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Mary Jo March Posts: 18 Joined: 30th Jan 2008 Location: USA	quotePosted at 03:24 on 1st January 2009 On 31st December 2008 15:51, Sue H. wrote: Welcome Mary Jo to this wonderful site. If you love the quintessential English cottage, you will love Roses (another forum member) tour, here I'll link it for you http://www.picturesofengland.com/user/Roses/tour/Home_Sweet_Home The most beautiful English cottages you could wish to see. Good luck with your family history. Sue: What kind of bird is your avatar? I don't believe we have any like that. I feed all the local birds, and now I am feeding the squirrels. They are so cute, one of them is a very young one, and I call him tiny baby. I always look for him when I get up in the morning. They sleep in, and don't get up until the middle of the morning. Last summer I was amazed, I had a finch build a nest in my hanging fern on the front porch. She raised five little ones. It was wonderful to watch them grow. Many times birds return to the same nesting place year after year, so I will be watching for her this summer. Mary Jo My favourite: Pictures \| Towns \| Attractions
Mary Jo March Posts: 18 Joined: 30th Jan 2008 Location: USA	quotePosted at 03:26 on 1st January 2009 On 31st December 2008 15:53, Andy Edwards wrote: I can heartily recommend Roses tour, it's brilliant!! Andy: It is a great site. I would like to trade my new house for one of the thatched roof cottages with all the flowers around it. Mary Jo My favourite: Pictures \| Towns \| Attractions
Mary Jo March Posts: 18 Joined: 30th Jan 2008 Location: USA	quotePosted at 03:37 on 1st January 2009 On 31st December 2008 06:59, Wolf wrote: G'day MaJo , maybe this site should be called Welcome to USA. Wolf: I do believe I am talking to an Australian. I worked for a prosecuting attorney, who later became a judge, and he loves Australia. He visits there, and I believe may move there. I love your wolves, I wish I had two just like them. I had a big Doberman dog, who I raised from a baby. He became very large and hostile with everyone but me, and he always thought I was his Mommy. Even when he weighed a hundred pounds, he still wanted to sit on my lap. It was interesting to see his guard instincts develop. Even if I was standing at the kitchen sink, he would come and push his back end up against me and watch out into the room. He was wonderful, but he grew old, and I had to put him to sleep. I have never really been happy since he left me. I called him Merlin, like the sorcerer in King Arthur, but a lot of the time I called him Lovdee. Mary Jo My favourite: Pictures \| Towns \| Attractions
Shirley K. Lawson Posts: 2310 Joined: 17th Jul 2008 Location: USA	quotePosted at 09:03 on 4th January 2009 Welcome Mary Jo, yes, I think an English Cottage would make an wonderful get- away, and my husband has an green-yellow conifer shrub that is named after his family, it has an big long bontanical name in England, they shorten it to "lawsoniana" ...use to have four of them, one for each brother around our house here, but weather has taken most of them out. We are just now getting out of the heaviest snow here in Porltand,Oregon since 1950, and the flooding/landslides the last couple of days also. With all the people around my house though, I could probably use an castle....more then an cottage though...just to hold them all. My favourite: Pictures \| Towns \| Attractions
Richard Sellers Posts: 4691 Joined: 16th Jul 2008 Location: USA	quotePosted at 12:17 on 4th January 2009 On 1st January 2009 03:14, Mary Jo March wrote: On 31st December 2008 13:12, Richard Sellers wrote: On 31st December 2008 02:24, Mary Jo March wrote: Hello from America. I have been doing a great deal of family research on my English ancestors. I am finding all the different areas where they had lived before coming to America. Personally I wish they had stayed in England. I love your very old architecture, norman churches, stone bridges, and especially your thatched roof houses. Although I have a new house, I would rather have a thatched roof English cottage. I also love the way you plant so many flowers around your homes, that is something that I do too. My families left England in the early 1600's, and prospered in New England. But we do not seem to have any architectural beauty or love of history. If we have a lovely old building that is 100 years old, they think it should be torn down. I am looking forward to chatting with all you Englishmen and women. Hope to hear from you. Mary Jo Hear Hear Mary Jo ! you and i need to start a club or a support group for people like you and me !!! Richard, thank you for welcoming me, I see you are a fellow American, so you know what I am talking about. I think you and I are misplaced Englishmen. We are Mary Jo,we are !!!!!! My favourite: Pictures \| Towns \| Attractions
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