Teal's Modest Adventures

situation normal, all f'd up. you've got your work cut out for you.

What a beautiful place ...

It's lovely to have some close ties to your family and to be living near each other to make it all happen.

Love the colors -- happy you got a sale.

I miss fall colors and which I could get up north to remind myself of how glorious a northern fall can be. Your pix are great

Reading these responses, we could have a Gall Bladder Club ... who knew? I only had the girdle, no socks. My surgery was involved and the OR, I was told later, was full of medical watchers. Jeez,I thought, I no longer have any secrets.

I only buy meat on sale and at BJ's where steaks are 1/2 the price from our local market. But I know that prices are going up all the time. The increases you mention are outrageous. Hooray for the new baby.

Music is a great healer -- go for it. I have to say (being a northerner) that a drive to Arkansas and the word restoring would never occur to me in the same sentence. But I have never seen the beauties of most of the southern states, so I beg to be informed.

Doesn't look like the race was such a success. Your area is so truly beautiful. What a pleasure it must be. My friend, John, who is a professional forest preservationist, tells me spending time in a forest improves your health dramatically.

It looks like a fairyland ... wish I could go see it.

We have old windows in our bedroom -- the layered kind that you would have to slither between panels to get out. Time to change them, I think. Better to just open the garage door? But it's clutter country in there, so maybe that's not good either.

Team sports is supposed to build character, but instead, it seems, it just gives the players that God feeling that makes them think its okay to run amok and collect big money because they are so talented.

Give Rinny a kiss for me.

Ed bought a turntable that attaches to the computer and can convert a long-playing record to disc and has never used it and it is taking up space to the right of the computer and he never lets me put anything on it, not even a piece of paper and I defy him all the time and I just want to get rid of it. So your project makes me tired just reading about it. We've had this device 5 years now. He's going to use it. Ha. I wanted to put our printer to the right of the computer and switch this non-used turntable to the left, but he says that is too complicated. We also have a Bissell carpet shampooer he insisted on buyin so we could shampoo our own carpets instead of having, say, a pro do it once a year. Tht was several years ago. It's in the garage. We have never used it.

I had a sale of items in my New York loft as I was preparing to give it up forever. My neighbor, Lila, really ran it. She's a dynamo. It was tiring just the same, the yield was not large. we now have a garage full of stuff Ed will not get rid of and he definitely would never, ever, have a garage sale. In any case, it is a lot of work and $100 hardly seems worth the effort. But you got a contact for Ted's jewelry work and that is priceless.

Another tragedy and a horrific aftermath. Suicides are not thinking clearly. No reason at all for an 18-year-old to think he can't get through a crushing disappointment. We've all been through this as young people. Painful, yes, but suicide is a permanent non-solution. My condolences to your friends.