The heartland redux....
Darlings, even as you read this, I am probably back in the Heartland!
I leave Sunday, 4/1, for Chicago via Alaska Airlines, and will be heading to Omaha on Tuesday via the California Zephyr. I'll arrive just in time to take Mother Vel-Duray to her (hopefully) last chemo appointment on Wednesday, and will be there for two weeks. Then I fly back to Chicago, meet the Colonel, and we head back to Seattle on the Empire Builder, with stops at the Izaak Walton Inn in Essex Montana, and then onto Whitefish, Montana, arriving back into town on Sunday, April 22. In our absence, Chez Vel-DuRay will be in the capable hands of not only The Greek and the livestock, but several downright brutish Amtrak gentlemen who have decided to sample life in Seattle.
I'll have internet connectivity, so more dispatches from the heartland will be forthcoming. If I hear good news from The Major Concern about employment, you will be one of the first to know.
In the meantime, do try to keep up the standards, won't you? Promise me none of you will go out and buy sofas with built-in cupholders, or redo your bathrooms in Marble. Remember, if the urge to "scrapbook" hits you, that I'm only a phone call away.
To tide you over, enjoy this picture of the old Golden Lion Restaurant in the pre-Four Season Olympic Hotel, back when it was a Westin (and never let anyone tell you that Westins never went in for kitsch)
confidential to Miss Stayformore: Your present is in. The Colonel is eager to deliver it to you, and show you a new project we've been working on.
I leave Sunday, 4/1, for Chicago via Alaska Airlines, and will be heading to Omaha on Tuesday via the California Zephyr. I'll arrive just in time to take Mother Vel-Duray to her (hopefully) last chemo appointment on Wednesday, and will be there for two weeks. Then I fly back to Chicago, meet the Colonel, and we head back to Seattle on the Empire Builder, with stops at the Izaak Walton Inn in Essex Montana, and then onto Whitefish, Montana, arriving back into town on Sunday, April 22. In our absence, Chez Vel-DuRay will be in the capable hands of not only The Greek and the livestock, but several downright brutish Amtrak gentlemen who have decided to sample life in Seattle.
I'll have internet connectivity, so more dispatches from the heartland will be forthcoming. If I hear good news from The Major Concern about employment, you will be one of the first to know.
In the meantime, do try to keep up the standards, won't you? Promise me none of you will go out and buy sofas with built-in cupholders, or redo your bathrooms in Marble. Remember, if the urge to "scrapbook" hits you, that I'm only a phone call away.
To tide you over, enjoy this picture of the old Golden Lion Restaurant in the pre-Four Season Olympic Hotel, back when it was a Westin (and never let anyone tell you that Westins never went in for kitsch)
confidential to Miss Stayformore: Your present is in. The Colonel is eager to deliver it to you, and show you a new project we've been working on.
posted by Catalina Vel-DuRay @ Saturday, March 31, 2007
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