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To: abuelita who wrote (156630)	4/17/2020 5:31:31 PM
From: Joseph Silent	6 Recommendations Recommended By bull_dozer ggersh Mannie marcher Secret_Agent_Man and 1 more member Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217588

Since everybody seems to be in a somewhat glum mood .... I'll cheer you up a bit with gold of a different caliber. A real kind. :) My wife thinks I talk like this because I used to be an old English maid in a previous life. She came up with this theory when she discovered that I am attracted to really old and fancy porcelain teacups. I notice them. And when I drink tea, my little pinky stands straight up and it was this way even in the pics when I was three years old. Well, I don't collect teacups --- I just like to look at them. I only have a few. That same wife is an endless series of smiles for me, and I never know when she is going to say something that is going to make me secretly smile. I don't correct her because I like it this way. You see, she speaks a few different languages and always gets her words mixed up. So when that hits someone like me, who loves words, it's like Christmas! :) Though I learned "proper English" grammar from Wren and Martin, her grammar is very good, and she knows rules that I have long forgotten. I wish I had kept a book with every mixed-up thing she's said. :) One day we were toiling about in the forests of Costa Rica and she yells "sleuth! sleuth!". So naturally I looked around for some Sherlock Holmes wannabee, but she pointed up (she has very good eyes). I then realized that she really meant "sloth"! :) So I took pics and attached a couple of sloth pics below. The third pic is of a thoughtful bird (I took this in Trinidad's northern range --- Arima valley). I love birds a lot more than teacups. The last picture .... is not a clear one .... but is of magpies in Norway, from some mountain whose name I don't recall. It was a rushed shot.