tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66861813329216692962024-03-05T16:00:31.949-08:00Things That Make...Life Worth LivingAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245871047411451665noreply@blogger.comBlogger98125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6686181332921669296.post-61072609485991006402016-03-26T10:15:00.001-07:002016-03-26T10:15:01.463-07:00Of course I haven't forgot about you! <br />
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It's just been an interesting time of late, some great (new grandchildren!), some not so great (metastasis, boooo). I've been doing lots of other things, but hopefully can get back to this adventure one of these days.<br />
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Stay tuned!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245871047411451665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6686181332921669296.post-39686412784833446212014-08-23T08:10:00.000-07:002014-08-23T08:10:11.087-07:00It's Doctor Who Weekend!I'm not a Doctor Who fan, myself, but my daughters are, boyhowdy. They've paid an unknown number of pounds to be able to stream the BBC so they can watch the new episodes of DW in real time, and today's the day for the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p023w9fy" target="_blank">season opener</a>--or whatever they call it over there in the UK. A new Doctor. Friends are visiting, DW food is being served, and watching will commence. More than once I expect.<br />
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Whenever they watch an old show my eldest keeps saying "Mom, you'll like this, watch it!" She doesn't get that I'm not interested in watching TV. I'd rather do any other number of things than that most of the time. So I'll be doing something else.<br />
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I'll be watching them with fond amusement, however. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245871047411451665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6686181332921669296.post-24915234113999496052014-08-10T19:01:00.002-07:002014-08-10T19:01:39.626-07:00So, Long, Summer 2014This is the last day of my summer holidays. Granted, they mostly sucked, but I'm still not even close to ready to go back to school tomorrow. I need a few more weeks, but the calendar waits for no-one. <br />
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Fingers crossed for good classes and a successful year!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245871047411451665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6686181332921669296.post-61594445503864726912014-08-10T14:58:00.003-07:002014-08-10T15:03:08.604-07:00Summer, 1957<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We are still unloading boxes and boxes and boxes, but this photo jumped out at me from one of them and I had to immediately scan it and put it on Facebook so my aunt could see it. This is my dad's youngest sister, aged 13. I know this because I was maybe 9 months old here and I was born on her thirteenth birthday, and I hope I may be forgiven for thinking she's just the most adorable teenager ever. I'm rather fond of my aunt.<br />
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Anyway, this morning we woke up to the unhappy discovery that the washer connection had leaked and water had seeped under the laminate in the hall and flowed freely into the one bedroom that we hadn't pulled the carpet out of yet. Water and laminate are not good friends (although boy howdy does it wick water like a champ), and it was ruined halfway down the hall, so Emily pulled it all out while Elizabeth and I pulled more boxes out of the POD and tried unsuccessfully to put.stuff.somewhere. To pull up the ruined laminate Emily had to also pull up the baseboards, which were ugly and cheap anyway, and would have been taken out soon regardless (just not <i>this</i> soon). She found that the drywall was not in good shape under the baseboards, and they'd just covered up holes with impunity (instead of actual, you know...patches). So we've got to repair the drywall, decide what to do with the floor (concrete), and redo everything from the ground up. <br />
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We also pulled the carpet out of the last bedroom and put it out in the sun, once it's dry it'll join the rest at the Habit for Humanity Re-Store, as it's new and there's no reason for it not be used by someone who actually likes carpet. Emily is at this very moment pounding away at the nail boards. A friend is puttering about the mess that is the sprinkler system, as there's nothing that man likes better than a puzzle having to do with electronics. And I'm back to work tomorrow morning.<br />
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Quite a mess for only a week and a half of being here, isn't it?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245871047411451665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6686181332921669296.post-10969118549744549482014-08-06T11:41:00.001-07:002014-08-06T11:42:12.637-07:00Lots o' Work AheadWe finally got the keys on Thursday last week and have been trying very hard to create order out of chaos ever since. <span id="goog_956274856"></span><br />
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Next time you move, I highly recommend ordering up <a href="https://www.pods.com/" target="_blank">PODS</a> for your move. They drop the POD off in front of your house, you fill it up with your belongings, then they either come and take it to the new place or put into storage until you're ready for it. Expensive, but much more convenient than putting things in storage because there's a month gap between the old place and the new place as there was for me. </div>
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We filled up two of the big ones and still had things left over. Ugh. This is the first one, that was delivered on Saturday to the new house. We emptied it into the house/garage (mostly garage), and will be spending the next few days assimilating the goods into the much smaller new house. The second one will be delivered Friday.</div>
