Can we have a forum for "older" people with bc?
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Sandra, thanks for the history!
I'm glad you've found and booked ways to explore some of Alaska, and it would be fun to meet if we can. I don't know the cab companies here but will see if I can find anything out for you. The reason I mentioned the ship drop off and pickup of passengers is because our friends from the Lower 48 whose ship arrived recently at 8 AM were delivered by the last dinghy run to the shore at 10 AM. Passengers line up for the security check and their return to the ship in the same way. So to get the most time ashore, you might want to be sure your ship actually docks instead, or maybe line up early for one of the first trips that the dinghy makes to shore. Travel is spendy up here -- and we have access to just one airline, so no competition, but I've got to admit, they have a great safety record in spite of landing and taking off from some hair-raising locations and especially challenging weather conditions. (We have no connection to the airline or other tour operations.) We've used the ferries, but with a vehicle they too are spendy. I hope your vacation will be the best!
Cammi, I haven't forgotten - I enjoy your comments. I just got used to thinking of you as Camillegal!
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“Everything is a gift of the universe —even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment.” —Ken Keyes Jr.
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Morning everyone,
It's quiet here for now. A bit muggy out. I think we had some rain very early, while it was still dark. We likely will get more this afternoon. Dh told me that he read/heard somewhere that it would be a 'wet' summer and so far that seems to be the way it is. Though I'm more of a sunshine person....I'm ok with enough rain to keep the flowers and garden watered ( that would be the garden I didn't get around to planting ) and the lawns green.
I have always imagined Alaska a really pretty place. The pictures I've seen have been stunning. Still, though I'd find much to be thrilled with......I would find it hard to get used to not having things at your fingertips like we do where we are. I also chuckle a bit at my Dh who usually has to find at least one reason to go to town daily. It is enough for me to know "town" is close at hand. I feel almost no need at all to go there. Maybe that is due to the fact that because I feed at the feral cat colonies....I go every day, like it or not. However; before I fed cats I could be out here under our trees a week or more and not even think of going to town. Have worked on Dh a bit to at least get him to 'think' about why he "needs" to go to town and do all the things he expresses in one trip. He is getting better that way anyhow.
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There are some remote villages in Alaska that get one ship a year with all the goods they've ordered from the lower 48 (known as outside). I can't fathom being able to grocery shop once a year. I'm doing well to shop for a couple of days without forgetting something. The villages suspect that the warehouses in Seattle change orders to get rid of extra stuff, so sometimes what you get is not what you ordered. So there's a big trade after people see what they've received.
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AlaskaAngel, I have been enjoying your comments on Alaska ... the gardening as well as the others.
Sandra, thanks for the background on laundry Mondays ... very interesting.
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I grew up fairly rural, so small-town is my comfort zone. Probably the "commute" we did here before we found better things to do, wouldn't be considered much of a "commute" to some. (We drove 12 1/2 miles to our jobs in town, and back. And it IS a very pretty drive.) Nowadays I hand my "chauffeur" my grocery list once a week and if I'm lucky he brings at least some of it back after paying bills in town for us. We also make that trek once a week to have lunch in town with pals. Otherwise... home sweet home.
But yes -- our trips south are adventures on the concrete. Home Depot, Costco, Outback, etc. Whatever we get, we send up ahead on the barge. We have a Safeway here, and even a medium-sized Wal-Mart (is there anywhere left on the planet that doesn't???), but... pay more for what we buy here. The plastic "jar" of mixed nuts at Costco in the Lower 48, is $23 here.
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Oh Alaska -- everyone needs a treat sometime. I guess after swallowing many times rather hard, I'd "SHELL" out for those nuts. What you have talked about -- the beauty of the drive is what would get me. It is why we live where we do. In summer....you can't see much for houses at all. On our little one lane dirt road to our house is two other houses.......we are in the middle. It is very much to my liking for the rural countrified aspects. We are about a half a mile from the highway into town.....which is another two miles or so. There is a huge man-made drinking lake behind us. My idea of heaven.......as long as we can keep up with the work.
Blessings
Jackie
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jackie, there are 7 houses on our private road, spread apart so that there are trees and terrain providing privacy between each house, and I love that "space". I'm just ever so thankful that I happen to live in a time when it is still possible. Seeing the rest of the world was more interesting to me just after WWII and before so many complete strangers started being so brutal with innocent people in their path.
