tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75037640255210808462024-03-13T17:17:54.676-06:00Eight Lives to GoKimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01025611350456586531noreply@blogger.comBlogger190125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7503764025521080846.post-61069461321550233972016-03-19T21:51:00.001-06:002016-03-19T21:51:16.092-06:00Back to the 80s!I don't know if I miss the 80s themselves, or I just miss being young...<br />
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Last week (I wrote this at the end of January - oops!) was <b>Snowdown</b><i>,</i> Durango's annual week-long winter festival and the theme this year was "Back to the 80s." I had no idea how much fun I was going to have, how much I missed dancing to great danceable music, and how much I'd love to go back, minus the shoulder pads.<br />
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The fun actually started at 6am January 16th, when hundreds of people were downtown Durango sitting in their cars, in the dark, listening to the local radio station—waiting for the clues...</div>
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Petra and I were at the north end of town and two more friends were at the southern end. Five clues were read on the radio and everyone went nuts! People running in all directions, hoping they had understood a clue—or were following someone who did. A line formed at each of the five designated spots, where each person was given a letter... A-Z. If you were the 27th person in line, you'd better start running again. I was in a line but was sure I was past Z, so I ran to another one and was given an "X." Phew!</div>
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That meant I got a spot on the trolley where I received a number, and then I ran to the Elk's Lodge with my number to get precious tickets to The Follies show, a ridiculous, rude, crude and socially unacceptable take on the 80s theme, local and national politics, and general buffoonery. Snowdown isn't the same if you don't score Follies tickets, and I was the only one of the four of us to get them that freezing morning. Luckily, you're allowed to buy four, so we all got one and woohoo!!</div>
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The festivities always start on a Wednesday with the Dos & Don'ts Fashion Show, an untasty luncheon with hilarious runway show where you'd be forgiven for thinking no one in Durango works.</div>
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Next up was the Kids' Follies, a far gentler version of the adult Follies. </div>
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My siblings might recognize this original 80s shiny jogging suit jacket. ♥</div>
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On Friday night is The Parade, a spectacle nearly the whole town comes out for. The evening was mild and the music rocking. </div>
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And people got creative with their interpretations of the 80s theme. Here is our friend John Ford as Betelgeuse. Ha! Awesome.</div>
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The Follies themselves were excellent this year; in this act the invisible robots lit up to the beat of "Domo Arigato Mr. Roboto." ♫</div>
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Here's Sue during intermission interviewing fellow audience members with a fake microphone. It's never dull with Sue. Ever! She's such a hoot.</div>
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There were hundreds of events over the five days and while I couldn't go to even a small fraction of them, it was enough to feel as though I'd been transported back to Portugal in Marty McFly's time machine and I was gutted when it was over. It took a couple of days to recover from the realization that I'm not young anymore—when did that even happen??—and that I still have clothes from the 80s in my closet, and that I will never, ever have a good hair day like this again:</div>
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Thanksgiving in Tubac and Christmas in Durango and New Year's Eve in Ridgway and New Year's Day in Telluride and it was all wonderful, but now it's time to face the music. On the clock radio. Tomorrow at 6:15AM.<br />
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Tubac, you ask? Yep. South of Tucson, near Arizona's border with Mexico, is Ilona & Michel's new hometown. A colourful, artsy, golfy village, it was Arizona's first European settlement, in 1752. I took this shot on a crisp morning run.</div>
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And this is why I run. Non-stop culinary awesomeness!</div>
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Not everyone is as excited to go running as Mom<br />
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As soon as we got home it was time for the next holiday.</div>
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We hung the stockings and decorated the tree...</div>
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...went bough hunting with Jeanette (and Molly), got all the lights hung outside while it was still warmish, and then... poof!</div>
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My Mom loves Christmas and she always made it truly the most wonderful time of the year - not through over-the-top presents under the tree because, for the most part, our gifts were of the crayons, glue and socks variety. It was the candles burning and branches perched over the paintings, the smell of baking, all the treats, traditions and lights in the windows that made my bedroom glow at night. </div>
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Life!</div>
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I'm working so we can continue providing the kind of life for our girls that Nicolas and I were so fortunate to have had growing up. And only working, all the time, is not the memories I want to create for our squids. </div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 19.32px;">A week ago we went what I believe they call canyoneering (we just called it fun), and as usual, it was a whole lot awesome and a little bit crazy.</span></span><br />
