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Right now I'm paging through international mailing restrictions for various countries on the United States postal site. Most of the prohibited items make a lot of sense (no weapons, radioactive material, etc.) but some of them are unexpected and sound almost funny.
Did you know that Bulgaria prohibits "musical" cards (cards that play a sound recording when opened)?
No shipping butter-substitutes to Canada.
No feeding bottles, or funeral urns to France.
Don't send playing cards (except in complete decks properly wrapped) to Germany.
No weights or measures not of the metric system to Guinea.
No toys made of lead to Iceland. (Please don't send them anywhere else either! :-P )
Don't try to send a photo album to Italy. They have a lot of restrictions and prohibit all footwear and hats, and many other clothing and needlework items. Oh, and hair too. (?)
Kazakhstan prohibits deer horns, hooves and antlers.
Many countries prohibit bees and leeches, but Latvia prohibits all live animals except these two.
Paraguay prohibits stockings and socks, except those made of jersey.
Peru should, perhaps, have a list of things they do allow. Their prohibited list is quite lengthy.
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Apr. 22nd, 2004 @ 12:05 pm
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The other day I (sort of) cleaned out my purse. I'm not too fond of purses, but maybe that's because mine always weigh about 10 times more than the average purse. I carry too much stuff around I guess. :P Also, I'm bad at getting rid of loose change! I finally dumped it all out and found $10 in quarters alone! Ooo, I'm rich! ;D
In a bit Ruth and I are going off to town. We're driving our grandma in to run some errands and she's also going to a funeral. My violin lesson is half an hour later today and then when we come home we will have to leave right away to go to Lucy's. I haven't seen her in a long time and I'm looking forward to it. :)
It's cold out. We have such crazy weather. One day it's 80 degrees and then the next it's down to 40 and storming. ;p
No decision yet on The Trip. My dad does not like the idea, he's worried about traffic and such potential dangers, but he hasn't said 'no' yet. I really think we will get to in the end...I hope anyway. He said (half-jokingly) that he was looking out for Jonno and trying to make sure he'd still have his bride. ;PCurrent Mood:  sleepy |
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Apr. 17th, 2004 @ 08:26 am
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Yesterday it was hot! It got up to 80 (according to Isaiah) and it sure felt like it in the sun. We've been working a lot on getting the garden cleaned up. I've been digging more in the raspberries and trying to get 'creeping charlie' out of the flower beds. :p
Afternoon I got out my violin to practice and *plingk* , one of the strings broke. Grace's sympathetic response: "Yay!...oh, I mean, awww, that's too baaad." :-|
In the evening I had a babysitting job. I was a bit nervous about it because the only one of the family I'd met before was the 3y.o. daughter, Katrina, and at the time she seemed...uh...rather...beastly. :-*
She was much nicer this time though, and everything went fine. I was also watching her 10y.o. sister and 8y.o. brother. Their parents had said they could watch the movie The Gospel of John, so they put that on after we ate. It's a very long movie and they practically had it memorized so we didn't sit down and watch it straight through. ( Read more... ) Current Mood:  awake |
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Apr. 15th, 2004 @ 11:30 am
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This morning we picked rock out of a field of winter wheat. We only got part way through when it started thundering and Daddy sent us home.
I always wear pockets when picking rock to put any especially interesting rocks in. They may just be pretty little rocks, or they may be great archaeological discoveries. ;) Today I found another snail fossil and also a rock that looks like a large peanut. What could it be? A petrified legume? An American Indian artifact? Further evidence of Hannah's over-active imagination?? The world may never know. :-|
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| » Hannah's recipe for Perfectly Prepared Steak |
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Step 1: Make roaring fire; let it burn down so there are hot coals but few flames.
Step 2: Place grill over fire.
Step 3: Place steak on grill; turn as necessary.
Cook until steak is of blackish-brownish color: well done in the inside and slightly burnt on the outside. Serve with barbeque sauce. Enjoy!
Apr. 14th, 2004 @ 06:33 pm
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| » I want to be Scottish when I grow up. |
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;D I got a package in the mail this afternoon from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=88.8) kari_w and laura_w ! Thankyou! They sent me a couple of music CDs and also a tape on which they talked a bit and sang. You both have beautiful voices (when are you going to come out with your own cd?;} ) and I love your accent!!! :-D Thankyou again! <><
Apr. 13th, 2004 @ 12:49 pm
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| » What the Lord requires |
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"With what shall I come before the LORD
and bow down before the exalted God?
