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Re: New Beginnings!
Cheers to you, Melisande, for embracing life with all it's changes, and that includes adding the puppy for sure.? It certainly seems that that kids are thriving!?
We moved into the house last Friday.? Too much stuff and I was kind of grossed out by the volume of it. ? Now that I see all the boxes, it has hit me like a ton of bricks.? Before the move I dumped six truck loads of stuff via a removal company (called Poof Be Gone!) and gave away eight huge bags of my cocktail and work clothes.? Since moving in I've dumped four more boxes with others who can use my stuff. The wrinkle is that I only have the skeletons of my cabinets and my countertops.? The rest was to be installed Thursday and now it's pushed out until Monday. It's a mess of sheet rock and spray paint dust.? I have a fridge plugged in the living room and a small microwave and my Keurig on the sideboard.? Master bath almost finished, but need sink hardware and the shower hardware installed, we hope tomorrow.? So I'm kind of camping out here. We were lucky,? Our son and his wife decided to buy our old house, so we haven't had to contend with dealing with showings and negotiations.? They have a cute 8 month old daughter, my first grandchild.? I have really loved the grandmother experience.? it has been a ball watching her personality unfold. Tonight is the first night that I've felt that this new place may be home.? I miss our old house, but I'll be seeing it often. ? We had completely gutted and updated the interior, so I had it exactly as I wanted it..? Our new house is just getting a new kitchen and a spruce up here and there.? I cook all the time, so I really pushed hard for a complete re-do there. That's about it for me.? Back to keeping up with subs and unpacking all of those boxes.? I've discovered that even though I work out, I just can't tote the heavier boxes as I used to do after the last move. Mary. |
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Re: New Beginnings!
Peter he lives in Nambucca Heads & is being treated by specialist in Coffs Harbour. I thought he’d have to go to Sydney too & may have to eventually. Coffs hospital is about 30 minutes from his home.
I must admit I googled where you’d be working! I think around there would be nicer than Alice Springs! Good luck with the rental. Beryl xx |
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Re: New Beginnings!
Congrats to those who are moving/have moved and on the new job, Peter. Jenny and Beryl, I’m sorry about the loss of your parents (collective). My dad turns 95 this year and is still going strong but getting frailer and losing a bit cognitively slowly over time. Still very much there though - enough to be stubborn about a lot of things. I take care of his medical stuff so it means a lot of appointments for him as well as my own.? I had carpal tunnel surgery on my right hand in July and will be having it on my left before the end of the year. The relief in my right hand is amazing - as everyone who has had it has told me. I may also be facing cataract surgery soon. My vision is just not getting corrected properly especially for close work. Fortunately I can take my glasses off and see perfectly about 6” from my nose. i can still thread a needle at that distance ツ We have been well and nothing else is changing in our lives for now. Not till something happens to my dad.? On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 8:17 AM Laura Need <lrneed@...> wrote:
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Re: New Beginnings!
And I have?relocated to Western Massachusetts front?he Boston area.? New job, new house after a 8 mo sojourn in an apartment.? All my yarn is in one room in the basement! Laura On Mon, Aug 8, 2022 at 8:26 PM Peter Jobson via <dillwynia=[email protected]> wrote:
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Re: New Beginnings!
Ugh! Beryl. This stuff is always draining. While Port Macquarie is well serviced, your brother must be doing the difficult journey to Sydney for specialists. For Beryl - the job is at Mt Annan Botanic Gardens near Campbelltown and I'm planning on living between Picton and Bargo which is only 40 min drive down the Hume Fwy. To Jenny. Cyclone Peggy is a wiry hair Jack Russell.? Her colouring and coarse outer coat suggests she may have some corgi in her. Full of beans, naughty, and very affectionate. She often comes to the office and lives in a large wire cage which she is comfortable with.? PT
On Tuesday, August 9, 2022, 04:30:07 PM GMT+9:30, Jenny Swanson <jenny@...> wrote:
Sorry about all the hard stuff, Beryl. And sympathies on the estate settlement, we’re in a protracted effort to settle all three but the delays in dealing with submission are about 5 months long and my parents need done in sequence. Sigh. Still, many people have it much worse then us. Three loving, much loved, good parents who are also real friends is great good fortune, and we were very lucky to have them all, well and living independently, until we ourselves had passed 60. ? Your trip sounds fun, I hope you really enjoy it. ? Jenny ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of beryl_cathro@...
