It's October!

[rhb1]

Nooooo!  I am not read for Fall.  Alright, it can get cooler and rain occasionally.  Hear that Mother Nature..... occasionally.  LOL

I hope all who visit are having a good day.... week.... and..... yes a good month.

[lynn]

thank you for starting a new thread for this month, Richard!  and on the very first day, too!

like you, i'm not ready for fall.  but then i would never be "ready" because it means plant life is dying off for winter, and cold and all that icky stuff.  not like we have a choice, tho'....

rain here all day, mostly "spitting" but the forecast says maybe t'storms overnite.  maybe. more rain tomorrow.  today's high was 65º, that may be coolest so far (since summer) but definitely not time to turn the heat on yet. 

[thallygal]

It is another glorious day in prineville. Star is resting and I am getting ready to paint the town red. Am going to run to the little convince store and get a pop for Star and then to a meeting. Quiet downtime is so very good for me. Only trouble is...time goes way too fast. Hope all are having a terrific Tuesday ,filled with love and laughter

[lynn]

oh, Thalia, thank you for stopping in.  yes, isn't it amazing how fast the good times pass, but the rough times seem to drag on for EVER....  still, i'm thrilled that you're having such a grand time....

tuesday here was very like monday -- cool, gray, rain, fog -- but my conference calls were different, so i guess that's something!  with my new&expanded assignments, the first week of each month turns out to be brutal, the next two weeks are medium, and the last 2 (if there's a 5th week) are full of days when i can catch up on all the detail stuff (aka, "have to invent things to do").

my biological daughter chose sunday to unload 20 years of resentments on me.  and then, when (after an hour) i said that i needed to halt, that we could resume another time but i was at my wit's end, she demanded that i not "shut down" on her, and then she hung up on me and hasn't responded to my peace-making email asking for a week or more reprieve, if only so i could call her Thursday and wish her Happy B'day w/o risking more of the same.  i'm heartbroken but at the same time, i'm amazed to find that i'm pretty much at peace with my actions and her reactions, just sad that her terms for "relationship" seem to be that i must be who she wants me to be, instead of who i am.  maybe in another 5-10 years she'll grow enuf to comprehend that, but if it takes a whole lot longer, well, no one of my ancestors has survived past 80 so she may get stuck resolving it all by herself.  today, i don't much care, but that too will likely shift over time.

have i mentioned lately that i'm grateful for my online friends, where life just seems far easier?  thank you all!

[Ruby Red Crystal]

Morning all....crazy, busy schedule right now. Between work and play practice, throw in a little memorizing of lines there doesn't seem to be much time for anything else. Plus I need to figure out costumes. I woke at 5:30 this morning and decided I should study lines and now I am already tired. 

Sorry to hear about your troubles Lynn, sounds like she needs to look into herself and figure it out instead of blaming you. But we all know that is easier to say here than to expect someone to do for themselves. 

Hugs to Thally and Richard too...hope all is well with everyone. 

[lynn]

thanks for stopping in, RRC!  i hope your new play comes off smashingly!  but it's tough to be that exhausted at the mid-week mark, for sure!

thanks for your support.  i hope this is something daughter just needs to move through, to keep on going, but her silence since sunday does not bode well.  time will tell.  i feel peaceful about my own choices, and that's come as a welcome surprise!

[rhb1]

Thanks for the hug Crystal!  Here is a ((((HUG)))) back to you.  Good luck with the play, not that you need any, you will do well I know.

[rhb1]

Where has the week gone?  I can't believe tomorrow is Friday already.  The power has been out in the 'hood' for the last couple hours so I can't work or find out how much work was lost and not saved.  They say it will be another 2.5 hours yet.  That is until the next update.  LOL  I have another hour of life left in my laptop.  Maybe this is a good time (and excuse) for a nap.  Awww shucks, the power just came back on.  I just might nap anyway.

I am charging off to start charging batteries.

[lynn]

glad you got power back, Richard!  i hope you didn't lose much of your work effort!

thank you for stopping in with some of the precious battery power you were saving!

[lynn]

friday's here again.  thank you ALL for hanging around!

i heard from an old boyfriend today, he'll be passing thru Staunton early next week, and will call to meet up for lunch.  i've found that old lovers make great friends, this guy and i went around twice but couldn't manage to stay together...still, it will be good to see & hug him, and catch up on kids and grands and work and retirement and what's happened in life over the past 10 years.  since postal mail addresses have changed multiple times for both of us, i'm glad email remains stable!

Thalia, if you're not home by now, you'll be there soon.  i hope you were able to navigate/negotiate an interview w/ Kaiser while you were there, but yeah, i know that's not as simple as it sounds.

[rhb1]

I haven't heard a whimper from Thalia since she last posted.  She had many friends and relatives to visit along the Oregon coast while she was there.  So I suspect she has been pretty busy.  Maybe she quickly ran home to pack and move back to Oregon.  :)))

[rhb1]

How can it be Sunday already?  Good day all!!!  I took the pups to the groomers yesterday.  It is a few blocks down the street.  They pranced home looking good.  I work worked while the bamboo guy dug up the last of it and hauled it away.   Sharon attended a 3 hour beading class.  Today promises to be more relaxing with a trip to a local nursery to look at magnolia treelets.

[lynn]

apparently i neglected to stop in here, yesterday.  my bad.

Thalia posted a gorgeous beach pic on FB yesterday, so she's alive and well,but prob'ly dreading leaving....

i bet the doggies were proud of their gorgeous selves, walking home! 

eliminating bamboo is a PITB, for sure.  glad you could hire that worst part done, at least.  as for planting magnolias?  really?  will they grow in that part of the country?  i know you don't get killing frosts that would hurt them but it doesn't see to be warm enuf, since they're truly a tropical plant.  but hey, it's worth a try, and their blossoms are spectacular to see as well as to sniff!  good luck with it!

there's a singles dance tonite, up in the county seat, maybe 10 miles from here.  i was going even if i needed to go alone, but turns out, one of my pool buddies wants to meet me there, so that'll be good.  it's billed "for mature singles" and when i'd called last month, apparently the youngest are mid-40s, and ages well past mine.  since it begins at 6 and ends at 9, i was pretty sure it wouldn't be young'uns, since they don't even begin getting ready, nowadays, 'til 10 or 11, if they're going out!

cool and misty here, today, possible frost tonite.  i'm glad i brought the ficus tree inside, yesterday!

hope everyone has some fun today!