Tulio from Cali-Colombia

Gday Tulio, funny comment on easy today. to the madness that is Sudokuland. I know what the word is, but even though it means different things, we Aussies know both uses so, while we find it funny to see it used, we don't find its use offensive. It probably just couldn't go through the automatic 'rood word' censor!
I've brought along a bottle of Aussie bubbly, a plate of nibblies and a bunch of native to help you decorate.

Hi Tulio! to your own page! Great to see you posting I am leaving a pot of Maryland Cream of Crab soup for you and your guests. The 'naughty corner' is where we are sent if we get a little risquè in our comments Many sudokuists have ended up there at one time or another I've been there, but that was before they installed the big screen TV! Stop by and whoever is there will give you a tour!

to Sudokuland Tulio

nice photos of your Heliconias

Hi Tulio! To the sudoku family. We get a bit rowdy but it's fun. I'll leave a and some California and a vase of to decorate your place!

Welcome to the sudoku family. I will leave you a pink camelia from my garden
Love your photos. Are these all from your garden?

Beautiful haliconia. I am not familiar with the one that looks like an orchid. We have Phalonopsis, but they are much smaller, often refered to as the Butterfly Orchid.

By the Way (BTW) - the Prince of Darkness - looks like a Bird of Paradise, except different colors. The Birds are orange/gold with a blue stamen. The Bird of Paradise is the City Flower of Los Angeles. My sister-in-law (SIL) lives on the island of Maui in Hawaii, they have Halconias - similar to the two hanging varieties.

Belated to you to Sudokuland, along with a Strawberry Cream Cheese Pie for you and your guests.

There’s lots to do around here, places to visit and chat. I'm just around the corner, stop in anytime for more pie and a video.

Hi Tulio; welcome to Sudokuland. Where the natives are friendly and the games awesome.

I'm in Miami (I guess my name didn't give that away) and will leave you some flan and Cuban Coffee to welcome you.

¡Bienvenido a Sudokulandia, Tulio! (No hablo mucho castellano, obviamente!)

I hope you enjoy this site as much as I have! I am leaving you some fresh Georgia peaches (the last of the season)!

Tulio, your photos are spectacular. So, apart from sudoku, are these flowers your passion?

BTW (hehe) Thanks for the coffee, it was the most beautiful aroma, perfect for that time of the afternoon.
If you want to see some more sudoku slangs, try looking at the Sudokuspeak page in the Forums section.
Look forward to seeing you tomorrow.

Hello Tulio - sorry, I haven't visited your page before, I thought I had, so to our silly, wonderful world of sudoku. Thank you for visiting my page and leaving your comment on there.
The recipe for piroshkis is on Page 2 of my own page if you would like to see it. If you have trouble finding it, I will cut and paste it for you and put on your page.

Hello Tulio - has your wife made the piroshkis for you yet? I'm waiting to hear from you whether you both liked them or not.

Hello Tulio - it's an Advent Calendar for women only!!! If you really want a copy, it will have to be done via e'mail and nobody on site probably has your e'mail address. You can do this by way of Private message on someone's page.
I'm sure you wouldn't want to see it or your good wife.
It's just one of the naughy things that go around the site sometimes to give everyone a good laugh!

and Holiday greeting to you and your family with best wishes for the coming year. Thank you also for your thought and prayers for my Dad. He's in a skilled nursing center now - getting therapy but still quite weak. My Son is home from college now and I do believe I'm ready for Christmas day. enjoy your day, Mary

Tulio, Wishing you and your family, health, peace, love, and happiness during this Christmas Season and throughout the New Year! Merry Christmas! Stella & family

Tulio - I am doing it vicariously this year. For 16 years in a row I wokred on the La Cañada Flintridge float plus another 7 years (including last year). My Mom came up here for Christmas this year, so that it why I'm vicariously working on it and sharing it with all of you. I use to live in La Cañada Flintridge which is right next to Pasadena where the Rose Bowl and Parade are. Would walk to the football game (4 miles).

