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Topic Started: Jul 19 2008, 09:54 AM (288 Views)
DivaDeb
HOLY CARP!!!
I've been in Tulsa for the last weeks, and will be one more, for the ballet. I was asked if I would play next summer, which is pretty weird, but in a good way. I don't even know why these people want me...I really don't, but I am not complaining, it's great. It will be challenging to play for strangers who don't speak English :blink: There are a couple of Russians and several Italians. I can at least speak MUSIC in Italian, and I can also converse about any subject that's ever come up in the operas of Verdi or Puccini...so...love, hatred, suspicion, betrayal, death, assassination, matricide, suicide, tuberculosis, and tiny frozen hands, few of which topics are of all that much use in Oklahoma in July during a pointe class.

We're having fun too. Been to the museums (Tulsa is a little gem, if you don't know) to Boston Ave UMC (one of the finest examples of art deco architecture you will ever see, with a glorious Moller organ that shivers me timbers to the core.) Will is with me this week, we drove outside of town to a farm and picked 20 lbs of blackberries, which we've frozen. They're huge and amazing.

My sister's pool is wondrous, so we've been swimming every day for the first time in years. Feels great.
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Mark
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HOLY CARP!!!
:wave:

Good to see you here again!
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kenny
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Hi DD.

Hey, I'll be driving through Kansas/OK next month if ya wanna say Howdy.
I'm driving to Canada in a few weeks.
I'll be crashing at the homes of various charitable souls along the way, including apple.
Dates will be set soon.
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DivaDeb
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awesome, Kenny!

I hated missing Jon, but I caught a bug and didn't want to share it. I would love to see you! Let me know what your ETA is and I'll try to set things up so I can get over to apple's. We'll be moving child 2 into a dorm next month, so I may need to juggle some balls and shift some students.
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RosemaryTwo
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HOLY CARP!!!
:wave2:
"Perhaps the thing to do is just to let stupid run its course." Aqua
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Optimistic
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HOLY CARP!!!
Hi Deb! :wave:

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we drove outside of town to a farm and picked 20 lbs of blackberries

DROOL.
PHOTOS

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.
- Mark Twain


We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
-T. S. Eliot
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DivaDeb
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thanks for the note, R2, and sorry I didn't say something about being gone. I got real busy, forgot, and then stayed busy.
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Dewey
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I wondered where you'd been! :wave:
"By nature, i prefer brevity." - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, p. 685.

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apple
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i've missed ya Deb.

come back soon
it behooves me to behold
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DivaDeb
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Optimistic
Jul 19 2008, 01:37 PM
Hi Deb! :wave:

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we drove outside of town to a farm and picked 20 lbs of blackberries

DROOL.

lookie, Opti...this is how big they are:

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here's Will with part of our harvest as we were getting them ready to freeze

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he's been such wonderful company for me while Merry is dancing. I can play the studio pianos (NICE PIANOS) after 4 and I have been doing that regularly, and also eaves dropping some on each of the teachers so I can get an idea of what they like. THe only thing that is really different from the studio at home is that the summer intensive ballet class is 2 hours long followed by an hour of pointe after a fifteen minute break. At home, it's 90 minutes, about a five minute break and then the hour of pointe. I think the last thirty minutes of a 2 hour ballet class will seem eternal, but the 15 minute break will be nice. There is only one teacher that I have any concerns about. She scares the cr*p out of pretty much everybody.
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RosemaryTwo
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DivaDeb
Jul 19 2008, 10:40 AM
thanks for the note, R2, and sorry I didn't say something about being gone. I got real busy, forgot, and then stayed busy.

Zall right, of course.

Good to hear from you.
"Perhaps the thing to do is just to let stupid run its course." Aqua
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Horace
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Hi Deb, missed you.
As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good?
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Rick
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Optimistic
Jul 19 2008, 10:37 AM
Hi Deb! :wave:

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we drove outside of town to a farm and picked 20 lbs of blackberries

DROOL.

Every Saturday night, our baseball team plays, and I always get my mind right by riding my scooter ,stopping at a canal on the way there, and kicking it there for about an hour. It's got shade and I take my shoes off and soak me toes in the icy water, (it's basically snowmelt from the Sierras). I'll pop my quart of Coors and open a bag of seeds and kick it. There's a pasture of cows across the canal that are always fun to watch the calves romping around. And right behind me is this big ole patch of blackberry bushes. Right now they are peaking and I will fill up a baggy of them and plop them into my ice chest and then head to the game. I love fresh blackberries!

Good to see ya back Deb!