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But before any assimilating, we needed to get a few essential chores done. The people who flipped the house didn't do all that good a job, slapping paint seemingly randomly and not cleaning anything. </div>
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First up: Removing carpet. It's new carpet, newly laid, but I really really hate carpet, so out it is going. </div>
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Before we could start using the garage as a staging area, we had to clean and clear out the battered cabinets that are in there now. They were filled with cans of paint--full, partially full, and these, which are empty. Not only that, but all three bins were filled with construction debris, so we needed to empty the recycling and yard waste bins before we used them for what they are supposed to be used for. A trip to the dump is in our immediate future.</div>
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This is just a start. We're all tired of it, but perhaps nobody is quite as knackered as the dog:</div>
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<span id="goog_956274855"></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245871047411451665noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6686181332921669296.post-72902035351518104272014-07-29T13:36:00.001-07:002014-07-29T13:36:54.202-07:00Still waiting...This whole house-buying thing has taken longer than it should and cost much more money than it should. I had budgeted to have some moolah to get started on a few things as soon as we moved in before school started, but by the time we get the keys--hopefully Thursday--and get things moved from storage--hopefully this weekend--and get things put where they will go for the time being--over the next couple of weeks--it will be time to go back to work, and with all this extra stuff I've had to pay for I'm tapped out. <br />
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I say "hopefully," because we've been told for the last two months that it'll be end of the week, beginning of next week, just a few days, by Tuesday, FOR THE LAST SIX WEEKS.<br />
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I expect it will all be worth it in the end, but at the moment, I'm about ready to start living in my car.<br />
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How I feel:<br />
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Well, after years of waiting and weeks of anxiety whether I'd get it or not, it seems to be mine. Mine, I tell you, mine!<br />
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Well, mine and the bank's. God willing I'm around in 30 years and hale and hearty enough to enjoy owing it outright. <br />
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I expect--and hope--to see photos of how we change it from being mine to being <i>mine</i>. <br />
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Here are a few photos of a walkthrough we did several weeks ago so we can keep track of how it slowly gets (hopefully) transformed.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the front room, which is rather small, and I could do without the fireplace, actually. I doubt I'll use it, but it's there. This room will probably be my studio/office.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is from the dining area (kitchen is on right, back door is on left) looking into the hall and two of the bedrooms. I'm not all that stoked by the tile--which has been poorly laid in any event--and what we'd really like to do is strip everything down to bare concrete and stain it gloriously. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The kitchen has been totally redone, and although the backsplash hasn't been well grouted, that's easy to remedy and is at the top of the to-do list. Appliances are all new, and while I wouldn't have chosen black, it is what is. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Trying to decide where to put what, although we know that it'll take a bit of shifting to put 2300 sf of stuff into a much smaller 1300 sf house. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the master bedroom closet. It's big, but there's nothing there but an unsupported shelf. This will be hopefully transformed soon, and my cousin Cat has promised to advise, as she has just done her about-to-be-born son's closet in their house. I did say I'd let her give birth first, which I think is quite generous of me!<br />
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The carpet--all of the carpet will be removed as soon as we get the keys. Hopefully Habitat for Humanity can use it, because I'd almost rather live on decomposed granite than carpet. <br />
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Okay, not even almost.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is from the passthrough that leads to the hallway, showing the kitchen, the "dining" area, and the poorly-laid tile. the bright spot to the right is from a sliding door to the back yard.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The kitchen in my previous house was so delightfully huge, airy, and full of counter, cupboard, and drawer space that I have become dreadfully spoiled. There is no place in this kitchen area for my fantastic butcher block island, which distresses me, but I'll figure it out, and I'll deal. No ingratitude here, lemme tell ya.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here's a corner of the back yard. Eventually it will be mostly raised beds, although there is a lot of shade that might cause my gardening hopes to be a bit more difficult. The back wall is a sound wall that is on a not very busy street, so only two neighbors who both have woof-woof dogs. I like neighbors with dogs, because dogs bark when someone who is not supposed to be there comes around. Emily has a dog who does that too, but she's not as big as these dogs sound.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eventually we hope to have hops growing on this arbor-ish thing. The paint is badly peeling, though, so we'll need to do that soon, hopefully before winter. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So very much to do, but hopefully I'll have plenty of time to do it. Now all I need is the money!<br />
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Yes, I look very tired. It's been a long summer, band not in the good way.</td></tr>