Stopped by to wish you good cheer
Brought a little bubblie here
May your toast be great
For two thousand eight
May you have a very

Hope your Christmas was blest.
No resolutions to obsess
It is not too late
For to celebrate
Our Lord Saviour’s Righteousness

Gday Tulio, no it's not just you mate. We are all in the same boat and are all suffering withdrawals! Apparently, the host site that holds all of Gath's sites, accidentally erased everything late Sunday. Gath has been able to restore our personal pages and most of the rest of the site, but unfortunately, they have been unable, as yet, to get the puzzle (home) page back online. Gath hopes to have everything back up and running within a couple of days.
The Sudokuaholics Anonymous 3 page is working so if you want to have a chat with anyone, go there via the forum page.
Hope this calms you a little bit and I will see you on the puzzle page soon, I hope!
Gail

Hello Tulio; I just read your message (I've been away from the site for a few days) The birds in the photo you referred to are Swallow-tailed kites (Elanoides forficatus) (Gavilan tijeret o Gavilan cola de tijera en Espanol existen poblaciones residentes durante todo el año en gran parte de América de Sur (desde Colombia hasta el norte de Argentina, Paraguay y el sureste de Brasil)

In Colombia you can find them in:
Alto de Pisones
Bosques del Oriente de Risaralda
Bosques Montanos del Sur de Antioquia
Cañón del Río Alicante
Cañón del Río Guatiquía
Capurganá
Cuchilla de San Lorenzo
Isla Bocagrande
La Forzosa-Santa Gertrudis
La Victoria
Parque Nacional Natural Amacayacu
Parque Nacional Natural El Tuparro
Parque Nacional Natural Ensenada de Utría
Parque Nacional Natural Farallones de Cali
Parque Nacional Natural Gorgona
Parque Nacional Natural Las Orquídeas
Parque Nacional Natural Los Katíos
Parque Nacional Natural Munchique
Parque Nacional Natural Paramillo
Parque Nacional Natural Sanquianga
Parque Nacional Natural Sierra de la Macarena
Parque Nacional Natural Tatamá
Región del Medio Calima
Reserva Hidrográfica, Forestal y Parque Ecológico de Río Blanco
Reserva Natural El Pangán
Reserva Natural La Planada
Reserva Natural Meremberg
Reserva Natural Río Ñambí
Reserva Natural Tambito
San Sebastián
Serranía de las Quinchas
Serranía de los Churumbelos
Valle de San Salvador

Hope this helps.

Thankyou Nal. It is more of what I expected. You must be realy involved in small living creatures.
Now with your explanation I recall that I saw them when I was younger and they were smaller also. I do not notice them lately. What a shame.
Muchas gracias por tu respuesta.

Tulio...thanks for visiting my page. Oz is an abbreviation for Australia, and also refers to the magical land of Oz described in the movie "The Wizard of Oz". New Zealand (NZ) is not part of Australia, but it too is a wonderful country. I lived there for 4 years and thoroughly enjoyed it. Regards, Paul.

Hi Tulio, I see I have never stopped by what bad anners I have. Looked at your photo gallery, you have some beautiful flowers. I reconize the orchids, are some of the others bromeliad's?, some I do not reconize. You have a lovely family.

Tulio, I popped in earlier and I thought I posted a reply but I see it's not here so obviously, neither is my brain!
In answer to your questions, the email you received was to let you know that I had posted a comment on the picture of you with your beautiful wife and sons.
'Pre-pooter' days refer to the time before I ever started using the computer, back when I used to read a lot. I have resisted using computers for many years because they were my husband's domain, then he introduced me to online sudoku and the rest is history!

Hello Tulio, and a very belated welcome to your own page on this site! I'll leave you a double chocolte fudge beavertail pastry from Ottawa as a belated page warmimg gift. You have some beautiful pictures in your gallery, and a lovely looking family. Cheers!