Shall I come before him with burnt offerings,
with calves a year old?
Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams,
with ten thousand rivers of oil?
Shall I offer my firstborn for my transgression,
the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
He has showed you, O man, what is good.
And what does the LORD require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy
and to walk humbly with your God."
Micah 6:6-8
Apr. 7th, 2004 @ 05:45 pm
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| » Ah, so THIS is the problem... |
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Doctor Unheimlich has diagnosed me with
Hannah's Lurgy | | Cause: | lack of sleep | | Symptoms: | frequent death, sneezing, steam whistling from ears | | Cure: | take a day off work | |
Frequent death??? ;D
Apr. 7th, 2004 @ 05:36 pm
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| » Yesterday... |
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Yesterday was an interesting day.
In the morning my mom woke me up because daddy wanted me to drive for her. She was taking Ezra and Timmy to the dentist and Grace came along as well. After dropping them off at the dentist, Grace and I went grocery shopping. The store we went to is going out of bussiness and keeps advertising about their blowout inventory sales, but for a store that's going out of bussiness and is out of many things they sure had rotten prices. :P
After that we still had a lot of time to kill but didn't know where to go. Grace has been begging to go to the mall for at least the past month so I drove her over there. However I'd forgotten that it was too early and all the stores were still closed. There were quite a few people there though doing there walking routines. ;}
We went then to Micheal's and shopped for a bit. I love the smell of that store.
Later in the afternoon I called the woman I'd done the portrait for to see when a good time to drop it off would be. We decided that that very day would work so a bit later Ruth, Bethany, and I were off. She lives a good way off but we enjoyed the drive. I think I would like to live around that area; it's so beautiful and secluded. Ooo! And I want an Amish buggy too! ;D We saw quite a few and I've always wanted a horse anyways.
After a missed turn when we went even farther than we needed to, we were on the road we were supposed to be on but couldn't find the house. After driving back and forth for quite some time we finally stopped somewhere to ask for directions. Supposedly it's a guy thing to not like to ask for directions but I hate doing it too, even though I know I have a terrible sense of direction. :-p
So anyway, we stopped at a house and I went to the door, but then someone shouted from out by a shed that they were out there and the only ones home.
Initiating conversation with strange young men, especially when one is holding an axe, is not exactly my favorite thing in the world to do. :-| They didn't know the person I was trying to find anyway so it was back to the road.
We stopped and I called her on Roo's phone. When she found out what road we were on she said, "Oh, well then you're almost here! We live right on that road, you must be right by us!" She then proceeded to give me directions. They lived near the church but we could not see any place that fit her description and we drove around the same little area for another 30 minutes trying to figure it out. We stopped at another house where an elderly man who was a bit hard of hearing answered the door. After hearing my question he shouted to some unseen person if she knew where the place I was looking for was and Mrs. Unseenperson gave directions.
Once again we drove around the same area. This time I think I really did goof the directions up myself. :P In any case we stopped at yet another house to ask. This house was near the church. I knocked for what seemed like a long time and even though someone was obviously home no one answered. I was heading back to the car when a smiling woman in a robe opened the door. My knock had gotten her out of the tub! Oh dear. :P I apologized, but she was very friendly and after explaining directions to me invited me in to show me through the window where the farm was. :) Then she asked, "Oh! Are you going over to Win's house?" (The woman I was looking for is named Winifred) "Could you take something over to her from me?" I was happy to do that, and she was so nice. :)
Finally we knew where we were going. Poor Mrs. Winifred who had been expecting us any minute had had a long wait!
It was getting dark by the time we got there. My fears that she would hate the painting were not realized (thank the Lord) and she and her husband invited me to sit down for awhile. They also took me into their livingroom to show me a different painting someone had done for them years ago and, what I admit interested me even a little more, they had one of those chairs carved out of a single log that I've always liked so much.
After staying a little longer and being invited back "any time" Ruth, Bethany, and I headed home. We had to stop twice on the way back because of deer running across the road, but only got slightly mixed up directionally once so we got back in good time.
Apr. 6th, 2004 @ 10:38 am
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