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Posted on 04/21/2005 6:44:57 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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My grandmother had this great table...beautiful dining room table. Every Thanksgiving, we'd have our big dinner on it and all the relatives would come and all us cousins would play and have a great day of it. Back in the 60s, you know?
By the time my brother got old enough to remember such things, my grandmother had gotten too old to do it...then she gave the table to my mom. We continued having Thanksgiving dinner at the table, although no other family members came...no cousins or anything. I assumed (mistake) that I would get the table from my mom, since I was the daughter and had the memories of the family gatherings. I dreamed of having huge gatherings of family again, all sitting down to Thanksgiving.
Then my mom gave that table to my brother. Nearly killed me.
In hindsight, I see now how very foolish the whole expectation was...
Now I have a huge table on my list of things I'll need to get for that farmhouse! :-)
Ummm...yeah. Lovely.
I am really tired of paperwork at the moment.
But I only need one more thing, I think - the name and number of a former co-worker. *sigh* I'll be glad when I can turn this darn packet in and be done with it!
Whee!
I'm gonna come home soon and then we can go a-booking. Think we'll have to drive, though.
Yeah...it's mightily gusty out there.
Any chance we could swing by the post office? I have that package ready to mail to my brother, and I need ta buy stamps. Reagan, I think. :-)
I'm sittin' on the porch, enjoying popcorn and iced tea and watching the boys play in the pool.
I tested the chlorine level and the pH this morning and they were perfect.
I should work for Corin's neighborhood pool! :-)
If'n you'd move to Richmond, I'd pay you $200 a week to monitor the pool.
We open in less than two weeks (Memorial Day weekend). Last night the management company I'd signed up with called and said we have too many structural problems and they can't manage us. They ~will~ train us to do it.
I'm hoping our guy that was doing it last year before work took him away (insurance adjustor working in post storm Florida) will do it for roughly the same price. He knows what he's doing and he's our only hope at this point.
It'll work out. It's just more residual from the people who ran it (poorly) for the last 15 years. They ignored the problems, or put band-aids on them.
Everyone knows any public pool has a rule against no band-aids.
I'm outta here. See y'all later.
~whimper~
I want to leave now too! It isn't five o'clock yet though. :-(
You know Broken Arrow, the town next to us, has a gigantic public pool. Hugh water slides, islands with fake palm trees...just really fancy.
Steve took Matthew swimming after he'd been to a birthday party. Mistake. Matthew barfed up chocolate cake, red punch and popcorn all in the pool water.
They had to shut the entire pool down.
Oops!
We've got our Tornado Preparedness Plan. It seems they frown upon rushing out into the parking lot to gawk at the tornado.
Did I ever tell you I watched a friend's child throw up in one of those bouncy cages full of plastic balls?
I didn't say anything.
Sortof like when Logan peed on a kid's sand castle and no one saw. I didn't say anything then either...
The guilt I carry.
'M caugh up....had a snack...now it's time to go outside and play in the dirt.
Oh....One time we barbecued a pork shoulder on the grill. At some point during the cooking, you have to take the skin off. So I got that skin off and threw it out in the kudzu behind our lot.
Seems the neighbor dog found it and thought it was great to roll around in. Neighbor wasn't too thrilled about washing a greasy dog. *whistles innocently*
The dreadful secrets some of us carry! Eek!
The Logan one I felt a little bit bad about, because the kids immediately started fixing the damage, a collapsed tower... It was a really big sand castle they'd been working on all day, and I knew if I said something, the parents would make them stop, and they'd have to abandon it, there'd have been lots of tears and a ruined afternoon for the rest of us.
It seemed a minor sin under the circumstances. ;~D
We had this place out behind my house where I was growing up...a field...we called it "The Weeds."
One of the kids in our neighborhood...a boy that lived down the street...was playing out in The Weeds and decided he needed to go to the bathroom and was too lazy to go home.
Well, my beagle ROLLED in THAT!
Grrr! I had to wash that dog! I tied it to a tree and sprayed it with the hose for a long time. It was awful.
I'd take a greasy dog any day over that...or a dog that's rolled in road kill.
It's sterile when it comes out anyways, probably.
There's a guy in Michigan what knows ya...
Just return the favor sometime...
(I promise there won't be subpoenas involved)
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