Hi BBB

[Valerie]

Did yiu know that BB appeared in Roger Rabbit film ? I haven't seen the film yet but I think I'll get the video !Did you get sile new items these past few days ? I bought a glass with BB turning back and glancing and key rings matching together to make a heart each part of the heart holding BB and pudgy

[coffeesonme]

Yes! my hubby bought me a BB doll. She is a soft doll and she is dressed in the black string strap dress with black heels.;)

[Valerie]

Lucky you are, I went to Dijon 2 days ago, and I saw a nice BB cooky jar, I'm just longing to have it !!!!!! (Dijon is a town near Besancon, not really biggr but better known as it has also lots of universities and there are much more shops than in Besancon !

[coffeesonme]

Your place and area sound so quaint. I'd love to be sitting at a coffeeshop watching all the people or walking along going into the shops and look for treasures of Betty:cool:

[Valerie]

Hello again

It's funny because it's almost exactly what we did in Dijon :
there's a hudge commercial 2 floor center wonderfully decorated within which you can go shopping or sitting at a cafe terrasse
We went all the familly and my last girl (7 months old) was having her fruit while we were drinkingour coffee .It's the first time she was really goig out so far from home and she enjoyed watching people going around ! it was a nice day for everybody ( i am the mother of 4 girls my husband is a spoiled man!!!!!!and i don't complain myself !!!!!!!!!

[Bikerbettyboop]

Where about in Oregon are you? I have some friends who live in Salem. I bet Oregon is just as beautiful as France. Have you been collecting Betty Boop very long?

[coffeesonme]

I'm from Portland. Yes it is really getting to look like Spring here! A lot of the early trees are baby pink. Our Camellia bush has huge buds on it. (It was grafted together, so one side is white and the other is bright red). I am very spoiled living in Portland. I love the climate! Where are you from again? (BettyBiker)
Valarie? This part is for you also. Djon sounds so cool. Of course I have a very keen emagination so just your talking about your place where you live, seems so peaceful.
Our apple blossoms in our yard (two very old trees grown together to make a canaopy) have green foliage but probably won't bloom for 2 months yet. :D Well BBers, let me know what you are up to and Happy Boopin;)

[coffeesonme]

A-hem, I guess that would be Dijon:o heehee.

[Valerie]

Yes they are quiet and nice plces but I think south of France is the best . we are going to spend our summer holidays over there this year I'm longing for it .
Though Besancon isn't a very big town it has all the universities and was wellknown for watches and clocks . We are 150000 inhabitants in Besancon . It's near Switzland and we have forests, lakes, Switz Alpes very close

[Bikerbettyboop]

We are located in a very small rural town (only thing here is a post office... we don't even have a street light). It's called Paulden, Arizona... south of Flagstaff and north of Phoenix. Surrounded by cattle ranches and open range... we still have cowboys riding horses to round up cattle. Just like the old west.

We have about 15 acres that we bought 2 years ago. We've also planted fruit trees, grapes and strawberries. My sister lives on the same property and she has horses. So we get to ride a lot.

My mom also lives here.... so that's pretty cool to have our family so close.

My husband loves it because he can ride his Harley for miles and miles without a lot of other traffic.

I have a German Shepherd named Scooter!

I have never been to Europe but France sounds wonderful doesn't it? Very romantic!!

[Valerie]

Everybody has the romantic idea about France perhaps because of our latin origins just like we have the "cowboy idea" when we talk about USA ranches etc... That makes our dreams grow !!!
my husband is really jalous now when you talk about Harley Davidson ! That is his main dream !!!!! He 's planing to have one soon but they are twice the price over here than in USA it's nearly worth to trip over seas and bring one back !!!!!!!!!!