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See Nick's foot? Now look way down to the bottom. That's Acacia who just shimmied down 30ft with her hands and feet.</div>
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One more super fun rappel into a beautiful glade at the canyon's bottom.</div>
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Cayenne coming down the second half of the last rappel.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 19.32px;">I was sore, bruised and scraped, but felt so alive—as I always do with my Nicolas.</span></span><br />
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When we were in Nepal last November, we were on a bus bouncing along very skinny, potholed roads, banked toward massive drop-offs to riverbeds thousands of feet below which has never bothered me before—but then I'd never traveled them as a mother, and never with my kids in the bus with me. So I was the big fat party pooper when, after arriving in a bigger village, I carted my family off the bus and hired a small Jeep to get us to Kathmandu. "Aw Mom! Seriously? And you call yourself a<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"> traveler??"</span></div>
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"Yep. I was a traveler for many years. Now I'm a smart traveler."</div>
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The week before this particular ride a bus had gone over a cliff, and the same the week after. And in between that one and this one posted below from the<i> Gulf Times</i>, many more. It breaks my heart every time. And the thought of experiencing it horrifies me to the core.</div>
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Not saying Jeeps don't go over; they do as well. I was just hedging my bets with its turn radius. And for $25, it was a cheap bet.</div>
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A packed passenger bus plunged over a cliff and killed 30 people in central Nepal yesterday, a senior local official said.<br />
Rescuers struggled to recover bodies and help the injured to safety after the bus fell 200m (656ft) off the mountainous road in Rasuwa district, home to the popular Langtang trekking route.<br />
“Of the 30 dead, 29 were recovered from the accident site and one died while undergoing treatment,” district chief Shiva Ram Gelal said, adding that one of those killed was an infant.<br />
“We have sent 35 other people who were wounded to nearby hospitals and we are continuing to search the area,” Gelal said.<br />
Gelal said the cause of the accident was not clear yet. But injured passengers said the vehicle was overcrowded, with people travelling on the roof, he added.<br />
Shiva Acharya, one of the passengers who escaped the incident after jumping from the bus, said the incident took place after the front wheel of the bus got punctured.<br />
Security personnel from the army, police and armed police force were pressed into service for the rescue operation.<br />
Langtang was devastated in the massive earthquake that hit the Himalayan country in April, killing nearly 9,000 people.<br />
As well as destroying more than half a million homes, the quake caused severe damage to roads in the impoverished nation.<br />
Deadly crashes are relatively common in Nepal because of poor roads, badly maintained vehicles and reckless driving.</div>
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"Mom, if we wait any longer to get pumpkins, Halloween will be over."<br />
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Huh? It's already the end of October??<br />
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Must be good Mom.<br />
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Must get pumpkins before November.<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent;">And then on the way home from showing houses all day on November 2nd I remembered I hadn't taken photos of the girls' pumpkins. </span><br />
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Must do that.</div>
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So I pulled into the driveway and lookie who got to the pumpkins first.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09417123813122721902noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7503764025521080846.post-66512786282686626962015-09-25T21:56:00.003-06:002015-09-25T21:57:51.339-06:00Go Sheesha!Back in August when Acacia was still 12, she and Nick went on a three-day, four-mountain hike to finish off her 14ers.<br />
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And then, because Mt Antero has a rough road that goes way up it, Michel, Ilona, Cayenne & I surprised her for her last summit push. :)</div>
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But that was way back when she was just 12. She's 13 now, as of yesterday. </div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09417123813122721902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7503764025521080846.post-47272911671832147662015-09-04T21:26:00.001-06:002015-09-05T08:02:43.490-06:00... and about That Photo...I'm a good Mom, I swear. A damned good Mom, actually. And like all good parents, sometimes I suck, but this isn't one of those times:<br />
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We were driving over the 32nd Street bridge when one of the girls commented on the orange Animas River, and how it looked mildly clearer (for why it's orange, please see post below). I turned onto E 4th, parked, and we walked down the path to the water.<br />
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Cayenne and Acacia are teenagers now so I didn't have to worry about them jumping into or swallowing any of the river. I grabbed a stick and showed them how the surface of the water was clearing up, but it still appeared yellow because of the heavier metals lying on the sand. There was a clear disconnect between the upper flowing water and the unmoving sediment, so with the stick we made waves to see how strong a current it was going to take to move this sludge downstream, through New Mexico and into Lake Powell where it will sink to the bottom. Hate to say it, but there's some truth in "the solution to pollution is dilution."<br />
