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Altaira
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Mar 21 2025, 4:17pm
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*runs in late without a handkercheif* It's Fiesta!
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Well, well. As sometimes happens when one is (mostly) retired. I forgot it was Friday!  If I had a good excuse like being utterly busy with other things, it would be one thing. But, I can't even claim that. Just the usual weekend of errands and movies for us.
How about all of you who *did* remember it's Friday? Have you been utterly busy? Have a busy weekend planned? Please let us know! The buffet looks especially decadent today, and the blenders *and* coffee makers have been fired up at the bar, so grab your favorite and let us know how life is treating you.
Happiest, funnest of weekends, everyone!!  
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Annael
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Mar 21 2025, 5:08pm
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She can't get an extension because it needs to be out in September, but she gratefully accepted my offer to impose order on what she's written. I let her know yesterday that it's going very well and she was so relieved!
I'm pushing because I expect another job to come in end of next week, so I'll probably work most of the weekend. Have an equinox gathering Sunday am with mythie friends on Zoom; we do one every equinox & solstice just to catch up.
Saw skunk cabbage on our walk this morning--first sign of spring in the forest--but it's not warm, so I'll take an Angel Mist please Altaira!
I am a dreamer of words, of written words.
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Meneldor
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Mar 21 2025, 6:12pm
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... and some things that never will be.
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They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters, these see the works of the Lord, and His wonders in the deep. -Psalm 107
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Altaira
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Mar 21 2025, 6:26pm
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As you said, she's paying you for it, but it's still good of you to offer, especially since it will mean working part of the weekend, and also seeing as you're going to be busy again very soon. That's how you get repeat clients and good word of mouth though. Are you sure you don't have a business degree too? 
What perfect days to catch up with mythie friends. Enjoy!!
*slides Angel Mist deftly down the bar* Enjoy x 2!
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Altaira
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Mar 21 2025, 6:28pm
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Dodged a bullet there. How lucky we were! 
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noWizardme
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Mar 21 2025, 8:48pm
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I hope everyone enjoyed the Equinox.
Spring in England. I've been planting my first early poe-tay-toes. And a hike planned for tomorrow.
Is the Juke box fired up? Let's have some Bob Marley: you kow "Equinox, movement of Jah People"
Or some Jean Michel Jarre if your spelling is better than mine
Now, spring equinox drinks might be a problem. Cider for autumn obviously. But can one brew something out of birch sap maybe? Should one? I tried the unfermented stuff once and it was boring.
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Kimi
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Mar 21 2025, 9:06pm
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to what's been one of our best-ever kayaking seasons. We're past the autumn equinox, and these fine, 25 C (77F) days are coming to an end. So yesterday we packed up the kayak and a picnic lunch and went north for a glorious day at Kai Iwi, precious dune lakes about two hours from here. They're rain-fed, kept clean and free of weeds by serious vigilance, with clear water ranging in colour from deepest sapphire to light turquoise.
We paddled across the largest of them, a short and easy paddle to one of the white sandy beaches that fringe the lake (we had this beach to ourselves), swam and picnicked and rejoiced in the beauty of the place. It gets very busy over school holidays and summer weekends, but this late in the season there were only two small boats which kept politely well away from us.
A magical day, topped off by stopping in at a wonderful Middle-eastern cafe on the way back for a late afternoon tea.
I'm making tabbouleh salad, using some of our tomatoes and cucumbers and spring onions (scallions to some, I believe). Tonight we're having aubergines with tamarind and other things [she said, waving an arm vaguely]. Mr Kimi's making Eton Mess with blackberries, and I'm making strawberry icecream. Doing our best to make the most of the season!
Wishing everyone a pleasant weekend.
The Passing of Mistress Rose
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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Annael
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Mar 21 2025, 10:46pm
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Bruce Willis as Boromir. I wasn't as outraged as one ex-regular was by the notion of Ethan Hawke as Faramir and Uma Thurman as Galadriel, but very happy with the ones we got!
I am a dreamer of words, of written words.
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Annael
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Mar 21 2025, 10:47pm
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our Cape Cod has ponds like that, and whenever I find myself "back east" I try very hard to get in a swim in one.
I am a dreamer of words, of written words.
-- Gaston Bachelard
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Annael
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Mar 21 2025, 10:56pm
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actually my first master's included an intensive minor in business
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but really, my approach is simple: I have been editing for a very long time, the training I got was excellent, and I know what I'm doing. And along the way, I've figured out how to work with clients. It also helps that I have a solid background in psychology. And I suppose, my fair share of empathy that lets me understand when a client is stressed and help them with that. This client is more stressed than most! Putting your work in front of someone else for criticism, especially for the first time, is a very brave thing to do (one man told me "being edited is like being told your baby is ugly"), and I'm very gentle in my approach, stressing the positive as much as I can.
And also, come to think of it, TORn has helped me in my career because it taught me that I can have difficult conversations with people if we start with what we have in common, what we both love--a shared connection. This woman is my age and her interests overlap many of mine. Also, I'm trying out my French on her and she gets to correct me.
I am a dreamer of words, of written words.
