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Posted on 08/05/2004 5:47:31 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Eleventh Thread: Wedding Edition: The Hobbit Hole XI - No One Admitted Except on Wedding Business!
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When we lived in FL, the oak trees didn't lose their leaves in the Fall; they fell in the Spring when the new leaves were pushing through!
I received the CD you sent, yesterday, and I must say you guys are GREAT!! If you have a CD labelmaker, you ought to make some for that CD and sell it at the concert!! You are awesome on that mando, girl!
Roger that!
Howdy, Suzi!
I think Jim is the best of the bunch. He's the one playing fiddle. Sweet.
Bilbo wants to put together a CD to sell...take the best tracks from a couple different open mics and other recordings, clean them up a little, and burn a new CD from it. I feel a little funny about selling homemade CDs, especially when we weren't the recording folks on most, but maybe.
If nothing else, they'll work as demo CDs if'n we ever put together a promotion package!
The temps are nice today. It's supposed to be fairly clear the rest of this week, I think, so we can syphon off the water that collected in the tarps covering the basement dig this week. We were surprised that there wasn't more water, but apparently it didn't rain that much while we were gone.
You should do it! Sell 'em cheap, but make a little profit at those gigs!
We managed to miss Charley. We were supposed to get torrential rains, which would have caused a lot of flooding in some parts here. The remains of Bonnie had already saturated the ground and washed out some roads. I guess we couldn't really have complained, considering what Charley did elsewhere...but I'm still glad it missed us!
Maybe we will...just charge eight or ten dollars or something. That'd cover materials with a little profit. We need to save up for sound equipment...that'd be something for the fund!
One of these days we'll get up there to see that. We can get some pretty spectacular fall foliage in the Blue Ridge, but I know it's nothing like New England.
It's a weird sensation I'm having here. I much prefer the summer - well when it's hot and dry anyway. But today I'm ready for school to start, the pool to be closed and summer to be over.
I reckon it's the transition I don't like. And the leaves...
Do you have to worry about school for Luke yet, or is he still too young?
Personally, I can't wait for school to start either, but I'm sure in three weeks I'll be whining about how much work I have to do, how it's so hard, how I don't have time to read... ah well, I'm the one making the choices here!
Local radio interviewed a news guy that used to live here in Richmond. He said Isabel was bad, but Charley was 10 times that...
Maybe someday we can have a Fall Foliage Entmoot - have a bunch of folks meet up!
Fall has always been my favorite time of year, but it's also the time of year when memories hit me full force. I would get soooo homesick every year when I was away, and it wasn't just for the leaves. Dunno. Something to do with that weather, I guess.
We were very happy to get Luke into the pre-school at our church for this year. It's much less spendy than the daycare was, even for three days. He'll be going five days in the mornings. He's in a class with his cousin (who is about 6 months younger). Wife's sister will pick them up and he'll spend the afternoon at their house.
It's an ideal situation. And we're paying for a month what we were paying last year for a week. Wife's classes have worked out that she can drop him off on her way (it's nearby where she teaches). So it will be a much happier situation.
We're working with him some on reading. But nothing formally yet. And we haven't made a definite decision about kindergarten next year. We'll have to see what happens.
Leaf-Moot!
Not idley to the leaves of New England fall...
That sounds really ideal! Glad it's all working out for you guys.
Sounds like fun to me! There are lots of family oriented festivals about that time that might be fun to hit, not to mention just driving around is nice.
And it's about the best time of year for hiking, for them that likes that.
I got an idea...
You know, there are midwives that come into the home and help with "home births"...
I'm wondering if I couldn't do something along that line, except doing a "home funeral" type thing.
Now don't scoff...think about it...
I came upon this thinking that if anything ever happened to one of my loved ones, I wouldn't want to have one of the traditional type of funerals...I sure wouldn't want them embalmed and I wouldn't want them placed in a casket that's fancier and almost as expensive as a car! I think a simple wooden box with a nice comforter in it would be just fine.
And I'd want them at home until they are buried. No stranger flipping them around and such. Just me, or other family members.
They could lay in their own bed while friends came by to "pay respects" or had a wake and a rosary (like Suziq's) and then be taken to the cemetery in a very relaxed manner.
Home funerals were the norm for most of history...
I wonder how I'd get started doing something like this? I know not all people would find this type of burial appealing, but I do...and maybe I'm not alone?
Please don't laugh at me!! ;-)
I'm "trying" to like hiking more. But I gotta get rid of some more poundage before my knees can stand too much walking.
Unofficially, I'm down 7 lbs. on South Beach.
Check the laws, your state might have all sorts of restrictive funeral laws. It sounds like an interesting idea but it's probably not permitted.
I did! OK state law says it's ok...the family is only responsible for filing the death certificate...you don't have to go through a funeral home!
The only thing that I can see as being a "potential" obstacle is that many cemeteries won't allow it. They are out to make money from the funeral service after all.
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