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We spoke about what percentage of the city's water comes from the Animas, why we switched off our sprinkler system, were taking shorter showers, and the collective impact it will have. We talked about what was in the water, how it got there, how the best intentions can go horribly wrong, and how we have the choice to stand around blaming people, or to help. The girls asked questions about mining, minerals, the Superfund, etc.<br />
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That was when Jerry McBride of the Durango Herald snapped this photo:<br />
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Nicolas saw it on the BBC (wha??)... and then Googled it, finding out it had been published on every continent. Huh? On the front page of loads of US papers. It's not even an interesting photo, but on the Herald site, among many other threads below the photo discussing the actual situation and not my parenting, there was this line of character skewering (bearing in mind that the water was not radioactive, looking at it or breathing it was not going to harm, and neither the path to the river nor the sand bank was closed):<br />
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As Ms. Cofman stated, her kids neither touched the water nor stepped in the water. </span><br data-reactid=".0.0.2.0:$298610913596332_298674453589978.$right.0.$left.0.3.0:$298610913596332_298795783577845.$right.0.$left.0.1.0.0.0.0.$end/=1$text1/=010" /><br data-reactid=".0.0.2.0:$298610913596332_298674453589978.$right.0.$left.0.3.0:$298610913596332_298795783577845.$right.0.$left.0.1.0.0.0.0.$end/=1$text3/=010" /><span data-reactid=".0.0.2.0:$298610913596332_298674453589978.$right.0.$left.0.3.0:$298610913596332_298795783577845.$right.0.$left.0.1.0.0.0.0.$end/=1$text4/=010">Pointing fingers, I suppose, can be a very easy thing to do in any horrible situation but it is a helpful one? 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There are thousands of abandoned extraction sites in Colorado, and when you have that many land mines lying around, someone is going to step on one. </span><br data-reactid=".0.0.2.0:$298610913596332_298674453589978.$right.0.$left.0.3.0:$298610913596332_298795783577845.$right.0.$left.0.1.0.0.0.3.0.$end/=1$text5/=010" /><br data-reactid=".0.0.2.0:$298610913596332_298674453589978.$right.0.$left.0.3.0:$298610913596332_298795783577845.$right.0.$left.0.1.0.0.0.3.0.$end/=1$text7/=010" /><span data-reactid=".0.0.2.0:$298610913596332_298674453589978.$right.0.$left.0.3.0:$298610913596332_298795783577845.$right.0.$left.0.1.0.0.0.3.0.$end/=1$text8/=010">On a personal note.... in my position as school liaison between the parents and the school ( P.I.E.), at one of our local Elementary Schools, the Cofman family were one of the most progressive in helping our beloved community both in a volunteering capacity as well as being generous donaters. 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(Thank you Jill. I love you!)<br />
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So I showed the girls, and at first they laughed, because they saw how ridiculous it was. But then Cayenne said, "Wow. That's pretty mean-spirited. Did their parents teach them to be so rude?"<br />
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"I wonder if that's what they are teaching<i> their</i> kids. Great parenting!" Acacia added, busting out laughing again.<br />
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"I guess their parents didn't teach them never to write something about someone they wouldn't say to her face."<br />
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"Maybe their parents forgot to explain to them that that's an actual person they're talking about."<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09417123813122721902noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7503764025521080846.post-3677963734734254622015-08-24T00:22:00.001-06:002015-08-24T10:07:01.001-06:00When Gold is Bad. They say water is gold, especially here in the Southwest, but I don't think this is what they mean...<br />
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I took this photo on August 6th, from a bridge near Ilona and Michel's place, and learned from a Durango Herald photographer that the EPA, which has been investigating and mitigating leaking old mines north of here, had accidentally breached a barrier holding back millions of gallons of contaminated water from the Gold King Mine, just past Silverton, about 60 miles upstream.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">(Photo credit: Malcolm McDougall of Silverton<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">And here it is, fouling our Animas via Cement Creek in Silverton. It would be beautiful if it weren't so odious.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">The Environmental Protection Agency would be very easy to blame, but like everything in life, it's more complicated than pointing to the last person to touch something. The Rockies are full of minerals, which is why Colorado's history of mining is so long and rich. It was also virtually unregulated, and it's thanks to today's rules and regs that currently operating mines will be, in theory, better stewards for future generations. Hence the intense irony that it was the EPA to cause this mess. They did not, however, </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">create</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> it. It was already there.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">The water that was gathering behind the collapsed entrance to the Gold King Mine was not chemical-laced waste water from the mining operations - that has had decades to leak out and is, for all intents and purposes, diluted and gone. It's the infinitely replenishing ground water, which would have been pumped out during mine operations to keep the tunnels from flooding, that fills the mine and sits there after it's abandoned. The mixture of water and air oxidizes the metal sulfides in the rock, lowering the overall pH of the water, resulting in acid rock drainage. This is actually a naturally occurring process, and not only confined to long-forgotten mines, but the latter is definitely a bigger culprit, and acidic rivers are not hospitable to a healthy ecosystem.