I vote listener and sweetie for No. One today! Forty years is a very good start indeed.
I must get to bed soon; just finished up an invoice for another satisfied customer--Public Defender in San Diego. eleven to one for acquittal and one juror who made it clear his/her decision was based on prejudice rather than evidence. Chances of a retrial must be about zero. I had some very nice feedback. Enjoying my fancy new Grado birthday/Christmas headphones. They need a little breaking in, but sound dandy out of the box with my little tube headphone amp. I wish I had known about such things fifty years ago. Weather is going to warm up--all next week over a hundred degrees, they say.
Susan, it's so true. We actually were young. This was a few months before my 19th birthday and a few months after his 19 birthday. No one forbade us to marry, but there was very little concrete support. We paid for our wedding ourselves, and when it was time to set up for the wedding, my dear friend Rachel helped us set up (just the three of us). She also made my wedding dress, and since there was no pattern for the dress I had in mind, she gallantly put it together using something like three patterns! I still love her every day for that.
Today everyone is saying how wonderful, and what a blessing we are to the family. Easy for them now, heh. Hurrah for people who accept others and believe in them. Dear priest, Fr. Joe Desmond, after ONE meeting with us said he would be happy to do our wedding, because he could tell by our non-verbal communication with one another that we would do well. I suppose only some have eyes to see. ;-)
Well, she's a true treasure of a friend. Your dress and veil were just beautiful. I really admire problem-solvers, and you guys did it with the blue sheet. I guess you were always creative. Too many women IMHO concentrate on the wedding without considering the marriage. You guys obviously put the focus where it belonged and still had a lovely wedding to remember with pleasure.
Side note: See the royal blue cloth on the stairs in front of where we're standing in the photo? It's a sheet that we bought that day at K-Mart up the road from the church, because the modular stairs the church had were made of very ugly plywood. We couldn't get into the church to set up until noon on our wedding day, and we hadn't seen the stairs until then. We used another royal sheet to decorate at the stand that held our Unity candle. Our colour for the wedding was royal blue, you see, and my sister as matron of honour wore blue and white. Very simple wedding. Candlelight just past the Solstice, too…so it began at 8:45pm! :-)
Side note: See the royal blue cloth on the stairs in front of where we're standing in the photo? It's a sheet that we bought that day at K-Mart up the road from the church, because the modular stairs the church had were made of very ugly plywood. We couldn't get into the church to set up until noon on our wedding day, and hadn't seen the stairs until then. It's a good example of our ability to problem solve creatively. :-)
All good, listener. I am generally skeptical of elaborate and expensive weddings; I should expect them to be very stressful and to distract from what is most important. Simplicity doesn't get in the way of sincerity.
Driving to work this morning I saw various fields of corn, alfalfa, and grain coming along (mostly for silage). There was one huge field of hay baled but not yet stacked; I understand that in the past few years a big export business in hay has developed here--mostly with China. There are so many shipping containers coming here from China that the cost of shipping bulk goods from here to China has become very low. I think I mentioned seeing a field of safflower two weeks ago. Processor tomatoes are being harvested somewhere--I saw several tomato trucks, heading north loaded, going south empty. Up in the hills a bit (my weekend workplace is in a smaller valley over a low range of hills from the Central Valley proper) the wild sunflowers are blooming along the roadside.
Starting this weekend I am going to make a point of taking a nap before heading home, for safety's sake. During hot weather there is no good place to pull over and nap along the way; here I can nap in an air conditioned back room.
Congratulations, listener! Going strong! Although I must say that just having the wedding in a church makes is elaborate compared to what Penny and I had.
Speaking of Penny, she is working extra-long hours last weekend and this. One of her two coworkers is away taking care of family business or whatever it is, so she works 8 a.m. to midnight Saturday and 10 a.m. Sunday to 8:30 a.m. Monday. (Does that sound anything like Alan's hours?) Her colleague works 11:30 p.m. to 8:30 a.m. every weeknight and midnight to 10 a.m. Sunday. Let's hope the third guy is back by next weekend as planned, since the 3 -- hopefully not 2 -- of them will have to cover the 24 hours of the 4th.
That does sound similar to my hours, Bill. Rough. But it's the old timers who seem to do that stuff--the kids get a taste of it and can't take it, oftentimes. What with the 4th being on a Friday, I expect we are going to get hit with plenty of work the following week, and the heat may well make it worse. More beer drinking, more drink-driving, and more fights. Also some more decedents, from various causes. Well, we'll see what gets shoveled through the door and deal with it. I'd say to tell Penny to not work too hard, but who am I to talk? [grin] --Alan
I vote listener and sweetie for No. One today! Forty years is a very good start indeed.
