BetteTheRed
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And I'm savouring it as a bedtime novel. It's a very nice read, and you should, justifiably, be very proud. You have superior descriptive skills.
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Seeler
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Yes, I still have some from the original printing. Soon I will have to decide whether to order more.
I could mail you one. Postage is approx $5 in Canada. Or you can purchase it through Amazon.com.
Seeler
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Right now there are no plans to put it on Kindle. The technology is quite complicated - beyond my humble computer skills. If I find out there is a large demand, I will reconsider.
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I will send you a private messge later today, seeler.
Carolla
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Quiet around here this weekend - everyone hibernating? It's that time of year I think. Hope you are all keeping well.
I've been out for a walk each day, as the weather has been a bit milder which is a blessing. Doing some knitting & reading, got together with my euchre women on Friday - always some good breathless belly-laughs there!
Just noticed that this thread is on PAGE 100!! I wonder if there's a maximum?
I've been out for a walk each day, as the weather has been a bit milder which is a blessing. Doing some knitting & reading, got together with my euchre women on Friday - always some good breathless belly-laughs there!
Just noticed that this thread is on PAGE 100!! I wonder if there's a maximum?
I think what we're discovering is that there is no Limit. this threAd may go on and on forever. which iS fine. really, iT is.
Mendalla
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Some boards start breaking down when threads get too long (e.g. many vBulletin boards seem to have to close threads and start a "sequel" after every 1000 or so posts) but so far this does not seem to be a problem for Xenforo. Partly, that may be because we only have a few very long threads (Room for All, Last Post) and many very short ones that fizzle out after a few posts, thereby keeping the overall number of messages fairly small even if a few threads are quite long. It will be interesting to see what happens as the board grows in size.
chansen
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Bring it.
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@crazyheart the weather here has been quite nice lately. Has it warmed up for you too? Is breathing a bit easier now?
crazyheart
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It has warmed up but the humidity is high today with fog and light snow. Guess I will
have to move to Arizona. lol
have to move to Arizona. lol
Carolla
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Don't laugh ... if healthcare was better, I bet a lot of folks would do that! When I was a kid, the woman living next door was plagued with horried arthritis & their family eventually left Ontario & moved to Arizona! When they retired they bought a big RV & came back here to spend the summers 
Pinga
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If my life of "sigh"....thought I would share this one.
I avoided travelling for work throughout December, and 1/2 of Jan. I am travelling now for two weeks straight to avoid having to travel again to hopefully March.
On the Sat before I left I received a panic phone call about his eyes...though he had been having trouble all week "and didnt' want to bother me". So, I headed over and well, eye doctor wasn't open (of course). His anxiety is always up before I go away and in typical fashion, chose not to do anything about it until the last minute in a panic. As it turns out, once he actually got in to see an eye doctor, it wasn't related to his eyes (ok, I was right on that point from the beginning). That doctor referred him to his family doctor, and it turns out he was having a bunch of mini-strokes or TIA's. If he had described it as his vision going black instead of his eye hurting or being cloudy even I might have been able to help......ugh.
My wish for folks in this world is to not have anxiety issues....as that anxiety results in so many implications of not engaging folks, or oven engaging...and well, a myriad of issues over & above the core anxiety.
I avoided travelling for work throughout December, and 1/2 of Jan. I am travelling now for two weeks straight to avoid having to travel again to hopefully March.
On the Sat before I left I received a panic phone call about his eyes...though he had been having trouble all week "and didnt' want to bother me". So, I headed over and well, eye doctor wasn't open (of course). His anxiety is always up before I go away and in typical fashion, chose not to do anything about it until the last minute in a panic. As it turns out, once he actually got in to see an eye doctor, it wasn't related to his eyes (ok, I was right on that point from the beginning). That doctor referred him to his family doctor, and it turns out he was having a bunch of mini-strokes or TIA's. If he had described it as his vision going black instead of his eye hurting or being cloudy even I might have been able to help......ugh.
My wish for folks in this world is to not have anxiety issues....as that anxiety results in so many implications of not engaging folks, or oven engaging...and well, a myriad of issues over & above the core anxiety.
chansen
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Dealing with my daughter's anxieties lately. While Carter was a risk taker and threw himself around with reckless abandon, Claire has always been super careful about everything. I treated both exactly the same growing up. I launched both of them repeatedly. Claire always liked that as much as Carter did, but she never trusted herself, or enjoyed, say, amusement park rides. Or, in this case, skiing.
