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| Re: It may have been a good day [message #35184 is a reply to message #35164 ] |
Thu, 14 October 2010 02:46   |
EMoon
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Roses. Yes. I did say I was no good at growing roses, didn't I? To someone, anyway, sometime back. No doubt that's why there's an arborish-pergola-trellisy thing over the "bridge" between driveway and the other garden, a new rose sitting in its raised bed of mixed dirt, sand, and aged manure and looking quite smug at the moment, and other beds now in preparation for a) the attempted transplant of the old white rambler/climber and b) the roses I'm now mad for, from the Antique Rose Emporium.
And that's just from the online catalog. Where I found this and this and this and also this.
Husband has a gleam in his eye and would really like a field trip to San Antonio to one of the display gardens--which of course won't be in full bloom now. I want to mail-order the roses and have them in the ground this winter.
We could split the difference. Order two for the sunnier end of the construction...just two...couldn't we? (Do I hear sniggering in the corner??? Or is it more open horse-laughs?)
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| Re: It may have been a good day [message #35187 is a reply to message #35164 ] |
Thu, 14 October 2010 10:36 |
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 3rdragon
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It’s a mobile, not a landline, which makes the usual excuses/defenses of having been away somewhat creaky and dubious.
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I'm worse on my mobile, actually. I've been known to pick up messages to the effect of, "Hey, I'm coming up a day early for [event]; would you like to hang out?" -- over a month after [event] has passed. And, of course, since the voicemail doesn't believe in telling me when anyone left a message, if you don't mention some significant point, I really don't have a clue when it was left.
I am getting better at it, since one of my good friends no longer has internet and we now talk on the phone instead*, and since I finally figured out that the little graphic I always assumed was a person with sound waves coming out of their head means, 'You have a new voicemail.'**
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*I swear, my phone prefers to notify me that I have a new voicemail while I'm talking to people rather than when it's just sitting placidly in my pocket, or when I take it out to see what time it is.
**I am a daughter of the turn of the century! I am very good with computers. I think I even looked at the instruction manual a bit when I got this phone. I can only conclude that it's incredibly unintuitive.^
^Or possibly I just don't know how to use it because I prefer to ignore it whenever I don't find it immediately useful.
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| Re: It may have been a good day [message #35201 is a reply to message #35174 ] |
Thu, 14 October 2010 16:39 |
Aaron
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Registered: June 2009
Location: California |
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| apple wrote on Wed, 13 October 2010 20:59 |
I'm curious. Will the Cherub keep his name if he works out and becomes a regular character on this blog?
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Changing "the Cherub" to "Jean II" (or something else appropriate) would open the way to the aliasing of collective as well as proper nouns. Instead of referring to them as voice teachers he and Blondel could be known collectively as cherubim.
Alternatively if the Cherub is identified as Jean II the current Blondel could be identified as Jean I and they could then both be referred to as Blondel. This wouldn't extend easily to another change of voice teacher (or cherub) but we wouldn't want to wish that eventuality on Robin in any case.
I should probably admit that the above depends on recent web research rather than any deep personal knowledge of mediaeval music.
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