Time to pack up, go home

[Ian Livingston]

> We (about half-a-dozen people own and live at the ranch) are home (8/9) and
> all is well. Not only did the place come through unscathed, but the
> firefighters watered our greenhouses and flowerbeds. Peculiar (always good)
> things have been happening to us for the 40 years of our ownership, things
> for which we have no explanation. How many forest-fire fighters would make
> it a point to water greenhouses and plants?

Glad to hear you all came through safely and had a home to return to.
I sympathize acutely with your situation after our fires down here in
Big Sur a couple years ago. The land is recovering nicely, but a lot
of historic sites were lost. It is good, too, to see that my faith
that there are good people everywhere but in the media plays out in
more places than just the life I get to observe.

On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Page <page at quesnelbc.com> wrote:
> Hey all --
>
> British Columbia has been consumed by wildfires. On July 31st a helicopter
> landed in the meadow in front of my house. The forestry guy got out and told
> me it was time to go. The smoke plume had been building all day, so it
> wasn't a complete surprise. Nonetheless, I neglected to take my computer.
> Since I am around a thousand emails behind, and will never catch up, I must
> withdraw from hosting Chapter 14.
>
> We (about half-a-dozen people own and live at the ranch) are home (8/9) and
> all is well. Not only did the place come through unscathed, but the
> firefighters watered our greenhouses and flowerbeds. Peculiar (always good)
> things have been happening to us for the 40 years of our ownership, things
> for which we have no explanation. How many forest-fire fighters would make
> it a point to water greenhouses and plants?
>
> Page
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <kelber at mindspring.com>
> To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 11:19 AM
> Subject: Re: Time to pack up, go home
>
>
> Aw, Dave, don't be so hard on yourself.  I've been pretty absent from this
> section as well. None of this is gonna be on the final exam, anyway.  Joseph
> Tracy signed up for the next chapter (Joseph, are you there?), after which,
> Chapters 6 and 7 (a long one) are unhosted - so we'll all have to pitch in
> and come up with pithy (or outrageous, or stupid or obscure) posts to
> provoke conversation.
>
> Here's the sign-up sheet as it stands:
>
>
> 8/9 - 8/22 - Chap. 5 - Joseph Tracy
>
> 8/23- 9/5 - Chap. 6 –
>
> 9/6 - 9/26 - Chap. 7 - (3 weeks)
>
> 9/27 - 10/10 - Chap. 8 - Mike Bailey
>
> 10/11 - 10/31 - Chap. 9 -  (3 weeks) - Robin Landseadel
>
> 11/1 - 11/14 - Chap. 10 -
>
> 11/15 - 12/5 - Chap. 11 (3 weeks, 2 hosts)
>
> 12/6 - 12/19 - Chap. 12 - Emma Wrigley
>
> Winter break
>
> 1/10 - 1/23 - Chap. 13 - Heikki Raudaskoski
>
> 1/24 - 2/6 - Chap. 14 - Page
>
> 2/7 - 2/20 - Chap. 15 -
>
> 2/21 - 3/6 - Chap. 16 -
>
> 3/7 - 3/20 - Epilogue
>
> LK
>
> -----Original Message-----
>>From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
>>
>>I fluffed the opening date for my hosting stint, and, as "my" computer
>>was trojanned almost immediately thereafter, I've been dependent on my
>>roommate's laptop, and a not-entirely-reliable connection which has
>>lost me more than a few attempted posts here.  I'm okay firing off
>>quick messages/responses, but ...
>>
>>Normally, I'd've stockpiled stuff ahead of time, but i thought my time
>>was a couple of weeks later than it actually was.  My life has been
>>changed drastically over the past year or so, and even more so since
>>this spring, and I've had all sorts of demands placed on me in the
>>past week or two that I didn't anticipate as well.  My time is still
>>not my own, even if nobody's actually paying me for it anymore ...
>>
>>But that being said, I've some commitments over the next couple of
>>evenings, but am trying--amidst hunting down a couple/three hundred
>>bucks worth of missing mail, dealing with boxes of possibly flood
>>damaged stuff people had been storing for me, and an anxiety attack
>>which I've been suffering since this past winter, among other
>>things--to get something up tonight, then get through the chapter over
>>the next couple/three days.  Move on if the time comes, but I'll keep
>>@ it ...
>>
>>Sorry, if there's on thing i know about myself, it's that i'll always
>>fail, but ...
>
>
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