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My road:
Alaska, right past the little curve you see on this road is my drive-way....to the left. I'm not too good with pictures, but it gives you a little idea anyway. I'll see what else I have that may sort of give you an idea.
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Here is our garage:
and at the right is the rest of the drive that takes you into a big parking area in front of the garage.
Jackie
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Last but not least:
A little blurry since I used a thumbnail and enlarged it, but you can see a bit of the parking area in front of the garage. Most of the houses at the lake are done like this......with the houses as close to the lake as you can get ---- our lot was an after-thought.....there really isn't lake front in back of us......we use the neighbor's dock if we want to go down by the water. We don't mind that....we were more into the deer and wildlife in the yard and solitude of the woods.
Jackie
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Jackie, your home is beautiful. I would trade my golf course home for it!!!
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AA $23. for mixed nuts, here u can get a whole family for nothing. But wow I didn't know that things had that expense in Alaska, I really thought things were cheaper.
Jackie u home is so pretty and peaceful, u are blessed with that type of living---altho to be honest it does look like places I've seen in almost every scary movie I have seen.
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Cami, A friend of mine was driving in Oregon on a snowy road with lots of big fir trees. She commented on how spooky it all was. Her passenger laughed and said it was where they filmed The Shining.
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Wren OMG see that's what I mean hahahaha
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Jackie, I love the yellow of your home ... it looks so happy and the trees and house set each other off like a painting.
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Welcome to Louise, Alaska and Bandwoman,
Sorry that we have to meet because of bc but this thread is listed as one of my favorites because these ladies take your mind off your troubles for a few minutes everyday. Cammi and Chevy keep me laughing and Illinois Lady always has a good quote to think about.
The discussions about clothes lines and alley ways brought back a lot of fond memories. I must mention about the place my son and family live in now. They have to get the color of their mulch pre-approved and all trees in the front of the house must have a trunk diameter of at least 5 inches. Son had to remove new tree because it only measured 4 1/2 inches. Someone actually measured it! I so want to go hang laundry in their neighborhood!!! :-) I bet I could get Chevy to go with me !
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Good Morning Ladies.
JO LOL we'll al go--I hate rules anymore I can't believe u'r DS had to remove a tree for 1/2 in. OMG--I would understand a lot of rules so a place doesn't look like a crack house or something tht makes moonshine, but just ordinary looking is silly.
I was up early so u all know what that means, yes Chevy u can make u'r remarks cuz I will agree with them this time, I'll be sleepy all day but I did get my clothes washed and made coffee and took a shower--Pink sugar I s my fragrance today, I smell like a huge sugar cookie, now I want some tho. I love sugar cookies. I never made those in my life except the kind u slice and then decorate. OK I'm going to vacuum now )shut up Chevy) I do use a small one--these big ones are way to heavy for my delicate condition. And I know u can still do u'r pole dancing cuz it's not as hard on u'r body like vacuuming, so go ahead and dance lady, dance. I don't dance, don't ask me.
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I just love where you live Jackie! And your home just looks so cozy! I would love to just walk around those woods forever... !
Cammi, you would be scared walking down a well lit highway in the middle of the night! Oh wait.. sorry..... didn't mean to bring that up.
But it's a job.... that's what they say anyway....
Now if EYE ... (See, I spelled "eye" because I mean to capitalize on this, and it looks more profound than just "I") Now if EYE were walking down the highway at night, in those high heels, I would SURELY break my NECK next time! Not just my hip! Those little rocks just spring up out of Nowhere!
I didn't see it, and I tripped over it.
Oh yes Jo! WE would show THOSE people! Maybe we could bring one of those huge plastic pots I have, that I found in the alley, and plant a big honkin' marijuana plant in it, and set it in the middle of the yard. I mean the "White Rhino" kind... (that I looked up!)
Some of my tomatoes, in the black pots... DD's is in the mundane white bucket...
"White Rhino" is what WAS in the pots... because I looked it up, and one had a piece of tape that SAID that...
http://www.kindgreenbuds.com/marijuana-strains/white-rhino/
I just cracked up! The pots were empty, and I thought I could really use these, which I DID...
So Jo... we could grow them some REAL weed.... Ha!
I've never HEARD of such a thing! "Measuring" a helpless tree... Where do they LIVE? Somewhere like Stepford Village? Sheesh!
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Cam, you are too funny, but probably right....I REALLY looked at the picture of the road that takes you to our house/property and thought....wow, if I didn't know exactly what lay beyond -- it would seem scary and it of course, looks as though ANYTHING could be beyond at night. If you really want to get nervous -- usually at dusk and sometimes after dark.....often a group of owls start talking to each other. You think you are surrounded among the trees here.