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I can't wait to get the keys and start moving in! This has been a very difficult summer, but it'll be worth it once we can settle into a house that does not belong to someone else. We can paint, pull carpet up, remove shower doors, install pet doors, tear out grass, build raised beds, <i>whatever we want</i>. It's <i>mine</i>.<br />
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Glory.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245871047411451665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6686181332921669296.post-18091219333399873062014-07-09T21:24:00.001-07:002014-07-09T21:59:25.302-07:00Modern medicine wins again...This morning I had a tumor taken out of my neck for the fifth time, and again I'm singing the Kaiser praises:<br />
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Checked in at 7:30 for pre-op, headed into the OR around 9, was back in post-op and waking up by 10:15, dismissed at 11:30, stopped by Denny's for a quick lunch, then home in bed by about 1.<br />
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Death to Cancer!<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245871047411451665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6686181332921669296.post-73015772115758588132014-07-06T09:50:00.003-07:002014-07-06T12:11:29.796-07:00Best Newcastle Ad Ever<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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There's a series of them, each funnier than the last. Do <a href="http://www.ifwewon.com/?verified=true" target="_blank">watch</a>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245871047411451665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6686181332921669296.post-59205980290053142802014-07-05T13:14:00.000-07:002014-07-05T13:14:54.188-07:00Best Guinness Advertisement Ever<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Every year, we watch it on Independence Day. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245871047411451665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6686181332921669296.post-23457635726858582992014-07-02T10:59:00.002-07:002014-07-02T10:59:22.698-07:00We are in the middle of moving......for the second time in a year. It's been a year.<br />
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See y'all on the other side!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245871047411451665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6686181332921669296.post-3752020363995553682013-06-07T07:28:00.001-07:002013-06-07T07:29:01.435-07:00Summer School 2013So, I'm doing summer school again this year, but it's not nearly as fun as last year because I'm not going anywhere fun in July like I did last year. I'm moving instead. Woe. <br />
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Anyway, it's a living. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245871047411451665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6686181332921669296.post-13346102797454656202013-05-02T14:14:00.001-07:002013-05-02T14:16:15.233-07:00Costume College!<a href="http://www.costumecollege.net/index.html" target="_blank">Costume College</a> happens every summer down in SoCal and I've been drooling to go ever since I heard about it. for some reason I thought it was hugely expensive, and was surprised to find--once I actually checked--that it's not, at all. So I sent my check and got the packet in the mail today. I plan to peruse it in the car on the way down to Load for Ravenswood. Can't wait.<br />
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Costume College, here I come!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245871047411451665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6686181332921669296.post-60224971472174920852013-04-29T16:30:00.000-07:002013-04-29T16:32:07.754-07:00One Way Trip to Mars?I read<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/04/dying-in-space-an-american-dream/275345/" target="_blank"> this </a>article from the Atlantic today, and it made me think a bit. The question is whether you'd volunteer for a space mission if you knew you wouldn't be coming back. As in, you'd die there, never to return to Earth.<br />
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If you are at least 18 years of age and curious and capable and resourceful, with a capacity for self-reflection, an ability to trust other people, and a deep sense of purpose, then <a href="http://applicants.mars-one.com/" style="color: #00598c; text-decoration: none;">you can to go to Mars</a>. Maybe. The <a href="http://mars-one.com/en/about-mars-one/about-mars-one" style="color: #00598c; text-decoration: none;">Mars One</a> project, which is planning to send a group of people to colonize the Red Planet, has officially <a href="http://applicants.mars-one.com/" style="color: #00598c; text-decoration: none;">opened its applications process to public voting</a>. If you are one of the people ultimately selected for the program, if all goes according to plan, you will depart Earth in 2023 to follow in the epic footsteps of Magellan and Gagarin and Armstrong, staking a claim for humanity's extension into a new and unknown world.</blockquote>
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I'll leave it to you to figure out where we were over the Easter holidays...more later. :)</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245871047411451665noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6686181332921669296.post-31751837026459435882012-08-11T13:06:00.000-07:002012-08-11T13:06:48.516-07:00So it's Ryan......I can live with that.<br />
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Good luck to our beleaguered republic!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245871047411451665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6686181332921669296.post-81243119171450473382012-08-10T20:28:00.000-07:002012-08-10T20:28:31.179-07:002012 Sacramento Color Run<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Here's Elizabeth in her white getup. The point of the color run is to come dressed in as much white as you can so that you can be coated with color by the end of the race. <br />
