It Only Hurts When I Blog

Hi Mamma! Almost Friday! Hope your 1st week back wasn't awful. Have a great weekend! xoxo
 

Hey, Everyone. Karen couldn't post to the blog this morning (Fri)because our home internet connection is down. But you all know the drill. Have a great weekend and Karen will catch up when the internet gods cooperate.
 

Hi Karen and Charlie!
So cool seeing Charlie on the blog. As for me, I've been working night shift so I sat there and stared at the day and date at first, wondering if I was wrong about it being Friday. When you work night shift for a month it can do that to you.

I had a dream last night, I finally had an unbroken sleep, and I dreamed that Christopher was a small baby again, almost a newborn, and it was RAINING very hard, so hard that the only means of escape was to ride the torrents like a flume. So that is what we did, quite calmly. Steve got separated from us, but was calling directions till I couldn't hear him anymore. Then we were on a flume, and at the end, and some lady was giving out prizes to the best team who completed the ride according to "the book" which she held in her hand, a book written by (who else) Dr Seuss! I thought perhaps I could tell her I had read the book to my baby, but all these eager boy scouts were clamoring to win so I dismissed the idea. That was the end of the dream.
To me what was interesting about the dream is that throughout there was the element of rushing water all around, how it was only calmness that saved us, but eveyone wanted to impose rules and directions on how to deal with fast rushing water.
Anyway, it is funny isn't it that we both had dreams about rain amid a crowd of people. In your case a wedding, in my case it ended up with a boy scout troop. That DOES make sense though, having had three in scouts, because they get badges by doing everything by the book and believe me they do whatever they do in rain or shine just like the military.
However, I don't think Dr Seuss wrote their handbook this year!
 

Thanks Charlie for letting us know when the blog is down so we won't have to wonder what Karen could possibly doing that would prevent getting out da blog!!

Have a great weekend you all.
 

I didn't look for Friday's blog, but did look today, Sat., and glad to read Charlie's explanation. We miss you Karen! Lyn what an interesting dream as you and baby Chris sail safely through the storm! Yesterday afternoon we went to the Oxford County Fair again, watched the sulky racing (harness racing) with Mary Ann while Ray was dragging the track and Gil was selling raffle tickets for a "hind 1/4 of beef" for the Veteran's Home. In the evening Gil and I walked around looking at the animal and the exibits of quilts, and other hand sewn items, Grange exhibits of canned goods, sewing, and vegetables; watched the "He-Man" contest in which about a dozen men competed--they had to pull a car so many feet, turn over an 850 lb. tire, carry 2 heavy weights about 75 ft. and drag a stone boat the same distance. The winner did all this in 45.5 seconds! He also was the winner last year we were told. Then we watched the bull riding (pretty interesting), then a really great country singer, Don Campbell and band. He lives in Maine part of the year and in Nashville in the colder months. Excellent singer, and his fiddler was also excellent. Of course food was sandwiched in throughout the day. Awesome french fries! I didn't repeat yesterday's doughboy--takes up too much room in my stomach! Tonight is the Legion chicken pie supper (Marilyn makes all of the chicken pies) and dance for which I have baked an apple pie, and made a grapenut pie.