So now, at the age of 7 when most kids are starting racing or freestyle, she is in racing classes, at her suggestion (because her skis stay on the ground), but she is stuck in a snowplow, won't ski steeps she has skied before, and complains she isn't having fun. When it's time to drop her off, she tries to cling to us, like a toddler.
Once we're out of sight, she apparently has fun, and if no one is looking, she will ski parallel for a few turns. She has dug in her heels and refuses to be coached, however.
That said, she will toboggan and try to crash. She's an odd little thing.
We know she is anxious, and we're reading a book together on the subject, with parallel chapters for parents and kids. She is building "ladders" where she writes about an anxiety she wants to conquer and puts it on a board in order from easiest to hardest, and gets stickers on the ones she overcomes. She got a sticker for petting a dog without flinching on the weekend.
Carter would have forced her hand. No way would she have let him be better than her at skiing. Not this early. And he would have been.
On the way home from a cold morning of skiing on Friday, Claire started to cry. The last couple of years, when she came home cold from skiing, she would put her cold toes under Carter, and it was his job to warm them up. She was sad that she would never do that again. It hits her in little waves, this grief thing.
The rest of us honour him in our own little ways. Yesterday, the aerial training site was opened to all skiers. So, I took advantage. My first jump was easy. My second was a clean 360, something I had done quite a few times in, well, a decade or two ago. I'm lucky to be fairly well preserved and sprightly for a 40-something. This was my third jump, an attempt at a 720 - two full revolutions. Because I had never done one. Mah do it.
Okay, for the record, mah didn't do it. Mah did a revolution and a half. Landed backward. On a bag of air, so I was fine. Commentator who held my phone was a freestyle coach, and thought it was "sweet". It was not. I can only land facing forward.
Claire says she wants to try the bag next time it's open to all. If she can manage to take that ramp at sufficient speed to clear the gap between ramp and bag, that would be a huge confidence boost for her. It really is so easy once you do it. And safe. The hardest part is letting your skis run and trusting yourself. Doing this before the end of the season is a good goal for her.
And here's my first jump:
That speed check at the base of the ramp probably kept me from going off the bag. Yesterday was wet, so my skis were sliding for a bit on the bag, then I almost rolled off. Even if I had, the ground wasn't far away.
So now, at the age of 7 when most kids are starting racing or freestyle, she is in racing classes, at her suggestion (because her skis stay on the ground), but she is stuck in a snowplow, won't ski steeps she has skied before, and complains she isn't having fun. When it's time to drop her off, she tries to cling to us, like a toddler.
Once we're out of sight, she apparently has fun, and if no one is looking, she will ski parallel for a few turns. She has dug in her heels and refuses to be coached, however.
That said, she will toboggan and try to crash. She's an odd little thing.
We know she is anxious, and we're reading a book together on the subject, with parallel chapters for parents and kids. She is building "ladders" where she writes about an anxiety she wants to conquer and puts it on a board in order from easiest to hardest, and gets stickers on the ones she overcomes. She got a sticker for petting a dog without flinching on the weekend.
Carter would have forced her hand. No way would she have let him be better than her at skiing. Not this early. And he would have been.
On the way home from a cold morning of skiing on Friday, Claire started to cry. The last couple of years, when she came home cold from skiing, she would put her cold toes under Carter, and it was his job to warm them up. She was sad that she would never do that again. It hits her in little waves, this grief thing.
The rest of us honour him in our own little ways. Yesterday, the aerial training site was opened to all skiers. So, I took advantage. My first jump was easy. My second was a clean 360, something I had done quite a few times in, well, a decade or two ago. I'm lucky to be fairly well preserved and sprightly for a 40-something. This was my third jump, an attempt at a 720 - two full revolutions. Because I had never done one. Mah do it.
Okay, for the record, mah didn't do it. Mah did a revolution and a half. Landed backward. On a bag of air, so I was fine. Commentator who held my phone was a freestyle coach, and thought it was "sweet". It was not. I can only land facing forward.
Claire says she wants to try the bag next time it's open to all. If she can manage to take that ramp at sufficient speed to clear the gap between ramp and bag, that would be a huge confidence boost for her. It really is so easy once you do it. And safe. The hardest part is letting your skis run and trusting yourself. Doing this before the end of the season is a good goal for her.
And here's my first jump:
That speed check at the base of the ramp probably kept me from going off the bag. Yesterday was wet, so my skis were sliding for a bit on the bag, then I almost rolled off. Even if I had, the ground wasn't far away.