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| | From:  _Xer (Original Message) | Sent: 11/28/2008 7:55 PM |
Happy day after Turkeyday everyone.
The sky is a pale medium gray. It's foggy, but a light fog making visibility several hundred feet. The waves are barely visible from here. The ocean beyond is lost in the grey though. There is no horizon anywhere. It's cool in a way, creating a sort of intimate isolation. Expect you are all basking in the afterglow of holiday cheer.
My best to you all.
Xer |
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Yep, I did spot the running lights, but could not id the ship. With you on that ocean love. I sometimes wonder what the ocean and high mounts have in common to evoke such good emotions.
oc...enjoyed all the shots... |
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| | | From: _Xer | Sent: 12/6/2008 9:31 AM |
Mom called this evening after my baby sis picked her up at the Orlando airport. Mom arrived in Florida safely after we put her on the flight from Sea-Tac this morning.
Saturday, I will try and get mom's pic up for y'all to see. I told her all about each one of you.
But... bed n.....zzzz...zz.z.zzz.. |
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Xer...I'm so glad you had a lovely trip...and I'm glad your mum is safely in Florida. I love those pics...fog and mist do a lot to create a different mental space for an image (some have accused me of living in a fog, so maybe it's home!  ) I got up early this morning (Saturday) for a yoga class, only to find out that the class was cancelled.  So I rode a bike, treadmill, and cross country machine then did some weights. Now I'm home and ready to go back to bed! hehe BUT today I christmas Mom's house. She hasn't had a tree since dad died...the anniv of that comes up this week (10th). Lets see if I can cheer some... |
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| | | From: _Xer | Sent: 12/6/2008 10:55 PM |
Jen, you sweetie. What a marvelous idea!
 It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas... |
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| | | From: _Xer | Sent: 12/6/2008 11:44 PM |
Mom an' the Hog!
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| | | From: _Xer | Sent: 12/7/2008 6:18 AM |
Remember I told mom about each one of you (in embarrassing detail--grin). The reason I told her about y'all is because I asked her permission to post the picture of her on my bike for y'all to see. She agreed, but asked me to tell her what you thought of the picture. ahem, kaf, kaf
Oh, perhaps I've never mentioned it, but please do not download pictures of me or my family/friends and post them ANYWHERE ELSE--EVER?!!! Thanks much.
the Xer |
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| | | From: _Xer | Sent: 12/10/2008 4:57 AM |
Other than shooting with the lens at wide angle from a squating position making mom looking a little like a pin head, I didn't think the photo was so bad as to deserve no response at all. How can I tell mom about y'all's responses when there aren't any? ![]()
Can't somebody say something I can tell her about? |
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She looks like a really cool (fellow) biker mom!!   KC |
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| | | From: _Xer | Sent: 12/10/2008 9:07 AM |
Thank you, Kitty, for offering me something to convey. Mom was born in Oklahoma into an ostensibly German family. I don't think anyone in Europe (or honestly anywhere in the world) can truthfully make claims to be pure blood anything. Over the years, I have learnt more about the different heritages in my mom's allegedly German family. What made it most surprising to learn we even have some Jewish blood in us is because I grew up thinking mom's family were just Germans. Dad's family we always knew was mixed heritage 'cause dad always called his kid's a Heinz 57 variety.
Anyway, mom was born into a farming family. They moved from Oklahoma to the panhandle of Texas while she was still quite young. After the winds destroyed the farmland they migrated to California where she grew up, still farming. When in her late teens, or early twenties (sorry I don't know exactly), she met my dad in Bible School, in Los Angeles. She was always pretty stern when we were children, and never learnt to demonstrate affection until her children grew up and learnt how to on our own then taught her.
She is still very religious (Protestant), but often surprises me at how she is able to adapt to new things... except for liberals and Democrats I mean. We’ve taken her to India twice and her ability to roll with new experiences really impressed me. Still, watching the internal struggles, on her face, when she is with my wife is interesting. She loves and admires my wife, but my wife is a true liberal Democrat (whereas you’ve probably noticed, I vacillate a bit?) The mental contortions mom makes to reconcile her own beliefs with my wife's political stands has always been fun for me to guess at. This last visit mom wasn't as well able to cope though. She absolutely believes that non-American born Muslim, Barack Obama, is going to deliver America into the hands of the barbarian Islamists of the Middle-East. It clearly bothered her greatly that we are both Barack supporters. I think she pretty much concluded we are simply ignorant of the truth, but don't know it.
The day she arrived in early November, I met mom at the airport. My older sis was there to meet mom also. We went out for lunch, and mom saw me riding Wildfire to the restaurant. She decided she had to ride my bike before returning home so she could tell her girlfriends all about it. There was never a chance to give her a ride, between all our rain and mom spending time visiting with other family members while here. The morning she was leaving for her return flight, I woke up to see areas of blue sky amidst the clouds. After my breakfast and shower I rolled Wildfire out of her stable and called mom outside for a ride around the block. Though she still doesn’t express herself much, I could tell mom LOVED the experience. So, I had her sit on the bike and took her picture, once on my camera, and once on hers. Now she can show her friends back home. I got a real kick out of seeing mom sitting on Wildfire just like she belonged there.
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By "(fellow)", you know I was referring to kindred spirit, being a biker mom myself. Not that she looked like a fellow. She sounds like my kind o' woman! KC |
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Lovely photos, Xer. Tell your Mom that I think she looks too comfortable on Wildfire - perhaps she should get one of her own?  My scanner's acting up, or I'd post a picture of my own Mom before I was conceived - she and my father on his Harley back in 1947..... He never wore a helmet (nor even a "dew-rag") but she wore a Leather "brain bucket" whenever she rode with him. |
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I tried to post on this thread a few times after you put up the pic of your mum...what a lovely photo! I can see how someone could have an enjoyable ride on that lovely machine too! |
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| | | From: _Xer | Sent: 12/10/2008 6:25 PM |
| Of course Kitty. Speaking of spirit that's somethin' you got a lot of! |
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| | | From: _Xer | Sent: 12/10/2008 6:25 PM |
| Gryphon, sorry the scanner is acting up. Lucky for us you did once post a few pictures of your dad and his bike, and of your mom and dad and his bike. Whatever happened to your photo album? We have so many albums now, but yours is missing! |
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| | | From: _Xer | Sent: 12/10/2008 6:28 PM |
Shame you had trouble posting, Jen. Glad it finally worked for you. Wildfire says thank you for the compliment too.  |
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