One last thing:

AscendingLines.com is now in working order.
Version 2 coming soon.
[iWeb is great for getting a temporary site up quickly.]

I have plans to move my blog.

Growing up, I always kept a journal.
(I refused to call it a diary, because I don't like the word.)
I felt that each journal was a new version of me,
more mature and with a different level of thought.
Often, I would abandon a journal before I filled it, because I felt I had outgrown it.

So it is with this version of myself.
I find it difficult to write anymore,
because the things I am used to writing here no longer seem worth writing.

I will post the address of my new blog when I decide where to have it hosted.

[Blogger or Wordpress?]

Me: [On the phone with Dave] Um. . . There are two little boys in our backyard. They're cutting down our bamboo.
Dave: What?
Me: They're cutting down our bamboo. Should I tell them to get out of our backyard?
Dave: I don't know. I guess so?
Me: Okay, I'm going to do it. Maybe they'll just run away when I open the door.

I push the door open. One boy runs away, but the other continues cutting without looking up.

Me: What are you doing?
Boy: [Looks up and smiles.] Cutting bamboo.
Me: Oh. Well, um. . . don't cut it all down.
Boy: [Happily.] Okay!

I'm not really very good at being a mean, scary neighbor lady.