Well, its going to be another hot day. Everyday this week will reach 90 - 92 degrees F.
Yesterday we went to the wake of a square dance friend. She was only 54 and died of cancer. That dreadful disease was only discovered in her less that a month ago. She was having back pains. That where it started. It spread to her lung and liver. Her husband was taking it very hard. Both of them had been widowed before and each had three children and then one together -- a girl who is now 14. He survived Viet Nam, but lost a son at age 17 due to hanging a few years ago.
-- Edited by Sundancer on Monday 24th of May 2010 08:05:03 AM
I'm so sorry to hear about your friend, Sundander. What a sad story for everyone involved, but especially for her husband, who's been through so much. Was it lymphoma? I lost a co-worker friend many years ago who was only in her thirties, and her symptoms also began with a backache.
We had a lot of rain this weekend, and I think that we may be due for some additional rain today. Jim and I took the opportunity to relax, and I think that I MAY actually, FINALLY, be over my jet-lag. I'm most definitely not 22 years old any longer, so I just don't bounce back as quickly as I used to. That three-hour time zone change really messed with my internal clock!!
I'm reading a very fun series of books, so I curled up with my Kindle, and made some progress there, and also spent some time on some needlepoint. I need to do some redecorating in our family room (BADLY need to do it!!), so when I saw this canvas at Woodlawn Plantation back in March, I decided that I would stitch one for this room. Now that I've begun it, I realized that I really need to do a second one, because we have two long couches that face each other, so I guess that I'll need to drive back out there to buy a duplicate. Unfortunately, the museum shop doesn't have online shopping yet!
What's everyone else up to?
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Sundancer, soooo sorry for your friends. It's a cruel place, this mortal coil sometimes, non?
We have a long weekend here, so today is a holiday, the Queen's birthday celebration. Lots of fireworks, the official opening up of cottages, traffic jams on the highways, etc. And it's hot!
Yesterday we had the annual family bbq, kids running around, food everywhere, a mess in the end to clean up. When it was all done, Ted and I watched an Agatha Christie mystery on WNED, then fell into bed, exhausted.
Our wonderful neighbours are moving, so that's a real pain in the neck. Our new 6 1/2 foot cedar fence is going in tomorrow morning - the posts anyway. It's an insulation from the new people, whoever they may be, but unlikely to be as lovely as the neighbours that are taking off, literally driven away by the insufferable clods across the street. These are the same characters I've been complaining about for 8 years, lol. I'm lucky, however, not to be privy to their numerous slurs and otherwise uncomplimentary remarks. We do our best to pretend they're not there.
Mike and Nick arrive home next weekend; Nick for a short visit, Mike, for who knows how long. This ought to keep me out of mischief for a bit.
We're cold (66F) and windy out here today. Add to that my wonderful attack of cough, phelgm, blahness for lack of a better term, and it's been a crappy day. I believe I've gone through at least one box of tissues today. Yeah, good times.
I'll take the heat because it'd dry this crap up quick. Apparently Shelly had a bunch o'rain out here way.
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Brandon, Jim is mildly sick too; an official cold. I'm sorry that both of you are in that same boat.
KaeEll, I know that you're going to miss those neighbors, but I imagine that you're also looking forward to having that fence! What a shame that the people you liked are the ones who are leaving. Not fair. And I know that you're going to enjoy seeing Mike and Nick. YAY!!
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Ack - summer colds! Get better soon, both Brandon and Jim.
The fence men are here working away and drilling, making quite the racket.
As it turns out, my neighbours that are moving, are buying the house owned by my old high school boyfriend, lol. He and his wife, now empty nesters, are moving to the cottage (gasp and groan) way up north in no-man's-land. And the house that we used to live in, we bought from the lady that bought the old high school boyfriend's parents' house. Huh? It's a big city, so what's with all the coincidence? Kind of creepy.
KaeEll, it seems that life is always full of these coincidental eddies and swirls. There's no explaining them with logic, but only acceeptance that it's somehow meant to be. We cross paths with each other in odd ways more frequently than is predictable!
Good luck with the fence project!!
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Kae, I hope the fencing is coming along okay. Sorry I haven't been around lately. Life has been busy. Jolene graduates kindergarten on the 9th. Hard to believe. I am at this moment stuck in Portsmouth this summer so I am trying to think of things to do. Might finally do that DC trip.
Anyways, sorry again that i have been MIA. What is going on with everyone.
Shelly, I know that you're not afraid of hot weather (thinking Arizona), but if you come to Washington, DC during the summer, do try to make it before August. That's the WORST month for our dreaded combination of heat AND humidity.
Fall is beautiful, as is spring... Maybe the 4th of July would be a fun time for you to be here, and do the whole fireworks-on-the-Mall thing!
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