Each time I'm forced to get rid of stuff for whatever reason, I feel that little bit less burdened by life. This reminds me that my goal for this summer is to get all the boxes off the garage floor in case of flooding. Good luck with the plumbing - good news is that the landlord has to pay for it.
Sometimes I wonder if I should have someone come give me advice about what would look nice where, and I expect that if someone came here and said 'that thing would really look nice next to that other thing' I might agree and let them put it there, and be happy about it. But I'm not one for setting out to change the look of my house every couple of years like some.
That's exactly how I would describe the small town where I grew up, reading it, I'm walking at dusk along Massachusetts Ave to where it intersects with Fifth Street - Doc and Dorothy Reuter's house.
I'm a little bit ashamed to say this was fascinating reading. I think I'm losing my mind. But thanks for the tour d'fridge.
We had devasting floods in this area in 2013 and set up a Facebook group so the local people could share information. The roads were taken out, so some people couldn't drive to their property for a couple of months, but some people were able to hike in, and they used Facebook to describe what they saw and connect with out of state part time residents, volunteers, and other helpers. And then people shared experiences and information. 3 1/2 years later the page is stronger than ever. The main highway is undergoing permanent repair, and is closed to through traffic most of every day, so we use the Facebook page to keep up with when the road is open, and travel conditions in bad weather. We also use it to keep track of where the bears are in the canyon and other non-construction info. Before that flood we didn't know our neighbors, and we didn't really have a community. Facebook has changed that, and my goal is to keep it going so it is ready when to keep everyone connected when the next disaster comes. I don't allow political posts or ads or games or the usual Facebook silliness, our group members have their own and other pages for that. People have to ask to join it so I keep out the spammers - if there they aren't from around here or don't have a picture of a river or some mountains somewhere on their page, I block them. And I can kick people off if I decide they are not fitting in (seldom happens). I can tell when there has been a meeting in the area and someone has recommended our page because I will get a flurry of requests to join it.
Today doesn't count as the first day of the new year because Monday is the holiday, so pretend today never happened.
What a year.
I didn't realize Allen didn't keep the red Cadillac. Why is the Chevy he replaced it with an improvement?
As much as I don't like to get out amongst crowds, sounds like I would have been happy I got to see that performance. The great review helps - you make me feel like I was there.
One of my neighbors in the canyon sets up an elaborate tree at her cabin, and she's only there a couple of days a month, so she doesn't take it down and undecorate the house until summer or so in order to get enough time with it. Every year I wonder if she's going to decide that's a Christmas house and leave it up year-round. But then she'd have to dust it.
Catz-mah-palooza.
Sounds like fun - all those things to do and see, the lights, and the energy of the city.
"Skillet Cookies" is what they called it in the Denver Post, but doesn't sound attractive, does it? I'm changing it to "Krispie Date Balls" in my database.
That really is a nightmare, and after it happens, never seems like you are back where you started. And the worry that it could happen again, unless she was able to tell you what caused it. Good luck with it and hope you have many years of untroubled computing ahead.
Thanks for letting us know. Years ago I enjoyed a station from the Netherlands that played songs from the 1930s through 1950s. American songs, English songs, but my favorites were the ones in other languages. There was one that appeared to be about dog sledding in Siberia that was a lot of fun to listen to. Another of my favorites was from Germany - 'Heeeets Und Oldeeeez!' from the 1970s and 1980s.
Thanks for the baby update- I was wondering how it was going, but that's one of things we shouldn't ask about, have to wait until we're told. I am hiding out from the cold weather by Christmasing in Las Vegas. I may not be able to work up the resolve to go back at the end of the month, but maybe by then I'll be ready to face it all again. If the roads will be bad in the Colorado mountains, I'll have to drive through Wyoming. Big yawn. I know that the middle of nowhere is somewhere to somebody, but it's hard to believe during the tedious hours between Evanston and Cheyenne. Maybe it's better at night because then I wouldn't be able to see all the boring-ness. Best and warmest Christmas wishes to you, Dear Bugg.
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