[coffeesonme]

I know, just the name Harley Davidson is enough to set ones feet tingling. This will really make him sigh(maybe) My bro also has a 1940 Chevy Coupe, a 1937 Sadan Delivery and a 1954 Delivery (chevy's). Boy it's a good thing that my bro is a good guy, least I might get upset:eek: heehee
Isn't that interesting about how people from different areas think about how people live their lives? Me thinks I watch to many romantic movies.:D
It is a beautiful sunny day here today, I think I'll go out and work in the yard and get ahead of the weeds and give those little flowers room to grow that are already coming up. Have a great one all you Booper's;)

[Valerie]

it was a beautifull day today too and I was in the garden digging flowers as well do you like gardening this is another passion of mine

[coffeesonme]

Me too! I LOVE working in our big front and back yards. We have a vegie garden(salad stuff) in the summer and the love of my life (as far as gardens go or shall I say grow) my English garden.
It was sunny all day but very windy and cold so I only stayed out an hour. But at least the flowers can get through to the sunlight.:D

[Valerie]

it's seems to be a nice day today a bit warmer( 10 degrees cc this morning) it's nice to see the sun shining through our window and illuminating my BB items ! nice weather gives me strengh to work in the house !

[Bikerbettyboop]

I love gardening too but I have to battle with bugs and rabbits and deer and antelope and cattle here.

My sister and I chased a bull off our property and it ran right through the barbed wire fence like it was nothing! They have tough hides but love to rummage through our gardens. They can be very destructive to trees.

I bet that the first beef that was slaughtered and eaten was the result of one terrorizing a garden many years ago.... ha ha... (that may not be true but just a thought on my part... believe me I've thought about doing that myself a few times)

My mother laughed at me when I chased a bull one day. I was wearing a bright red Betty Boop jacket and swinging a towel over my head yelling at it. The poor bull was terrified and ran off in fear..... ha ha!!

It is getting ready to rain and possibly snow here. We need the rain because we are so dry most of the time. We are in the high desert here. In a valley... the Indians named Chino Valley for the chino grass that grows wild here.

[Valerie]

ahahah, I can imagine the scene you runing after that bull in france we say that the red color make them mad and run after people . Idon't have cattle in my garden but my 2 dog do the same from time to time helping (well they think so) taking off all the flower bulbs i've just planted ! they stay very young in their mind!

[Bikerbettyboop]

I have a German Shepherd that is two years old and she used to dig in the garden a lot.. but she has gotten better. She loves to chase the deer and antelope and horses and cows too.

We have an online photo album if you'd like to see our pictures... send me your email address. Mine is Theresa@bikerbettyboop.com

[coffeesonme]

I hear the home on the range. I remember when I use to come home from school. We had 25 head of horses and 125 acres of land just about straight up. Well we bordered horses also and the bordered horses would get under the fence and tear it down so the other horses would get out. Of course they always went to the furthurest part of the property. And your truly would be the first one home and the first one to have to go get the horses. My brother was much smarter than myself as he was 16 months older. So he started staying with friends over night and riding to school on their bus. To this day I would just love to have a horse just for pleasure, not running a marathon with:mad: You realize that they got the title of that book "They Shoot Horses Don't They" from me.:D Be good!

[Valerie]

My dogs are 3 years old in mars and april this year there is one bernees dog and one dogue de Bordeau( it's a french town and this dog comes from Bordeau) this is the oldest and unique real french breed we have

[Bikerbettyboop]

We spent part of today chasing cows and horses out of my sister's hay barn. They are on open grazing land and there's just not enough for them to eat.... so they invaded her hay barn and had a great old time! Between 3 adults and 7 dogs, we managed to run them back into their own territory... whew.. what a job.

It's also snowing and raining here... unusual for us here in Arizona.

[Valerie]

i remember when i was young having a bull in our garden because he broke the farmer's gate when i opened my shutters' bedroom i just sort of faced him strange way of waking up especially when your own parents wouldn't believe you at first when you tell them there is a bull in the garden !!!!!!:mad: poor me nobdy believes me:( :( :( :( :( !!!!!!!

[Bikerbettyboop]

Wow that would be pretty shocking to see a bull outside your window. I awoke to a horse once but that couldn't have been as bad as a bull!

