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SATexas
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Country: United States
State: Texas
Birthday: 11/8/1945
Gender: Female
Interests: Reading, travel, photography, 19th century newspapers, scrapbooking.
Occupation: Retired
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Member Since:
3/19/2001
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| Sheesh. It has been a long time since I have written anything here.
Life was really busy in SA and it was kind of a relief to leave and settle down a bit. We got back on the road April 3, and are currently enjoying life in Alaska. We'll be here all summer. It is an amazing place. | | |
| We traveled 16,211 miles in our six months on the road (not including the ferry rides to and from Newfoundland) and drove through New England during a pretty severe hurricane season without a single problem. Then we get back to San Antonio and our campground is evacuated because of flooding. We didn't evacuate, but stayed hitched and ready to roll for a couple of days. It was quite exciting and the speed with which that tiny little creek rose and fell was impressive. This is the third flood since 1998. All the regulars have either moved up the hill or out of the campground.
I'm giving up scrapbooking. Three seasons of hauling stuff around with no time to use it and even less time to use it when we are stopped for 5 months in San Antonio is finally enough to convince me the time has come to let go. Artist trading cards (ATCs) and mini ATCs will have to satisfy my artsy cravings for now.
This fourth anniversary of Alex's death was a tough one. Jen isn't doing well. Galen has been going all out to help her get on her feet, but I can't help feeling used and angry because she seems to do so little to help herself. She used up $15 of phone minutes in two days and then asked for more.
We will have no storage unit by the end of this year. I'm giving up artsy stuff except for cards and ATCs and will give most of the scrapbooking stuff to my sister. I will fill the void by doing more writing and computer art - stuff that isn't so messy.
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| I am typing this in a lovely coffee house in NC that has free wireless internet. G is at a music jam. No one in this town knows me. I can sit here without fear of being interrupted and enjoy my Erma Bombeck Mocha Special. Wish they would turn down the AC a bit but other than that, this is oh so pleasant.
We have had a great time on the road this year and I'm still not ready to get off the road, but we are only weeks away from parking in SA for five months.
We will try to see our grandson on the way home. If he refuses to see us, I guess we'll just give up on him. Alex has been dead nearly four years and we've not heard a word from him since in spite of regular postcards and goodies in the mail. He's 13 and old enough to decide if he wants us in his life or not. I've little interest in staying where I'm not wanted any longer.
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| I went to see Taking Lives all by myself on Tuesday and was offered free movie passes to a pre-premiere showing of the new Alamo movie. KD and I went yesterday and loved the movie. It made me laugh, cry, and look at the Alamo with even more respect for what those men did there. Crockett, Bowie, Houston, Travis were all flawed men and that's one of the things I liked most about the movie. They weren't shown as superhuman heroes. They were real people, making mistakes but growing and trying to do the right thing. And Santa Ana - he was so evil. He didn't care how many of his soldiers died, but was quick to give up when his own life was on the line. The photography was outstanding. I'll never walk past the Alamo again without remembering the images of that terrible battle depicted in the movie. I've read and heard the story before but never had such a sense of what happened before yesterday. | | |
| I'd hoped to BE organized before my sister got here, but only LOOK organized. I have stuff stuffed out of sight in several places.
G's uncle J has double pneumonia. He has felt old and sick for a long time and only a week ago wished someone would shoot him. He is over 90 and I hope for his sake that the end (or the beginning) is near.
I am not used to the bunch (3) of little kids my sister has brought along and though I did want to spend time with her, I declined the offer to go to Sea World with the gang today.
Instead, I cut my hair and I've finally put my hands on some much needed pocketmail info and printed out much of the tablEdit manual. I am determined to learn to use TablEdit in the near future! Big job for someone who knows so little about music theory.
I also took some time to read more of Morality For Beautiful Girls. I certainly do enjoy the Alexander McCall Smith books. In this book the No. 1 lady dectecitve was pondering regret and decided that everyone, including saints, must have regrets about things they have done. I laughed right out loud when I read the lady detective's thought that perhaps even St. Francis might have once stomped on a pigeon! Stomping on a pigeon would not be funny, but her thinking process was certainly amusing. | | |
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