tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45329631682777164112024-03-05T10:26:19.129-07:00the allen family bermuda triangleUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger673125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4532963168277716411.post-64018731321711565772014-10-22T15:55:00.000-06:002014-10-22T16:15:55.807-06:00paco<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkI_N0v1_rEcF89opTRKzQSyMUKjVkJa7vCDZcUW9AAfCuvofyVNO09cILn2Uev1JHjXvzlcOCMCYlL0jgHUIna4uuRrffPk_pFo3Dk9IN4EtZT5aBByYUbQOIc45xmg56lK5fJ_9At7mY/s1600/L1010796+copy.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkI_N0v1_rEcF89opTRKzQSyMUKjVkJa7vCDZcUW9AAfCuvofyVNO09cILn2Uev1JHjXvzlcOCMCYlL0jgHUIna4uuRrffPk_pFo3Dk9IN4EtZT5aBByYUbQOIc45xmg56lK5fJ_9At7mY/s1600/L1010796+copy.JPG" height="400" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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paco: such a meagre name for one who meant so much. paco, paquito, paquito el perrito, paquito el perrito mas guapo y macho. i'm pretty sure his first language was spanish, so the little prayer the technician said over his body, in spanish, was certainly understood by him. paco always did understand far more than the rest of us anyway.<br />
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so much pain. so very much pain, and so very unneccessary. but that wasn't who he was, it was just what had him in the end--he was far more than that and he won't be defined by his last two months anymore than anyone else suffering from a debilitating, chronic disease would be. there was life, so much LIFE, before that. let me explain.<br />
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paco came to us in the late spring of 2008 via my friend, julia, while we were living in new mexico. she picked up a little brown dog that had been living on rio grande blvd in a little hole he'd dug for himself. he was skinny, tired, scared, and way too young to be living on his own. she brought him over to my house, told me directly that we needed a dog, and thus he became part of our family. i gave her a head of organic lettuce in return.<br />
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in the beginning, paco wasn't at all sure about us--astrid had just turned two and gus was so overjoyed to FINALLY have a dog that neither of them wanted to stop playing with him, even for a second. paco himself was probably 5 months old--we never really knew for sure--and it took him quite some time to decide to stay with us. he ran away every day for the first three or four months, as paco was a master of escape, but he always came back at night. we lived along an acequia that he must have known like the back of his paw and giving up the freedom of being a stray was tough. eventually, he decided to stay home and embrace becoming domesticated.<br />
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after he decided to live with us, we found he was excellent off-leash. he listened to all of us and just walked alongside us without much trouble, so we hiked all through the mountains and around the rio grande valley with paco trotting along happily. he could go outside and greet guests without fear of his bolting and running away; we could unload groceries, kiddos, what have you with the doors open and he'd just wag and watch from inside or out--his choice. i could even take him to the vet without a leash, and while he would agree to go in, rather sheepishly, the other dogs inside never quite appreciated his gift and would bark to shame him into leash-using. he looked at them like they were idiots, but we did agree a leash at the vet's was probably a good idea. he was a rockstar when it came to not using a leash.<br />
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his other natural gift? no innate fear of fireworks. seriously--we had to hold him back to keep from investigating them while they were exploding! he loved fireworks and we set off quite a few with him, but we had to make sure whatever we lit wasn't a kind that could move on its own because he would chase it. he absolutely loved them, all of them--i think the fountains were his favorite but he also enjoyed a good noisy roman candle. we burned lots of those. he was more fire dog than a dalmatian.<br />
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when we moved to iowa a bit of the running-away thing returned, but it was less of his trying to escape us and more of a hard-wired need to know his territory. there were deer and chipmunks and squirrels and mice and raccoons and foxes and groundhogs and cats and and and...they all had to be controlled right now! we had a ravine and an undeveloped section of land next to our house, and no fences. paco was confused--his life had initially been in wide-open spaces, but he'd become comfortable with his defined area of a big fenced-in backyard. in iowa he'd go outside, use the bathroom, see something move, and immediately give chase. he usually came right back as soon as whatever furry critter eluded him, but occasionally he'd stay and try to sniff out this multitude of new information. his brain was overloaded with new sights and smells--it wasn't anything like what he had known in new mexico--and he had a lot to learn. all it took was regular off-leash excursions into the ravine and eventually he understood. and we came to an understanding: he could run and chase things into the forest, but he needed to come back when we called for him. we had this arrangement for most of his life, and the vast majority of the time it worked exactly like that.<br />