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The much less hated ruffle, and no, there were not 90k people in the race, only about 15k, but that was a lot. <br />
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When you pick up your bib and t-shirt you also get this packet of color--in this case blue. What it basically is is colored cornstarch, and as you go through the various color stations along the 5 k race they have volunteers pummeling you with the colored powder. But not this bag, it's for the end when you get in a big crowd and everyone throws their powder into the air. <br />
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This was the before, while we were waiting for our friend Sharyn who was also braving the color. <br />
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We also got temp tattoos. Mine's finally starting to fade after a week, alas!<br />
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Here's the start, looking towards the Tower Bridge. We were going to a bridal shower for my niece after the race (although I use the term loosely, as we lollygagged and enjoyed the experience), so we got up near the front to be in the first wave. <br />
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This is what it looked like looking back towards the Capitol. The crowd stretched all the way down the street, and they let us go in groups of about 1500 every five minutes. We wanted to be in the front so that we could get to the shower in time.<br />
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Above is Sharyn and Elizabeth approaching the 1km mark and the first color. We were among the first, so the air wasn't as yellow as I'm sure as it was later on, as you can see below with the blue. <br />
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Here are Sharyn and Elizabeth running the yellow gauntlet. The volunteers were very enthusiastic. Elizabeth, as you can see, got into it. :)<br />
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Sharyn after the yellow. <br />
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I was having fun, can you tell? But you ain't seen nothing yet, check out the blue below:<br />
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Sharyn getting her blue on, and as you can see, the volunteers were literally COVERED in powder. It was in these big squeeze bottles that they'd squirt power from on you as you came by, and the closer you were to them the more they'd put on you. <br />
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By the time we got to blue the ground was thick with the powder...<br />
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...and so was the air. And so were my teeth, only it was brown after you got a few colors going. Ewww. <br />
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Color!<br />
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Elizabeth's phone will never be the same!<br />
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At the end when they have everyone throw their bags of color up in the air? You get it all again, as you can see by my hand. <br />
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My hat is still blue. <br />
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Sharyn's color run t-shirt with...COLOR.<br />
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I was covered. <br />
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So was Elizabeth. We took a shower before the shower. <br />
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Anyway, if you ever get the chance to do it, I highly recommend it. We really had fun, as you can probably tell.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245871047411451665noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6686181332921669296.post-34591440661054757292012-08-10T18:57:00.000-07:002012-08-10T19:30:43.549-07:00Some of England, Part 2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Yeah, no part 1, really, but there's a good reason for that, namely, that most of the photos I took are on Emily's computer in Yorkshire. I planned to put them all on my thumb drive and bring them all home that way, but did I remember? I did not. So here's a teaser of a couple weeks worth of England. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What university? Why, the University of Hull. Like it says right there, duh.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We toured the library, because she spends a lot of time there (later on in the month we spent all day there, in fact, she working on her thesis (which they call a dissertation) and me on my iPad playing around. Mark was at work.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We also just like libraries. This one has old books just hanging about in the stacks that you'd only find behind walls in the US. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Every floor has these great windows on all four sides. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">When we were there.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Guess what Emily is doing there?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My first UK Cache!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This always made me laugh because it sounds like a hooker's come-on.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pizza Hut Pizza.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Emily and Mark's new house number in Filey.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Emily and Mark's new street in Filey.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We went with Mark's folks to Stratford. Yes, Stratford, birthplace of...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">William Shakespeare, of course!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A gaggle of Guntons in Stratford. They kept paying for things, which made me go grrrrr, but it was so very nice of them. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In the room that illustrated Shakespeare's father's trade, glovemaking. This guy was hilarious. Lots of tourists here, naturally.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking out the window of Shakespeare's birthplace. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Not a real goose. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beloveds.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Redcurrants in Shakespeare's back yard! Errrr...Garden. Whatever.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dang it was tasty. Yeah, I know, what if everyone ate a redcurrant when they visited Shakespeare's birthplace where would we be? <br />
