Where is everyone??

At least mine has endlessly gone over the maps before we leave. He has to know where he is going to go this fast !

Wish I could read or craft while moving, but I still get motion sickness. Wouldn't you really think that you'd grow out of that after 50 years ?! Well, the last couple of long trips, at least I could get him to stop for food or bathroom breaks. Matter of fact, we just got back from a quick trip to Boston to drop off some papers: I drove in, his lawyer(or secretary) came down to the door, I pulled a couple of U-turns to pick him up, stopped at my insurance company real quick, and we were heading back home. Don't think it took 2-1/2 hours total. Luckily, he hates driving into Boston, so I get to drive. That way I'm not a wreck when we get home.

-- Carey

No - I still haven`t grown out of it and I`ll be 70 in July! I can`t even bend down to pick anything up off the floor in the car! Thankk goodness for air conditioning.

Some days I can go to Scotland from here - other days 5 miles is enough to set me off!

Pat P

Really!!! One Easter morning, early in our marriage, we drove around the countryside for 45 minutes looking for a church that is part of our

3-church parish that we hadn't yet been to. By that time, the service was half over so we just went to my sister's place. Do you think he could have stopped at *any* of the 30 or so farmsteads we drove past to ask??? Ha! And, it turns out that *my* thoughts on where it was were right but he wouldn't believe me! Men. sigh. Can't live with'm, can't shoot'm! :)

Joan

hahahahaha Joan!

EASTER break? That was AGES ago1

Pat P>

I expect she MEANT banes! Loosely translated as a curse - or just a bloody nuisance! ROFLMAO!!!

Pat P

Now, Pat,

Do you REALLY want to read my mind?? Actually, life is so great here that I could dance. I can't wait to get to stitching, but we have moved my desk (which Jim piled everything on which wasn't HIS) and the big filing cabinet into the MIL's old room. I have gone through every darned file in that cabinet, and about burnt out the shredder!! Then, I put my charts into new file cabinets, and my desk will be CLEAN!!! I have my calendar on the wall; the one you sent me at Christmas, so my friends are nearby. I plan to get other pieces on the wall, and install a sleep-sofa, or futon, if we HAVE to have guests. The MIL is doing well and is going to teach an art class this week. She is 88 and blind as a bat, but then, so are her students!!!

Gill

Pat EAXStitch wrote:

Sounds as if her relocation is a resounding success for all concerned!!! How wonderful for you all - you must feel like a new woman. I bet it`s taken YEARS off you!

I`m trying to persuade DH that we should sell the dining room suite (since we rarely use it now!) and make the dining-room just the computer room, instead of the hell-hole of a combination that it is right now!

Everything we don`t know what to do with gets piled in there - particularly the things that DH doesn`t know what to do with - then he complains that it`s all down to me that it`s a tip!

We could always have a foldaway bed in there for emergency stop-overs, too.

Pat P

Our main problem is that Jim is a computer fix-it guru, and actually goes dumpster diving for weird parts, which are NEVER thrown away! They may be useful,and to be honest sometimes they are. He fixes up the computers for free for all the old grannies and grandads here. ( Old always being 10 years older than me!!).. Additionally we are ham radio folk, so he has miles of wire and radios all over the place. He equates wire with floss, and I can see that!!LOL

Gill

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Really glad to hear the MIL has settled - sometimes nursing homes are the answer and they enjoy the company they find there. I am also very happy that you are able to spread yourself out at last and will be able to roam whenever you feel like it.