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The Guest Today I'm starting with magnets off my friend Diane's fridge, in Seattle.
This is a magnet that Peggy brought to Diane when we visited there last October.
Someone suggested I add a discussion board, so I have. If you have anything to discuss, go to this link. Feel free to start a new discussion on anything. (of course I'm adding this right before I go out of town for 2½ weeks!) WHAT I'M READING... WHAT I'M WATCHING... West Wing That's it for today!
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AT THE MERCY OF THE ELEMENTS 3 May 2001 The wind is the whisper of our
mother the earth --John Denver & Joe Henry It was ironic that I got into the car and the very first lyrics I heard were from John Denver’s Windsong. Ironic because the wind was blowing about 40 mph and I just had to leave the gas station because the wind had knocked out the power to all the pumps! Wind was the weather news all over northern California. I was driving to San Rafael to have lunch with my mother and fought the wind all the way. It seemed there were more semi’s on the freeway than usual, and of course each time I had to pass one, I was sure a gust of wind was going to knock it over and smash me flat. Obviously that didn’t happen. But downed tree limbs were visible everywhere on the side of the road, power lines had been knocked out in some places, and the wind was pretty much making a mess everywhere. Highway officials even closed the Antioch bridge because of fear of a truck being blown over the side, and part of a freeway was closed because of visibility problems with blowing dust and debris.
Despite that, I made it to San Rafael safely and had a nice visit with my mother. We checked out her rose and orchid garden and watched the dove nesting in a hanging basket on her front porch.
The wind is the bearer of bad and
good tidings I don’t know if it was wind that brought the rain, but yesterday we had word that the rain in England has completely changed our upcoming travel plans. We leave this weekend with our friends Mike and Char to go to England and take a canal boat cruise for 8 days. The plan was to cruise from Bath to Reading, which takes 8 days by boat and 45 minutes by train (which gives you some idea of the pace of this vacation!). This part of the waterway is riddled with locks and we were particularly eager to encounter the Caen Hill locks (you must click on that link and look at the locks--I've never seen anything quite like it). But yesterday I received e-mail from the tour boat operator who says,
It now appears that we will miss the locks and have a vastly different tour, but we’re still looking forward to it. Yesterday a lot of time was spent rearranging accommodations and re-thinking what we want to do on our first two days in England. We’ve never done anything like this before (a cruise of any kind) and haven’t traveled with Mike and Char for many years (we’ve never gone on a vacation together where it hasn’t rained, so it’s nice to see that this trip is starting out on the right foot!). We also wanted to return to Oxford after an abbreviated trip several years ago, and now we can. I checked out a web page with the altered route and the pictures look wonderful, so I’m very excited about the trip, even if it’s not quite what we envisioned originally. It’s obviously an ill wind that doesn’t blow someone some good! Have you ever had to make major vacation changes at the last minute? Come to the discussion board and tell us about it! (Mary, this means YOU!!) One
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