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Posted on 05/03/2008 8:48:06 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
It’s really funny how homeschooled kids don’t usually hate school. Makes me think the government school system is doing something wrong.
Must be. I hated the horrid schools I went to in the Cleveland/Youngstown areas, the one exception being the one I was in from ‘89 to 93(2nd to 6th grade). All the other ones can fall off a cliff for all I care.
So...
On the one hand, it had to be the easiest dental crown I’ve ever had.
On the other hand, my face is still numb five hours later.
I'm already planning the trip. We're going to do at least one overnight in a hotel along the way. We're both getting too old for this 'drive all the way through' bidness. ;o) We'll be going to his family's reunion in Perdido Key, and since we didn't get to last year's gathering, this is gonna be fun. It's also gonna be fun, cause it's just the adults. All the kids are either married with their own families, or in college, or at work, so it will just be the grown ups. We'll be very boring, I'm sure, but it will be fun and lazy.
When we get back home, I'm seriesly thinking about having that Cardiac Ablation done. I'm so tired of this A-Fib, and would love to be rid of it, and not have to continue taking meds, or go into the hospital, to deal with it.
Yowsers!
It has been a bad summer for thunderstorms. It's the lack of sunspots. I just dread this winter; I'm afraid the snows will be frequent and heavy, and us without our snowthrower!
Matthew's birthday party is going to be at the church after youth group tomorrow and this is the "picture" I'm going to have put on the cake. I typed it up and then saved it as a jpeg and I'm having it printed up at Walmart...then I'm taking it to Sams to have it put on a big (full sheet) cake, along with other birthday type decorations.
Oh, I’ve known about the A-Fib for years. It was just this past December that I had to go into the hospital, and it was for reduced heart function, not related to the A-Fib. I’ve always thought the A-Fib was triggered by hormones, but mainly the problem with having it is the risk of a clot causing a stroke. I’m on Warfarin right now, so that risk is lessened, but I’m just trying to see if it will get back to normal, on its own, without my having to go into the hospital and get zapped. I’m going to be traveling a couple of times over the next month and a half, and don’t want to have to deal with strange hospitals and doctors, if I can avoid it. When I get back from all that, I’m considering the Ablation, which has an 85 to 90% chance of stopping the A-Fib on the first try.
You’ll probably go west of here, but do stop by Richmond if you plan on coming through.
That’s cool. It’s like a sugary paper film they used to do that. Looks cool, but not vey tastey (easy to peel off though).
Tis true! I enjoy listening to "A Festival of Lessons and Carols" each Christmas, because of the language of the Scriptures from which they take the Lessons, which I assume is the KJV. I find myself, when those readings come up in Mass, during Advent and Christmas, 'hearing' them in the KJV rather than what the lector is reading, because I've heard them so often, listening to the Festival. ;o)
Now that’s just dang CUTE!
But this trip, we're heading down I-81, since it's the most direct route for us. We're going to H'burg first, to unload the trailer and leave it my s-i-l's house while we're in FL. We'll also be dropping off Joseph's electric scooter, that he and SirKit found on eBay and on which he's been working the last few weeks. It will be a great way for him to get around campus quickly.
Very cool...I should do the same when the girl turns 13.
I love summer too and didn’t REALLY want to start back up. Thegirl pushes me...”come on Mom...” It was time I suppose. Having thenewboy here is gonna make things more interesting.
Mrsnad
Agreed... driving would be nice. I’ve even thought about doing one of these trips that way some time. Would be interesting, though I’d probably break the 13 or so hours into two days. Maybe drive the Pacific Coast Highway all the way down? Fun...
I realize that my flight yesterday wasn’t all that bad by most standards. Lots of people have much worse travel nightmares. It’s just that I’ve taken that exact flight number somewhere over a hundred times and it’s always been mostly trouble-free. I’ve been spoiled silly.
I suppose we shouldn’t get too whiny about travel. If you think back to what the same sort of trip would’ve been like for people living a hundred years ago or more... we seem kind of soft to complain about a mere few hours on a trip of a thousand miles.
Hey, by the way... I think my rental car is your car...
Didn’t you get a Corolla? Sort of an electric blue? That’s what I got from Hertz. Neat unit. Very peppy and comfortable. Good ergonomics. Easy to drive. HUGE trunk. Tardis-like trunk, seems to be bigger on the inside than the car is on the outside. :-)
*Sigh*
Howe or Kline?
Think I’ll vote for the gun nut for sherrif.
Yikes...! Now THAT is a rough trip.
It’s that goll-derned globelwarmin’ I tell’s ya! :-)
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