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despite these crazy jaunts into our next-door wilderness, he stayed relatively clean--paco was a tidy dog who needed almost no grooming, and his natural scent was almost nil. we'd bathe him every now and them, something he resented, but usually it was because he'd found something nasty to roll in and we couldn't live with the smell. i kept him on frontline most of the year--we usually skipped winters because i'd heard ticks weren't active then--but he still managed to pick up a couple. and he'd never had fleas until he came to texas. but this tiny insignificant creature, a tick, is what eventually became the vector for paco's end.<br />
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my and paco's daily routine in iowa was pretty simple--get up, go outside, eat breakfast, walk gus to school, take astrid in the car to preschool, rest, pick up astrid in the car from preschool, walk to get gus from school. after school he played with gus and astrid until rich got home, then he'd go for a run with rich or watch him and the kids play basketball outside. paco liked knowing what to do at any given time of day. however one day, a couple of years after we'd moved to iowa, paco started limping on his walk to school. then he was limping after his runs with rich. rich cut out the runs but we kept walking him to school. the limping became more pronounced until one day he walked up the hill to school and just laid down on the ground. he couldn't get up. he was, quite literally, lame. i went home, got the car, put him in it, and drove him to the vet. lyme disease. it was common in our neighborhood, paco had had a tick in the previous two months, and there was little reason to expect it to be anything else. paco started intensive treatment for it and, after a few months, showed improvement. he had residual arthritis and had to be on meds for that, but otherwise he was functioning more-or-less normally. the runs with rich had to be shortened and less-frequent, but the walks were fine.<br />
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whenever possible, he continued to chase whatever small furry thing he could into the ravine. sometimes he even caught them, which didn't end well for many a chipmunk. he tried to do this to a downed red-tailed hawk he found one night, which didn't end well for paco. live and learn. when not outside, he guarded us from within from all the chipmunks and deer using his terrifying, rumbling growl that sounded like it came from the bowels of the earth itself, punctuated by a baritone bark that let everyone know he was a Force of nature. we heard this noise at all hours of the day and night, always letting us know paco was doing his personally-assigned job of protecting us all.<br />
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fast forward a few years to four months ago. i'm in texas, dropping the kids off at camp, when i get a phone call from rich: paco's got a mass the size of an orange under his jaw, and he needs to get him to the hospital. rich was scared--and rich doesn't scare easily about anything medically-related--which made me completely terrified. IV antibiotics, anti-inflammatories, and the mass went down. paco took three kinds of antibiotics for two weeks...but the mass remained. as soon as the antibiotics stopped, it started to grow again. paco had it removed--a seven-inch incision to find it was a misbehaving lymph node--yet the vet was at a loss to explain why it was behaving the way it was. then he realized it wasn't what the expected to see; it didn't seem to be cancerous but it definitely wasn't healthy tissue.<br />
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lots more antibiotics, lots of snuggles and kisses during recovery time. we were so afraid the surgery would take his beautiful voice, but we found he could still bark and growl and whine a few days afterwards. he was tired--he'd been through a lot--but he was improving. unfortunately, our timing was off: we were soon moving to texas and he would have to leave his comfortable, sunny, inside spot next to the backdoor, where he could keep an eye on the entire ravine and anyone walking down the hill. his wilderness and his five years of accumulated knowledge about it was soon to be a memory.<br />
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we drove to houston four weeks after the surgery. he sat in the front seat of the u-haul with me and either gus or astrid--they took turns letting him lay in their lap. at 70+ pounds, paco always thought of himself as a lap dog. we moved into our tiny rental house with its equally tiny fenced back yard, and paco was instantly covered in fleas. it was incredibly offensive--for such a clean dog a flea was unforgivable, but we treated him and tried to keep it from happening again. he seemed depressed, which was completely understandable. he was sleeping 22 hours a day, and had less interest in food. he didn't like the new house in the city at all. we started to develop a new routine--get up, go out, eat breakfast, drive gus to school, walk astrid to school, rest, walk to get astrid from school, drive to get gus to school. but it was a challenge--he was having a hard time walking to school, he wasn't eating enough, he was slipping down the new stairs. i covered the stairs in plastic so he could grip better; i changed his food. not enough. i took him to a new veterinarian who looked at him and said cancer, and determined he needed a battery of tests and a specialist to consult with. she then asked if his head muscles had always been so weak? i had not even noticed that. i fell apart in a giant way that afternoon; paco just slept.<br />
