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[DirtDiva]

Your daughter's lucky, Deb. My old bike was covered by a plastic sheet held down with bricks!

Is 6 o'clock too early to go to bed? I'm stuffed.

[KnottedYet]

Just now took the dog out for a run and showered and got dressed. And it's LUNCH TIME. I want a nap.

Holiday weekends by myself are faaaaaar too lazy!

[Bikingmomof3]

I love lazy weekends. It is warm and dreary here. I am about to have a late lunch and a nap sounds very nice. Dinner is in the crockpot and the house is back to it's pre-Christmas state. All is well.

[Kitsune06]

Jen- Just because.

X- Thanks, much. PITA.

CWR- Hope your weekend's going okay- don't go postal...

Life is good; So good.

from Edwin- "Alive"
...ain't it good to be alive; to feel the sun strong against your face; strawberry blond waves of silky hair spills over me like the milky way
ain't it good to be alive....
ain't it good to breathe the air; another spin around the sun; on this speck of light in the universe; a little peace of love in everyone

just found a CD my DOL made for me awhile ago... this is the 1st song on it, and it feels good today.

[maillotpois]

hi TD. I haven't been around much. first our power was off for 3 days after big windstorm and now our cable/internet and phones still aren't working.

we finally broke down and got a generator. we're in a redwood forest and trees are always knocking down power lines, so we'll be out of power a week a year.

sounds like everyone is having fun or hanging in there. sals, what's up w/ the contractors?? bmo3 sorry about the migraines. that just stinks. I am "typing" on my treo since we don't have cable, so it's hard to catch up on all the posts.

I did a 50 mile ride today - my fourth ride since coming off the meds. I am super slow on hills because the dr. wants my HR below a certain #, but I actually felt good. now I am relaxing w/60 pound lab on my lap.

happy almost new year TD!!

[salsabike]

hi TD. I haven't been around much. first our power was off for 3 days after big windstorm and now our cable/internet and phones still aren't working.

we finally broke down and got a generator. we're in a redwood forest and trees are always knocking down power lines, so we'll be out of power a week a year.

sounds like everyone is having fun or hanging in there. sals, what's up w/ the contractors?? bmo3 sorry about the migraines. that just stinks. I am "typing" on my treo since we don't have cable, so it's hard to catch up on all the posts.

I did a 50 mile ride today - my fourth ride since coming off the meds. I am super slow on hills because the dr. wants my HR below a certain #, but I actually felt good. now I am relaxing w/60 pound lab on my lap.

happy almost new year TD!!

HA!!! Your FOURTH ride. That is so cool. I'm sure the Lab is helping keep your HR down, too.

The contractor does good work but does not communicate at all. So we keep getting surprised by delays that we would otherwise have been able to prep for, or by coming home to conditions that aren't quite livable. Arrrr. For example. The drywallers were supposed to do their thing the week before Christmas, when I was with Mom in Albany, Chris was on a work related boat trip, and cats were boarded. Chris got home Friday night the 22nd to find that the drywallers had just started, the house was not livable (and really, you can't live there during the whole drywall process--which is taking a couple of weeks, actually), and we had nowhere to board the cats for a few days because the boarding place was booked for Christmas and we hadn't thought we'd NEED to keep boarding them. So Chris went to a hotel that took cats. And our cats are OLD and have medical needs--shots, subq fluid, etc. The contractor knew all this. I flew home on Christmas Day with several flight cancellations and lost luggage (retrieved two days later). We're now back in the hotel by Paine Field watching Boeing fly its planes around, and will be here through next Thursday (or longer, of course). Cats are back at boarding place now that the Christmas cat rush is over. Anyway, the point of all that is if the contractor WOULD JUST CALL US, we could plan for such stuff, but he never does, no matter how many times we're ranted at him about it. The work will be excellent but I would not hire him again because this lack of communication makes it all so much harder than it needs to be. We've managed to dock him some of his profit for not calling to move deadlines, so that makes me feel better (but I'd rather not have to do it in the first place). Oh well. As Trek420 says, they never call, they never write...we just want it to be done, already.

Watching the Boeing planes take off over our hotel room is fun. I'll take all the OT I can get at this point...and the house will be so cool when it's done. And how fun to hear you've done four rides already. I love that.

[Nanci]

Hey, MP, glad to hear you're up to 50 miles!

Salsa, I have a present for you. I printed this out and hung it in my kitchen in a frame that used to have a pic of DD, four years old, at Sanibel Island. She's been replaced!

Today I caulked up all the windows on the north side of the house- now I need a big rain storm to test them out.

Next Saturday is a 200k ride, and the weather looks WARM!!

Nanci

[maillotpois]

bummer salsa! well, it WILL be wonderful when it's done and well worth the hassle I am sure. good that they didn't permanently lose your luggage!!

[crazycanuck]

Knot-do you mind me asking if there's a way to send your brother a card? I'm not sure if you can tell us where he's stationed in Iraq for sec reasons but wherever he is, i'll keep him in me thoughts.

Did any of you ladies get to see Gerald Ford lying in state? Is it a big event in the US or has it been overshadowed by the many other interesting events in the world?

MP-give your doggie a hug.

Nanci-where have you been dear?

c

[mimitabby]

hi td GALS
I just got back from a 32.4 mile ride in 34 - 40 degree sunny (sort of) oregon.
getting caught up on your conversation here and i heartily approve of all your sentiments, not that anyone needs my approval.
I rode my bianchi and although i was usually last, i was not so far behind to be a burden to the rest of the riders.
next we are supposed to go shopping, but no one else has appeared here in the lobby.
MP i didnt know you guys were having windstorms too! what a season we're having!

oh, and throat singing? Tibetan monks do it. they make one noise with their throats and another with their mouths. it's very strange. i think the noise also is happening on both the inhale and the exhale. My son has always been the master of making annoying noises, you should hear the noises he can make with his french horn. i'm so glad he doesnt play drums!
well, i guess i need to find where the shoppers went!