There wouldn't have been any for me, that's all. :)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We stopped for Fish and Chips at a place the senior Guntons recommended, and it was very nice.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another old building, delightfully out of plumb.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The floor of Shakespeare's church and my croc-clad feet. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There was an actual dig going on, which was fun to see. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My beloveds in Shakespeare's garden.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We saw a lot of fantastic old cemeteries, this one in Stratford, right on the Avon river.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I learned a bit about Mason's marks after visiting Beverly Minster, although this one was also in Stratford. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A lock. I don't remember offhand how old it is, but it's part of a huge network of canals in England. Nearby there was a sign telling how many days it took to get to various cities in England. Sounds like a great kayaking trip to me. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The next day we went to the Black Country Museum, which was a fantastic open air museum outside Birmingham. In the middle of the country and where the industrial revolution happened like nowhere else, the Black Country Museum is much like the Gamle Oslo and Kristiansand we visited in Norway. There were a lot of steam engines, all run by coal. Fascinating.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yeah, more beloveds. So sue me. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We put on hard hats and went down into a simulated mine. We couldn't take photos because of the darkness, but it was a lot of fun.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We saw lots of coal. You don't see much coal in these parts (that being California, which is where I am as I write this) because this part of the continent wasn't around in the carboniferous, but it's all over England. It's what fueled the industrial revolution and it's what made the Black Country black. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Coal. Mark's dad nicked a piece for me, but shhhh. Don't tell. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We stopped for some beer. Fortunately for me, Diet Coke is all the heck over England. Whew! That bullet dodged. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This man was making chain, link by link by link. Fascinating!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My beloveds and me. <3</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We went to dinner at what they call a Carvery, which is as close to a Hometown Buffet-style buffet as I saw there. It was quite good, and these boys were on a shelf near our table. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Paul and Colette's hospitable home with the awesome bright yellow garage door. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mark and Emily's car, Ticker. We spent a lot of time in Ticker and he safely took us many miles across and up and down England, including...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stonehenge! Mark's dad had told us he wasn't all that impressed with Stonehenge, it's just a pile of rocks, but we LOVED it. It was raining and downright cold (remember, this is July), but we could have stayed HOURS at Stonehenge. Next time I go I want to know far enough in advance to get the special tickets that allow you go actually go among the stones. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is something I've wanted all my life to see, and now I've seen it. Awesome. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Since Mark and Emily ended up having to move during this trip, we took advantage of being fairly south to head off to Battle to see where Harold met his doom at the Battle of Hastings. We closed the place down and didn't get to see everything to our satisfaction, so we'll have to go back. Plus, we were close to Stoaty but didn't have time to visit, which annoyed all of us. We'd hoped to go back down there, but the move prevented us from having time. We'll be back, Harold!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The buildings on the ridge are the ruins (and some not ruined buildings, including a school) of Battle Abbey, which William was basically forced to build as penance for the deaths that happened there. The Abbey is on the hill where the English troops were assembled, where I'm standing is where William marshaled his forces. All these English Heritage sites have extremely good interpretive facilities, which made our visits to those places much more informative and enjoyable. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It was wet and cold down here too, not too far from the English Channel, which we didn't have time to go see. Curses. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Outside battle Abbey gates. Battle has a scarecrow contest every year, and this year the theme was the olympics. We wandered around the square a bit then had dinner in Battle before we undertook the 3+ trip home. Kudos to Emily who did ALL the driving. I wasn't even tempted and Mark still doesn't have his license. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jumping in time a bit, here is Mark taking one of my bags to the car for the trip to Manchester for me to go home. I had a great time and hated to leave, but do you know that they don't pay you if you don't go to work? Rats. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My flight from Manchester to Dulles, which I was not allowed to board until a TSA agent (yes, in England) felt me up a bit. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is what I stared at the whole time I was flying across Ireland (which I never even saw because it was TOTALLY covered in clouds as far as the eye could see) and an equally cloudy north Atlantic. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And home to Elk Grove, where Elizabeth and I went out for a proper burger. Except that I think I ended up eating eggs. </td></tr>