ReplyDeleteI must get to bed soon; just finished up an invoice for another satisfied customer--Public Defender in San Diego. eleven to one for acquittal and one juror who made it clear his/her decision was based on prejudice rather than evidence. Chances of a retrial must be about zero. I had some very nice feedback. Enjoying my fancy new Grado birthday/Christmas headphones. They need a little breaking in, but sound dandy out of the box with my little tube headphone amp. I wish I had known about such things fifty years ago. Weather is going to warm up--all next week over a hundred degrees, they say.
And now to bed, later than I should.
TTFN
Alan
Aw, thanks, Alan! I liked the way you said that. ♥♥
DeleteOf course, Dean is always first. But we have made a good start. :-)
Congratulations on your Anniversary. Isn't it amazing how adult we feel when young, yet how young we look when we look back at that time?
ReplyDeleteSusan, it's so true. We actually were young. This was a few months before my 19th birthday and a few months after his 19 birthday. No one forbade us to marry, but there was very little concrete support. We paid for our wedding ourselves, and when it was time to set up for the wedding, my dear friend Rachel helped us set up (just the three of us). She also made my wedding dress, and since there was no pattern for the dress I had in mind, she gallantly put it together using something like three patterns! I still love her every day for that.
DeleteToday everyone is saying how wonderful, and what a blessing we are to the family. Easy for them now, heh. Hurrah for people who accept others and believe in them. Dear priest, Fr. Joe Desmond, after ONE meeting with us said he would be happy to do our wedding, because he could tell by our non-verbal communication with one another that we would do well. I suppose only some have eyes to see. ;-)
Well, she's a true treasure of a friend. Your dress and veil were just beautiful. I really admire problem-solvers, and you guys did it with the blue sheet. I guess you were always creative. Too many women IMHO concentrate on the wedding without considering the marriage. You guys obviously put the focus where it belonged and still had a lovely wedding to remember with pleasure.
DeleteSide note: See the royal blue cloth on the stairs in front of where we're standing in the photo? It's a sheet that we bought that day at K-Mart up the road from the church, because the modular stairs the church had were made of very ugly plywood. We couldn't get into the church to set up until noon on our wedding day, and we hadn't seen the stairs until then. We used another royal sheet to decorate at the stand that held our Unity candle. Our colour for the wedding was royal blue, you see, and my sister as matron of honour wore blue and white. Very simple wedding. Candlelight just past the Solstice, too…so it began at 8:45pm! :-)
ReplyDeleteSide note: See the royal blue cloth on the stairs in front of where we're standing in the photo? It's a sheet that we bought that day at K-Mart up the road from the church, because the modular stairs the church had were made of very ugly plywood. We couldn't get into the church to set up until noon on our wedding day, and hadn't seen the stairs until then. It's a good example of our ability to problem solve creatively. :-)
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely memory of a lovely day, a lovely beginning. Sweet.
ReplyDeleteAll good, listener. I am generally skeptical of elaborate and expensive weddings; I should expect them to be very stressful and to distract from what is most important. Simplicity doesn't get in the way of sincerity.
ReplyDelete--Alan
Driving to work this morning I saw various fields of corn, alfalfa, and grain coming along (mostly for silage). There was one huge field of hay baled but not yet stacked; I understand that in the past few years a big export business in hay has developed here--mostly with China. There are so many shipping containers coming here from China that the cost of shipping bulk goods from here to China has become very low. I think I mentioned seeing a field of safflower two weeks ago. Processor tomatoes are being harvested somewhere--I saw several tomato trucks, heading north loaded, going south empty. Up in the hills a bit (my weekend workplace is in a smaller valley over a low range of hills from the Central Valley proper) the wild sunflowers are blooming along the roadside.
ReplyDeleteStarting this weekend I am going to make a point of taking a nap before heading home, for safety's sake. During hot weather there is no good place to pull over and nap along the way; here I can nap in an air conditioned back room.
--Alan
Congratulations, listener! Going strong! Although I must say that just having the wedding in a church makes is elaborate compared to what Penny and I had.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of Penny, she is working extra-long hours last weekend and this. One of her two coworkers is away taking care of family business or whatever it is, so she works 8 a.m. to midnight Saturday and 10 a.m. Sunday to 8:30 a.m. Monday. (Does that sound anything like Alan's hours?) Her colleague works 11:30 p.m. to 8:30 a.m. every weeknight and midnight to 10 a.m. Sunday. Let's hope the third guy is back by next weekend as planned, since the 3 -- hopefully not 2 -- of them will have to cover the 24 hours of the 4th.
That does sound similar to my hours, Bill. Rough. But it's the old timers who seem to do that stuff--the kids get a taste of it and can't take it, oftentimes. What with the 4th being on a Friday, I expect we are going to get hit with plenty of work the following week, and the heat may well make it worse. More beer drinking, more drink-driving, and more fights. Also some more decedents, from various causes. Well, we'll see what gets shoveled through the door and deal with it. I'd say to tell Penny to not work too hard, but who am I to talk? [grin]
Delete--Alan
Right. Of course, Penny's the one who draws up the schedules. The nominal boss doesn't do anything but write the checks. (Well, that's something.)
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