I keep meaning to write about this, and forgetting because I get busy. I am reminded because The Luckenbooth Brooch was on the Baltimore program. Also it pertains to my unfinished discussion with flammifera about dancing with your hands full, and is my excuse for not answering the last comment (because I intended to tell the story). I'm going to do it now ( Read more... )

A few days ago we received a thank you note for a holiday gift we gave to one of the younger teenage cousins in sweetie's extended family. It reads:

Thanks so much for the leatherman/Swiss army knife tool. I hope to have a excuse to use it soon. That was a really thoughtful gift, I hope to see you guys soon.
The best part is that he went back ( Read more... )

From a late night IM conversation with a friend last night, after she mistakenly typed something about "money in the treasurer" when she meant to say "money in the treasury."

Friend: only way to put money in the treasurer would be to appoint one and then feed him/her dollar bills
Me: you could get a piggy bank and call it the treasurer
Friend: ( Read more... )

Yesterday we visited my best friend, her husband, and their 5-year-old daughter, who were in town visiting my friend's parents for the weekend. My friend's husband had picked up some wine to try at the nearby Total Wine store, and over dinner, the conversation turned to wine, their new wine cellar, and how my friend's husband is definitely not ( Read more... )

At the Charlottesville Burns Night dance yesterday afternoon, during the break, a 5 couple all male set danced The Reel of the 51st Division. A photographer from the local paper, The Daily Progress, took a great many pictures, one of which was published in today's paper ( Read more... )

Every year for Christmas we get together with sweetie's relatives. We exchange gifts with all of sweetie's aunts and uncles. You can always count on Uncle Bob to give you something totally unexpected. This year, we received from him a Stylish Gift

( Stylish Gift )

(The sequence of e-mails is from the bottom up.)

Friend wrote:

HAHAHA but true I think of you as my girl friday : )

Puzzledance wrote:
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> Hey, I'm not your toady!!! Hahahahaha!
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> --Puzzledance
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> Friend wrote:
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>> Hey where are you toady ?

Some typos are better than others.

My sweetie and I went with tamnonlinear to see March of the Penguins a couple of months ago. We were talking about the movie last night, and sweetie and I told tamnonlinear this story. She thought it was funny, so I promised to post it ( Read more... )