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[VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>]

Bev,
You and Ron are welcome to join our family.
We have friends of my son's living with with us now
(they had to leave thier family and came to us for
refuge)  They are Buddists and I'm sure would like to
answer any questions that they can.
Van Dell

 
--- EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:

> Well, the weather isn't here yet, but it is starting
> to look like my
> hunch was right..this is the forecast now:
> Occasional sleet... snow...rain and freezing rain
> after midnight. Snow
> and sleet accumulation up to 1 inch. Ice
> accumulation around one quarter
> of an inch. Lows in the upper 20s. Light and
> variable winds. Chance of
> precipitation near 100 percent.
> Thursday
> Occasional rain...freezing rain and sleet in the
> morning...then
> occasional rain in the afternoon. Sleet accumulation
> up to 1 inch. Total
> snow accumulation up to 2 inches. Ice accumulation
> of less than one
> quarter of an inch.
> 
> 
> So, here we go...and we are very unprepared compared
> to normal.  We are
> low on wood, only have about a gallon of gas to run
> the generator. We
> have been splitting wood like mad-using the gas, but
> the wood we have
> doesn't put out the btus (it's poplar and sweetgum,
> not hickory or oak),
> and we go through it quickly...I don't think we will
> need to run it, but
> you never know, so I guess we will be hitting the
> station this evening
> after the rush is over and before the precip starts.
>  I really HATE
> being unprepared.  We have a 200 gallon gas tank,
> which has been full in
> previous years, but this has been a rough financial
> year and we just
> haven't had the money to fill it.  I'm guessing we
> have about a week's
> worth of wood.  It sucks to be unprepared.
> My friend did cancel on me today..it figures...when
> it rains it pours,
> so to speak.  A couple of you have written to ask
> what kind of 'family
> disturbance' I had..lol..I didn't mean be worry
> anyone by being cryptic,
> sorry.  It's basically the SOS, in-law
> problems...they hate me, and I
> can't change it, they drag up stuff that happened 20
> years ago and I
> have long forgotten, but apparently they haven't. 
> This latest thing
> goes back to something that happened two years ago,
> something that we
> have, on my insistence, sat down and hashed out not
> once but twice, and
> that I thought it was all water under the bridge,
> after all, it's been
> 16 months since our last talk(they wanted their
> priest there,
> even-whatever!-he sided with me..lol), but I thought
> it was all worked
> out...we've had several get-togethers without
> incident since then, and
> no sign of trouble until this week.  Out of the
> blue, it re-emerges.  It
> caught us unprepared for conflict. It has been
> really hard on Ron, too,
> and in fact, his brother wrote him off a couple of
> days ago.  It wasn't
> said, but basically his family is upset that Ron has
> chosen me over
> them,,,that's it in a nutshell.  It's really just
> the classic struggle
> that I am sure many of you have had to endure with
> your in-laws, but it
> does create stress.
> Sorry to ramble on...just so you know, this is what
> I am like when I am
> feeling sorry for myself..lol..I actually had a
> couple of shots of
> homemade kahlua a few minutes ago, something I
> almost never do...I keep
> it onhand just for occassions like this. :)  I'll
> sleep good tonight
> knowing that I did nothing wrong.
> 
> Anyway, a complete change of subject is warranted...
> 
> Is anyone here a Buddhist?  If so, I have some
> questions about Buddhism
> and would like to converse off list.
> 
> Bev
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Bevanron of EarthNSky Farm   Sleep well tonight, for
> somewhere in the
> ocean's depths, MY son is protecting YOUR freedom.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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