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[OrpingtonManor]

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I was already up to three questions. Four would have been pushing it.

So, we have Jeauca who lived for 20 years in one place, and now can't stay in one place, and StupidBird who started off being a vagabond, and now has spent TWENTY YEARS IN ONE PLACE.

Jeauca, do you like darkness?

I'm sure the northern lights are pretty, but I'd miss the sun in the winter.

Jena and Highlander, old ruins of things are so cool. We have historical sites, but nothing really ancient. I hope I get to visit Europe at some point in my life.

Noncentzer, that's a pretty big ship. I googled it. It looks like it had quite an impact. Funny that I don't remember it from the news. I must be getting old.

I I'm not much on rain myself.

you don't have to shovel rain either.

so true. We don't have to shovel sunshine either.

 

[jeaucamom]

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Sorry... had to giggle... one of my favorite little mini series is "Cranford". What you said just reminded me of it!!

 

[jeaucamom]

Orp.. yeah, I think I would do ok in the darkness and I LOVE the cold. When I was younger, I was DETERMINED to live there.. now my goal is to at least make it one year, and if I like it, I will stay, if not, then I have at least tried and realized one of my dreams. Now how realistic that is, is NOT up for discussion

 

[OrpingtonManor]

hold onto dreams
for when dreams die
life is a broken winged bird
that cannot fly.

eta - now I must get outside. I came home from work on my large break to finish whacking the weeds. I'd better GIT! I only have an hour before I have to go back.

 

[Jena]

Highlander, Love those stones, they are wonderful, there are a few like that not far from here, I was doing a "dig" near them in my last year is university and I visited often, they were neolithic, but locals had given them names, like Henry and George and in the corner of the field where they were sited was a wiccan tree with token hanging from the branches for good wishes and health, and a natural spring came to the surface nearby, it was a lovely place, and I spent my spare time from digging there. Very close to Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey.

We uncovered part of what was the biggest town in Wales in the 12th century with early iron workings there. Then trucked off to a local open air museum of Welsh Life and took part in constructing and working an Iron Age Foundry. Great fun.

You live in a beautiful area.

Orp, LOve the verse about dreams, my sons hate me for quoting it at them all the time, but my birthday card last year from James said. "Dream Big, because great things lie within you...." Somehow I think one of them has got the message anyway.

 

[OrpingtonManor]

Let's see.....

Note #4 -- pens or pencils, and if pencils, then, mechanical or old-fashioned Ticonderoga No. 2
Hey, don't hate me. It's only for a day.

you know, you could always talk about other things, too.

 

[debilorrah]

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Pens, fine point because I have to write really small at work.

 

[Tala]

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I always liked mechanical pencils for school. Never needed sharpening, able to write smaller for lengthty note taking, and they came in different grip styles.

Nowadays I always have my trusty Fisher Military pen on me for work. It's pressurized ink that is supposed to write upside down, over oil, under water, etc. But the reason that I carry it is because it reliably writes on those slick, heat-sensitive type receipt papers for signing credit card slips!! I always feel a bit naked if I reach for it and it's not there.

In other news, my eggs went on lockdown today so wish me luck with them!!!!!!!

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

High quality thick gel pens or fine point Sharpie. I'm a pen snob.

When I use a pencil, I want a study, ol' #2. Apparently I'm a pencil traditionalist.

I didn't have a chance to answer yesterday's question. It was a crazy day!
I grew up in Alabama and moved to TN when I got out of school. Until 5 years ago I lived in Nashville in the suburbs. Condos, apartments, etc. When I got my current job I bought a beat up old farmhouse and I love it. The best part of the little town I'm in now is that everybody else has lived here forever. They all grew up here and went to school here and are related to everybody. I am definitely the new kid in town (and when I say town, it is unincorporated and consists of a post office, gas station, community center and dump). Within days of my moving into the house, the gossip network had kicked in and they all knew who I was and what I did. My old neighbors are all nosy as heck. Random old men like to stop by to see what I'm up to and to make unsolicited comments about what I've done to the place. When I put the chicken coops in I had a steady stream of visitors checking them out. That nosiness should be annoying, but I confess that it tickles me. I find them all to be hysterically funny and thoroughly enjoy their random visits. I really am the City Girl to them. HA! The positive side is that they do stop by and give me a hand when they figure out I'm in over my head. One couple helped jump start my truck when it up and died (of course, it died diagonally across the street, so it was jump start me or turn around!). Another brought their tractor down and hauled an old dead tree out of my yard. The Ruritan men periodically mow my pasture for me (they park cars there on the 4th). Another brought by "mole seeds" when he realized my yard was infested. (I don't know if the mole seeds actually work. He swears that they poison the moles. I haven't seen a marked decrease in mole tunnels yet.). I adore living out here in "the boondocks" and hope to never leave. Granted, I will always be "that new city girl", but eh... I could be worse things.

 

[English Chick]

My long standing friend died last night ..... may she rest in peace.....