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Re: So, what time is dinner?
« Reply #30 on: November 24, 2006, 04:09:31 pm »

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Ding!  That's the one.  One of my first albums......  :)


As for on time or not  -  We had 2 sets of guests due at 2pm - one was my husband's family (parents, sister and sister's family) all arriving from out of town in one van, the other a good friend in her 70s who lives near me.  

At 1:45pm, the out of town contigent called to say they were just leaving the house.   :-\  The nearby guest arrived on time, with her contribution of ice cream and sherbet.  She stayed half an hour, and then left, with my promise to bring her a plate of Thanksgiving meal and a slice of pumpkin pie later in the afternoon.

At 3pm our other guests arrived, and it all went great.  At 4:30pm, after getting table-clearing started by others, I took some dinner over to my older friend.  I sat with her for about half an hour, and had a great talk.  I started by telling her that BBM is going to be on HBO soon, and how it may impact a lot of lives.  She told me that her guess is that about half of all gay people still don't live out lives.  She has been out since the mid-1950s, and got sober in the early 60s, so from that time on lived a lesbian life that did not include the bars.  I think it was often lonely in those earlier decades, before there were other ways for lesbians to meet each other.  

After half an hour, I felt duty-bound to go home to my house full of guests.

I had a good day.

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Re: So, what time is dinner?
« Reply #31 on: December 21, 2006, 01:35:56 pm »
Carving the turkey at Thanksgiving time--this was about 3 p.m.

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Re: So, what time is dinner?
« Reply #32 on: December 21, 2006, 01:59:14 pm »
Carving the turkey at Thanksgiving time--this was about 3 p.m.



This is the hero who towed you home yesterday?

(Nice candlestick, BTW--visible at the edge of the photo.)
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Re: So, what time is dinner?
« Reply #33 on: December 21, 2006, 02:08:54 pm »
Oh, I don't know if I would accord him hero status. A real hero would have said at 6 a.m. that morning, "Why don't you take my car to work, so you'll be sure not to have any trouble." But, yes.

You can also see the candlesticks at http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=6111.msg132141#msg132141
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Re: So, what time is dinner?
« Reply #34 on: December 21, 2006, 03:12:43 pm »
Oh, I don't know if I would accord him hero status. A real hero would have said at 6 a.m. that morning, "Why don't you take my car to work, so you'll be sure not to have any trouble." But, yes.

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You can also see the candlesticks at http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=6111.msg132141#msg132141

On my monitor that image is a little dark, but I noticed them.

(Nice family photo over on the Brokieism thread, too.  :D )
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Re: So, what time is dinner?
« Reply #35 on: December 27, 2006, 01:48:10 pm »
One more carving the turkey shot. Do you think he would make a good L. D.??

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Re: So, what time is dinner?
« Reply #36 on: December 27, 2006, 05:45:17 pm »
One more carving the turkey shot. Do you think he would make a good L. D.??



Based on that photo, I'd say he'd make a better Norman Bates. ...
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Re: So, what time is dinner?
« Reply #37 on: December 27, 2006, 06:07:09 pm »
Lee, I think my mom has that same table cloth.  :)

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Re: So, what time is dinner?
« Reply #38 on: December 27, 2006, 06:11:56 pm »
Lee, I think my mom has that same table cloth.  :)
;) I don't have the heart to tell my Italian, French-hating husband that it's from Provence!!

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Re: So, what time is dinner?
« Reply #39 on: December 27, 2006, 06:18:15 pm »
;) I don't have the heart to tell my Italian, French-hating husband that it's from Provence!!



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