About August 20, 2007
well, for those of you who know who I am, I have put this blog together to keep up with my brother and to share a bit of myself with who ever is looking. I will include bits of my life and photo updates of some of my creations…. which could include stitching, food or my kids………… my hope is that my family will read along and my brother will comment when he can and let us know where he is. Hey!!! kind of like a conference call!!!
COLD HARD FACTS>
I am a vegetarian.
I have been in Japan for over 20 years.
I have been married for over 12 years.
I have 3 children……they are 12, 10, and 7
I went to jr. high. high school and college in Washington state.
I grew up in Alaska.
I was born in Texas and own a pair of cowboy boots.
I have a degree in Speech Pathology.
I studied anatomy in college. it was quite traumatic.
I knit.
I quilt.
I sew everything by hand…I don’t really like using a machine.
I love the book Dandelion Wine by ray bradbury…..
Favorite Music includes…..Cat Stevens, The Grateful Dead, Heart, Tina Turner, ………….
I have over 600 c.d.s
I would love to let materialism go but I find great comfort in my possessions….
I think that HAROLD AND MAUDE and WAYNE’S WORLD are 2 of the best movies ever made.. brilliant soundtracks and comedy genius!!!!!!!!!
two books I turn to for inspiration are WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES and GIFT FROM THE SEA (both books from my mom)
I howl at the moon.
The latest trip your brother took with his family was to upstate New York. A week in the Adirondacks beside a quiet mountian lake sounds idyllic until you add that his wife’s family was there as well…all 17 of them. Good just maybe not restful.The kids (his) have been planning when grandma and grandpa and their cousins in AK and Japan can come visit.
This week your brother is in Indonesia and then off to Korea.
The little cousins would love to hear about what the older cousins are doing.
What is this Blog business, anyway.I am still trying to use a dial telephone. For my part, I recently spsent two days working on a ‘house for humanity’.
Been a long time since I have worked so hard. But, good aches and pains.
Now, lets see if this missave will go thru. J
grandma H says hi and all is well here, cool but nice, I will take this cooler weather over your HOT stuff. Today I finished up my applesauce so now have used up all the green apples, now drying some of the red ones. Next maybe the NUTS will fall. Love, me
Cool on the Humanity House Grandpa. OUr church has a group that does that but I figure that I will need to wait until the girls are bigger before I can do much with them. Weather here has been lots of severe storms- got 5in of rain last Thur and more lightning strikes in one storm than the entire year- no kidding.We have been hanging out in the living room just in case trees fall on the house again.Getting some trees taken out tomorrow.
Been getting some great fresh peaches- have you ever canned any? Nothing like fresh peaches on pancakes- one of my favorite meals last year at Birch Bay.
Your son is in the heat in Indonesia and trying to get some miles in on training for our 1/2 marathon the end of Sept.
KG has been working on 1st grade and doing well. Bizy doing well and always listening in on the older lessons-she chimes in on a bunch of KG’s questions. They are both swimming up a storm. Guess which one is very technical and precise about the strokes and which one plunges in calling herself “cannonBelle”? Better signoff so I can get some miles done in tha am before the natives wake up. Love to all, K8
here I am, grandma H and it is getting bed time but will add a little while I am closing up the basement. It is cooler tonight but feels real good. We worked around the house today, father mowed the lawn and we also dryed some apples. We are getting ready for our trip and just maybe we have not mentioned the trip, going toN.D, Minn., Iowa and Salt lAKE, DRIVING OF COURSE.hOPE THE WEATHER IS BETTER THEN AND NOT SO HOT. M AND D WILL BE IN iOWA THE SAME TIME WE ARE. pROBABLY WE WILL BE LEAVING WEEK AFTER NEXT. i AM NOT LOOKING FORWARD TO IT AND ALL THAT DRIVING> lOVE gRANDMA h.
He’s in Korea and will head east later tonight to be home tomorrow. Love to all, K8
FYI-Safe in VA until 9/02 to the UK.
Am I blogging? I am home from Korea, Indonesia and the UK, scheduled to fly back to the UK this Sunday night for budget stuff. Maybe get to see a cricket match with my friend who is captain of his club and they lead the league. Funny game to watch but a very nice way to spend an evening and a very nice pint. Ok, I will hit submit and see where this goes….
Hey, Jan…..Thanks for visiting my blog. I’m here looking around at your family updates. = ) I’m off to check out your Flickr now. jan in VA.
I replied on my own blog, but thought I’d try here too. Now, I take it you are still currently living in Japan? And hey, btw, nice to meet you too!