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Oct. 19th, 2010 05:47 pmNearby the place I went hiking last weekend is the Kunzang Palyul Choling temple. I'm sorry I didn't know about this when Mum was around; it would have been one more thing that *might* have persuaded her to come visit DC (IIRC, she and dad came to visit twice in the 20+ years I've lived here--once when Chris and I lived in Alexandria and once when we lived in Fairfax).
Among other attractions (a Peace Park and a Crystal Room--a room containing crystals, sadly, not one made of crystal), it has a rescue aviary. This would explain the incredibly strange noises I heard when I was walking behind the temple's grounds, which sounded like a creature that was half pig and half peacock being persuaded to do something against its better judgement. It was probably just a parrot saying "Yo, lookit me! I'm byoo-tee-full!" :-)
Among other attractions (a Peace Park and a Crystal Room--a room containing crystals, sadly, not one made of crystal), it has a rescue aviary. This would explain the incredibly strange noises I heard when I was walking behind the temple's grounds, which sounded like a creature that was half pig and half peacock being persuaded to do something against its better judgement. It was probably just a parrot saying "Yo, lookit me! I'm byoo-tee-full!" :-)
so much for that plan
Apr. 28th, 2010 12:16 pmI had conceived, at some point, the idea of posting a favourite poem each day during April, it being National Poetry Month. Obviously that hasn't happened, but I will try to post thirty all the same; same idea, just starting a bit late.
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Aug. 13th, 2009 09:32 amJust to let friends know who might be interested.
The memorial service for my parents is set 26 August at Grace–St. Paul's Episcopal Church, with awake PARTY (that's the way Mum wanted it) after.
The memorial service for my parents is set 26 August at Grace–St. Paul's Episcopal Church, with a
It's on the market!
And there have been at least a few nibbles right away...
I can't remember when it was last so clean. 1961, probably.
And there have been at least a few nibbles right away...
I can't remember when it was last so clean. 1961, probably.
Well, that odyssey is over.
Wednesday I went down to my mum's in Virginia to help her pack up her belongings and move to a senior housing community near my sister in New Jersey. It's quite a nice place (basically single-level duplex apartments in a quietly semi-rural setting), but it was going to be much smaller than the house she's been living in for 42 years.
In the end, after about a week of work and 700 miles of driving, she is there, moved in, comfortable (more or less--the trauma of moving house hasn't fully set in, but the place is even nicer than I remembered--*I'd* like to live there!, especially for less than $600/month), and with family (my sister, her family, and her large clan of in-laws) *very* nearby (about a mile, instead of the 175 miles that it took me to get to her old house).
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soccer_fox and gr_c17. I simply couldn't. They were invaluable in helping to pack the truck, drive the truck, and help keep my mum sane. Quite simply, above and beyond the call, and I need to do something very special to thank them.
More about the whole thin later, but right now I want to relax, rest,a nd get ready for the rest of the work week...
Wednesday I went down to my mum's in Virginia to help her pack up her belongings and move to a senior housing community near my sister in New Jersey. It's quite a nice place (basically single-level duplex apartments in a quietly semi-rural setting), but it was going to be much smaller than the house she's been living in for 42 years.
In the end, after about a week of work and 700 miles of driving, she is there, moved in, comfortable (more or less--the trauma of moving house hasn't fully set in, but the place is even nicer than I remembered--*I'd* like to live there!, especially for less than $600/month), and with family (my sister, her family, and her large clan of in-laws) *very* nearby (about a mile, instead of the 175 miles that it took me to get to her old house).
I couldn't have done it without
soccer_fox and gr_c17. I simply couldn't. They were invaluable in helping to pack the truck, drive the truck, and help keep my mum sane. Quite simply, above and beyond the call, and I need to do something very special to thank them.More about the whole thin later, but right now I want to relax, rest,a nd get ready for the rest of the work week...
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Oct. 16th, 2007 04:34 pmI'm glad that we had a chance to go down to my mother's last weekend, but I am also glad we have this weekend at home. NJS will be busy with schoolwork on Saturday, so I can catch up on some of my list of things to do before we go do soccer stuff (Sunday morning) and hang out with friends (Sunday afternoon/evening). ( more rumination follows )
Today's score at Highland Lane: One tub of spackling almost exhausted during the course of repairing one large and several minor bits of wall damage as well as patching innumerable nail holes. Two sections of carpeting (damaged by Nicholas) replaced. The guy who soccer_fox found to do the carpet work was on time, quick, and did good work; I would recommend him. Also five loads of paper brought up from the basement for recycling. Finally, eight loads of insulation board, beaverboard, shelving, piping, and other old junk brought up from the basement to the kerb for pickup by the Weee Haul Eeet Awwwl man tomorrow.
This in addition to the work thatsoccer_fox and I did at my mother's over the weekend, carting about half a dozen cartons of junk from my dad's study plus about fifty years' worth of Times Literary supplement (estimate: they filled up the back of a Volvo station wagon to the roof, and I know I saw some from the mid-1950s, which means that he *moved* them to Newport News!) And, of course, driving there and back in successive days, since N's WAWSL team ,the Vixens, had a match on Saturday morning (and a good thing she went, too, as she was their only sub!)
Exhausted! Time for a shower, a change of clothes, then in to work. Home after to unload bits and pieces we brought back from NN and do a bit of cleaning chez Scarpari/Spoor.
soccer_fox found to do the carpet work was on time, quick, and did good work; I would recommend him. Also five loads of paper brought up from the basement for recycling. Finally, eight loads of insulation board, beaverboard, shelving, piping, and other old junk brought up from the basement to the kerb for pickup by the Weee Haul Eeet Awwwl man tomorrow.This in addition to the work that
soccer_fox and I did at my mother's over the weekend, carting about half a dozen cartons of junk from my dad's study plus about fifty years' worth of Times Literary supplement (estimate: they filled up the back of a Volvo station wagon to the roof, and I know I saw some from the mid-1950s, which means that he *moved* them to Newport News!) And, of course, driving there and back in successive days, since N's WAWSL team ,the Vixens, had a match on Saturday morning (and a good thing she went, too, as she was their only sub!)Exhausted! Time for a shower, a change of clothes, then in to work. Home after to unload bits and pieces we brought back from NN and do a bit of cleaning chez Scarpari/Spoor.