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LadyElton
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Hey Deb!

I'm glad things are going well. Those blackberries look really tasty.

I'm doing well. I am 2 years sober as of June 22. I might be out of a job come October, but am going to apply at a place closer to home.

We all wish you. Don't be a stranger. :wave:
Hilary aka LadyElton
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DivaDeb
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Hillary, I'm so proud of your anniversary! I'm sure you'll do well with the job thing, whichever way it goes.

I've had the nicest not really doing anything kind of day. Merry had rehearsal earlier, but Will took her and picked her up. While he was gone, I grouted a couple of mosaics we spent yesterday afternoon making...just...y'know...for the helluvit. Pretty fun.

Here's mine:

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Here's Will's (kind of got a Lloyd Wright thing going on there)

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a few days ago, we went to the ceramic place and painted pottery (may sound boring to you guys, but it's the ultimate therapy for me to have a paint brush in my hand, some colors to dip it in and literally any motionless surface to put the paint on. I have one piece yet to be fired, but here's my bowl from that day:

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and Will's very cool plate thingummie:

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so anyway, after I got done with the grout and cleaned up the place, Merry and Will were back. Merry and I had some lunch and then LAID AROUND IN THE BED AND WATCHED TERRIBLE TV ON NICKOLODEON for about an hour and stuffed blackberries down our throats. It was so delicious. Then we went in the pool for a coupe hours. Got out, took some photos of a dragonfly that was posing on one of my sister's hybiscus. Here he is:

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"I'm ready for my close-up, Mr. DeMille"

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I had a shower, and now Chef William is constructing a wonderful smelling goulash and then we're going to watch Radio. Merry got out a nail file and lotion and two pairs of socks. I think that means we're giving each other pedicures during the movie. Perfect end to a lazy day.
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Mikhailoh
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
Awesome pictures - even MORE awesome blackberries!

Glad to see you.
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball
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Jolly
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Geaux Tigers!
DivaDeb
Jul 19 2008, 02:21 PM
Optimistic
Jul 19 2008, 01:37 PM
Hi Deb! :wave:

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we drove outside of town to a farm and picked 20 lbs of blackberries

DROOL.

lookie, Opti...this is how big they are:

Posted Image

here's Will with part of our harvest as we were getting them ready to freeze

Posted Image

he's been such wonderful company for me while Merry is dancing. I can play the studio pianos (NICE PIANOS) after 4 and I have been doing that regularly, and also eaves dropping some on each of the teachers so I can get an idea of what they like. THe only thing that is really different from the studio at home is that the summer intensive ballet class is 2 hours long followed by an hour of pointe after a fifteen minute break. At home, it's 90 minutes, about a five minute break and then the hour of pointe. I think the last thirty minutes of a 2 hour ballet class will seem eternal, but the 15 minute break will be nice. There is only one teacher that I have any concerns about. She scares the cr*p out of pretty much everybody.

Just guessin'....but is that a boysenberry, not a blackberry?
The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros
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Optimistic
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HOLY CARP!!!
Now those are some impressive looking berries!!
PHOTOS

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.
- Mark Twain


We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
-T. S. Eliot
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DivaDeb
HOLY CARP!!!
Jolly
Jul 20 2008, 01:06 PM
DivaDeb
Jul 19 2008, 02:21 PM
Optimistic
Jul 19 2008, 01:37 PM
Hi Deb! :wave:

Quote:
 
we drove outside of town to a farm and picked 20 lbs of blackberries

DROOL.

lookie, Opti...this is how big they are:

Posted Image

here's Will with part of our harvest as we were getting them ready to freeze

Posted Image

he's been such wonderful company for me while Merry is dancing. I can play the studio pianos (NICE PIANOS) after 4 and I have been doing that regularly, and also eaves dropping some on each of the teachers so I can get an idea of what they like. THe only thing that is really different from the studio at home is that the summer intensive ballet class is 2 hours long followed by an hour of pointe after a fifteen minute break. At home, it's 90 minutes, about a five minute break and then the hour of pointe. I think the last thirty minutes of a 2 hour ballet class will seem eternal, but the 15 minute break will be nice. There is only one teacher that I have any concerns about. She scares the cr*p out of pretty much everybody.

Just guessin'....but is that a boysenberry, not a blackberry?

nope, they're thornless Black Satin blackberries. As big, in some cases, as a boysenberry but sweeter and black as night. No gloves necessary to pick either...I'm wondering if I could get away with them. They're supposed to be hardy to zone 5. I'm always a little skeptical, but boy...would that ever be worth messing with.
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