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"Hello Decadent?"
"It's Elderly Cousin."
"Oh hello, how are you?"
"Decadent, are you mad at me? I haven't been able to reach you the past two weeks."
"Oh no, just busy - One Old Man - here and there. Yourself?"
"I've been well, just a little cough. But not sick or anything. Some of those old people at the senior center are sick with flu. Not swine or anything. My friend Vivian fell and broke her hip and my other friend Janelle over in that home in Chatham fell and she broke her hip. People aren't careful. They just go too fast. They should be careful."
"Yes. We should be careful.""There is so much wind today. Do you have wind too, Decadent?"
"No, but it looks like it's going to storm, Elderly Cousin, have you heard?"
"No, I haven't heard - haven't had the radio on, although one son fixed it the last time he was here. Have you been working outside?"
"Yes, I got the roses pruned, although it was late, should have done that over a month ago. I left a few canes on my miniature climber. I started it from the one at The Farm. It's old, from Dad's grandmother's mother. I think they brought it over a few centuries ago from somewhere. I saw the same rose in an article about heirloom roses."
"I started some a few years ago and tried propagating more last fall, but somebody knocked the canes loose from the pots, so I'll go back to burying the canes right into the ground. Did you know that the mother is red but one of the daughters came up white?"
"Say, well. I've never heard of anything like that."
"Is your rhubarb up?"
"Yes, it is Decadent, and my son from far away is visiting my daughter far across the ocean. He's the one who lost his job a year ago so he decided to go visit her. He's fixing her house for her while he's there."
"Oh my."
"The front porch began to sag and she wanted to remove it, so she paid for his way over and bought him tools to work with when he got there. He said it would be a shame to tear off the front porch of a five hundred year old house. They have such old houses over there."
"Well, it must be a good house otherwise, Elderly Cousin, if the porch is only falling off now - we haven't been able to get even two decades out of our roof."
"Yes, well, my other son from far away is going over for all of July, although I don't know why. And the little granddaughter is four now. She speaks perfect French and German and English and even understands Spanish. Those countries are so small over there, you know."
"How is everybody keeping out your way?""Speedy is in B.C."*
"Say, well."
"His friend's sister moved out there. Speedy and his friend drove her car out to her. They went up through the Soo* and cut across the States - the Badlands - Montana. They called back though on their first day out with car trouble. GG told them what he thought it was. He was right. They slept one night in the car out on the prairies somewhere."
"Well, won't they have stories to tell?!"
"They fly back in a few more days. I suspect someday Speedy will want to move out there."
"Well. It all changes doesn't it? They all grow up, Decadent."
"Yes. And we have no hot water and GG is trying to fix it."
"Say, well."
"He took out a part and brought in another part from The Shop from Hell and spent part of the morning calling around for parts and then he thought he had it fixed but came back up from downstairs with black smudged face and fingers holding some other kind of part and said, "Oh, I wasn't real careful." I'm leaving tonight for Ottawa with Violinist, although he's been sick with flu the past few days. No, no, not swine. Yes, I'm making chicken soup right now. He is going on business and asked me to come along with him. We are driving up, enjoying a few extra days and taking the train back."
"Well. Isn't that nice?"
"I will call you when we get home, Elderly Cousin."
"That will be nice. I'm having lunch today with my friend."
"Oh how wonderful!"
"He is so good to me and does things for me around here."
"Yes, you need someone around to do things. GG was just last night over to One Old Man's doing things for him. No, I didn't go over. I've been busy sewing a vest for Buff. But I'm afraid I've ruined it. I wasn't careful and burned a big hole in the front facing - the part that folds over to the outside. No, I have no more fabric."
"Say, well - that's a shame, but I'm sure you can fix it. Hope you get your hot water back soon. You take care."
"You too. Say hello to everyone."
"Happy Mother's Day, Decadent."
"Happy Mother's Day, Elderly Cousin."(*B.C, British Columbia, is one of Canada's ten provinces. Located on Canada's west coast, it is beautiful there - ocean and mountains and grizzlies, oh my. The apple orchard pictured above is in Ontario, where there are no grizzly bears.
*Soo - Sault Ste. Marie)
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Catching Up
4 comments:
- Jeanne said...
Love and hugs and Happy Mother's Day
Love Jeanne
- May 10, 2009 at 12:16 PM
- Mental P Mama said...
So much wisdom there. And we should all slow down;)
- May 11, 2009 at 8:46 AM
- Caution Flag said...
I knew it!! You're Jane Austen reincarnated, aren't you?
- May 11, 2009 at 10:15 AM
- Decadent Housewife said...
I've been accused of a lot in my time, but being Jane Austen is a first. I look really bad wearing empire too. :)
- May 11, 2009 at 3:49 PM
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It was a pretty exciting night at Mathletes this week. River, as a team, ended up in a three way tie for first place with Harvest and Redwood.
After a three-way final tie-breaker, River ended up in second place. The winning team in the final comprised of: Bradley Hutchings, Vanessa Chen, and David Tokar.
Individual awards were given out for the individual part of the contest – River winners were: Daisy Zamora 1st, David Tokar 2nd, and Shelby Love 3rd in 8th grade. Seventh grade was Bradley Hutching 1st and Vanessa Chen third. River had no sixth graders in the competition. Also competing were Josie Wallace and Isabel Martin.
We are so proud of our awesome River Mathletes!

