Driveways

[lertulo]

In keeping with my unanticipated tradition of devoting no more than half my journal to its purported raison d'être, here's an update on the house we're building.

For the benefit of all four people who actually read my journal (at least zero of whom probably don't already know), my family is building a new house. Well, more accurately, we sign the

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[mom_counsel]

Hello, ricky?..or would your prefer Richard?..I am jackie's friend marcia, and have friended you. My son is cpk, that is his ljname. he is charles, or chuck, depending on who is talking. i call him charley. so...it is very nice to meet you...i am taking it that you might want too. my son is a computer programer in seattle. i live in hermitage, pa. jackie and i have been lj friends for, maybe 2 months. maybe longer. feels like i have known your mother, forever. i can tell you are her son, just by how you write. love the pictures too.
hope we will be friends. my son was born 2-11-71.

[lertulo]

I love cpk's title on his LJ! "Charles, a sinner." Heh. My wife and I joke about the phrase "Richard, great among sinners"--and how it has such delightfully different interperetations. :) :)

Ricky, Richard, HeyYou--doesn't matter, really. I tend to offer Richard, but I still hear Ricky, Rick, Rich, even Dick on occasion. (My grandmother, when somoene asked "What shall we call you?", replied "Anything but Pete." The name stuck, and she's been Pete ever since.)

My wife and I lived in redmond for some time, and our family currently lives near Cranberry--so we're not so far apart. Nice to have someone else relatively local to whom I can complain about the weather here.

[mom_counsel]

oh thank you and your lovely wife too!..i shall call you Pete..no..I shall call you Richard, since this is what you most offer.:=)...thanks for checking Charles out..yes...he is newly espicopalian,and loving every minute. he is also, a mason, too. we skipped a couple of generations on that one. and there has never been a "piscopalian" in the family..we are a family of firsts..lol..but, maybe some of them infamous and definitely not famous, although, my daughter is working on that. she is currently working an extra in commercials, her real money comes from working for a resort that sells time shares, she does the tours, and then she is a writer of plays, and short stories. she wrote a musical/comedy at the Fringe Festival this past weekend. She got terrible reviews, the first night. The reviewer was a gay person, who did not like anything but anti-God, or gay plays, and wrote a scathing blistering review in the Orlando Sentinel the next day. So instead of getting mad, she is going to write her next musical comedy, to submit in the fall

Episcopalians

[kessepha]

I thought I was the first Episcopalian in my family. I guess, technically, I am. But I've since discovered that my Deaton ancestors were Anglican Tories who found themselves on the losing side of the Revolutionary War and fled to the hills. The rest was history. You never know... there may be a few other Episcopal skeletons in the closet.

Sinnsers and all

[kessepha]

Excuse me! The phrase is Kessepha, great among sinners... and it's MINE! Snitch. I'd sue you for copyright infringement if it weren't easier to just take your checkbook and write myself a big ol' check right NOW! :)