My daughter Karen has been blogging for a number of years and has had her own web site since she was in 7th grade. I remember it started off as a Val Kilmer fan site then evolved into a site reflecting Karen’s impressive track & field experiences ( she even had a popular web based newsletter) as a Gator and later as a Trojan while in grad school.
So, I am not too surprised that she is doing things in her field of Public Relations that draws some attention. Business week lists ‘the most active stories based on user activity’ and here is a recent mention.
One thing that I never expected would happen has happened… I qualify for most senior citizen discounts. However, having reached this milestone, I find that some things get stuck in time… like how I remember my daughters.
None of my daughters are children anymore, but somehow I am like Steven Martin caught in “Father of the Bride” and I hear my little girls speak whenever they open their adult mouths. Sometimes, I actually see them as I used to and that is very disconcerting. Maybe I just see the little girls still inside … or maybe that part of them still resides in me.
So, forgive me ladies if I look at you in anyway that seems to not recognize your adult and independent status… this is more about me.
Oh, my adult daughters do worry that I watch over them… it seems funny to them but I do like to see what they are up to once in a while. They have a common fear that I will be watching with a ‘leafy hat’ hidden somewhere and spring out with some commandment that they ‘can’t mix their creamed potatoes with their peas’… or some such thing.
When my eldest daughter was in Iraq the first time, I was able to keep track of her by following the on-line musings of an embed reporter. She would say, “I can’t tell you where I am…” and I would interject that I knew exactly where she was and list a casual — although deliberately vague — location that was good enough to elicit an ‘oh my god’ from her. This was priceless to me because it is not often that I can impress her.
Thanks to Google Earth. I can keep track of their general travels… the above three pictures came from Google Earth and I am sure Kristin will recognize them from her travels! 🙂
I did joke about having a subcutaneous transponder inserted into each one of them… they didn’t laugh. funny
Interestingly enough, I usually normally never buy trees from those mega retailers… I tend to haunt nurseries… but this one from Home depot looked fun. On the internet they don’t say many kind things about these combination trees … but each tree is a bit of history if you take the time to study them.
My tree has five varieties grafted to it: Beverly Hills, Anna, Einshimer, Fuji and Dorsett Golden Delicious. The Greenish -yellow with an orange red flush Beverly Hills apple is slightly tart that — I suspect — is probably great for apple pies; the Anna apple was developed in Israel and is yellow with a slight red blush; the Einshimer is related to the Anna; the Fuji came from Japan and is wonderful; and finally the Dorsett Golden was developed from the Golden Delicious strain in the Bahamas in 1964 and is an all purpose apple that is crisp and sweet.. So doesn’t this combination sound worthy for any garden?
The main challenge for these varieties from my readings is that most of them need a good cold snap which is no problem here in San Luis Obispo as I also grow Concord Grapes which according to the ‘experts’ cannot grow here!
Laura has already offered to give me the new tree while she keeps our existing tree for her recipes! Ha!
