Thank you, Cinderella. Still nothing. Wish I knew what was going on. But not if it involves sinks!

t&l

WOW! This is going on and you are attempting humor. LOL!!!!


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tl have you heard anything yet?

didn't AJ have trouble with the truck not long ago? I wondered if they broke down between road stops and have had to fix something? Maybe AJ's brother had to drive out to where they were and help perhaps?
Even new trucks break down.

Well I'm going to say a pray for them & that they will contact you very soon so that you can stop fretting. Mummies always fret for some reason or other dont we?
I'm sure there is a very reasonable answer that will relieve your worry AFTER you hasve torn strips from them for causing you to worry in the first place.

Tell them off for all of us. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

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I'm at work so can only take a minute, but yes, she finally called and got through this afternoon. Apparently the primitive communication system available to her up there wouldn't let her get through for over 24 hrs. She CLAIMS to have been frantically worried herself over how we were doing with the kids. How insulting is that? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> As if Neaksis and I couldn't handle the Dervish (twitch, twitch, quiver, twitch) for a single weekend. I'm still a little unclear on the exact why's of her communication misadventure, but since her dad was forwarding her through to me (and was getting restless) I decided I could wait until they got home for the details.

And attempting humor? Yes...I did. (Why, didn't it work?) First place, I was still thinking it was much more likely that everything was OK than that it wasn't and didn't plan to seriously worry until evening when AJ's brother got home and could tell me they never arrived (<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />!). In the meantime, determined good humor was the order of the day. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> And besides, I always whistle in the dark... <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> Doesn't everybody?

t&l

I figured............ two people in love........... new truck, big new double wide sleeper.

Long lonely road............ lots of rest stops.

I wasn't worried at all.

Yet.



T&L,
The details of the camping trip are very sparse at this point. we sincerly hope more details are forthcoming.

Or is that tamping trip?


Cinders,
Sounds like you did have a good time. I sincerly hope so.

From the description of what Aussie is doing these days, it sounds like no parts are missing. That's probably good.


T&L, which is more relaxing - the taming trip, or being back to work?

SS

I thought it was a tamping frip....

The closer I get to this conference, the less I want to go......I've never been....I just want to sleep. Was in bed last night by 10:30 and had trouble getting up at 6:15. This is not normal.

I think I'll go wash the end of the dishes, start the dishwasher, let dog out, then go to bed.

Will someone come over and get me packed to go?

Oh, would that it were true!!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

t&l

Well, for a start, let me say first that we were all very warm in our sleeping bags. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Neaksis has some great pictures, but we have to wait for Neak to get back to do the technological magic necessary so they can be posted.

Much of the credit for the "success" of the weekend belongs to Neaksis. In fact, ALL of the credit belongs to Neaksis...including having the idea in the first place! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> She did all the heavy lifting, planned the menus, bought the food, packed the stuff--you get the idea. I worked up until a few hrs. before we left. And paid for Neaksis' great ideas. That was my contribution. And drove the car with the four juvenile males in it, on the theory that they would need heavier crowd control. I think that was actually an easier car to be in than Neaksis' car, though. She had the 2 prima donnas--the duelling princessi--the foster baby, and Grandpa. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> However, she did get to sleep the night before, so it all balances out, as far as I'm concerned. She might disagree, of course, but she's only 28. What does she know? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

t&l

tamping trip sounds like fun! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

I suggested that mum take Dad & dd and my big bad bro (snicker) on a 'tamping trip' and all I got was a look of pure horror.

She keeps wondering what she has done wrong to deserve 'that' <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

and it apparently broke her travel rules ... "if it doesn't have 3 stars and a spa it doesn't get stayed at" do you like the Oz style statement? heheheh

So much for having some time ALONE!! well Mikey doesn't count yet . lol

Anyway his Nibs & I had another little fight over taking off the glasses and pads so I'm not popular I guess. However its one matter hes not going to win.

I'm also very peeved. Peeeving heavily against the weather as my sunny day had rain & storms & wind and I couldn't fit one of two roller doors to the enclosed patio. I'm fit to be tied I am. Its not fair I tell you. I cut the metal guides. I installed the support bars, installed the patio beams and now I cant finish it. I'd swear like Aussie but I'm trying to be a
L A D Y <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />
And I haven't had time to hide all of Aussie tools I've been using either ... when he finds out is that bed offer still open? lol I think I'm joking <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

TAking off what glasses and pads? Are you fighting over blinding the hormonally challenged?

It sounds like a good trip T&L.

I'm impressed that Grandpa still goes camping. I guess he must be able to sleep anywhere?


Anyway, greetings everyone !

SS

HA! Are you talking about the night he fell off the cot at 2AM or the night he threw up about 3AM and then got lost going to the bathroom (right across the street! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />)? HE slept just fine. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />

Well, Neak is back, and Neaksis has promptly disappeared, leaving Neak with all the kids. I heard that she muttered something about it being her "turn" just before she vanished. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Now that we can post pictures, ahem, Neak, we can tell horror--I mean, camping--stories. I want to show you 2 things in the first batch. One is "The Tent that John Built"--he was 12 and the "man" of the trip. The other is my $41,0000+ hole in the ground where they're putting in the new septic. Neak said she thought we could bury a couple hundred people in the hole, and I thought she was joking...until I went out and looked at it. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> If size is what matters, I guess I'm getting my money's worth!

Off to work. Nice patient last night, but I could tell 3 hrs. before the MD finally pulled the plug on her labor that we were going to end up in the operating room. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> Every night is a crapshoot. And you're either lucky or you're not. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

t&l

I am back from the Journey to the Center of the Earth.