[Valerie]

and that day everything went wrong : my mum in bathrobe in the garden chasing the bull my farther runing behind, the milk burning in the kitchen and all that before going to school i had a good mark at my essai then telling about the story:)

[coffeesonme]

:D Hahahahahaa! That is truly funny. Sounds like one of our days, back when. We were all ready for school and then the Stallion got out:mad: grrrrrrrrrrr! He wasn't nice about it either:eek: Buy the time we got the stallion back in his corral and all thee mommy horses with their babies calmed down it had begun to rain. I looked like a drowned rat. Mom went to work, bro went to school and I stayed home with a nice chill.:) I never did like that horse after that, because he was a snot!;) Be good BB's:cool:

[Bikerbettyboop]

Some days are like that aren't they? And isn't it amazing how we remember those traumatic days!!

I was riding my horse one day when I was about 16 and he got spooked by some kids on dirt bike (motorcycles) and he took off... I couldn't stop him.. no matter how hard I tried and he jumped over a fence and we landed in a swimming pool. It was terrible. I was crying and I walked him all the way back home.

Another time that same horse was spooked once again and he ran across a big highway and threw me off at the edge of the road, we were almost hit by a motorhome. It scared me so bad, I never rode him again and I sold him soon afterwards.

I've ridden since then but not a whole lot. Horses are expensive. My sister has 4 and they keep her pocketbook empty!

[coffeesonme]

:eek: Ouchie! I can tell you another story that will kind of crack one up as apposed to make one affraid:D I was just learning how to ride, oh about 8 years old and we had bought a mare that was barn sour (little did I or my Dad know this).:P Well there I was riding around, showing off to my parents my cowgirl ways, waving to the crowd ( probably with dreams of becoming a rodeo queen) and the fool horse swung around and flat out ran 0-60 in 2 minutes, down the hill, up the hill.) Well as if that wasn't bad enough she tried to knock me off by going under a low branch. I ducked but not without misshap. You see I had a head full of sponge pink hair rollers. When we got to the barn I had one pink roller in my hair, everyother curl was fuzzed out. Hahahahaha, I kind of get the picture of the cartoon of the cat floating in the air after he got caught in the clothes dryer:D I hoped this eased your painful scarry experience;) I think I've got a million of them. See, I have no other choice but to have a since of humor:D I do it to myself everytime!

[Valerie]

i bet everybody at one's stories and it's always funny when we tell the story but never when we're living it !:confused:

[Bikerbettyboop]

My husband was on a run away horse that tried to unseat him by running under a low tree branch. He was big enough to stay on but then the mare bucked and kicked and he landed on his back and nearly broke his neck. His dad also sold that horse!

My sister was very seriously injured a few years ago when a green broke colt she was riding bolted and ran down the side of a mountain and lost his footing and down they went. Her boot was caught in the stirrup and so he pulled her with him.

She had massive internal injuries. Damage to her heart, ribs, lungs, kidneys.. it was very bad. She nearly died and has to have several surgeries since then as a result of that accident. I don't know how she continues to ride to this day. I don't think I would've had the courage to do so.

She was more heartbroken that her horse had to be destroyed than she was at her own injuries. She loves horses! She also rides one of her mares in the barrel races. She is crazy!! Ha ha!

[Valerie]

i repost the message cos'it didn't work! i was telling you that Maïlys my oldest daughter used to learn horse riding and i keep on wondering why she stopped it as she liked it so much but i didn't insist for her to go on learning because i was always afraid she'd fall and hurt herself !:o

[coffeesonme]

:eek: Ouch! Quit it! That is NOT a funny story. I pray that no one ever got killed riding a horse that I know of. That would brake my heart:(
My experiences were funny pre teen and teenage dumbness (or was it the horse that was the teenager?):D
Yes at the time I thought my teeth were going to all fall out, bouncing around (first experience on bare back). I said I was Sottish/Irish. What in the world was I doing riding a paint bareback? Aw yes I remember that part of my childhood, "RunswithRedHair":D HeeHee. I guess I should of continued to pretend to be a wild free horse, less painful!;) Everyone be safe. The sun is shining beautiful:cool:

[Bikerbettyboop]

Yep, I remember well the days I've gotten off a horse feeling more worn out then when I first got on it.. ha ha.... But I can still remember the great feelings of riding free!!

[Valerie]

well, i guess it must be like riding a motorbike you just feel free and the air coming in your hair (well here helmet wearing is compulsary) you also have mosquitoes !!!!!!: :D :D :D