Sent: 09 August 2022 06:19 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [yarnmongers] New Beginnings! ? Best wishes to all of you moving house. Congratulations Peter on the new job. Commiserations Jenny on the loss of your parents and FIL. My brother who lives about 1.5 hours drive north of me is suffering horrible medical problems. He has been diagnosed with a rare and aggressive type of skin cancer called Merkel cell carcinoma & also has a growth on a kidney. He’s having chemotherapy once a week and radiation 5 times a week. It’s gruelling for him. He’s only just turned 70, not much of a birthday. |
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Re: New Beginnings!
开云体育Sorry about all the hard stuff, Beryl. And sympathies on the estate settlement, we’re in a protracted effort to settle all three but the delays in dealing with submission are about 5 months long and my parents need done in sequence. Sigh. Still, many people have it much worse then us. Three loving, much loved, good parents who are also real friends is great good fortune, and we were very lucky to have them all, well and living independently, until we ourselves had passed 60. ? Your trip sounds fun, I hope you really enjoy it. ? Jenny ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of beryl_cathro@...
Sent: 09 August 2022 06:19 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [yarnmongers] New Beginnings! ? Best wishes to all of you moving house. Congratulations Peter on the new job. Commiserations Jenny on the loss of your parents and FIL. My brother who lives about 1.5 hours drive north of me is suffering horrible medical problems. He has been diagnosed with a rare and aggressive type of skin cancer called Merkel cell carcinoma & also has a growth on a kidney. He’s having chemotherapy once a week and radiation 5 times a week. It’s gruelling for him. He’s only just turned 70, not much of a birthday. |
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Re: New Beginnings!
Best wishes to all of you moving house. Congratulations Peter on the new job. Commiserations Jenny on the loss of your parents and FIL. My brother who lives about 1.5 hours drive north of me is suffering horrible medical problems. He has been diagnosed with a rare and aggressive type of skin cancer called Merkel cell carcinoma & also has a growth on a kidney. He’s having chemotherapy once a week and radiation 5 times a week. It’s gruelling for him. He’s only just turned 70, not much of a birthday. |
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Re: New Beginnings!
开云体育That sounds very exciting, Peter, and a good opportunity to be closer to many old friends (yes?). Is this a new-ish dog? ? Covid has been an interesting period of stasis, and I think that (a bit like being in a chrysalis) most people have changed because of it and many have become very focussed on altering what they can to improve their life quality in various ways. ? Jenny ? ? ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Peter Jobson via groups.io
Sent: 09 August 2022 01:26 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [yarnmongers] New Beginnings! ? I'll add to the moving stories. ? I'm leaving Alice Springs for a new job near Sydney.? ? Much has happened over a few years. Late last year I was made acting Chief Botanist for the NT,? and in Jyly it became permanent.? The downside was a pay scale drop - of about $10K but continued excessive expectations.? In June a job opportunity came up for the Sydney herbarium which has relocated from the harbour foreshore to the edge of the greater metropolis 50 mi SW. The duties are 1/3rd of my current position and pays $20K more - so a gain, had I accepted the other job, of 30K. ? I start 19th September,? so madly working on the impossible botanical jobs here, cleaning the house, and reducing the unwanted and packing the rest. ? The move is easy, finding a rental that accepts a small dog, and is rural,? is the hard part. I think I have seen a place, but of course they don't like me being so far away. Aiming to get a friend to attend the open house on Thursday.? ? Petey |
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Re: New Beginnings!
I'll add to the moving stories. I'm leaving Alice Springs for a new job near Sydney.? Much has happened over a few years. Late last year I was made acting Chief Botanist for the NT,? and in Jyly it became permanent.? The downside was a pay scale drop - of about $10K but continued excessive expectations.? In June a job opportunity came up for the Sydney herbarium which has relocated from the harbour foreshore to the edge of the greater metropolis 50 mi SW. The duties are 1/3rd of my current position and pays $20K more - so a gain, had I accepted the other job, of 30K. I start 19th September,? so madly working on the impossible botanical jobs here, cleaning the house, and reducing the unwanted and packing the rest. The move is easy, finding a rental that accepts a small dog, and is rural,? is the hard part. I think I have seen a place, but of course they don't like me being so far away. Aiming to get a friend to attend the open house on Thursday.? Petey _._,_._,_
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Re: New Beginnings!
Congratulations everyone who is relocating, whatever stage you have all reached in the process. I for one would love to hear more about the new places and any future life plans. I still divide my time between Geneva and the UK, it's easier now the covid restrictions have gone. DH and I? lost three of our four parents in the 10 weeks between mid October 2021 and early January 2022. Sorely missed but it ended two super stressful years of perpetual health crises requiring me to drop all and care for one of the four. We now have MIL settled well in a really nice residential home which is a help, but we still feel completely flattened by the whole experience.......I long to feel "alive" again! Jenny? On 8 Aug 2022 14:02, "Melisande R. Wolf via groups.io" <melisanderwolf@...> wrote:
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Re: New Beginnings!
