Happy Birthday Sallyg!! And many many more

Couldn't think of a nicer way to start today than wishing so very nice you a Happy Birthday!
You are a special flower in our Mid Atlantic bouquet!

I'm wishing you Happy Birthday again!! Did so on another site and love being able to do it again. Have a great day and a wonderful year!!!

Happy Birthday Sally! Hoping your day is blessed and all you wish for!

Karen

Happy birthday, Sally! A little quieter than last year's right? :)

Happiest of birthdays, dear!!!

Happy happy birthday!

Buckets of good wishes coming your way, dear friend!

Have a wonderful day! Celebrate in some special way...

Happy, happy Birthday! Gita

PS--Judy---good to see that card again.....:o)
Sally--here is one I did a few years ago...

Happy Birthday Your Hineyness!! { =D

May all your Royal wishes come true
May all your Violets be blue, and
May all your Roses bloom perfectly for you!!

Wow, you guys are to good to me!! Thanks a bunch!!

Happy birthday!

Happy Birthday!

Sascha (& us) wish you a happy, happy birthday!!! Huuuuuuugs!

Oh, Sascha looks so relaxed! Sally, I hope you have a few moments like that to yourself today... although you might consider sprawling in a more modest position, LOL. Gotta love dogs. :-)

Happy Happy Happy Birthday!!!

Twin calves born at the Frederick Fair last week.

Special birthday wishes for you. Lovely day to be outdoors and it appears DG honored your day with one of your articles. Cake will be eaten today with you in mind. It's the least we can do.

Happy Birthday Sally, enjoy it to the fullest!

...all the best...to one of our best! Happy Birthday!

wishing you many more birthdays just like today, when it seems a balmy Pacific island is a skip and a hop way :)

Happy birthday, Sally! Hope you have had a great day--you deserve it! :-)

happy birthday Sally!! didn't know our bdays were so close lol

Ah Wind are you a Libra, too?

Sally--
Because you are worth it---I will send yo something for your Birthday--
because you LOVE when i do this......
Now you can say again---"Gita! Why do you do this to yourself???"

I made these all pretty---lined them all up. Took me a bit of time to do this---
but you are worth it....OH! I said that already.....;o(...

These are seeds I just collected from my Estonian Clematis "Piilu". (Little Duckling).
They all have a tail!!! A hairy tail!! Like something out of a Fairy tale!
The seeds look just like little Sperms! AWWWW...so cute!....

Happy Birthday again--you want to adopt some to see if they will grow?

Your forever entertaining Pal---ME.

Hi Sally, a great big happy healthy birthday to you. Button & Bobbin

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

i think that was enough for all the new wishes. I am blessed!
Thanks GIta, you're so artistic and creative! And entertaining!

Well, it's tomorrow in Australia - I didn't really miss the day, exactly...

Chocolate truffles if you can name all these birthday blooms.

Double or nothing if you can name the birthday beasts...

Happy Birthday

Lol VV.

I have no excuse. Happy day after birth!

Better late than never. Happy Birthday Sally.

Happy Birthday!

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

No truffles for me- oddly I am clueless on the botany but does Dingo Emu Koala Kookaburra Platypus still earn me anything? How amazing to see a real platypus. I did a grade school report on them. approx four decades + ago...

Juney- what cute cupcakes!
Diana, lovely flowers, thanks.
Jill, I love the calves.
Becky, she's adorable!

Sally--
In my book you are 100% correct on the animals.
I would have said all the same!

From my trip to Hawaii in the early 80's--i DO recognize some pf the plants--
but have NO idea of their names....
Gita

sallyg and Gitagal:

Yes, all animals affirmative. But - with no plants - twice nothing is still naught.

UMD_Terp:

??????????????????

Red Puffball Tree
Deciduous Azalea
Flame Tree
Pink Trumpet Vines
Rainbow Bushes

(not terribly serious answers!)

Paul---

Ahem......two negatives (nothing) multiplied --is a Positive!

Hence--nothing x nothing = something......:o)

Just joshing....trying to impress you that i DO remember that
from my math classes.... G.

Oh man..OK I'll give a square look at them tomorrow. Gezz. No free rides.

Now Gita...

Nothing is not negative; nothing has no value + or -.

So something (+) times nothing = nothing. Get something on the other side of the equation; then, you'll have something.

Valley--

SO! -2 x -2 is NOT +4 ????

Hey! I am NOT a math person in any way! At least NOT the math of today.
So--I may be wrong. I never even too Algebra in HS! Had to take a "make-up class"
so I could take any college courses.

I grew up on the metric System--and that makes a lot more sense to me
than anything. Everything is in units of 10. Easy--Peazy!.
10-mm=1 cm. 10cm.=1 decameter. etc...

I also never had a calculator for most of my life--so my brain can do good math
by just rounding things off to 10.

This works wonderful in retail--like, if something is $4.99 and it is 40% off--
all you do is move the decimal one place to the left--and now you have the value of
10%--49 cents. The "whole" ($4.99) being looked at as 100%.
Round it off to 50 cents. Now--You can either Multiply that (the 50 cents)
by 4 or by 6. 4 would give you the discounted rate-(% off--$2)-- 6 would give you the
remaining rate--the actual cost $3)--MINUS the 1 cent x 6 or 4 you "borrowed"to round it off.

So--your final cost (40% off of $5.00) would be 50 cents x 6 ($3) minus 6 cents
you "borrowed" to round it off. Therefore--$ $2.94.

If this seems too complicated--just go with the rounded off amount--and you will know,
ballpark, how much you will pay for the item.

Believe me--if you have ever understood the metric System--this works very
quickly in your mind. A matter of 10--20 seconds. OR--call it just common sense.

Calculators have deadened the brains of school-age kids NOT to think--not to
process numbers in the head. Why should they? They have a calculator.

Overall--reducing anything to 10% and then dealing with that 10% as ONE UNIT--
you can figure a lot of stuff out. Talking about every day stuff--like grocery shopping...
prices--discounts, sales prices and such. NOT high level math.

Gita

I have no argument with you being correct about a negative times a negative. I have even less argument with your explanations of discounts - right on!

I am not in the class of calculator dependent youth. I have crossed the half century boundary, though I know I have not the years of your wisdom. This is not meant to be a whippersnapper dispute - just accurate description of what I said to sallyg and UMD_Terp, who are whippersnappers both.

Nothing equals zero, or null: 0. Zero (or nothing) is not a negative; negatives are less than zero on the number line. Zero is not a positive; it is the dividing point between positive numbers and negative numbers on the number line.

That is what has been presented. Zero times a positive or zero times a negative...you still end up with zero, or nothing.

Or - as my German wife may be saying over my shoulder - neither of you are arguing about the same thing....