where's ricardo. i am standing in the dance hall where butch cassidy would come down from his hideout in the hills nearby to dance. fact. there is one corner of the dance floor which is now my room for the night. do you think this one has some mojo or what? i am in an outlaw town called torey utah. i already met a divorcee/waitress at the broken down diner. she raises race horses. she told me i could hang there all night. hmmmmm, what does that mean? i didn't pause after paying the check. the former dance hall was converted into a school house, but it was built as a dance hall and the mountain peak where butch hung his hat is in sight from my window. no plan, just luck. i found it on the internet with little to go on. brian k. hates me for this kind of dumb stumble into it life experience that happens to me. he would say, "of course you ended up in the one place where butch cassidy actually would show his face in all of utah and you didn't have a clue before you got there."

Thanks guys for the sympathy it helps. I'll be picking up glass for days to come. One less thing to move I guess. Had a moving appraiser guy here today figuring out the estimated weight of my goods. Yikes, Maybe 17,000 lbs. 2 days to pack, 1 to load, then the drive and another of unloading. Wow what fun!

My yard sale is this weekend so hopefully there'll be less "stuff" hanging around after Sat. Then the partying begins.

We're going out to dinner with friends Sat. night. I'm having a party here at the house after school on Th. There is no school Friday so I figured the timing was good. Dinner with friends the following weekend and two more get togethers during the week with folks from school and my knitting group. It's nice to know that people care.

10 more days of work then an interview at LLBean on the 29th. Back here the 30th to get serious about the packing. Change is good.

Like those glasses that break into a million pieces and scatter all over the place. What a pain.

pat, i had a glass top shatter on my third floor deck when i lived in brooklyn heights (25 short years ago). what a mess- jagged shards of all sizes and all over the place. i have cleaned many messes in my life, but that one stands out as one of the worst. i am so sorry.

right now I am really ticked off!

I came home from school to find that the wind has knocked my grill off the deck and onto it's back. The umbrella new this summer, is destroyed and the glass top table has shattered; of course that means there is glass all over the place. It's cold and windy and rainy. these are the moments I wish I had my man around to help with the day to day emergencies!

Hi everyone. I've just been "listening in" all week. It's just one of those times when I feel like I have nothing to say....... so in the meantime I'm getting educated in what liquor to drink, where to travel, what to expect or not expect from Home Depot, school stories--in short, this is my entertainment channel while I try to get back into my routine here. Yesterday I finally did go to Curves for the first time in 2 months. My daughter found something better, so she won't be coming with me anymore. My son Omer is recovering from having 3 wisdom teeth taken out, so he slept here last night. I'm glad I never went through that. Looks really painful.

Enjoy the weddings!

hi. i am in salt lake city. all this talk of marriage has me thinkin i should go out and git me some wives. is it the water out here? the guy at the front desk of my hotel says he only has one wife and acts gay to avoid getting more. yesterday i was in the redwoods near santa cruz. loved it. what a sanctuary. trees that are 300 feet tall and 15 feet in diameter are special. i stayed at a b+b near the edge of the redwood forest that was really nice. i hit deep relaxation after the jacuzzi and laying in a hammock looking at a patch of blue sky just above the tree tops. i drove down through five miles of chaparral to the coast where i had a tasty seafood pasta feast for dinner. being a road warrior has its moments. i will take some vacation days to do to utah parks later this week. i am sure that marriages will be super (just not for me).

Its Sunday morning and raining but yesterday was lovely. I hope your wedding weekend is sunny and dry and all things the bride is hoping for.