My apologies. I should have sent enough for everyone to have there own. Here are four more pastries! And your latest family photo is great.

Hola, Tulio!

I hope your wife finds some good recipes in the cookbook. It was a lot of fun putting it together. You said your wife wrote a microwave cookbook. Do you think she could post some of her recipes on the Recipes page so I could add them to the book when I next update it?

My husband is, indeed, of Spanish descent. He was born and raised in Chile and came to the States to attend graduate school at the University of Wisconsin. We used to have a marketing research business and spent a lot of time in Europe and South America doing our research. I've been to Colombia several times and have even been to Cali a couple of times. I think the name of the hotel we used to stay at was the Inter-Continental - but I might be mistaken. I'd ask my husband, but he's asleep right now. I don't think he appreciates how addicted I am to Sudokuland! LOL!

I was looking through your picture gallery, and you have a lovely family! The flowers are beautiful, too!

Chao!
Jane

Tulio, just as Canuk Greg did, I'll give you a page warming gift from my corner of the world, a Redwood burl. You did ask what they are. Is that because you saw them in my pictures? They are growths on the trunk of Redwood trees, usually a lump grown by the tree to cover over a gash or wound. Tourists visiting the Redwoods will buy a little piece of burl, take it home with them, keep it in water, and it will grow little Redwood sprouts. Pages 10 and 11 in my Flickr photostream have pictures of Redwood trees and burls.

SA stands for Sudokuaholics Anonymous, the term we have jokingly come to call meetings when people that have gotten to know each other visiting this site meet in person. When I was visiting Montreal and Toronto in Canada, I hoped to meet some Sudoku people from those areas. Unfortunately, nobody could make the meetings.

Thank you Tulio, for your birthday wishes! What fun it is to celebrate with my Sudokuland friends from around the world!

Hello Tulio - Thanks for visiting my page and viewing my photos. The march was actually for Proclamation Day but I'm not quite sure why it was celebrated on that particular day as Albany was first settled on Christmas Day 1826 and this photo was taken in January. We were the first settlement in Western Australia and started off as a penal settlement for convicts from England. Hence, some of the people are dressed as convicts and others as soldiers.
Best wishes to you and your family.
Cheers
Anne
Anne

Dear Tulio,
Thank you so much for your kind words. They are very much appreciated. Another crisis but this too, I will survive and go on. I was already resigned to the fact that this day would arrive and my father was too. We had already met with a senior citizen lawyer and gotten legally and financially ready. Thank you again.

Hi Tulio! Yes, things are getting better! I loved the Riverdance. Tried to learn some of the dances, even bought the cd Riverdance lessons. I got as far as lesson 2 before my feet started tripping oven themselves!

Thanks for stopping by. Glad you enjoyed the photo spread. The entire town's main center is what is pictured in those few blocks. When you hear me talk about Britt Festivals throuout the summer - you will know to where I am referring.

The start of Jacksonville was the discovery of Gold in 1851. Our big draw now - besides the historic nature of the town is Britt Festivals.

Tulio - I will think of you as I watch Judy Collins. Have seen her here before. She is still great.

Tulio, I have been overwhelmed by the kindness shown to me for my birthday. It really does make your day to find well wishers from all over the world.
From the bottom of my heart, I thank you.
When you gave me your birthday greeting, I was out having a wonderful lunch with my husband. Your timing was perfect.

Tulio, thank you for your kind words about my photo. As the others know I have a fondness for sunrise/set photos. It is the moment when the world explodes into scenes of great beauty.

As for our new toy, we don't pick it up until mid-May and we are as excited as school children. Soon enough we will be heading over the mountains and off onto the open road. We hope it will give us the freedom to visit new places in Australia and to explore the full beauty of our own country in reasonable comfort.

Thank-you for your message Tulio.
Lynda was an especially courageous and thoughtful lady. I miss her, even though I have not known her for very long. I am sorry to have disturbed your quiet routines. You may not be English-language speaking, but you share the human problem of the reality of death.