It's been a month since I've been here. I've been working from 7am until 9-10 pm, 6 sometimes 7 days a week the past month. I get up, shower go to work, come home and go to bed. Eat supper in bed while I watch a few minutes of tv and then to sleep. I've lost weight, gotten stronger, in all it's good for me, but I don't want to do it for very long. I've got 2 more weeks on this project, then I'll be back on Spaces whining because I have no work. jan
Saturday
Thursday
Pardee Coal Camp
The genealogy research is getting to me. Sometimes it's very exciting, reading stories about ancestors in other countries, and ones right out of history books. But some of it makes me sad, and I'm not sure why. I had a lot of relatives born and raised in coal mining camps, and I've grown up hearing stories about life there. Pardee, Virginia was a coal camp, a mining town. Now, it's been buried by the coal companies, the mountain has been moved on top of it.
I've heard a lot of good stories, and they have a lot of good memories. I guess I don't understand why it makes me sad. Looking from the outside, it sounds like a hard way of life. And a lot of those places are so far back in the mountains, I don't know how they ever got out. The sun rises over the mountains half way through the morning, and it's going down way before the top of the mountain runs out of light, that's for sure. It didn't matter to the miners, it was dark when they went in, dark all day, dark when they came out.
But, anyway, I have access to ancestry.com for 6 weeks, and then I'll move on to researching something else.
Tuesday
MULTI-TAGGED
RULES
Each person must post the rules before their list, then list 8 things about themselves. After your list you then list the 8 other people that you want to tag (or spring upon) and visit each of their (the victim's) site leaving a comment that they have been tagged & to come to your space & read the post so they will know what to do
I haven't had time to do this, and I've lost count of who all's tagged me, Artistic Baker was the last, so here goes
1. Number one is: I just went to a couple of other people's sites to see what they wrote in their tags! Is that cheating? Can I copy their answers?? Naw, believe me, you don't want to hear about MY sex life, don't have one, would HAVE to copy their answers!
2. I could spend weeks alone, as long as I had books and a pen and paper.
3. I tent camped by myself from New Mexico up through the Rockies in Colorado.Was there on 9-11.
4. I've spent hours alone, watching bears, eagles, and dolphins in the wild.
5. I camped in Terlingua, Texas and Big Bend National Park with my husband and my son. Saw javalinas, a mountain lion, and was trapped inside the tent by a skunk. Sat up on a mountain watching wild horses down in Mexico.
6. I like being outside, can you tell?
7. I dress pure tomboy-jeans, t's, sneakers and boots, but wear sexy ling..langur...loung...umm..underwear underneath.
8. I've worn Obsession for 20 years. It just smells like me.
whew, i did it, I'm not tagging anyone because I think everyone on my friend's list has BEEN tagged.
fast fast fast springsummeralmostfall
A day off and it's half gone already. Time goes by so fast, I feel like I have to hold on or I'll fall. I never did like merry-go-rounds. Things are going pretty good for me, I've had a lot of good things happen, the puppy situation, I've had work, some good some yucky, among a couple of other things I'm working part-time for a great non-profit organization, not much money but I love it, my kids are all doing well, and the best thing was going to see my daughter and family last month.
I also have a renewed interest in genealogy, brought on by Pat's subscription to Ancestry.com. I admit, last night instead of writing and blog-walking, I spent it in 1600 Scotland. I already have tons of genealogy records, done by my Mom and mostly my cousin Diane. I'm going off on another side of the family, the Marshall side.
School has already started here, I grew up starting school after Labor Day, and ending the second week in June. No spring break though, and in Florida and Texas, we didn't have snow days, but we usually had a couple of hurricane days.
Wednesday
Dreams
My dreams have been a little more nuts than usual lately. They're on a Christmas kick. My Mom has her place decorated in the dreams (probably 11 in the last two weeks). But, these are my dreams, so of course there are lots of animals running around too. I had 2 wolves last night, seemed like a good thing to me. I've had this pet...looks like a green plastic dinosaur. It stands on it's two hind feet to walk, and it's about 2 feet tall. It's been in a couple of dreams lately, I like it. It's kind of mean, will bite others, I call it Sweetie. So, I'm in and out of my Mom's place, which varies with the dream, we are doing last minute Christmas shopping at Target and K-Mart, and a grocery store that's my dream grocery store. Not that it's my DREAM Grocery store, it's just the store I get groceries in, and often work in in dreams. I'm not sure where the lions and tigers are, I think I saw two of the lions on YouTube. It's like going to the movies every night.
Thursday
TIKI
One week, 38 hours of driving, in 3 parts, a tiny puppy named Tiki, and over 100 bucks in rolled pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters. Vacations are a wonder*ful thing. Pat looked for months last year to find a Bichon Frise breeder she liked. Finally, she found one about 350 miles from here. She and I went to get the puppy, ended up getting two puppies, and fell in love with the whole family. My daughter (N), who has one Bichon for my granddaughter and has wanted another for my grandson (D), immediately said she'd wait for the next litter from L's dogs. We stayed in touch with L for almost a year, sending pics and updates on the doggies. All her people stay in touch, which is a cool thing to see how all the brothers and sisters are doing. So, when the mama dog was pregnant a few weeks ago, there was already a waiting list of friends and friends of friends for puppies. L had told N she could have first pick a long time ago.
I'm trying to make this short, it could be a book. Short version...N couldn't come to see or get a puppy, Pat and I went and picked out the puppy, with a lot of calling and sending pics over the phone while we were there. As soon as I walked in though, Tiki came up to me and said, "Oh there you are, I'm ready to go". There was no contest, it was obvious which puppy belonged to D. So, Tiki came home with me for a couple of days, until we could make plans to get the dog another 600+ miles to N. We left Wednesday, and left there to come back home Sunday. I'm still tired. It was wonderful to see L and her husband again, we took the other two Bichons with us, so there were 8 Bichons running around being funny. They are the happiest, most entertaining dogs ever.
The visit with my daughter, son-in-law, and grandkids was perfect, except it was so hard to leave. Tiki and their other dog, Coconut, were immediately best friends, and by the time we left, Tiki was mostly potty trained and followed the kids everywhere they went.
There's so much more, it was a very special event, with lots of twists and turns, I might write more another time.
Gas prices! Went progressively higher heading north. Started at 3.73 here, ended at 4.19. Cost was probably about the same per mile, the low prices were where we were going over mountains, watching the gas gauge needle go down, higher prices were over flat land.
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Tuesday
Back from visiting.
Hi! I've been gallavanting around the country, visiting kids and grandkids. I just got back from seeing my daughter N, and her family. Two grandkids there, boy 13, girl 8. Incredible! I had not been with them for a year, and they've grown SO much! You just can't tell in photos. D is 13, and about 5'9". He was about 5'3" last year. M is Gorgeous. She's always been the cutest kid anywhere, but that's turned into an incredible beauty, while still being Super Cute!
Homeschooled kids have so much creativity and energy. And usually far, far advanced academically. I've been home a little over 24 hours and I'm still in awe.
My kids have grown into the most wonderful adults. I am so proud of them, words just cannot say.
So, anyway, tears again. I haven't blog walked, it will take me days, I know. I wanted to say hi and to let you know I didn't get so Sidetracked that I disappeared or anything permanent.
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