Who would've thought the Center of the Earth did not have any phones?

We didn't have time for any long rest stops. Sigh. (The train was a different story.... a little.)

Getting the kids settled, so must dash again. Sorry to have worried all. We tried and tried to call with the limited options available to us.

ok excuse is accepted ............

[color:"red"] but you are still grounded. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> [/color]

I was so incredibly torn on Monday. On the one hand, the chances leaned towards nothing serious being wrong, and I didn't want to overreact in some irretrievably public format. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> On the other hand, I just had this overwhelming feeling that if something were wrong, my daughter would take into her trouble, a sense of confidence that her mother would figure out that something was wrong and do something about it. Hmm-m-m-m-mph. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> It's a good thing she was far away when she told me she'd been happily driving a tractor while I was stewing at home. I wouldn't have known whether to give her a big smack on the lips...or on the butt! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

t&l

CLEAN UP ON AISLE THREE

Ooops ... I didin't do it ... it was the others <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />

Rella

Aussie had some minor vision problems which required him to wear eye pads, use some drops and relax until Wednesday, he wasn't exactly ummmm a cooperative male person <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

so we had ... words.

<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

and EVERY second word is an expletive. Adjustment to normal life is SOOOOO "challenging" ... for me. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

Memo to self ... remind dd to NOT slam doors when dad has just got home. Long & embarrassing story not for tender ears . <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

>remind dd to NOT slam doors when dad has just got home.

Took my dad MANY years not to "patrol the perimeter" or be able to hear the sound of hele-choppers....and he's still a little freaky that way. Makes you love them that much more, imo.

Tell my big bro I am so relieved he's home I get teary when I think about it. Hope you don't mind AW, but the Wookie and I followed what our A was going through (through your words) together. You both are THAT dear to us.

Neak, was thinking about you the other night. I loaned my/your book to my bil and want to reread it....and then got to thinking about you and your dear mom and sister and all your familia....and well, I miss you all.

Don't post much anymore...just a few a day...and seemingly inane stuff at that. I'm doggone tired of sad stuff and don't cope with wishy washyness on anyone's part anymore...which is funny, since I was pretty damned wishy washy, till I crowbarred my head out of my tushy.

But I think of everyone A LOT...and hope they are as happy as I am.

All my love,
Kimmy

morning all!

just so we are clear the expletives aren't coming from me. lol

Kimmy love ya too. Aussie says 'G'day Kimbers' which is pretty talkative these days <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Neak & tl how is all the crew? Hope all are fine and doing well. Aussie also said 'G'day & wheres the Dervish?'
Heard from Neaksis yet or has she hidden herself from all and sundry? lol

<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> wish I could hide from all & sundry ... EVERYONE wants to come around and say hi to Aussie. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> ok .. so I'm unreasonable, I'm allowed <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

Well hey howdy, for a quick second, anyway. The Dervish is asleep, yeeehawwwwwww! {{{{{AW & Clan}}}} {{{{Kimmy & Crew}}}}

Pio - snicker! We need clean up around here a lot.

Neaksis did come back. She is even staying, since her electricity is busted at least till Sunday. No hot water, no major appliances such as stove.

Such a long adventure as we had; I will have to try and be Ernest Hemingway and not Tolstoy.

Friday we left 15 minutes earlier than I had planned, which was plenty early enough. AJ was all antsy to leave, so I had to give up the time that would have gone to checking my list one last time, and just go.

We were only 5 minutes out when he realized he had forgotten the laptop. So much for having internet on the trip. We had SO MUCH time to go back, but he was too twitchy about being late, even though we had over 2 hours yet before check-in time, and almost 3 hours before we actually went anywhere. (We thought.)

A few more minutes and we realized we had no cell phone chargers, either, since we had not brought them, since we were going to use the computer to charge our phones. Both our batteries were almost dead.

A few more minutes and I realized that my tennis shoes, which were on my list, were also still on my bedroom floor, and I was headed to Montana in October with nothing on my feet but thongs.

We arrived at the station 1/2 hour before we were even supposed to be thinking of starting to check in, and 1 1/4 hours before we were to leave. We got there in time to see them lock the station, and the man at the windoe said the last bus had just left, the bus that would have taken us to the train station across town.

So we just drove there, which was no biggie since it was only about 5 minutes, but it was a commuter station entirely outdoors. When we arrived it was very cold and windy, with almost 1 1/2 hours till the train was to arrive.

I huddled with a sweatshirt on, my coat wrapped around my bare legs, and stupid stupid thongs, shivering, as we found out the train was delayed. And delayed again.

Finally, after more than 2 hours in the freezing cold, the train stopped across the street, city politics having made that the only option, instead of the train pulling all the way up to the station, where we walked down - still blocking the street - and boarded.

That took us as far as Sacramento, where we got on our sleeper car. Of course that train was an hour late, too, so we propped each other up in the station till it got there.

I wish the camera phone had had batteries so I could take a picture of the roomette. It was so tiny that it's just as well we were too tired and frozen at 1 am for any extracurricular activity, because we would have either fallen into the next compartment, or become so entangled that the porter would have had to come to our aid.

The bed was narrow even for one person. Sure, I could have slept alone on the top bunk. Emphasis on alone. I was much happier sleeping all night with my butt hanging off the edge, clinging for dear life so I wouldn't fall and get wedged between the bed and the door. I know I slept some, and finally started to warm up a bit.

And evening and morning were the first day.

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