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14180. arkymalarky - 3/16/2005 1:32:32 AM You're really going to love Old Washington. 14181. judithathome - 3/16/2005 2:30:24 AM Oh, I know...we've been to an Acadian village in Canada where they live and work just like "back in the day" and we loved it. They were making soap and using looms to make cloth and doing blacksmithing work. It was very educational. 14182. arkymalarky - 3/16/2005 5:58:06 AM My students really enjoyed the field trip there this fall, with the Civil War theme. They were interested and enthusiastic about everything the whole time we were there and still mention it occasionally--except the long lunch line. They hadn't really prepared very well for a bunch of kids. They've got a very cool gun museum, too.
This place is near there somewhere, but I've never been able to find it. I got one bar of their soap one time as a gift and it was wonderful. Bro gets me homemade soap from Mt View, but it's not as nice as this--though it is very nice. 14183. Magoseph - 3/16/2005 10:17:57 PM Paris--Flowers outside a shop signal the onset of spring.
 14184. Magoseph - 3/16/2005 10:24:44 PM Hello—good news this morning—Flexy had another carotid artery Doppler test and it is fine. Six months ago, he was told that if it did not improve, he would have the operation. In the meantime, I am on my third dentist appointment and feeling much better.
What’s new with you?
14185. arkymalarky - 3/16/2005 11:40:15 PM Good for you and Flexy Mags! Great to have some good news for a change. 14186. Magoseph - 3/17/2005 12:09:02 PM Arky, yes, it is, but there is always something or someone to spoil the day. I received a late birthday card with a letter from my elder sister berating me for forsaking the family, for becoming a citizen of this country and for not having French kids because our privileged upbringing demanded that I live in France in order to give back what I received there—I am not kidding. There is much more about family particulars and behaviors, especially about my brother and his wife. Almost every sentence is an attack on them or me. My brother is for her the devil incarnate, someone who made his money who knows how, and is now snobbish and uncaring.
Never mind that her memory is faulty about our upbringing, that what she says about my brother and his wife is false because both are very unassuming people--it is nevertheless depressing to see how far envy can deform a character to this point. Naturally, I will not answer her and I will receive another missive, but this time I will send it back unopened. Enough is enough because I must watch my blood pressure, which I feel rising each time I read this woman’s divagations. 14187. alistairconnor - 3/17/2005 2:02:08 PM Those flowers came from a Dutch hothouse, so they don't really count...
BUT I can report that the snow is almost all melted at my place... temperature up to about 20 C, (from minus ten two weeks ago), the primeveres are out, the ponies have escaped from their paddock...
it's spring alright. 14188. alistairconnor - 3/17/2005 2:06:50 PM There's nothing much to be done about family. An elder sibling who thinks they retain some sort of moral ascendancy over you as an adult... that's a common misconception.
You've made your choices, you owe "France" nothing. 14189. Magoseph - 3/17/2005 4:49:44 PM Sorry for the rant, Ali and thanks for the good words. 14190. robertjayb - 3/17/2005 5:36:21 PM Speaking of words:
Barely into the second cup of coffee when I encounter this:
divagation
noun
An instance of digressing: aside, deviation, digression, divergence, divergency, excursion, excursus, irrelevancy, parenthesis, tangent. See approach/retreat.
Oh well, it's good to know a new word, but working this one into the palaver down at the feed store is going to be difficult.
14191. robertjayb - 3/17/2005 5:43:20 PM Speaking of Spring.
The post oaks began pollinating the past weekend, heralding the season of yellowish-streaked automobiles and trumpeting sneezes. Some showers since may help but I have Flonase at the ready, just in case. 14192. thoughtful - 3/17/2005 5:51:05 PM At the feed store? Cows have 4 stomachs, but i divagate... 14193. judithathome - 3/17/2005 5:52:49 PM I've got that Oak Shower here, too...no wonder I'm sneezing like someone in a pepper factory.
Mags, I think you should send that card back with no comment. Just return it and don't say a thing. That will fry her because she'll know you read it but have nothing to say to her. 14194. alistairconnor - 3/17/2005 5:58:01 PM Divagation : that's something stray dogs do, in France.
Divagating dogs will be impounded or shot. Words to that effect.
I do it all the time myself. 14195. alistairconnor - 3/17/2005 5:59:28 PM I wish my divagating ponies would come to the point. I'm off to the hardware shop in a minute, to get some materials for a proper concentration camp. 14196. robertjayb - 3/17/2005 6:21:05 PM Taking French leave, are they? 14197. PelleNilsson - 3/17/2005 6:26:24 PM We still have a lot of snow but the temperature has been well above freezing for the past 48 hours. As a result there is a lot of standing water everywhere because the ground is still frozen. Now temperatures well below freezing are predicted for the next couple of days. This will mean chaos on the roads and in the emergency clinics as the hip bone fractures pile in. And I have to go into the city early tomorrow. 14198. jayackroyd - 3/17/2005 6:44:12 PM Heh. It is nothing compared to St Patrick's day in my neighborhood. The parade ends 7 blocks south. 14199. iiibbb - 3/17/2005 7:30:29 PM PUBLISHED!!!
Man this has been a bitch. The manuscript was submitted last Feb and it got tied up in some bad reviews.
Called the editor today... he said he's going to recommend it through.
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