13 Thursday #4
1. While posting a blog entry at the Hull Public Library from one of their two side-by-side computers, the woman sitting next to me talked out loud to her computer the whole time I was there.
2. On the plane home from Boston to Virginia, I sat next to a guy who coughed the whole way, and the view from my window seat in the back of the plane was completely blocked by the turquoise green propeller casing.
3. I was in Boston to visit my dad in the hospital. On one day when my sister, Kathy, and I were visiting him, we stopped to use the bathroom before heading home. When we came out, we bumped into my brother Bobby and his wife. If we had been in the bathroom a few seconds longer, we probably would have missed them, and I might not have seen them at all.
4. After walking the beach near my mother’s house one night at dusk, I went up through a pathway in the dunes to stroll along Beach Avenue and look at the oceanfront houses. The ground was sprinkled with a layer of white sand and under the streetlight it looked like snow. Protected by dunes and the closely built houses, the sound of the wind and surf faded into the distance. I felt like I was inside a snow globe scene. Noticing one surviving bloom on a beach rose bush, I bent down, cupped it in my hand, and breathed its aroma in deeply. The memory of this whole scene is still imprinted in my mind.
5. My brother, Joey, owner of the “Redman Construction Company,” remodeled one of the houses on Beach Avenue. The one with the two steeple tower rooms with weather vanes at each peak.
6. I drank my tea from the mug with “Redman Construction” embossed on it while at my mother’s. It was a red mug, of course.
7. I used my sister Trish’s car, which is exactly like mine, here at home. While driving it, I reached for my chapstick in the ashtray and couldn’t figure out why it wasn’t there, where it was supposed to be.
8. Trish recently had a grand mal seizure and can’t drive herself for 6 months.
9. Before I left to catch my plane home, my sister Kathy tied a colorful cloth on my black suitcase so I could tell it apart from all the other black suitcases, but the pattern of the cloth looked just like some underwear I have and so I kept thinking my underwear was hanging out of the suitcase.
10. I read “the curious incident of the dog in night-time,” a fiction told from the perspective of an autistic boy while traveling. Although I loved the eccentric premise and format, I got bored towards the middle of the book and skipped to the end. I think this says something about my attention span more than the quality of the story.
11. Sitting on the plane by the emergency exits is a little like doing jury duty. You have to agree to help the flight attendants in the case of an emergency.
12. On the plane, I noticed that there was no number 13 seat. When I asked the stewardess why, she said, “Because they’re superstitious. There’s no gate number 13 either.”
13. The photo above, “Pedestrian Right of Way 13 MPH,” is a sign displayed in the driveway of my neighbor’s farm. I remember when this sign was freshly painted and all our kids were young.
Post Note: The logo that “13 Thursday” founder, Leanne, provides to other bloggers doesn’t fit on my page, and so I’ve decided to take pictures of the number 13 for my Thursday entries instead. But it’s going to be hard to find 13 things to photograph, seeing as how so many people are so afraid of the number. Go visit Leanne and see her extensive list of 13 Thursday participants.
November 10th, 2005 9:22 am
That beach scene sound beautiful. I love the roses that grow by the ocean.
November 10th, 2005 9:40 am
I read that book on the plane too! I agree, it did get slow in the middle.
13 is one of my favorite numbers;-)
November 10th, 2005 9:42 am
I laughed out loud about the scarf tied to your suitcase! I would have had to change out the scarf if it looked so similar to my undies. LOL!
I’m so glad you got to see your Brother while you were there. You have such a tight knit family, it’s wonderful to read about, and so rare anymore.
I made a table-free code for the TT too, it’s down at the bottom of the code page, here. You know, for next week, or if you ever run out of neat photographs to go with it!
November 10th, 2005 9:42 am
Thursday Thirteen #13
Thirteen Things about Leanne, Thursday, November 10, 2005
My other Thirteens
1. THIRTY NINE people that I know of participated in this fun little mememememe last week. The week I started it? Sandra was the only one who joined in. Thanks, S…
November 10th, 2005 10:28 am
#4 gave me the chills, so beautifully written! Here’s my 13.
November 10th, 2005 11:23 am
Great list! The beach scene in #4 sounds absolutely beautiful! My 13 is up too!
November 10th, 2005 11:45 am
Matching undies and scarves…interesting. 😛
Here’s my 13 today!
November 10th, 2005 11:57 am
Hi Colleen,
I’m Sandra aka Crusty and I spotted your link on Leanne’s list of Thirteens. I’ve been prowsing your blog off and on for several months and I smiled when I saw your link on Leanne’s list.
Loved your beach scene description and laughed out loud with your suitcase/underwear scene.
November 10th, 2005 12:24 pm
Liked your nr 4, actually the whole list! Hope your dad is doing fine.
Here are my 13.
The logo doesn’t fit on my page either. I saved the image as a picture and then I loaded up the picture for the post.
November 10th, 2005 1:20 pm
I’m glad you got to see your dad, and a lot of your family! That’s wild!
Here’s my 13 http://jenanddavin.blogspot.com/ Take care, I hope things get back to normal soon.
November 10th, 2005 3:09 pm
LOL! From my overstuffed sewing room closet to your overstuffed suitcase…I could have chosen from hundreds of other fabrics. Stripes no less. Still laughing.
November 10th, 2005 3:18 pm
I so enjoyed your 13 comments. My favourite was the discovery of snow on the beach. Wonderful!
November 10th, 2005 4:20 pm
I don’t know what is more annoying, sitting next to somone who talks to the computer or sitting by someone who coughs the whole time you’re on an airplane.
The bonus of sitting in the emergecency exit row is that you get more leg room. That’s why we usually request seats in these rows.
November 10th, 2005 6:22 pm
Pretty soon you’ll have to start making your own 13 signs like they used to on Sesame Street. 13 in the sand, 13 painted on a chair, 13 beans on the table. The possibilities are endless!
November 10th, 2005 10:17 pm
I hate to spoil the symmetry of this by being # 14 in the comments, but wanted to stop by and see how your Dad was doing. Loved the way you wove your family closeness and the sights and feel of Hull into your post. Sending good thoughts.
November 11th, 2005 12:35 am
I love #9, it made me LOL and I needed to LOL.
And the feeling of being inside a snow globe sounds so inviting. Think I’ll try to go find my own snow globe.
November 11th, 2005 9:40 pm
Hi. Just discovered Thursday Thirteen, and think it s a great twist to the meme game. So now I’m out reading other TTs. Mine can be found at:
http://www.myprairierose.com/CarolynsComments
Have a great weekend!
November 12th, 2005 4:49 pm
Your underwear hanging out – lol
Trying to Catch Up: Thursday Thirteen
November 12th, 2005 11:58 pm
I take the computer-talker over the plane-cougher any day — with earplugs. Keeping my fingers crossed for your dad’s recovery, and for Trish’s.
November 15th, 2005 9:27 am
Wonderful 13 list as usual. The thing that sucks in finding a brilliant writer is that we can take cues from them, we can even imitate them, we can try to capture their flair and style… but we can never BE them … which, I think, is what many people really want. You’ve led some amazing life. It must be so very cool to be you.