Today, Bill and I will start our final push home for TN. We have spent the last two nights with friends Elvin and Debbie in Edmond, OK, playing games, watching movies, talking and laughing, eating and drinking, and enjoying their lovely home and warm company.
Bill and Elvin have been best friends since they met in elementary school in Illinois. It has been fun for Debbie and me to watch them reconnect, recollect old stories and tell each other new tales. Bill hasn't seen Elvin for 15 years or so, and as he and Debbie married only last year, Bill had never met her until now (I was here in the summer of '07, on my way to California). We all like each other very much.
Echo has had some cat-chasing and dog-sniffing adventures too. Debbie raises shelties, and there is a new litter of 4-week old pups in the garage, along with the grown dogs in the kennel out back. Echo seems confused by the puppies--they smell like dogs, but they make her very nervous, and she keeps a respectful distance. 
Bill got to hold "Chilly Willy," the littlest one, who almost froze the night he was born: 
Today we will pack up and finish driving through the state of Oklahoma, and then get Arkansas out of the way too. We hope to be somewhere in western Tennessee tonight, and be home on the other side of the state by Monday night. It is forecast to start snowing on Tuesday there, so it's back to the "white stuff" again when we finally arrive.
I have no way to upload photos from here (too big of a learning curve, I'm sorry to say), so I'll do all that when we get home. [done] First, we'll have to get all the house systems back online--the water, gas, heat, phone, TV satellite and internet satellite, so it may be a few days before I post again.
Then, it's off to Florida the following week, so Bill can take the maritime courses he's signed up for--we're going to sneak in a few days of vacation together there, in between his classes. So the busy-ness and travel will continue, at least until the end of January. Not a bad way to spend the first part of the new year.
Bill and Elvin have been best friends since they met in elementary school in Illinois. It has been fun for Debbie and me to watch them reconnect, recollect old stories and tell each other new tales. Bill hasn't seen Elvin for 15 years or so, and as he and Debbie married only last year, Bill had never met her until now (I was here in the summer of '07, on my way to California). We all like each other very much.Echo has had some cat-chasing and dog-sniffing adventures too. Debbie raises shelties, and there is a new litter of 4-week old pups in the garage, along with the grown dogs in the kennel out back. Echo seems confused by the puppies--they smell like dogs, but they make her very nervous, and she keeps a respectful distance.
Bill got to hold "Chilly Willy," the littlest one, who almost froze the night he was born:Today we will pack up and finish driving through the state of Oklahoma, and then get Arkansas out of the way too. We hope to be somewhere in western Tennessee tonight, and be home on the other side of the state by Monday night. It is forecast to start snowing on Tuesday there, so it's back to the "white stuff" again when we finally arrive.
I have no way to upload photos from here (too big of a learning curve, I'm sorry to say), so I'll do all that when we get home. [done] First, we'll have to get all the house systems back online--the water, gas, heat, phone, TV satellite and internet satellite, so it may be a few days before I post again.
Then, it's off to Florida the following week, so Bill can take the maritime courses he's signed up for--we're going to sneak in a few days of vacation together there, in between his classes. So the busy-ness and travel will continue, at least until the end of January. Not a bad way to spend the first part of the new year.
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Wellll, I thought you were a "gad- about", now I KNOW you are. Sounds like you and Bill are having a great time. Poor little Echo...puppies!
BTW-I don't recall asking me if you could go to Florida...did you clear it Mary Ann? LOL
Andrea stopped by yesterday and was asking about you and the knitting group was wondering about you on Friday, she said. She said they met at the library.
Keep having a safe trip home.
Here's to being born under a wandering star!
Hugs,
Hannah
BTW-heard Friday from Jo the 'owner' of the Sweet Tooth Cafe that they are moving to the Community Cup bldg. in downtown Rog Vegas by Feb. 1!
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