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the cancer diagnosis didn't sit right with anyone except that vet. she and her office called a lot trying to schedule immediate testing and biopsies, but i wasn't ready to concede. the head muscles were concerning, though--his look was changing. and he had pretty much completely stopped eating, and he wasn't able to open his mouth more than an inch or two anymore. he no longer made any sounds--no barking, no whining, no growls. he was down to 60 pounds, a weight we hadn't seen on him since he was a puppy. we blamed all of this on depression and the move, but things were becoming critical. i took him to a different vet at a different office a few days later for a second opinion. paco received a much worse diagnosis, but it was, sadly, an accurate one: masticatory muscle myositis.<br />
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the big question then, after WHY (and the why is still pending), was HOW? how did a dog that was more mutt than the biggest mutt imaginable come down with an autoimmune disease that usually affects pure-bred german shepherds and king charles cavalier spaniels? the shepherd might have been in his bloodline, but there was so little of any identifiable dog in his lineage that it seemed unlikely he could have been born with this. i'm not even sure he was a dog--we've suspected a coyote/dog mix for a long time. and, he was more than twice as old as the average age of onset for the disease. but, have it he did and he had to start treatment immediately. more antibiotics, 60 mg of prednisone every day for three weeks, stomach drugs to keep the prednisone from eating through his gut, and 10 days in the animal hospital where gus and astrid visited him daily with their grandparents (more bad timing--rich and i were away).<br />
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after the prednisone kicked in, he was awake and better, for a while. his mouth opened, his appetite and thirst returned, but he was still unwell--shaky, gaunt, no sound. we tried to rebuild his muscles with walks to school, but after weeks on such a high dose of prednisone his liver started to fail. he developed an abscess that spread from his upper jaw into his orbit and sinuses. more meds, more antibiotics.<br />
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the vet wasn't happy with paco's progress. MMM is an unusual disease about which very little is known, as most dogs starve to death from the inability to open their mouths fairly early on so there are few test candidates. paco could eat, was eating, but was still wasting, and the myositis had spread to his back, hips, chest and limbs. something else was wrong. on the advice of a colleague, paco's vet ran a tick panel to see if there could be a tick-based disease at work. we'd told him about the lyme diagnosis and that he'd been treated aggressively and recovered, but we'd never actually done any blood work to make sure. he ran the test: it wasn't lyme, it was rocky mountain spotted fever.<br />
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whether paco had been carrying rocky mountain spotted fever for several years or whether it was a new acquisition of his, we'll never know. what we do know is that it triggered the MMM and the polymyositis that accompanied it. the vet put him in the hospital for two more days of IVs and on 600 mg of doxycycline for 14 days--enough to treat an elephant--but it wasn't enough. the disease had gone too far; his liver was too damaged. he had developed severe enophthalmus and was no longer able to see well; he was infected throughout his head and body, and it was all, finally, just too much for medicine and his body to fight. we finally made the decision to give him the ultimate freedom all suffering on october 21, 2014. he was in his bed, with his favorite toys and a pile of rich's clothes that he enjoyed sleeping with, and gus, astrid and me holding onto him. words cannot express the difficulties that we had with this decision, but it was the only decision we could make for one we loved so much. our hearts are broken, but paco is finally running free and strong throughout the forest and the ravine, in the mountains, along the iowa and rio grande rivers, and even splashing through the shallow waves of the gulf of mexico--something he discovered he liked later in life. he is always with us.<br />
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paco meant the world to us. he made our lives happier, richer, fuller...better. he made our lives <b><u>better</u></b>. he slept in gus' room every night for more than six years, he ran with rich every other day when he could, he kept me company during the day when everyone was at school or work and made me feel far less alone, and astrid can't remember not having her built-in playmate paco in her life--i think she thought she was a dog for a time. he did all of these things for us, with us, without complaint. he was a happy soul--he smiled a ton--and, for the most part, he had a strong, healthy body. that a terrible disease got him in the end is not who he was, it is merely what brought him down physically.<br />
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i hope we did enough for him; i hope he knew how much he was adored. i hope i get to meet him again someday, and i hope he remembers me. goodbye, sweet dog paco. we will always love you.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4532963168277716411.post-79657832163610092912014-08-29T11:09:00.003-06:002014-08-29T11:09:49.974-06:00still here...kindofnotreallyit's been an age! this has been a tough transition time, as i'm sure was obvious by the previous posts. repatriation did not go smoothly, and many a life-changing decision has been made over the past six months since our return because of it. <br />