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Are you ready to say sayonara to the single life? Gather your girlfriends for one last hurrah at one of these unique, celebration-worthy Chicago hot-spots. Why settle for a boring bachelorette bash when you can transform into mermaids, capture your retro charm on camera or enjoy a little apres-ski indulgence minus the mountains? Here are our picks for the best spots in Chicago to host a one-of-a-kind bachelorette bash.
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It was probably easier to charge your electric car in 1923 than it is today
We have shown Edison's electric cars many times on TreeHugger, but EVs are not much use if you don't have a place to charge them. So the New York Edison Company rolled out a charging infrastructure that looks pretty good. James Ayre of EV Obsession writes: "I'm actually a bit surprised at how comprehensive the charging network was at the time — though, granted, the island was much less densely populated at the time, so finding locations to place stations was probably a much simpler affair."
It is indeed a comprehensive network, with charging stations spread out throughout Manhattan, right up through Harlem to the top of Broadway. It even extends out into the Bronx.
I think it is interesting to compare it to the Tesla charging stations shown on the Tesla site. These are destination charging stations, where Tesla "partners with hotels, restaurants, shopping centers and resorts to make charging when you arrive at your destination as simple as charging at home. Pull up and plug into a Tesla wall connector to charge Model S while you shop, dine, or even during an overnight stay."
There isn't a single station shown above 96th Street; Evidently Tesla drivers don't venture north of the Museum district. Unlike Edison's network, which is relatively evenly spaced, the Tesla network seems to follow the money.
The Plugshare map, a directory of all different kinds of charging stations rather than just Tesla, is a little bit better. But apparently you don't want to run low on juice north of Central Park in your Leaf either.
Interestingly, if you live in lower Manhattan it is a lot easier to find a charger than it is to find gas; the high price of land has squeezed gas stations out of the market. The gas stations sort of start where the charging stations stop, up around the top of Central Park.
TreeHugger has previously quoted a 1916 source that listed a reason electric cars did not catch on:
The failure of [power companies] to make it easy to own and operate the electric by an adequate distribution of charging and boosting stations. The early electrics of limited speed, range and utility produced popular impressions which still exist.
It seems we are repeating that mistake. Right now you have to be pretty rich to drive a Tesla, so it makes sense that the chargers are located where rich people hang out. Perhaps that will change as the cost of electric cars continues to drop. But right now, it doesn't look particularly fair and equitable. Why am I surprised?


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SAN FRANCISCO --An out of this world fight is taking place right here on earth in a courtroom.
A Virginia doctor and the landlord of his office building are fighting over who owns a meteorite that landed in the doctor's office last month.
The doctor says the tennis ball-sized rock crashed through his ceiling. However, the building's landlord sent the doctor a letter, saying the rock becomes part of where it lands and is legally his property.
The Smithsonian museum in Washington DC is keeping the rock until a legal owner is determined.
The collectors' market for meteorites can be lucrative.


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Town of Tolland
Board of Assessors Meeting Minutes
January 25, 2011
Opened at: 10:00
In attendance:
Susan Voudren
Susan Moore
Jessica Kelmelis
Minutes from the December meeting were read and accepted.
2 Real Estate abatements were discussed. Application #5 has been continued until the return of the property owner in the spring. A letter will be sent to the property owner to confirm the continuance to a date no later than June 1
. Application #6 will be continued for an additional 30 days.
A letter to the Board of Director's at Wildwood Property Owners Association regarding the eligibility of WPOA for Chapter 61B was read and approved. The letter will be sent with an application attached. A copy of the letter will be filed in the WPOA Land Value file in the assessors' office.
The Board of Assessors discussed the status of Clause 17 elderly exemptions in Tolland. The Board recommends that the Board of Selectmen place a article on Annual Town Meeting warrant to accept Clause 17D. Jessica will present to the Board of Selectmen on January 31
Jessica reported on a conversation with legal counsel about the revised Open Meeting Law. It was made clear that it is the responsibility of each Board to post meeting notices and agendas. In addition, postings must be filed with the office of the town clerk. This was to clarify a misunderstanding that the town clerk was responsible for posting all Board notices and agendas.
The Board of Assessors finalized the FY2012 budgets for assessor expenses and clerking salaries. Budgets will be submitted to Margaret McClellan on January 26
. Copies can be found either in the Selectmen's office or in the assessors' FY2012 Budget file.
Meeting adjourned 11:05
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