...and I've got buds, and mushrooms. I find this disquieting.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2003

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Would it be more calming if they were buried under snow? I could send you some.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2003

we are under severe storm watch all week-end, and the police issued "emergency only " travel on many of the roads!

glad you have buds~~~ I love checking the buds.. but in March!

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2003

Peter has buds and mushrooms and here I was worried about a few wrinkles, lololol! Sorry. Ahem. I've been so busy in the house I haven't had time to go out and look around. Kim from Grannie's picked up the king bed set and the triple dresser and night stands today. Sally Army picked up the old fruidge, the video cabinet, the floor fan and numerous bags of books, clothes and hosuehold items. I really feel as if I'm making a bit of progress now. I have a little space in this house!

We were close to 70 yesterday, tonight will go down to 26 and tomorrow won't be much better.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2003

Peter, there are ointments and creams that you can get over the counter these days that can clear up most anything in a couple days.

Git, are you getting ready to move or just cleaning out the house?

-- Anonymous, January 11, 2003

Yes. Clearing some stuff so I have ROOM to do repaiting, painting, cleaning and packing, make the house look bigger with fewer things in it. Also, Kim has a job in Florida coming up, she offered to take some stuff to Charleston for me. Is that a friend, or what?

When she came with her crew to pick up the stuff yesterday, she said down and had a couple of cups of tea and we chatted a long time. She is an AMAZING person for this business, completely honest, can be influenced by a sob story, very fair in her buying and selling prices. I trust her completely. She took the stuff and I said pay me when you sell it. And she will. Every other person Elizabeth and I know in this business makes "cut-throat" look like a compliment. One of the busiest dealers in Durham has been caight SHOPLIFTING at Kim's! And I personally witnessed that same person picking up an object that someone had put on the counter while she went across the room to bring something else to the counter, insisting that he had been carrying it around since he entered the shop! He didn't get away with it! Oh, and this is a guy who dresses in very expensive clothes, heavy starch on the button-down, looks like a lawyer or banker.

It must have been an odd experience for her to sit in my house, look at the dining and living rooms and see SO many things from her store! I think she had to suppress an urge to start putting prices on things!

Anyway, I'm aiming at spring to get this show on the road with selling the house. I might not be able to sell it, it might take a long while, or I might sell it immediately. Who knows?

P.S. The computer will be the last thing I pack, lol!

-- Anonymous, January 11, 2003

spring would be good. all the flowers blooming makes the front especially inviting.

plus you can have fresh flowers and herbs inside to freshen up the place.

-- Anonymous, January 11, 2003

Mid-20s here. I was going to rake a little. HA! The sweetgum balls that have been falling in my yard from my neighbor's tree have frozen into the ground in spots. Guess I'll have to wait for awhile.

-- Anonymous, January 11, 2003

get a golf club, meemur. just hook em right back in their yard. LOL

we had the a/c on again yesterday. now it's in the high 60's. very nice outside even with the higher humidity.

-- Anonymous, January 12, 2003

Sweetgum balls are the one thing I definitely don't miss about our Norfolk house! You can't get rid of those things! I used to rake what I could then pay the kids next door to pick up the ones that stubbornly refused to be raked. I used some for drainage in the bottom of plant pots. Cockroaches and sweetgum balls are the only things that will survive a nuclear blast.

Btw, we had two cut down and their roots continued to sprout over the next four or five years until we left. I guess they're still trying to throw out new trees.

-- Anonymous, January 12, 2003