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{ Monthly Archives } May 2007

Do YOU have a bucket?

What the heck?

2007 05 31 General Comments (3)

Wednesday

[Note: section two of this post has been edited since I first put it up this morning.]
[Note 2: and it's been edited a second time.]
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So the exercise plan that I came up with on Tuesday was to start rising at five a.m. daily. On the first day I would go to the gym and lift [...]

2007 05 31 Diary Comments Off

Wedding Attire

I was upbraided by one reader for not reporting what the bride and flower girl wore. Fortunately, there is an extensive photographic record I could refer back to.
They seem to have worn dresses.

(Actually, if you go and look at Diane’s comment, you’ll see I essentially stole her joke.)

2007 05 30 General Comments (1)

Bird Camp Update Coming Soon

Sorry it’s been so long. Expect a new one in the next day or two.

2007 05 30 Bird Camp Comments Off

Tuesday

I got home from New Orleans on Monday night but had cleverly taken Tuesday off as well, as a decompression/get-my-head-on-straight day. Throughout the early spring, I had looked at the New Orleans trip as marking a boundary between the period of time when I could just dabble in getting ready for the move, and the [...]

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The Big Easy Wedding, pt. 5

The morning was no fun. We were both tired and reluctant to rise, because of said tiredness and also because rising meant packing and saying goodbye. But A.’s airport shuttle would leave at seven and we eventually accepted the inevitable. While we gathered her things, I turned on NPR on the radio. I did this [...]

2007 05 29 Diary
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Sunday

The morning after the wedding found me standing on the levee while the groom hunted for his bride in the underbrush along the Mississippi.
That was a fun sentence to write but I may be giving you the wrong idea. We had all simply gone for a stroll, and Erin had diverted from the pack [...]

2007 05 28 Diary Comments Off

The Big Easy Wedding, pt. 4

Awakened by loud knocks at nine a.m. You rent rooms in these places and everyone just wants to come in. We told the maid to come back later and hung out the “Do Not Disturb” sign for a little more sleep but the spell was broken so we headed downstairs for breakfast. The Sheraton offers [...]

2007 05 27 Diary
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The Big Easy Wedding, pt. 3

On our second morning at the Dauphine Orleans, we bestirred ourselves in time to go down to the breakfast lounge together. A. made waffles while I hovered over and then secured an outside table by the pool, as soon as it was abandoned by a European-looking man chain-smoking cigarettes with very long, white filters. I [...]

2007 05 27 Diary
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The Big Easy Wedding, pt. 2

The sun streamed in through the louvred shutters and it was a good feeling to be waking up in New Orleans. I left A. in bed and walked down the stairs to the “breakfast lounge,” a sunny room next to the pool. The offerings included make-your-own Belgian waffles and some fresh fruit, but none of [...]

2007 05 26 Diary
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