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">They are also unhealthy for tourism, especially when a) it all comes pouring out in one baby-diarrhea mustard tsunami and, b) the media was still flashing horrifying, sometimes glowingly Photoshopped photos of our river like this:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">... days after it already looked like this:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">I took this shot from the same bridge on August 10th, four days after the scourge arrived in Durango.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">So while people were blaming the EPA and the original mine owners and the folks of Silverton who are still resisting Superfund status which would provide the money needed to clean up the many mines in their backyard, Mother Nature quietly got to work.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">And these were taken five days ago on the 18th:</span><br />
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Some of my favourite childhood memories involve camping, so it was way fun to celebrate Cayenne's birthday on a lake, around a campfire, and in a tent.</div>
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Good night 13 year old...</div>
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Good morning 14 year old!</div>
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Presents! Woot!</div>
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And a silly string fight...</div>
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starting with Cayenne's final Colorado 14er on June 20th. That's 55 mountains higher than 14,000ft, before she turned 14.</div>
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Shane and his son Keegan joined us for the big day.</div>
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That's Nicolas on the middle hump, and if you look reeeeally closely, you'll see Cayenne & Acacia climbing up the final push. They're about halfway up the part you can see.</div>
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Cayenne opened her first bottle of champagne on top of Handies Pk (14,058ft/4285m)...</div>
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That was Memorial Day weekend (May 23rd), the proverbial kick-off to summer, but somehow it was more a welcoming back of winter. This is what it looked like going over Molas pass:<br />
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The next day Nicolas, Cayenne, Acacia and I drove from Durango to Silverton (the more normal way to do it) to meet Shane and his kids Keegan and Anikah at our friends Mike and Kim's hundred year old house they let us borrow. The plan was to climb Handies, Cayenne's last 14er, but the crazy storms dumped loads of snow on the mountains, so instead we just hung out in this wonderful mining town and threw snow balls at each other.<br />
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Heartbreakingly, her article was about something equally as tragic as a very bright, capable, kind, gentle, popular 13 year old who couldn't see tomorrow through what he was dealing with today. And who had easy access to a loaded gun.<br />
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Soul-numbing horror.<br />
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Well done, Cayenne. May your life's ups far outweigh the downs you'll write about, read about, and experience.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09417123813122721902noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7503764025521080846.post-30696073624192274222015-05-05T00:08:00.001-06:002015-05-05T00:08:29.473-06:00Tears<br />
I want so much to write about Nepal, but all I can do is cry.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09417123813122721902noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7503764025521080846.post-36692376769120572282015-04-23T20:20:00.003-06:002015-04-23T20:20:14.932-06:00Message from the universeSo I'm working at the desk in our office at home. It's the middle of the day, the girls are at school, the house is silent except for my typing.<br />
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And then the printer wakes up and startles me because I didn't ask it to print anything.<br />
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Well that's weird.<br />
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And then a message from the universe prints itself:<br />
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Kind of cool (that Nick can print on our home computer from Phoenix).<br />
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Kind of freaky.<br />
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And a whole lot of wonderful.<br />
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My stomach sank. I already knew what I was going to see, so I was unprepared for how sad I was to see Firefly, the big fat goldfish, floating upside-down with his white belly bobbing on the surface. The night before, Acacia had run her hands through the little stones at the bottom of the tank looking for something, and it kicked up food the fish hadn't eaten. The crystal water became super cloudy and I knew we should have cleaned it right then, but it was 10:30pm, we were all tired, and, really, I thought these two critters were indestructible.<br />
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"He's still alive!"<br />
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And she was right. His tail was flicking and he was trying to flip over.<br />
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I grabbed the tank, rushed to the bathtub, scooped out both Firefly and Neptune and put them in a bowl of fresh water while we cleaned out the tank and all the stones.<br />
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I'm not a goldfish connoisseur. The girls won these teensy orange minnow-sized aquatic vertebrates tossing rings onto bottles at the county fair. They were never supposed to live this long, grow this big, need an aquarium, nor steal our hearts. Wasn't part of the bargain.<br />
