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Posted on 12/11/2005 8:37:40 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
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Not many can claim to have their wedding recorded in such a fashion. :-D
So - you feel like going to the movie today?
It was worth the effort to be able to share it with the thread. It wouldn't be right to not include the Hobbit Hole!
When we first thought to do the webcam, we had no idea so many of you would be able to come out in person. That was amazing :~D
Yah... I'm up for it, if'n you are...
I wouldn't have missed it for the world.
We were all just as grateful for your hospitality in the midst of that hectic time.
Which reminds me....I should get motivated and go to the store for s'more-makin' stuff. :-D
We ~think~ we can actually make it work today :~D
The 1:10?
Yah. 1:10 works.
We drove up to Boothbay Harbor, Maine, one weekend. I was surprised to see the floating docks, and wondered why the restaurants etc, were so high out of the water, until I saw the 'tide marks' on the pilings on which the restaurants, etc. were sitting. The docks HAVE to float, and the buildings have to be that high up to accomodate the high tide.
heheh... I was equally taken aback by seeing docks in Miami that are just piers and pilings... not floating. I just couldn't fathom (sic) it.
I saw this HUGH weasel like critter swimming up the river, and when I asked what the heck THAT was, my brother said it was a nutria. Apparently, the cajuns in Louisiana consider them good eatin.
hehehe...fathom...
I'm gonna get it, for sure! I didn't see too much of it, but really liked the parts I did see.
Well, I got all dressed up fer church - wearing The Sweater and The Scarf agin, only with a skirt - and when I got there, the parking lot seemed unusually full. I don't normally go to later Masses, but today...well, you know. ;-) But it turns out there *isn't* an eleven o'clock, there's a ten thirty. Last week was just odd because of Christmas. Oops...
Luckily there's a twelve fifteen Mass as well, so I'm going back in a bit. And now I know!
I seem to remember Mom saying there were nutria in Portland, OR where they lived when I was born. *shudder* Don't sound like pleasant critters to me. ROUS!
They looked amazingly similar!
LOL about the Mass time! The first Easter we were in MA, we planned to go down to Providence RI to have lunch with my Aunt Gertrude and Uncle Frank. We went to 9am Mass here in Shrewsbury, not realizing what a crowd there would be. We couldn't even get in the vestibule. We decided to drive on down to Providence because we knew there were a couple of churches near my Aunt's house and we figured we could go there. We drove in to North Providence and saw a Church that had an 11am Mass. It was just about 10 mins to 11, so we pulled on in. We sat and waited, and waited, then we realized that Mass was actually at 11:30! So we were only about 1/2 hour late for getting to my Aunt's, and she laughed when we explained why.
What they'll do here is just add a Mass or two if they're expecting a crowd. For example, on Christmas, they had TWO 4:30 Masses, one in the Church, and one in the Parish Hall, a 7pm which they don't normally have, then the Midnight Mass. On Christmas Day, they only had the 9 and 11am Masses and didn't have the 7:30am and 5:30 pm because they knew everyone would have been at the Christmas Vigil or Midnight Mass.
So are we gonna get pictures of the sweater and scarf? You could always hang them on a hanger and take the picture.
No gunfire this year, just one impressive multi-stage rocket. I should know, I was picking up dozens of little parachute-borne firework tubes off the lawn and the roof. Must have been some sort of (expensive) bus-type rocket. There were even small launch tubes on the ground along with the parachutes.
If I wasn't so lazy, I should have fired off one of my rocket-assisted flares, but that would probably have brought the Coast Guard, even from 20 miles away.
I used only one coat of linseed oil. The wood is so dense and uniform that one coat has already given it a semi-gloss finish. The summer and winter growth rings are almost the same size and color, indicating the tree grew in a temperate area without much in the way of weather extremes. This doesn't produce spectacular wood grain, but it does provide the uniformity and strength required for military applications.
This has been a great $25 project, and has also convinced me that synthetics make better military stocks, since there's no walnut to worry about. Good walnut should be considered a national treasure.
Wow, that looks nice!
Well, visit complete. Sitting in the airport waiting on a plane. A bit under 2 weeks to the Texas visit.
I forgot to take pictures of us so sorry to anyone that wanted those.
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