I have 16 first cousins, that I know of. (I have a half uncle in Sweden I've never met.) There is 30 years between the first and the last, and the last was born the same year at the first child of a cousin. The range may be larger if you include the half-uncle, but I literally know nothing about him. And contact was lost when my grandfather (his father) died 22 years ago. Weird to think.
I'm in contact with a lot of other umpteen-removed cousins, partly because the maternal last name is limiting. We're in contact with family that goes back to great-great's siblings. Mostly by fluke- my mom went by maiden-married name in LWV when she moved to NM , a young college student at NMSU made the connection with the maiden name she shared as primary and after talking to her family, discovered they were cousins. And she was my first babysitter. And I was the first babysitter of her child, now in her 20s! Thanks to Robin, a whole segment of family was rediscovered, and reconnected. The connection no longer flows through mom Robin, but through the whole family. It's rather neat. What are the odds of two farmgirls from the midwest, 20 years apart, ending up in my hometown by totally independent paths, that come from the same family, so long separated?
I have never ever had a tan ever, but I've had a few sunburns.
I cannot imagine, not one bit.
I'm very happy for your day, Kat. And incredibly jealous.
One thing I don't like about LA is its lack of green space. I was reading the LA times recently and apparently it has the least of any major US city. And I don't think any of the sparse little stuff is near me. There's wilderness-type canyon, which is its own sort of very cool, but nothing I'm up to these days.
No chance there's a Huntingdon-lite in my area, huh?
Maybe I can make a Thursday when I'm jobless.
Then I have to cancel my dialup and see if I can get temp auto-reply& forwarding. Or send out the dreaded "update your addressbooks" to everyone in my email.
I heartily recommend you get an email address that's independent of your connectivity provider/web host. I recommend it for everyone. Which reminds me, one of my web hosts went poof! Luckily it's for one of the low-volume sites, but still. My entities page is unavailable.
Hey, Serenity is on my TV! Have I mentioned that I have to get up at 5:45? This isn't good.
No chance there's a Huntingdon-lite in my area, huh?
There's the Botanical Gardens at UCLA.
I heartily recommend you get an email address that's independent of your connectivity provider/web host
Oh, I do have one! But not everyone in the past < decade is aware of it. And I'm realizing that in opening it up, makes me more findable, because I use a variation of my name here. So I may get a second more anonymous for this purpose. Mind, I started using the isp email in the days before I thought of shit.
So, on Saturday, we went to a farm to pick raspberries. They had animals. But the freakiest part was the goat enclosure was in two different places and they had a sky walkway that the goats could walk on to get to the other side.
Freaky.
I'm so psyched! San Francisco is Getting its own Zeppelin!
Not just a blimp, an actual Zeppelin.
Are they going to use LEDs for lighting?
(Get it? GET IT??)
There's the Botanical Gardens at UCLA.
Thanks! It's no aerial goats, but it still looks like a place I could exercise my camera, if not my pencils. Man, London parks could skew a girl, especially Kew.
Looks like Noah's down with animals, and he's down with water. A couple of good things to check off.
The Zep article was one link away from a cherry tomato/arugula pasta recipe. I've always been a fan of pasta sauces where the tomatoes are uncooked--that's a big part of why I liked that Caprese one a couple weeks back. Does anyone have any more lying around?
Man, I'm still overfull from lunch's lemonade. I'm such a lightweight.
One thing I don't like about LA is its lack of green space.
What are you talking about? Griffith Park was on fire just today!
No sky goats though. That I'm aware of.