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So I naturally assumed, with my limited fishy expertise, that Acacia had killed poor Firefly, just like I had done to our family goldfish back in the day, although I was too young to remember so it might have been all made up by my big sisters. I do remember flushing our gerbils Twinkle Toes and Powder Puff down the toilet, but that's another story.<br />
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Firefly forced his distended belly over, swam for a few seconds, and then rose upside-down to the surface again where he'd lie motionless - over and over and over. This was painful to watch. I wondered if we'd bury him next to Lupine the Baby Mouse we kept alive for ten days (she even went to a music festival in Telluride).<br />
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I googled floating goldfish and learned that a bacterial infection can cause so much air in their abdomen, they can't stay upright. Peeling frozen peas and breaking them up can be a trick to help move their bowels.<br />
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Or you can just drive the kids to school and go to work, and then come back to two swimmingly happy little fishies. Phew! It was touch and go there for a bit.<br />
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I emailed the girls to let them know it was a medical miracle. Firefly just needed to fart!<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09417123813122721902noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7503764025521080846.post-66111634271783614062015-04-06T22:09:00.003-06:002015-04-06T22:09:24.864-06:00Queen of EverythingTwo huge convoluted deals involving the sales of six houses have all closed - and I feel as though I've got my life back. WooHoooooooooooooooo! If any part of the house of cards fell down, three months of work would have swirled down the toilet.<br />
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I'm so happy!!<br />
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Today was my biggest closing yet, and I came home to a surprise congratulations from Nicolas:<br />
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He seems happy, too.<br />
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This is a good thing, because one of the new owners of one of the six houses gave me a little closing gift...<br />
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This should go over like a lead balloon when Nicolas gets home on Friday.<br />
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Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!<br />
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Just keeping the excitement in our marriage. Hahahahahaha! Oh I love this chair.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09417123813122721902noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7503764025521080846.post-26583041283197830012015-03-15T22:50:00.000-06:002015-03-15T22:51:51.924-06:00My Little RunawayAcacia ran away yesterday.<br />
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I took her iPod Touch after a second discussion (this has happened once before) about leaving it unattended at sleepovers and having friends post things under her name - in this case an unflattering picture on Instagram of a mutual friend - and then changing the password so Acacia couldn't delete the photo instantly. Said mutual used-to-be-friend texted me much later to ask Acacia to remove it, even though Acacia had done so hours prior and had already told her that... i.e. ex-friend tried to get Acacia in trouble by involving me. Because I realised this, my intention was only to teach Acacia why it's so important not to share her password - even with good friends who thought it would be funny.<br />
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Instead she assumed I was going to lay into her and she flipped out and yelled rude things.<br />
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Well, then she <i>was</i> in trouble. I already had her iPod and now she had to do chores on top of it. When I mentioned we were having fish for dinner, that was it. There was no reason in her mind to stay.<br />
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She left at 5:30pm in a tank top, shorts and bare feet, so I wasn't terribly worried. It's been in the 60s during the day, but once the sun sets it gets chilly quickly. She talked the whole time she was leaving about how she'd rather sleep in the woods and get eaten by animals, blah blah blah.<br />
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She was gone an impressive hour and a half. She gets her tenaciousness from her Papa, but in this case it was her ability to fall asleep anywhere (that would be from me) that helped her out.<br />
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Of course, the seat cushion, sleeping bag and wool blanket she slipped into the shed (I <i>looked </i>in there!) helped as well.<br />
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I tried to make her homecoming less tail-between-her-legs with a big hug.<br />
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"Hey - how are you so warm? It's cold out there."<br />
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"Jumping jacks. I was freezing."<br />
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Found out today Cayenne had been trying to sneak food out to her sister, but I started cooking, never left the kitchen and foiled the plan.<br />
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That makes me happy.<br />
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Social media? Not so much. I thought we were doing well by having middle-schoolers without phones or Facebook accounts, but I'm really not interested in keeping them completely cut off, either. These days that would be cause for therapy down the road, and I'll already be blamed for enough!<br />
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I guess all we can do is try to teach them the rules of this crazy techno age, most of which are still being written. Starting with #1:<br />
