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[anthrobabe]

Nice looking tree bog you got yourselves there--- of course my interest is purely from the anthropologist view point and in about 100 years I hope someone excavates it to see what it contains (items thrown in it not ya know as that will be gone).

Nice shed as well-- good job!

[Sibling DavidH]

Thanks, A-Babe.  If you want to excavate it right now, I'll get you permission.  With a brisk SW wind most of the town will be OK if they tape their windows.  

[Aggie]

FINISHED WITH FIELD WORK!!!1!!11!*

In two weeks, I'll be on a chairlift.  Daily.  


_{*they might fly me out for one more site in January, but I've survived this final major three-month stint.}

[Sibling DavidH]

Congratulations, Aggie! 

[Opsa]

My BRU-THA!

I too, have finished my latest project, the production of a children's play. We had our last performance last weekend, and I'm just starting to feel rested. It was a long haul! The cast will march in a local Holiday parade this weekend, and I've spent this week making T-shirts for them to wear, along with holiday thank-you cards.

After the parade I'll give them lunch, and then I'm off until I get started on the next play in a couple of weeks. Whew! But it's good work, and worth it even though it's not for pay.

[Aggie]

Hey, if you keep working hard at it, someone might decide to pay you for it eventually!    That's kind of the approach I'm taking for 2012, I think.  They'll pay me to cook to cover the bills, I think.  Not necessarily much of a career, cooking, but a hell of a fun job.

[Opsa]

I'm with you. That is the direction I hope that this will go. After all, who would have paid me before I proved that I could do it? I'm not sure who will pay me now that I've been proving my worth, but it's time to start asking.

[Griffin NoName]

Can't believe it's 3 months Aggie !

[anthrobabe]

It's nice to be finished with it isn't it by brother.


And No I will not be excavating the bog at this stage-- but thanks anyway.

[Aggie]

Back to BC tomorrow!

[Sibling DavidH]

Happy for you, Aggie! 

Well, we've sent or delivered all but one of our xmas cards.  It beats me where they've all gone - we had 100 printed, we used all the leftovers from previous years and then I ran off 20 more on our own machine, of which 5 remain.  Call it 130-ish. The big Excel sheet from which I print the labels has hardly changed,it's just odd ones that you suddenly notice and then forget to record.  Next year I'll have 120 printed. 

[Opsa]

Bon voyage, Aggie! 

I have the opposite problem with cards, DavidH. I have too many.

[pieces o nine]

Happy change of address, Aggie!

[Swatopluk]

I have the opposite problem with cards, DavidH. I have too many.

My mother makes them herself and sells them for charity, so there is usually supply for own use at hand.

[Sibling DavidH]

For all the 40 years we've been sending them together, Wendy and I have made our own cards.  In the days before photocopiers they weren't very good; then for years we photocopied them and coloured them in by hand!  Then we had computers.  Nowadays we have a good relationship with a small printing firm, and  they print them properly from my artwork.  100 cost £48 incl. tax and envelopes, which is no dearer than good off-the-shelf ones.  A stamp costs 36 pence, anyway.

For years we've had 100 run off and had a few spares, this year it's been 30% more, and I'm not really sure why.  Strange.