RE: Trying the update again!

October 13, 2010

May be picking and choosing amongst modern tech, but I refuse to join the

current century... :-D We'll just keep on with the time-travelling!

in WY

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" You get a wonderful view from the point of no return... "

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Trying the update again!

First off, prayers for everyone who needs them, greetings and welcome to

the new folks, congrats where due, and You Don't Need An Excuse Not To Let

ANYONE In Your House, It's YOUR House!!! Just Say No!!!! ;-D

Now, all the news fit to print from out here in the sagebrush - we

(finally) made the leap deom prehistoric dialup to DSL, and have been having

all the little weirdnesses that go with switching - for an assortment of

reasons first I couldn't email at ALL, and then I could email nobody but

myself - and those went straight to spam! I could read along, though, the

whole time. So today we took a hammer to (we hope) the last kink and are

fully operational...

Himself is still jobhunting, and it's getting to be kind of scary, the

severance money isn't gonna last much longer. So prayers, good thoughts,

etc, please, winter in Wyoming ain't the time to get homeless!

Been feeling pretty good, though more muscle spasms than usual - t he

weather change, maybe, or stress over the job hunting?, and a bad run of The

Forgets. Been busy, though, with getting things around the house squared

away for cold weather, and getting patterns ready and off for editing, and

still stitching away at pattern models.

Overslept yesterday morning, got up for a drink, looked out the kitchen

window to see 2 strange small children wandering around my yard - then one

turned around and I realized that Son had brought the boys up from

Arizona for a surprise visit to Nana and Poppop - yay! Always good to get a

NICE surprise!

Well, that's all I can remember to say at the moment, so I'll go back to

being amazed at all the goofy stuff on YouTube I never saw before because my

internet was too slow... :-D

October 13, 2010

Hee hee, yeah, you were starting to sound a little stalker-y there, Reb...

:-D

It's fun to blow kids' minds sometimes, though!

in WY

Practical Blackwork Designs

" You get a wonderful view from the point of no return... "

http://practical-blackwork.blogspot.com

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Re: Trying the update again!

Hi !

Good to finally see you posting again ; ) We missed you!

Enjoy the addictive youtube!

Your story about the " strange children " wandering around in the garden made

me think about an episode this summer, at the cottage my sister rented, in

that

nature reserve

....anyway, on our last day there I spent the morning hours and lunch at the

beach

with Pixie (I was " on Pixie detail " , as I said...) while the other did

cleaning. They

were done earlier than anticipated, so they showed up, and joined us, when

we were

having lunch at the restaurant/store by the beach. I declined the offer of

going back

to the beach with them, decided to take the opportunity for some quiet time

all by

myself by the cottage instead (a 1930's cottage can get crowded when every

room

is occupied...).

But before I left a, my sister, said she had been on the phone with a

friend of

hers from Stockholm, , who had said he was on the way to the beach too,

with

the kids, as his wife wanted some peace and quiet to clean out THEIR cottage

(that's

the usual set up apparently...). I had met , and his wife Sara, but I

don't think

I had ever met the kids before, maybe the oldest one as a baby but that's

all. However,

even though I do like , and even though I wouldn't mind meeting the

kids, the

quiet time had a stronger pull on me (that will almost always have a strong

pull on me,

but for some reason even more so after a few hours taking care of a 2-year

old...don't

know why that may be...) so I just told her to tell him I said hi, bought

some ice cream

to go and left for the cottage.

Ice cold white wine from the fridge, salty candy, a crime novel, and a quiet

seat in the

garden was just heaven... But after a couple of hours, just when I started

to wonder if

I should get a shirt on to prevent sunburn, or if I should continue to scare

the birds in

my strange outfit of army shorts, tank top and a 1940's hat (I found it in

the cottage,

it protected me against the sun wonderfully), I heard a child's voice from

behind the

house, and thought that, oh, Pixie, then they are coming back from the beach

now.

Around the corner came two strange children, 3 and 5, angelic looking in

curly hair,

but still, I hadn't seen them before... But I guessed it must be 's and

Sara's. I said hi,

and they stopped and looked confused at me, apparently they had not expected

a stranger in

this particular garden... I hastened to add: " You must be 's boys " .

They still looked

a bit confused, so I added: " Your dad's name is , and your mum's name

is Sara, right? "

The older boy said, " Yes...but how did you know? " I said: " Oh, I just

guessed.... "

Turned out they had run ahead to the cottage, because they had been in a

hurry to look at

the toad they knew lived in the garden. And their dad was on his way, but

had had to stop

somewhere to change the diapers of the baby brother.

They did recover from the shock of the stranger in the garden quite fast,

though, and the older

boy started talking to me about how he loved his bike, and really missed it,

and was so glad

they were on the way back to Stockholm, where he could ride it. And then he

said that:

" Back home in Stockholm, I take my bike to the park, it's not far at all. "

I, who have borrowed their apartment once, together with , said: " No,

you can practically

see it from your window, right? " He looked a little bit confused again, and

I added: " Your

room is the one right next to the living room isn't it? " Now he was REALLY

confused, and asked

" How do you know where my room is? " I answered: " Well, I didn't know

exactly, but that's

the room that looked like it would be yours. " The obvious question then was

of course: " And

how do you know what my room look like? " And I said, referring to the time

when we borrowed the

apartment " I saw it when I spent the night in your apartment once " He

protested: " I didn't see

you! " My explanation: " No, you wouldn't have, it was a night when you were

all away " ... And

I was starting to wonder if I was maybe starting to sound like the kind of

stranger his parents

should have warned him about... Luckily his dad showed up and confirmed my

story...

Oh the strangers in our lives, huh... ; )

love

/Reb

>

> First off, prayers for everyone who needs them, greetings and welcome to

> the new folks, congrats where due, and You Don't Need An Excuse Not To Let

> ANYONE In Your House, It's YOUR House!!! Just Say No!!!! ;-D

>

> Now, all the news fit to print from out here in the sagebrush - we

> (finally) made the leap deom prehistoric dialup to DSL, and have been

having

> all the little weirdnesses that go with switching - for an assortment of

> reasons first I couldn't email at ALL, and then I could email nobody but

> myself - and those went straight to spam! I could read along, though, the

> whole time. So today we took a hammer to (we hope) the last kink and are

> fully operational...

>

> Himself is still jobhunting, and it's getting to be kind of scary, the

> severance money isn't gonna last much longer. So prayers, good thoughts,

> etc, please, winter in Wyoming ain't the time to get homeless!

> Been feeling pretty good, though more muscle spasms than usual - the

> weather change, maybe, or stress over the job hunting?, and a bad run of

The

> Forgets. Been busy, though, with getting things around the house squared

> away for cold weather, and getting patterns ready and off for editing, and

> still stitching away at pattern models.

>

> Overslept yesterday morning, got up for a drink, looked out the kitchen

> window to see 2 strange small children wandering around my yard - then one

> turned around and I realized that Son had brought the boys up from

> Arizona for a surprise visit to Nana and Poppop - yay! Always good to get

a

> NICE surprise!

>

> Well, that's all I can remember to say at the moment, so I'll go back to

> being amazed at all the goofy stuff on YouTube I never saw before because

my

> internet was too slow... :-D

>

October 13, 2010

Thanks, nne. You and Chuck are in our prayers too.