Posted on 12/17/2002 7:32:02 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
Come on! Come in! -if you would like to have some seedcakes and a pint and relax a while. (If it is a special occasion, we still have a few bottles of the old wineyards left!)
Our first thread ( New Zealander builds Hobbit hole ) reached 4,100 posts, and we thought that was big. Our second thread (The New Hobbit Hole ) held us for over 48,000 posts, and we loved it dearly. We talked about moving to a new thread for the last 38,000 posts, but we are really slow to muster! Finally, the time has come. Tomorrow (at 12:01 am, to be precise!) The Two Towers comes out, and we start a new chapter.
I suppose you can say that. Some days I'm all for moving and some I'm all for staying. Don't know what I'll do when it comes to moving time and I don't have any offers on the house!
Ewwwww... makes you wonder WHAT he saw in her huh? My Grama has told me always that she has never felt old. But, then she said that thing last month. So, I know she thinks she's old now. She's 85. She didn't retire until about 8 years ago. Always VERY active. Even let me take her for motorcycle rides a couple of times in the last few years. Trouble was, when she went there always had to be someone there to help her off the bike. She has artificial knees and they don't bend right to get off!!! LOL She can get right on but cannot remove herself for anything so we have to have someone strong enough to lift a leg off for her and help her to the side so she can stand. There is usually a lot of laughter involved and more than one try to get this done!!!
Lucky indeed. My brother got that, but I didn't.
But it was from her that I learned to be my own person, even if it wasn't the person she wanted me to be, and I can function without Mack (don't want too:), but I can. Just like this ride this weekend. I can hook up the horse trailer, go where I want, even out of state:), camp, etc all by my lonesome. Alice thinks that's just horrible. But I'm not sure if she thinks I'm horrible because I CAN do it, or horrible that I have to do it because Mack doesn't go. Threre is no reason for him to go, there would be nothing for him to do but sit in an empty camp while I ride, and the whole weekend is all about horses, which he is not really into.
Sorry for the ramble. We had that family get together here Wed. and Alice got on my nerves a bit, just venting.
Becky
that would be me too.
The silver pieces are nice and a little more value for the price.
OH Gosh! That's Grama too. She continued driving even after being declared legally blind. One trip to Sturgis I called home to check on Myranda and the first thing Grama said was, "we're doin' real good. you can stay gone as long as you want. with Randy here to be my eye's we drove all the way to Waco and she could tell me if cars were coming that I couldn't see!" Waco is 55 miles. Horrors! Then, when it was time to renew her license finally, she tried 4 times to pass the eye test. Went to 2 different eye doctors. Even tried to bribe the second one. Myranda and I walked in to take her to supper for her birthday that evening and she was standing in the middle of the kitchen with her car keys in her hands and just said, "HERE!" And put the keys in Myranda's hand. I think Myran was 12 then. She was out of sorts for her whole birthday dinner. Telling us all the reasons it was wrong to do that to her! LOL She could not see any irony or humor in this at all. She had truly been declared legally blind about 6 years before that.
This will probably sound unkind, but she had been widowed about as long as my dad had when they met. AT that time she had a job and did function well alone.
Her and her first husband had 6 children, and he died after a long illness, so he did not leave her with alot.
My parents were very successful, had just finished building a new home, paid for on Grand Lake, before she died, my dad had retired, IOW's very well off. Alice was not use to that. I think it changed her to not have to worry about that sort of thing anymore.
Now she says things like what will happen too her if dad goes first, like she thinks we would evict her out into the street or something. He rewrote his will just to put in it that she could live in the house as long as she wanted too after he died. I swear there was no reason for it, and he knew it, but....I always want to remind her that she has 6 children.
Becky
I didn't realize they now had earrings!! I love the Fellowship earrings and the Elven Star earrings! And they're not even TOO overly pricey!
Shades of The Long Kiss Goodnight !
One of my favorite movies!!!
Sounds very close to home. Oddly enough I sometimes think I was caught between two colliding worlds. With all this description of my parents being hard to get along with I should say, Mom was a debutate. I did learn quite a bit from her. As was common in Texas in the late '50s young women were debutantes to find the husband. They were very young. And social climbing. I was the oldest child and a hinderance to the things they wanted to do. That was why I ended up with my grandparents. Grandparents had money because they had worked their rears off from the depression onward. The live-by-the-seat-of-your-pants, and save every penny type. They both worked many more than 8 hours per day until retirement. But, they had money - mostly because they saved and invested. My mom growing up with that was used to the money and an only child so above the work. Those dependable hard-working, loving grandparents were more than happy to take on another child because they had wanted more but couldn't have them.
Grama starting her own business right after the depression was something I grew up thinking was normal. But, her business was attached to her home (a beauty shop). She was a self-sufficient wife and homebody. So, I never could quite deal with not learning self-sufficiency in all things but I wanted to be a home-body too. My mom was trying to escape that and I was trying to do it. CRASH!
Go figure.
I look at that and think of the misery of day to day life being that insecure.
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