[Hyacinth Bucket]

Hi All,

I am sitting here looking at all that I have to accomplish in my house. It gets overwhelming at times. Still haven't finished unpacking from France because we had to leave practically immediately to go to Boston for medical appointments - now back - and no one waved the magic wand making everything go away. Personally I was very disappointed no one came in and cleaned everything up.

Nonie do you still have that backhoe? We donated about 15 boxes of stuff to one fund raising event and now in the process of getting stuff ready for a yard sale.

In TV I did not have to deal with any of this stuff, must admit I did not deal with the stuff I had to. We did accomplish a couple of major goals in TV - our home is nearly finished.

Found when I was in TV my head was in vacation mode. Things that I thought I would do did not get done because there were other things - of a fun nature - competing for my time. You can all guess which won out.

Now that I am back home I have to sit myself down and get all of these things accomplished. I would rather be in TV in a vacation mode with only fun idyllic things to do or think about. I miss not spending time with Barefoot in the pool just enjoying ourselves, courses on Parapsychology, listening to tapes with Nonie, watching the sun go down with Chels, Donna with her wonderful smile, Sam with her wonderful garden - when I saw unique hand made jewelry I thought of you immediately, and the list goes on - VK hope you are enjoying yourself by the pool, and 007 hope you are not drinking up all of my favorite diet soda that they do not sell here, Kathie where is my lemonade?, Travel my newspaper? Red how are yard sales? I could go on and on. I am getting more depressed.

I feel so fortunate to have all of these wonderful memories. Laugh when I think of Susan and Bright and the FREEZE, I do not know if anyone else knows this - but Vetman was worried about all of us doing the Freeze. He felt that someone would make a call to 911 stating that there are people who are not moving and may need immediate help. Not only that he put pink sticky notes on chairs so that we would have a place to sit after the Freeze.

Rok what is the update with New Years Eve?

Well - just realized I have been rambling and not working. Will get down to some serious work now and think about all of you and TV,

Thanks for the memories .... See ya all soon.

HB