By any other name

[persimmon]

When buying chrysanthemums to fill in the gaps of the end of summer garden, I also bought the one lonely aster that was sitting there, and planted everything in random gaps in the flower beds. Yesterday, I noticed that the aster is now a fat little mound of purple flowers, which looked vaguely familiar, but I couldn't place it

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[wcg]

Hi! What a lovely thing to see a post with your name on it.

[persimmon]

Thank you - how's it going?

[wcg]

It appears you haven't posted since 2007, so I'm guessing you don't know that Paula died last October, do you? For details see http://wcg.livejournal.com/2012/10/19/

[persimmon]

Bill, I am so sorry to hear this. What a terrible shock that must have been for you. It is very late in coming, but I offer you my sympathy and condolences, and if it wouldn't offend you, I'd like to have a Mass offered in celebration of her life.

[hitchhiker]

asters always remind me of this

[persimmon]

You are the only person I know who would have thought of that! thanks.

[cymrullewes]

Ch'kai! We've been talking about you all summer trying to figure out how you are doing. So, how are you?

Also, "Do not color the cat's nose green, it doesn't like it." has totally invaded our speech.

[persimmon]

Sorry about that - I didn't know I was contagious!

I'm not bad, though now without a thyroid and a bunch of bone mass in my foot. But the rotator cuff injury has healed, so I now have two working arms, which is good. How about you?

[cymrullewes]

Well... The Silly Goose morphed in to the Valkyrie and is now 18 and a high school graduate.
The Dread Pirate BigNum is now 13 and is being homeschooled this year.
Wen the Eternally Surprised tends to go by TinyHappyPanther these days and is 11 and being homeschooled as well.

(NH makes it easy to homeschool. They put the entire high school and middle school online with teachers to grade and guide. I just have to proctor.)

Alaric did NOT get his foot amputated this summer because his orthopod threw a Hail Mary and Alaric caught it. The pressure sore on the bottom of his foot has now healed for the first time in a decade. He can walk much better too.

I'm eh. Doing a lot of knitting and looking for work and running after children.

[persimmon]

Good gracious. Time goes by - and homeschooling? that is a brave decision. Please say hi to Alaric for me, and I am glad his foot seems to be doing better.

good luck with the work search, I know it's tough out there. When I was cleaning the kitchen for approximately the forty third time in a week back when they all lived at home, I used to console myself with the thought that when it feels as if you are the wave that perpetually gets slammed down on to the shore, it is hard to believe the tide's coming in.

Small thought. there are yarn/craft stores around here that pay people to knit samples for them, and other stalls at various markets that take goods on consignment - I have a DIL expert I crochet and knitting, is how I know. would that be an avenue to explore, maybe?