Hey everyone!! Found out yesterday that I am a GIRL!!!!

[unpossibles]

copycat

[taterguy]

1. What tipped you off?

[CreekDog]

2. Temeah

has pictures. :think:

[DFW]

3. Be careful whom you tell..............

[Radio_Lady]

4. Hi DFW. Still on your endless trek through the EU and beyond?

I miss talking to you. How have you been? What do you think about all of these airline bankruptcies and realignments?

We're going to US destinations this year. We thought about Hong Kong and Japan in the fall, but haven't done anything about it.

Boston -- May/June
Breckenridge, Colorado -- August
Other months totally unplanned.

We're re-evaluating our living circumstances and putting a toe in the real estate market. We'll see how it goes. If it doesn't work out, at least we did a REALLY BIG AND SUCCESSFUL spring cleaning!

Peace, love and happiness (our sign-off on the 1950's children's TV show),

Radio Lady in Oregon

[DFW]

5. Endless trek is right!

I'm coming to you live and in color from downtown Sprout City (Brussels),
have to be in Paris by tomorrow morning, back here in the afternoon, and
back in the German Rheinland before bedtime.

The airline shake-out hasn't affected me yet, although I freaked when I heard
that American was cancelling hundred of flights a day. They are THE airline
in and out of Dallas, and I have to be availing myself of their services next
week when I run over to the States in a few days. They are supposedly flying
full schedule again. I guess that any airline that was operating hand-to-mouth,
costwise, was a candidate for either takeover or bankruptcy. No one, except
maybe Exxon executives and OPEC bigwigs, expected to see oil at $114 a barrel,
and it HAS to be messing up the budgetary projections of every airline cost
overseer. I'm just surprised we can still afford to fly at all, and maybe it's
just a question of time before we can't. I try to take trains here as much as I
can without blowing must-be-at meetings. If I have to run down to Spain or up to
Norway, trains are pretty much out due to the lost time. I can't afford to be
24 hours in a train each way to somewhere.

Boston in May and June, I'm jealous!! I love Boston. I have never been to Breckenridge,
although I suppose it's as nice as the rest of Colorado. If you've been to Japan before,
the sticker shock won't be a surprise to you. I haven't been back to Hong Kong since the
British left. No idea what's going on there.

[Radio_Lady]

8. Brussels! It is one of my favorite places! Have you ever been to Prague?

My husband is still considering that destination.

UPDATE: Darn. I wrote a whole response about the beauty of Boston in the spring, and it was swallowed by my computer over the day!!! That's what happens when I start cooking with the DU Chefs. See below:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x7657782

I'll try again soon...never fear, Radio Lady is here.

Hope all of your connections are smooth and uneventful.

Peace, love and happiness,

Radio Lady in Oregon

[DFW]

9. Prague! We sure have

We stole a weekend and flew down there two years ago. Gorgeous!

[Radio_Lady]

10. DFW, I love tht stylized clock... complete with astrology signs.

Sorry I didn't get to chat with you more tonight, but there's so much going on here. The trip to Boston looms and we have much preparation to complete before we leave. Looks like I'll see one of my first cousins, Evan M., who told me tonight he'd drive up from Philadelphia with a friend, spend my birthday with us on May 31st, probably in Dedham, Massachusetts, where I used to work for the Lojack Corporation, and then drive home the next day. His birthday is June 1, 1944. We haven't seen each other in ages!

Also, we have our home listed with a realtor -- trying to downsize perhaps, if we can sell.

There isn't much activity at all, but the realtor is trying her best in a difficult market. Our ten-year-old home looks more lovely than the day we moved in. We'd love to stay, but the upkeep costs us extra and as everyone knows, expenses are climbing.

Ah, well -- I've just turned on some Tao music on my mp3 player -- takes me to another level before I go to sleep. I'm going to put it all in the hands of providence; it's time for good luck and/or chance to take over. I'm not particularly religious -- but I do have some kind of a spiritual side, unexpressed mostly, until I see a ladybug or a butterfly -- or the kerria Japonica pleniflora opening up their golden faces across our fence.

Are you familiar with these flowers? They're commonly called the Yellow Rose of Texas, and we love them. My husband planted them on a north facing hill on our former property in Sudbury, Massachusetts. But they didn't bloom until around his birthday, June 23. He carefully put in seven plants a few years ago here in Portland, and now they are looking very lush. Next to bloom are the coral-colored azaleas, up against a rock wall that has a golden tone. Here, everything is earlier and spring seems to last forever.

See this post in the Oregon forum kind of updating on my activities at present:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=174&topic_id=5521&mesg_id=5694

Take care, fly safely, and CU@theDU!

Radio Lady Ellen Kimball in Oregon

[Deja Q]

6. If you show me yours, I'll show you mine!

:rofl:

[unpossibles]

7. ok, but mine has a hole in it

I think it's broken or something.