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Posted by Gen on October 11, 2009, 5:26 pm
Ouch--that hurts. I feel bad for you.
Gen
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>I haven't seen 5 of our grands in over a year. Missed a big scouting award
>and a middle school graduation along with birthdays. DH hasn't seen 6 of
>them. (I took care of DGD in May in CA.) Right now we are 550 miles from
>most.
> --
> Mary
> http://community.webshots.com/user/mardor1948?vhost=community
>> this is why we're not in NM already. I'd love to move there-Albuquerque
>> south to the border-not the northern part. But DS and family are in MI,
>> a 3 hr. drive from here. Both grand kids cried when I said I'd like to
>> move to NM-they'd never get to see us. That did it-we're staying here
>> (at least for now). We're close enough to get up there for all the
>> important events, but far away enough not to have to sit through all the
>> sports and games.
>> Gen
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Posted by maryd on October 11, 2009, 5:30 pm
We will get to see 7 of them next week and the 8th we will see in November.
:)
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Mary
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> Ouch--that hurts. I feel bad for you.
> Gen
>>I haven't seen 5 of our grands in over a year. Missed a big scouting
>>award and a middle school graduation along with birthdays. DH hasn't seen
>>6 of them. (I took care of DGD in May in CA.) Right now we are 550
>>miles from most.
>> --
>> Mary
>> http://community.webshots.com/user/mardor1948?vhost=community
>>> this is why we're not in NM already. I'd love to move there-Albuquerque
>>> south to the border-not the northern part. But DS and family are in MI,
>>> a 3 hr. drive from here. Both grand kids cried when I said I'd like to
>>> move to NM-they'd never get to see us. That did it-we're staying here
>>> (at least for now). We're close enough to get up there for all the
>>> important events, but far away enough not to have to sit through all the
>>> sports and games.
>>> Gen
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Posted by Sherry on October 12, 2009, 9:14 am
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> Isn't it great that not all people like living in the same climate?! =A0I
> could probably tolerate the crappy winters here if our kids were nearby s=
o I
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> could see them more than once a year or two.
I bet you could! A transplanted-Floridian friend of mine finds herself
now
in Colorado, and she cannot bear the cold. But she says "I love my
granddaughter more than I hate this place."
I think I was in the same past life as Taria -- I love to look at,
hear, and
smell the ocean but detest actually going in it. It's so....fishy. DH
goes
"What'd you expect?"
I have lived my whole life in the plains with fairly harsh winters
and even harsher
summers. I love it because it is home and roots I guess run deep. I've
also
found that visiting places with mountains is disturbing because I
can't see
past them.
Sherry <---- just a home girl, not much of a traveler.
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Posted by Kate XXXXXX on October 12, 2009, 11:36 am
Sherry wrote:
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>> Isn't it great that not all people like living in the same climate?! I
>> could probably tolerate the crappy winters here if our kids were nearby so I
>> could see them more than once a year or two.
> I bet you could! A transplanted-Floridian friend of mine finds herself
> now
> in Colorado, and she cannot bear the cold. But she says "I love my
> granddaughter more than I hate this place."
> I think I was in the same past life as Taria -- I love to look at,
> hear, and
> smell the ocean but detest actually going in it. It's so....fishy. DH
> goes
> "What'd you expect?"
Giggle... I loved going snoreling with the fishes when I was a kit.
Haven't had much chance in recent years...
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> I have lived my whole life in the plains with fairly harsh winters
> and even harsher
> summers. I love it because it is home and roots I guess run deep. I've
> also
> found that visiting places with mountains is disturbing because I
> can't see
> past them.
> Sherry <---- just a home girl, not much of a traveler.
I like the sea to be warm for swimming. Not gonna swim the channel, not
never, nohow!
My parents learned o swim in the Firth of Forth. Nutcases! :D
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Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.katedicey.co.uk
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Posted by Kate XXXXXX on October 11, 2009, 7:34 pm
J* wrote:
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> eeeeeek, ya dont wanna be in bakersplat.
> it aint named that for no reason.
> its hot, dry, too far from the ocean.
> once ya live near the ocean it is too hard not to live within about an hour
> of it,
> so ya can make at least a trip for the day and a picnic.
> nope, bakersplat is too hot, too dry and too far from the water.
> fingers and other extremities crossed Oregon comes thru for you.
> j.
> <no way josê would i live in bakersplat, too hot, too dry, too far from the
Giggle... There are places I feel like that about. London, for a
start... The Great Wen. Bleargh! Or Birmingham. Big cities, anyway.
Yes, London it has fabulous theatres, wonderful shops (I loathe almost
all forms of shopping not fabric related), fantastic museusm (can I live
in the V&A if I have to live in London? Next to Tipu's Tiger?), and
amazing galleries, history, the British Library, and all that stuff...
But you'd have to pay me 30 gold bars a minute to live or work there!
I'll *visit*, but one day every six months or more is plenty.
Then there are places like the wilds of East Angia and the fens of
Lincolnshire... Flat as a pancake, with the odd tree sticking up here
and there, and a lazy wind straight from Siberia that cuts through you
rather than go round. Love every inch! Including the four and a half
miles of ankle deep North Sea as you wade out at low tides off the beech
at Theddlethorpe!
Or the mountains of the Highlands with their wild weather and wilder
sheep, the cliffs of Northumbria, the empty cold white beaches of Fife,
and the wild dark seas round the Hebrides... Hills and weather in
serious chunks! And coast.
I'm less enamoured of the pretty Kent countryside with the 3000 years of
civilization colouring the landscape and the tame closeness of the horizon.
I love the coast. I have it and the hills in my blood. I don't see it
often enough, though where we are there is coast of a sort (well, Themes
estury, anyway) only about four miles away.
When she was little (and I was a baby), the family lived for a while in
a place called Sutton On Sea, and Big Sis loved nothing more than
running along the top of the sea wall, dad hanging on to the kiddy reins
for dear life, and being blown off into his arms! I suppose she was
about two years old.
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Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.katedicey.co.uk
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>and a middle school graduation along with birthdays. DH hasn't seen 6 of
>them. (I took care of DGD in May in CA.) Right now we are 550 miles from
>most.
> --
> Mary
> http://community.webshots.com/user/mardor1948?vhost=community
>> this is why we're not in NM already. I'd love to move there-Albuquerque
>> south to the border-not the northern part. But DS and family are in MI,
>> a 3 hr. drive from here. Both grand kids cried when I said I'd like to
>> move to NM-they'd never get to see us. That did it-we're staying here
>> (at least for now). We're close enough to get up there for all the
>> important events, but far away enough not to have to sit through all the
>> sports and games.
>> Gen
>