It is almost lunchtime for some of you--I got to sleep a little later this morning (2 hours), and am enjoying my first cup of coffee.
Spent the latter part of last week and last weekend up in the Bay Area: my niece got married up in Stinson Beach, which is about 1 hour north of SF (really about 20 miles, but windy, windy road along the coast). The ceremony was held on a bluff over looking the Pacific; the reception held in town. The mother of the bride(my sister), her hubby, my other sister and two daughters, and my family of four rented a house on the beach. The weekend was beautiful, none of us wanted to leave, but we had to.
Molly Pitcher- Have you read David McCullough's 1776?
I think I'll be soveling more mulch this weekend. It could be worse...could eb manure, I suppose.
Toby--there was a thread on FR a few days ago regarding brown widow spiders making their way into Louisiana.
Just got back from an auction for Booster Club at High School....they had rows and rows of old computers to sell. They sold very cheap...most of the computers had Windows 98...pretty old operating system. You just don’t know what you are getting though....some sold for fifty dollars and all other for twenty dollars.
Gulfcoast....your “cutting back and taking it easy day”....tires me out, you sure keep busy....take care and enjoy your day.
Mrs. Liberty, your wedding trip sounded very nice. Don’t wear yourself out this week-end shoveling.....I need to get to Wally World and buy some more potting soil and get in gear myself.
HOB, yes we visited VF years ago. It's an amazing site.
Greene eventually was sent out by Washington to forage and confiscate food, animals, and so forth in the area as the troops were starving. Greene hated this assignment, but he was devoted to Washington, and saw the need of course. He tried his best to only take from the Loyalists, of which there were many.
Yes, Mrs. Liberty - and welcome back! - I read 1776, but my favorite historian is David Hackett Fischer. He doesn't get the attention that McCullough does, but he should - he's an academic who writes well, and if you haven't read his Paul Revere's Ride , DO!
We got the brown kind everywhere, spraying once a month hoping it will kill them, the black widow’s we know we have, a given for us in the south but the brown one’s.