Tuesday, August 12, 2014

A milestone

Somehow I have become a 70 year old person.  It's not so bad after all, but I was worried about it beforehand.  There was quite a bit of celebrating in a modest delightful fashion, and now I'm about to embark on a trip to see my family.  We're convening in Ohio this time.  I'm going by bus and train and there is lots of packing left to do before 5:15 tomorrow morning, but I promised I would post an update on my weeping guitar cloth so:
It's not done yet.  It's a landscape of recent events, more or less.  Except for the frog...I have no idea where she came from...

Gilly and I went to our friends' farm in the Central Valley on the weekend.  It's very very dry there.  Here are the donkeys:
They're so much whiter than the last time we visited.

And here is Gilly; it was hot!

That will be all for now.  It's 10 pm...I've been up since 5 this morning and there seems like lots more to do, but I'm about ready for a nap.  Love to you all. xoxo, s.

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  1. oh that weeping guitar cloth is fantastic; the frog is so funny, maybe she leap-frogged her way across the ocean from my place to yours...Congratulations on your 70th birthday; I hope you have a nice trip with your family

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    1. Hi Saskia, thank you for the good wishes!. I am home now...it was a good trip. I love the thought of the ocean-leaping frog...

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  2. Congratulations on your 70th birthday, Suzanna. I hope you'll have a nice journey.

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    1. Hi Sandra! Sorry to be so long in replying...it has taken me forever to get caught up with myself after the trip, which was a good one...maybe that's why the re-entry was so prolonged and not so easy...

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  3. Very best wishes for this special milestone, Suzanna, may you have a lovely time with family ...
    and doesn't Gilly look so darn cute in her bandana?!

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    1. Thanks so much Christi...she does like to get dressed up, but she gets a bit wilted in the heat, which neither of us is very used to...Thank you for the birthday wishes...now that I'm nearly a month into this new "age", I can report that it's rather OK...very much so in fact.

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  4. Ahhhh Suzanna, though it will still take me two years to get to that point, I don't think it's too bad either .... because in our ears Georges guitar is wheeping like it did all those years ago ;-)
    LOVE your piece !
    All the best Suzanna (and up to many more in good health)

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    1. Els, thank you! I am very grateful for the good health so far...

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  5. we keep going, it's never that bad, i have no idea how old i am anymore. what i expected has all vanished.

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    1. For me some of the vanishings have reappeared to startle me and presto! then they disappear again. I'm learning, the long and hard way, to just let it be...

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  6. Happy Birthday Suzanna !
    to quote Keith Richards, "Getting old is a fascinating thing. The older you get the older you want to be."

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