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Henrietta23
Yard Farmer
I love you Abi! In a totally healthy not weird or creepy way!
We are back from letterboxing. It was a 50/50 day. We tried to find 2 boxes but only succeeded with one. It was a nice hike in the woods. We didn't run into a soul. We took Indy on his extendable leash and he had a great time sniffing around. By the time we were hiking back the second trail he was content to walk along side us rather than sniff ahead, behind and off to the sides. He did find a deer carcass he would have loved to roll in but we managed to keep him going. The second box was relatively close to home on an old railroad line. We found the area where it was supposed to be but it seems someone found and removed the box.
No fun. I notified the "placer" that we weren't able to find it. We'll see if he gets back to me. Dh has decided rather than having me cook for my mom and dad here he is taking us all out for sushi!
No cookin' or cleanin' for me!! He got me a gorgeous Bennington Pottery bowl. It was a limited edition made for Presidents' Day but he contacted them and they still had some so he got one! It's huge!
Going out to fill bird feeders and see what DS is up to. He just popped in to ask if he could walk a goat next door... to the house with the crazed German Shepherds.....
we lost a friend today. We didn't find out until we'd returned from dinner and it was in a strange roundabout kind of way that we did find out. I'm having some anger about it all. You see, this was one of DH's bandmates, someone he was quite close to... and we found out through close friends who barely knew the man because they called to see if DH was okay. Only DH hadn't heard. Our friends found out because the news went out by EMAIL to the band fan list. Before all the band itself had been told! Here's what we figured out happened. Last night our friend Jim was working the sound system for another band. He wasn't feeling well but didn't think much of it. He went home after the gig. The man whose band he had worked for last night called this morning to see how he was feeling. Jim's wife had to tell him that Jim woke up this morning still not feeling well. She took their dog out for a walk and Jim went back to bed. When she came back from her walk, Jim was gone... So the guy who called, called our mutual friend and band member Tom. Tom decided he didn't want to call everyone on Mother's Day with bad news so he sent out an email. After DH checked his. So he never saw it. Someone else did and started Facebook postings and fan email and by the time we got home from dinner friends who are on the band fan list had called to us to see if DH was okay and find out what we knew about services etc. DH feels like he has had the rug pulled out from under him. I'm stunned that people would start posting online before those closest to him could be notified in a more traditional way. I'll get over the anger and start grieving for the loss now. Just needed to vent that I think. It was a really sucky way to find out really sucky news. Compounding this is the fact that isn't the first death the band has had to cope with. Their lead singer was killed in a tree cutting accident that should never have happened about 5 years ago. It took them over a year to bounce back from that and now this.
