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For those of you who don't believe that there are such things as golden raspberries, here they are.View image
Yummmmm! They are a bit sweeter, slightly less tart, than the red. I just have 4 canes, so they will take a while to build into a good thicket. I am enjoying them.
To those of you who are expecting something from me in the mail, there is hope. I finally got to the post office today. To those of you who were not expecting anything, don't bother checking because I didn't send you anything but my love and the post office refuses to handle that.
I am pleased to let you know that my cousin Charlotte and her husband Bill of New Orleans are well and have found refuge with her sister, Kit, in Northern Louisiana.
You probably weren't aware that I even have a cousin in New Orleans, but she is Frank and Glen's mother. I am relieved that she is okay, and ashamed that I don't have any contact with any of my cousins, so it was sort of a hunt to find this out.
I didn't even think about her until about Thursday, but then, the amount of damage that happened didn't start to come through until Wednesday. On Thursday, I emailed both Uncles Christophe and Claude, as I didn't have any contact info. Neither of them had email address for any of our cousins either. Or phone numbers, or addresses.
Finally Aunt Margaret (actually, I included her in the loop, too) thought to look in the Lower Merion High School directory for our other cousin, Clark, brother of Kit and Charlotte. He returned Claude's phone call and this is what we found out. Charlotte and Bill evacuated on Saturday and are staying with Kit and Jim in Northern Louisiana, where Jim was transferred a little bit ago. (Didn't know that either; I thought they were still in Oregon.) Charlotte and Bill had just moved (how recently is 'just'? Don't know.) into a new house they had built. The old one was much closer to metropolitan New Orleans. They have not been back to the new home to assess the extent of the damage.
I have been thinking it was about time for another Dean family reunion. I think now I will get busy making it happen.
Another thing that has sort of surprised me is the absense of the topic of the hurricane on the blog. Not sure why. As in why this surprises me. In a sense, you didn't know it touched your lives. And I didn't say anything about it either. Even that surprises me.
Notice the action?
They made a camera that survives being dropped in the toilet!
Yes, I put the battery back into the camera last night, and took a picture. It worked! I'm not posting it because it was of nothing and nothing to indicate that it was taken after the 'accidently drowning.' But I am really pleased that it still works. More like Amazed!