Sherry couldn't figure out why they needed one because they had a perfectly good BBQ grill.  My aunt Rhonda and Sherry were discussing it one day as Andy was obsessed with the idea.  Rhonda asked Sherry if Andy planned to cook her and since she's so small he just needed something little to cook her on. (Yeah, that's the sort of family I have.)

One day Sherry and Andy were driving into town and Andy whipped the car in to a driveway, pointed, and said there - there's one of them thar hibachis I was talkin' about.

It was a gazebo.

Pretty much everyone in my family has called a gazebo "one of them thar hibachis" since then.

My daughter called a gazebo a jacuzzi one day and there's one on the way to her school and I always mention how the old jacuzzi is still standing. :-)