We have a new DWth community set up for our Ringers at Fellowship of Middle-earth, it's
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My dear Rings fandom family is casting about for a new online home, it's so hard to go house-shopping with so many different preferences - not unlike trying to order pizza for a crowd! I do hope whatever is decided will be 'warmed up to' by any who are reluctant ( Read more... )

Went to a memorial this past weekend to say farewell to a wonderful old family friend who passed away, full of life and surrounded by happiness as he always had been. Very positive time, church packed with people who all had a story to tell about how he'd been such an amazing influence on their lives. Would that we all could step out of this life ( Read more... )

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My son has a childhood friend visiting from CA, one of those times when you know they used to have a lot in common/two peas in a pod/the two amigos - but time passes and kids turn into teens and I wondered how it would go if interests had diverged too widely. Would they have enough common ground for any of that old affinity ( Read more... )

Snagged this one from curuchamion, just because it's kind of interesting, if a bit of a long list in this case. (can you imagine the people who have those fat wads of thousands of friends they somehow keep up with? Yikes!) I found a new friend with shared interests by poking about through her results, perhaps someone else can do the same here, I'm all for ( Read more... )

Drove down to my old 'hometown' (if you call it that - I moved a lot, but was in this one for high school) because a nursery down that way had the blight-resistant filbert trees I was looking for. Picked up my plants and noticed the school was letting out for the day so I popped in on one of my old teachers on a whim ( Read more... )

There's a new girl in Starflower's class, and true to what she's been taught (always help the new kid), my daughter glomped onto her and they planned a play-date. I took her there this afternoon - turns out they are a foster-parent family with three more in addition to their own two, what a joyous organized chaos. The first thing we saw upon ( Read more... )