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I had a grand ambition of making a brilliant 1st post about my trip to Africa but alas I've run out of time so the article that ran in our local weekly will have to do.

Driftwood Article

The gauntlet has been thrown down and now I'd just be thankful if I could figure out how to work this blog thingy.

To Sue ... MY Fairy Godmother in Garters!!! ... just for the record that was my nic first, for Sue!  'She took the words right out of my mouth' and turned them back on me; that's just because she's brighter and quicker than me at all this internet techno stuff, and that's one of the reasons she's my heroine (man, I hope I spelt the right heroine but one could say she is like a drug, once you get to know her 'ya gotta' go back for more and more and more of her infectious good stuff).  But nobody, and I mean NO BODY, can shop or move furniture like me!  Well, at least in second life.  On chocolate, cigars, high heels and smarta$$ed-ness I got her beat, in both worlds.  Okay, maybe it's a draw on the smart a$$ score ; )  I was going to wax on poetically about all the reasons I am thankful to have Sue in my 1stL and my SL  but then this (my very, very 1st) blog entry would go on forever and ever.  You that know Sue already know all the reasons I have be thankful for her in my life so I'll just leave it at this and take the view lock off the blog.

To RiverSong and her most excellent husband Ray (don't tell him I said that out loud!)  Where does one even begin to thank these two people?  They inspire and humble me always and in all ways.  They can work miracles and make dreams come true.  It is with a huge THANKS to both of them that I am, after all these years, finally going to be visiting our Gardens of Hope project in Lesotho, Africa.  I'm still in shock and awe and in such a place of gratitude that this is happening TO ME!

To my landlady, who just called me and said she wants to support my trip to Lesotho so I should just skip paying the rent next month.  Wow, sometimes I just get blown away by the generosity and kindness of others. I actually hardly really know the woman. She lives on the big Island, gets over here very irregularly and once a month I just deposit the rent cheque in a bank account. In the 13+ years I've lived in this house I think I've probably only seen her face to face a handful of times. Years can go by where we don't even speak on the phone. In that whole time she has never raised the rent. I'm single mom with a small business and two kids that I've been raising completely on my own. Without the financial break I don't know how I could have done it and stayed living where we do in this growing community. That she has never increased the rent is of itself very generous and to add this to it is over the top and overwhelming. She just lifted from me that last worry about taking this trip. Wooo hooo and it also means more art supplies for the school!

To the internet, which may appear to be a frivolous thank, but I am grateful for the people and places it's connected me to that I otherwise wouldn't have met or seen.