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Socotra wildlife amazes me with its drinkable, edible products.

For example, isn't it interesting and intriguing to imagine a tea time with all things drinkable and edible from Socotra cucumber, dragon's blood, fig and pomegranate trees?

It would be wonderful to work Socotra-frankincense products in too, wouldn't it?

What wondrous scents, tastes and textures!

The drinkable, edible, healthy products from Socotra pomegranate trees amaze me.

It enchants me how other Socotra trees engender such equally entrancing drinkable, edible products.

The island so healthy in its air, soils and waters has cucumber and fig trees from which one harvests what heads us toward having fresh cucumber, fig, pomegranate fruits, juices and salads.

Wouldn't it be wonderful to work up a tea time with cucumber sandwiches among which wend baked, cooked, fresh, fried, grilled, toasted cucumbers, figs and pomegranates?

This film calls for a prequel, a remake and a sequel in whatever orders configure most charmingly for whoever creates the current counterpart of a Shirley Temple character.

Shirley Temple's character Betsy Brown inspires imagining how, when, why she inhabited an orphanage even as she invoked such impressive performance skills. She also kindles how happy her adopted-child life keeps her and her adoptive parents and their performance-world acquaintances.

Now who might make the best Shirley Temple today?

Families drift apart over time. But my sister Veronica has an interest in genealogy and family relationships and has done quite a bit of work. But she is a very busy woman, running a business and caring for family duties.

Thank you for your comment below, in answer to my previous observation and question.

It's a bit sad that you and your Ireland-inhabiting relatives know nothing about one another.

Is the afore-indicated inhibition an impossible impasse because of insufficient information?

Saint Valentine's Day has arrived and is gone.

The bowling game game joined the musical-chairs game for such Valentine jubilance!
Listening to filmed, happy-ending, non-scary love tales led into launching real-life, non-scary, love-story, happy ending tales.

The afore-mentioned games might make for St. Patrick's Day merriment.
What else from the Halloween ideas in your wizzley might manifest themselves next month?

Blue, green, orange non-scary presents for pulling from a box perhaps?!

Saint Valentine's Day has arrived and is gone.

The bowling game game joined the musical-chairs game for such Valentine jubilance!
Listening to filmed, happy-ending, non-scary love tales led into launching real-life, non-scary, love-story, happy ending tales.

The afore-mentioned games might make for St. Patrick's Day merriment.
What else from the Halloween ideas in your wizzley might manifest themselves next month?

Blue, green, orange non-scary presents for pulling from a box perhaps?!

The computer crashed before I communicated the complete component of my recentest comment, in the box immediately below.

Rock-haunting ring-tailed possum displays, with or without ring-tailed rock wallabies, deserve their own signs of "Caution! Rock-haunting ring-tailed possum crossing!" They also gain from such signs as "Caution! Put cigars, cigarettes, smokes in ashtrays!" and "Caution! Put out camp fires!"

Predatory people and raging wildfires menace both ring-tailed rock wallaby and rock-haunting wallaby lifespans ;-{.

It's possible for US Army personnel families to live off base in the Veneto region.

US army base, Veneto and Venice gardens with indoor, outdoor non-woody, woody plants interest me.

Mightn't one also mull what off-base US Army personnel in the Veneto region manage among indoor, outdoor non-woody, woody plants?

We have a system whereby if you give a charity donati9n you can claim back any tax y9u have paid on the sum given and donate it to the charity.

The name Thornton came to Ireland when the parliamentary army invaded. A Thornton from that army got land, I believe. It is likely that his tenants took his surname. This has led to a situation in which there are Catholic and Protestant Thorntons. We have no contact with any relatives of my line in Ireland. All our contacts are with Maureen's kin and some in-laws in Northern Ireland linked to my brother's family

Thank you for your two comments immediately below, on May 3, 2023, in answer to my previous observation and question.

Unitedstatesian charitable organizations can cull quite a hallowed status lucratively and reputationally. Many if not almost all or all expenses merit nice write-offs at tax time.

Would charitable organizations on the east-side pond work their way out of tax-paying through operating-expense deductions and write-offs?

Ragnar Jónasson authored a new book last year, Death at the Sanatorium.

His hero, Helgi, conserves the bookstore-collection and personal library of his book-selling father and grandfather.

Helgi's (and Ragnar Jónasson's) favorite mystery writer is Agatha Christie. But he lists Raymond Thornton Chandler's (Jul 23, 1888-Mar 26, 1959) Philip Marlowe character as uniquely dramatized among Chandler works -- Chandler mentioned before dying not making anything for television, but making stories into films -- in a television series.

Chandler's Irish-born mother married an American even as mother and son moved to England and Ireland after a parental divorce. Two uncles maintained their sister and nephew Raymond in London and Waterford.

Might Raymond Thornton Chandler, who merited dual American and British citizenship, have been descended from the Thornton settlers in your second paragraph (and therefore among your collateral-line ancestors)?

Rock-haunting ringtail possums appear around aboriginal art-archiving rocks.

No aboriginal-art rocks domicile rock-haunting ringtail possum depictions.
But perhaps we have yet to harvest them from hidden aboriginal art-honored hidden rocks.

Isn't it additionally interesting to investigate whether or not there is any information about such an impressive species in aboriginal folktales, legends and myths?

February is national grapefruit month!

What is the most popular way to ingest my favorite fruit?

Grapefruit ice cream from my family recipes always matters even as everybody munches marvelously on my family's cake, drink, fresh-fruit, muffin, salad, soup manifestations and on my family's matching grapefruit fresh or processed with vegan meat and vegetables ;-D!