I am never really scared here -- even when I am alone totally. I'll be back later.....I just decided to check in before feeding time here for the outside dogs.
Jackie
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Our rushing and our busyness create a fog layer that
encloses us, surrounding us with thicker and thicker
layers externally and building denser and denser fog
layers within. Pretty soon, we have lost touch with
that which guides our lives. We need contact with
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Hi everyone and welcome to the newbies
My house is almost completely done- just waiting for some stuff I ordered online. It looks so new and clean. I asked my every 2 week cleaning lady to bring a helper today- I want everything really clean- bathrooms, kitchen, fans sliding doors etc. I really overdid yesterday and I was a mess last night. I have orders to do nothing today unless I can do it sitting down - so I thought it would be a good time to catch up with everyone.
Re rural vs town- I have the best of both. When we first moved to Fl, I couldn't believe my neighbor complaining that our town was too crowded. We were at the southwest tip of Broward County and had to drive thru cow fields to get home. Remember, we had moved here from the Bronx, so it was very rural for us. We are still at the southern tip of Broward County, but are now in the center ( or east of center) going east or west. We only lost the last of the cow fields within the last 5 years or so. But we have 3 Walmart's, 2 of them less than 5 miles from the house, and they are building another one (food only) less than a mile away.
In Georgia, we are definitely rural. The nearest grocery store is about 8 miles away and the nearest Walmart is about 15 miles away. Plus our house backs up to a reserve which is nice. DD #2 ( in Fl) says she could never live so far from stores etc. I said to DD#1 (in Ga) that I don't understand how anyone could complain about the few extra miles- the scenery makes you feel like you are on vacation in the mountains.
Thank goodness all the petty bickering has stopped between siblings and all those local will be here to celebrate youngest son's birthday tonite. First time DD#3 will see the house makeover.
Hope you all are having a good week.
Anne
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Jackie - always wanted a house surrounded by trees, but those are few and far between in North Texas. I couldn't afford looking at property with so many trees.
Jo - our HOA would have a problem with me cuz I planted trees from twigs a couple of years ago. Two Oklahoma red buds are nearly taller than me. My DH says that's not bragging cuz I'm 4'10"!!
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I love Jackie's home too, so peaceful... thanks for posting those pics!
My parents' generation was a lot smarter.... From the movie: Paint Your Wagon
The First Thing You Know
God made the mountains
God made the sky
God made the people
God knows why
He fixed up the planet
As best as He could
Then in come the people
And gum it up good
The first thing you know
They civilized the foothills
And everywhere He put hills
The mountains and valley below
They come along and take 'em
And civilize and make 'em
A place where no civilized
Person would go
The first thing you know
The first thing you know
They civilize what's pretty
By puttin' up a city
Where nothin' that's
Pretty can grow
They muddy up the winter
And civilize it into
A place too uncivilized
Even for snow
The first thing you know
They civilize left
They civilize right
Till nothing is left
Till nothing is right
They civilize freedom
Till no one is free
No one except
By coincidence, me
The first thing you know
The boozer's in prison
And the criminally isn't
And only the rascals have dough
When I see a parson
I gotta put my arse in
A wagon that follows the tail of a crow
The first thing you know
I pick up a blow!
The first thing you know
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Jo, Your son's place reminded me of a story. A man painted his house. The HOA didn't approve of the colors and told him he had to repaint. He got the new colors approved and painted his house.....with polka dots. Clearly some people need to get lives.
Jackie, your house looks very peaceful. How do you get around in the winter? It doesn't look like a road they would plow.
When we painted our house we were yearning for more sun. So the base color is faded adobe with brown and turquoise trim. I'm sure it scandalized the neighborhood at first, but now it's a fairly popular combo. We didn't get more sun though.
Chevy, after seeing that photo of you, I'll never post one of me. How dare you look 10 years younger than me. I'm sure you're 2 years older.
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Oh Wren! Did you see that photo on the Insomnia thread? Or the one of Elizabeth Taylor I sometimes post as me? Ha, ha! I just know my 77th Birthday is coming up like a freight train... and I also know I am older than anyone else here.... But it's okay! I will just wait for you guys to get as old as me....
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Sandra - great post. I hope I'll never be that old.
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Hey ladies - 700 pages!!!
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