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Never click 'send' without rereading it and imagining the whole world seeing it - because that is possible every single time.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09417123813122721902noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7503764025521080846.post-44178751792209104562015-03-01T16:55:00.000-07:002015-03-02T21:58:32.961-07:00Eggsactly What I Needed to Remember Most of the Time, Life is Sunny Side Up<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09417123813122721902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7503764025521080846.post-57276377183331029832015-02-17T22:26:00.001-07:002015-02-17T22:30:46.339-07:00Life is Short - but it Could've Been Shorter!Four years ago already.<br />
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Our favourite picnic spot, halfway home.</div>
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My sister-in-law Sophie had peeked at it, as is usually necessary to make such dreams come true, but this year the magic happened all on its own.<br />
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Right before Christmas a package arrived from the North Pole (and Sophie had nothing to do with it!). Sam had asked for one thing: A book on making paper airplanes. What Santa sent him was two books, paper, scissors, colored pencils and all sorts of other goodies, and this handwritten, personal letter:<br />
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Clearly this Santa not only gets joy out of making children happy, but also has a sense of humour. How awesome is that?<br />
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(The post office offers a program where people can pick up letters to Santa and fulfill wishes. Love it!!)<br />
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The rest of Christmas was filled with wonderful surprises as well, including finding out that my brother Jarrett and his family from BC were staying 1 mile away from our Cofman gathering in Palm Desert, CA. The whole scenario was a recipe for fun times, great food and long-overdue reunioning.<br />
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Alan, Greg (Rose's brother), his friend Star, my brother Jarrett and his Rose, and my Nick.</div>
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They became fast friends and housemates, and share many adventurous Kathmandu memories including mountain biking, momos and meeting Parmila, the love of Alan's life.<br />
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Married 20 years ago today. ♥</div>
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Happy Anniversay!</div>
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Decades later these boys' wives connected through facebook, which is how Parmila and Alan in Hong Kong learned we would be in Kathmandu. Their HK flight landed not too long after we returned from our trek, and we had a blast zipping through Kathmandu's memory lanes and dusty alleys.<br />
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No more tuk-tuks in Kathmandu (bittersweet news, that was), so we settled on this tuk-tuk-like bus.</div>
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We found Allan's old house, and then his old landlord who remembered them both.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09417123813122721902noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7503764025521080846.post-47156136807617810942015-01-25T00:44:00.001-07:002015-01-25T18:39:17.314-07:00Chitwan - Nepal Part 3An urgent rapping on the door woke us up at 1 AM.<br />
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"Mom! Cayenne just puked <i>everywhere</i>!"<br />
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And indeed, it was: All over the duvet, pillow, sheets, blanket, through to the mattress. I went to the bathroom and there she was sitting on the toilet, looking wan and defeated, not knowing from where the next violent bout would erupt.<br />
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Acacia went back to our room and snuggled into my still-warm bed, cozy and asleep in minutes, while Cayenne dragged herself into the bathtub. As I washed the vomit out of her hair and watched the water run down her back and over her protruding hip bones, I silently hoped this would be short-lived. My body could use a long run of something like this, but not hers.<br />
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Fresh and clean, she climbed into Acacia's original bed while I helped Nick empty the room of every soiled item, including the mattress itself. Now short a bed, I joined Cayenne in hers. If this was contagious, I was already going to get it.<br />
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We were in Chitwan at a lovely lodge when the scourge hit. The food on the trek was nothing we had to worry about but post-trek and pre-Chitwan, we'd been gorging in Kathmandu for a few days. We'll never know what Cayenne ate or where she picked it up, but her timing was impeccable; the next morning we had a date with an elephant - without a toilet.<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Misty sunrise from atop an elephant. Can't beat that! I can still smell the composting jungle floor.</span><br />
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Can I save them, or should I toss these underwear into the pit?</div>
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One o'clock in the morning again and this time it was me waking me up. I bolted out of bed and just made the bathroom in time, where I spent the rest of the night...<br />
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... before getting on a bus for 6 hours the next day. Guess it <i>was</i> contagious.<br />
Good times, my friends!<br />
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Acacia took this photo because she was amazed that goat didn't fall off the bus as it lurched its way into Kathmandu. And that's where we're heading for the 4th and final post for Nepal. But I promise it won't take a month this time. My job has gotten so busy I don't even know where that month went.<br />
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See you in Shangri-La.<br />
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PS: The scourge was fast and furious; both Cayenne and I were good as new very quickly, which was good, because we had come serious shopping to do in Kathmandu.<br />
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