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I'll try to do more when I get the rest of the photos, but for now, school starts next week and that's taking all my time at the moment. Cheers!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245871047411451665noreply@blogger.com0England, UK52.3555177 -1.174319747.3911802 -11.2817417 57.3198552 8.9331023tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6686181332921669296.post-33602554314994732082012-07-25T05:12:00.001-07:002012-07-25T05:12:37.564-07:00Oh, Lord, Stuck in Hull AgainStill here in England after a short jaunt up to Oslo to see the kids there. We've not done as much as we've hoped due to Emily having to unexpectedly produce on her thesis, Mark's been working, and they're moving about an hour north to a small resort town named Filey. But when I get home to the desktop I'll be able to post more info and photos.<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245871047411451665noreply@blogger.com0Hull College, Wilberforce Dr, Hull, Kingston upon Hull HU1 3DG, UK53.7461805 -0.333413653.7367905 -0.3531546 53.755570500000005 -0.31367259999999997tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6686181332921669296.post-62805303798665586322012-07-05T13:57:00.007-07:002012-07-05T13:57:53.950-07:00Three Days in England,<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
So far, anyway. I've posted a bunch of photos on facebook, but here's some for the blog too:<br />
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I've been up since 4 AM Pacific time yesterday and am about to hit the sack here in England, but before I do I'm posting a photo that Mark took of Emily and me in the Manchester airport when I first arrived:<br />
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Why do I hate ruffles? Because they're a pain. You take a strip of fabric something like this:<br />
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And by dint of much perseverance, turn it into a loooong (in this case) ruffle. First, you have to sew the gathering stitches, then you have to gather it. No photos of that, sorry, but it's pretty boring, so really...I spared you. </div>
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This was not from a pattern, I was pretty much just making it up as I went along. Why I decided to put a ruffle on it is beyond me, because--in case I didn't mention it--ruffles are a chore and a half when you start from stratch (see the first photo) as I did. </div>
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With a normal pattern, there are marks on the ruffle that match up with marks on the garment, so you more or less know how much gathering you need to do to make the ruffle be the length it needs to be to fit the garment. I marked the...middle. And gathered it on either side of the middle, hoping for the best, length-wise. </div>
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Once you get it more or less the right length, you start pinning it to the garment, and this is where it's really a pain. </div>
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If you don't pin it close enough it's going to be a beast to sew without catching the ruffle in the seam in places you don't want to catch the ruffle.</div>
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So you pin and pin and pin and pin, in this case nearly 100 inches of ruffle. <br />
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Finally, after two or three days of pinning, it's time to put it in the machine and try to sew it without catching the loose end of the ruffle in the seam. You actually have to be careful and watch where you are sewing. Sew sew sew...all nearly 100 inches, which doesn't seem like much until you're putting a ruffle on it, trust me. </div>
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At last! To the end of the seam. Well...almost. Usually when I'm making something I'm uber careful to get it right and not sew anything wrong and to make it as nice on the inside as I can. Not this skirt, you know why? I'LL PROBABLY ONLY WEAR IT ONCE. </div>
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Yes, you heard me right, once. My darling daughter has signed us up for <a href="http://thecolorrun.com/sacramento/">this race, the Color Run</a>. It sounds like a blast and I'm really looking forward to it, but to really get into the race you need to wear all white. So I had to make us white running (or, in my case, walking) skirts and white compression shorts for under. As I was making hers, I foolishly thought that they'd be kind of kicky and cute if I put a ruffle on them, and instead of going over to Joann's and buying pre-gathered ruffle, I made mine from scratch. Oooof.</div>
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Anyway, while usually I go to more trouble to make things pretty and perfect, in this case I just tucked the seam allowance to one side and topstitched it. Good enough, right?</div>
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Finally, I was done with the ruffle, and at this point, I hated it a little less.<br />
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Then it was only a matter of putting on a quick and dirty waistband and topstitching that (don't look at the wrong side of the fabric, please!)...<br />
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Look at how nice those holes up there look! I love these plastic snaps!<br />
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And as an aside, here's a photo of the jammies I made for my son's three nephews in Oslo. Cute!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Left to right, for William (three in September), as yet unborn baby Dertz, and Peter, born in April. </td></tr>
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W is for Villiam. </div>
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I leave for England on Monday morning, so you might not hear from me again until then. See you on the other side of the pond!</div>
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