After a busy morning of packing, and several hours of driving, we made it to the beach house around 2pm. It’s a beautiful house–not on the beach proper, but one row back, but you can see the ocean from the 3rd floor. There’s an elevator for the Moms, and a hot tub out back. 5 [...]

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The white wine for the wedding: Viognier from RagApple Lassie.
RagApple Lassie was one of the wineries we stopped at earlier this month. Beautiful, big space, nice wine-tasting room. Short tour included something I’d never seen in all my wine tours in Napa and Sonoma: vats of freshly crushed grapes. Made me want to take my [...]

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Figured out how to upload and link to photos. This is one of my first digital photos! Lovely roses from Esther at the shower.
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A hectic day today of a few errands and much packing, all currently staged in the dining room for loading into the car and the van in the A.M. Some logistical planning for airport runs, meals, etc, later in the week. Got a sneak preview of the wedding cake topper by our friend Stewart–let’s just [...]

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The Big Day is only 10 days off now–close enough to show up in the 10 day forecast (it shows under Supply, NC, not Holden Beach). The forecast thus far: 76 with a 60% chance of showers. It will be amusing to see how this changes between now and then.
Finished up all the work on [...]

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The wedding plans continue apace, with a lovely shower on Sunday (Thanks, Emily!) on a sunny, less-than-95 degree day. I put in the order for the flowers, which in keeping with everything else about this wedding, are non-traditional: at least they are east of Hawaii, which is where they’re being fedexed from. Mr. Dependable came [...]

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After errands to the DMV and the social security office earlier this month, it was a pleasure to deal with a different government bureaucracy today.
We got the marriage license today.
They have bibles right there on the counter just waiting for people to show up and have to swear something, but they don’t require you to [...]

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…that would be how long I’ve been rolling around on this planet.
Seemed like an auspicious entry point into the blogosphere, so here I am. The presentation of this site will be updated as I become more familiar with Wordpress and designing my own theme. I’ll be adding sundry cohorts to the blogroll as time goes [...]

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