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CuriousG
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Mar 21 2025, 10:59pm
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Retiring really does wipe out one's sense of weekdays, which we're conditioned from childhood to adhere to. Why don't people warn us? Probably they would, if they could sort out which day it is.
Eating, walking, and catching up with some friends this weekend. I hope everyone else has a great time too!
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CuriousG
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Mar 21 2025, 11:01pm
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No on Aragorn; Sean C would have made a good Gandalf
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Hard to erase Ian McKellan from my mind, but still, I think other people could have made it a great role.
I like to think Sean Bean could have made a good Aragorn, and a few other people, but sorry, no young 'uns.
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Kimi
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Mar 21 2025, 11:03pm
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There's very little development around them, just two fairly basic and modestly priced campsites owned by the local council (who do great work keeping the lakes in a good state), which take up little of the lake front and make it more accessible for people who live further away.
It's such a treat, isn't it, to explore special places like that?
The Passing of Mistress Rose
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
- A Room With a View
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Altaira
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Mar 22 2025, 1:58am
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Sounds like you have appropriately 'Spring-y' things planned and on the go.
I googled Spring drinks and got recipes with things like berries, which aren't ripe yet, so what do they know? Early Spring flower-infused? Nah. How's about everything *but* cider and winter-y drinks goes? Now we're talkin!
I hope you have a very excellent weekend!
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Altaira
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Mar 22 2025, 2:02am
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Those kayaks have gotten a good bit of use, and it does sound like an ultra-perfect way to signal the end of the season. It's a good thing you both get so much exercise given all the yummy meals you have. I gain 2-3 pounds every time you describe your lunches and dinners!
Enjoy!
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Altaira
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Mar 22 2025, 2:04am
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Too true!
I hope you enjoy your most excellent plans!
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Mar 22 2025, 2:35am
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*checks clock* Oh yeah! I'm late! ;)
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Oh yeah... I noticed it was Friday, but we were off doing appointments all day. Poor daughter discovered that pain in her side was a broken rib from coughing so hard :( We didn't even know that could happen! She's such a trooper!!
We've got plans over the weekend to do some deep cleaning in her townhouse. She points and I haul while she follows the doctor's orders to limit lifting and such for the next week as she puts her bandage-wraps from last year back to work. THEN I think we need some pizza and ice cream!!!
Here in Michigan, we had 70 degrees on Tuesday and 2 inches of snow on Thursday. Go figure! This coming week is back to cold weather... but Spring will get here soon!
Thanks for taking such great care of us Altaira! Have a great weekend everyone!
We have been there and back again.
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Altaira
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Mar 22 2025, 3:01am
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.. for your daughter. Ouch! Broken ribs are no fun. I've heard it can happen from coughing, but yes, that's about the last thing you'd suspect.
Oooh, yes, pizza and ice cream sound like just the thing after hard work and hard supervising. You're both amazing, and deserve all the pampering you can get.
Hang in there and have a good, productive weekend!
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Kimi
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Mar 22 2025, 4:01am
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I'm glad they've found the problem, though. Yes, pizza and icecream definitely sound just the thing!
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
- A Room With a View
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dernwyn
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Mar 22 2025, 11:28am
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I've been visiting with old friends here. We've had Springtime Snow - the day after the Equinox, we awoke to a centimeter of icy snow on the ground (and on the car), but it all melted by noon.
It never ceases to amaze me how we can just sit or take walks and chat away for hours. But these are friends from high school and college days, and it seems like there's always something that hasn't been mentioned yet, or something to catch up on. Fortunately the restaurants at this season don't mind folks hanging around for 2 or 3 hours!
So I'll grab a coffee and head off to the motel's breakfast room, we meet up for a final farewell before receiving gifts (one gal brought everyone homemade chicken soup (she has a huge garden, and "harvested" some hefty roosters) and jam from her own berries) and heading off homewards.
Happy Spring/Autumn, everyone!
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dernwyn
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Mar 22 2025, 11:31am
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is very fortunate to have someone with your expertise AND patience editing her work! You're keeping yourself quite busy - what kind of material is the forthcoming job?
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dernwyn
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Mar 22 2025, 11:37am
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Another perfect day for more perfect memories!
Some people give their boats names; do you have a name for your faithful kayak?
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dernwyn
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Mar 22 2025, 11:39am
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You mean, the week doesn't have six Saturdays?
My brother calls it "being on Island time", referring to taking nice tropical vacations and losing track of the "real world".
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dernwyn
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Mar 22 2025, 11:48am
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So that's where our snow came from!
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Your storm decided to drop its last bits on us!
I feel so badly for your daughter, wish there were ways to hurry up the healing of broken ribs. Yes, I've heard that severe coughing can do that, it can be very harsh on the lung cage. A deep cleaning of her surroundings will give you a workout, the pizza and ice cream will be necessary afterwards!
*hugs* to you, and gentle *hugs* for her!
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Annael
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Mar 22 2025, 2:48pm
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is apparently a book written by and aimed at therapists on how to avoid burnout. Coming to me this next week.
Still waiting on two other projects that people said they'd be sending last fall, but are still working on. But right now I'm too busy for them! Grateful to have the work. Social Security is not enough for me to live on.
I am a dreamer of words, of written words.
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