开云体育And yet more hearty congrats to both you and Mary! ? New beginnings!! ? Ann in PA ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Melisande R. Wolf via groups.io
Sent: Monday, August 8, 2022 9:03 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [yarnmongers] New Beginnings! ? Congratulations Mary!? Moving is daunting, but how exciting. ? I’ll let everyone know in another 10 months or so whether I think moving over the course of almost a year is *less* daunting or more because I closed on my house last Monday.? ? I’m going to be working on learning to live in the space, which is a good space for me, but it’s still less than half the size of the house I sold, and in figuring out how to be in two places effectively for the next year, since Arielle would like to be there as much as possible (it being a very short walk to the ocean) and yet it’s over an hour from where we are now and she needs to be here for school.? ? Because I don’t have enough going on between house, college search for Arielle, Ezra working on applying to grad school, and Baird working on finding a job, I got a puppy 2 weeks ago.? She is adorable and personable, but a lot of work, especially because my 3 year old dog is still afraid of her. ? I’m very excited because some friends I met through Ravelry are coming in a few weeks to help me clear out my storage unit, which means that I’m going to? be reunited with my stash and actually able to weave on floor looms again.? Provided I’m at the Shore and the puppy lets me, of course.? ? As you might imagine, not much knitting going on, but I do have a project sitting on my desk for conference calls, so there is some. ? Melisande |
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New Beginnings!
开云体育Congratulations Mary!? Moving is daunting, but how exciting. ? I’ll let everyone know in another 10 months or so whether I think moving over the course of almost a year is *less* daunting or more because I closed on my house last Monday.? ? I’m going to be working on learning to live in the space, which is a good space for me, but it’s still less than half the size of the house I sold, and in figuring out how to be in two places effectively for the next year, since Arielle would like to be there as much as possible (it being a very short walk to the ocean) and yet it’s over an hour from where we are now and she needs to be here for school.? ? Because I don’t have enough going on between house, college search for Arielle, Ezra working on applying to grad school, and Baird working on finding a job, I got a puppy 2 weeks ago.? She is adorable and personable, but a lot of work, especially because my 3 year old dog is still afraid of her. ? I’m very excited because some friends I met through Ravelry are coming in a few weeks to help me clear out my storage unit, which means that I’m going to? be reunited with my stash and actually able to weave on floor looms again.? Provided I’m at the Shore and the puppy lets me, of course.? ? As you might imagine, not much knitting going on, but I do have a project sitting on my desk for conference calls, so there is some. ? Melisande |
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Tom and Linda Diak
Hi everyone.
Some of you are familiar with DyakCraft wood and metal needles made in Vermont.? Tom Diak's wooden hookd and needles are beautiful and wonderful to you. Linda sews every needle case for sets and they are lovely too.? She is a talented quilter. Tom's has worn out his hands making needles and now needs surgery.? They are a tiny business.? Tom will be unable to make needles and hooks for a year while he recovers from surgery.? If you are moved to help, I think it's a worthy cause.? I'll link their site and the GoFundMe page. Their website;? Tom made one last group of needles before he had to stop:? Dyakcraft I feel Connie's pain!? We moved yesterday.? Now a mountain of boxes.? The kitchen boxes are in the living room b/c our kitchen isn't ready!? Bonus:? I get to eat out - a lot. Ready to feel more settled. Mary. |
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Re: Now: Great migration was Re: [yarnmongers] Basement progress!
Connie,? that is amazing.
Once it's unpacked it's going to look like a very upscale spinning/sewing studio. Well we move on August 5.? I'm in the middle of it all and I am stunned that you were able to manage that humongous migration. You are a wonder. Mary. |
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Re: Finally listed
开云体育Yes, it only takes one good buyer to sell your house. ? Fingers crossed it happens quickly ? ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of connie@...
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2022 12:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [yarnmongers] Finally listed ? Thanks so much everyone! ?It’s nerve wracking for sure.? Yes, just one preapproved buyer that’s willing to pay within 10% (up or down) of asking would make us very happy! ? Connie
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Re: Finally listed
开云体育Thanks so much everyone! ?It’s nerve wracking for sure.?Yes, just one preapproved buyer that’s willing to pay within 10% (up or down) of asking would make us very happy! On Jun 20, 2022, at 11:58 AM, erica <knitzz@...> wrote:
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Re: Finally listed
The house looks grand! And the only thing you "want" (fingers crossed) ...? is ONE all cash buyer :-)? YAY for new beginnings! erica in sold-out AZ On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 7:34 AM Lise Patterson <erpatter857@...> wrote:
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Re: Finally listed
Wishing you:
?Lise in NJ
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erica