My Journal is friends only, except when I forget to protect a post, so I'm trying to date this entry long enough in the future so that it will stay at the top of my page for a good long while so that non-friends can contact me, request to be a friend, etc. Or maybe contact me to say I've won a drawing??

This is a year to win!

Went on a lovely camping trip in Gwendolyn's vintage RV (1987 Toyota Dolphin) to Umpqua National Forest the first week of June.
We camped in rustic campsites looked after by the US Forest service.

We traveled down to the Umpqua on Thursday morning, expecting to stay the night & then head down to the Applegate Valley on Friday, where we have camped ( Read more... )

travelertrish has decided to post a daily gratitude for a while, and I have decided to join her. It is a good thing to do, remembering what we are grateful for. Anybody else care to join the movement?

This morning I was/am grateful to see an old friend show up here on LJ, so I can catch up with her a little bit. She gave a lovely list of podcasts worthy of a

"You are such a hippie," my neighbor said good-naturedly, as I slipped into my flowery rainboots on my way over to water the garden ( Read more... )

Just made a bread pudding last night and haven't tasted it yet. Breakfast anyone ( Read more... )

I received an email from Live Journal, time dated last evening, saying that gnostraeh's birthday was/is, "today" (that's yesterday the 21st).... Not true, not timely, not my recorded info with LJ. All very weird...

Terri & I saw a lovely movie last evening. The acting by Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush is superb.

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Have patience

with everything unresolved in your heart

and try to love

the questions themselves..

~Rainier Maria Rilke

I seem to be avoiding talking on the telephone and posting here a little. Not really though. I feel alternately very busybusy, and very passively engaged to offset the busybusy. I do not like being so hurried and clipped at LJ, but this too will pass ( Read more... )