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the allen family bermuda triangle struck with a mighty blow and knocked me and the kiddos back to houston. my sweet husband, however, remains in iowa. this is not ideal. we're doing an every-other-week thing with varying success, and have high hopes for his being in houston full-time before long. the kids love their new schools and are doing very well, but that's to be expected just because...that's what is expected. they do seem happier, but they miss their dad. <br />
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fingers crossed that a program/hospital/practice gets a clue and snatches rich up sooner rather than later.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4532963168277716411.post-61816535622786222012014-04-16T21:48:00.000-06:002014-04-16T21:48:00.517-06:00glad påsk, still a bit early (part two)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3P0YQYJfG8eNcR1t0y3YJbpapEtSOHJg9nrRtg0DiZDeCbEVXb8INVVrOomJg1ffhvNdQlpi3inIIlrLp_rlFUq_xbOS0d3tuKRggCPHQjwjSkW2ubEcM85KSJFcIzxin05Il5VpwiL-E/s1600/gladpask15d.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3P0YQYJfG8eNcR1t0y3YJbpapEtSOHJg9nrRtg0DiZDeCbEVXb8INVVrOomJg1ffhvNdQlpi3inIIlrLp_rlFUq_xbOS0d3tuKRggCPHQjwjSkW2ubEcM85KSJFcIzxin05Il5VpwiL-E/s1600/gladpask15d.jpg" height="255" width="400" /></a></div><br />
more vintage swedish easter postcards. i think i have a disorder...something something graphicum designium på sverige...i don't know. these date from a bit before the previous group, probably the 1910s to the 1930s. not quite as minimal, but with lots of easter kissing, easter chicks, black cats and some witches. only one bunny.<br />
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happy (early) easter!<br />
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and a very happy early easter to you, too! we have a super-busy week coming up in the triangle, and i didn't want to miss out on posting these easter postcards. as you've probably guessed, glad påsk means "happy easter" in swedish...and, as i've admitted publicly, i'm still in sweden in my head. as i've also admitted publicly, i'm a giant fan of mid-century swedish graphic design, thus i bring you EVEN MORE delightful examples of such. they are wonderful in their simplicity--with just a minimal amount of color and line, a great impact is made even with something as commonplace as a holiday postcard. in sweden, you don't see many easter bunnies, rather you see the easter rooster. sometimes there's a hen and usually some chicks, always some eggs, but the easter bunnies seem to be few and far between. i wonder why?<br />
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part two to come soon...<br />
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my friends céline, jen, sol, and sometimes ana, taruna and jette, and i had a weekly walk around söder island. these are shots from our last walk in late january, taken with céline, and greatly greatly greatly missed by me. what i think is most interesting is the light--these were shot at 9:00 in the morning. while it was certainly overcast i didn't think it was terribly cloudy--the light is just really so fragile that any amount of interference reduces it to almost nothing. it does help explain the massive vitamin D deficiency i'm currently battling...<br />
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i wish. she does kind of look like me, though!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4532963168277716411.post-25101207898762859022014-04-11T16:20:00.000-06:002014-04-11T16:20:43.456-06:00vintage swedish travel pennants<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbqVaNHBc3gzeZDw5ddI5M6ryZCQygEVrv_dqVXi9jQ-pQ2XPnbZEdWQ6uCLS2x1ZWLv_N59eRtSGopFksHfCnT5U-3CjPl6ck_uXrLjrKOUe0p7fOlwBVYtrzZGzmTLOgtA8WMBGiUcoq/s1600/vtgswedishpennant004+copy.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbqVaNHBc3gzeZDw5ddI5M6ryZCQygEVrv_dqVXi9jQ-pQ2XPnbZEdWQ6uCLS2x1ZWLv_N59eRtSGopFksHfCnT5U-3CjPl6ck_uXrLjrKOUe0p7fOlwBVYtrzZGzmTLOgtA8WMBGiUcoq/s400/vtgswedishpennant004+copy.jpg" /></a></div><br />
before i left stockholm, i bought a handful of rumpled swedish travel pennants from the red cross store by the kids' school. they were all knotted together and looking ratty, but i smushed them with my trusty iron and lo and behold they emerged mighty fine. i am such a fan of swedish graphic design from this era, and i really love travel souvenirs...however i wish i could say i visited all these places. next time.<br />
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overall i think it's fair to assume that if these outfits represent what the men actually wore at that time, there were some long, lonely nights in their lives. var så god!<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4532963168277716411.post-6650950238825831272014-03-31T10:59:00.002-06:002014-03-31T11:01:28.211-06:00best ebay experience ever<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWTQCEG6zv24nFAfYM0yluU-fzdOjee8VbZh9umfOAjDbcbPRFso0wE-z-hU1ba1Ul5iSF_E2sXt_eLKDsRnH2Yu73-u1z-cNDmbcvjc7AqD02pxzPgKZQWe0IhxNIYa8atgCoHF7upce3/s1600/triangles.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWTQCEG6zv24nFAfYM0yluU-fzdOjee8VbZh9umfOAjDbcbPRFso0wE-z-hU1ba1Ul5iSF_E2sXt_eLKDsRnH2Yu73-u1z-cNDmbcvjc7AqD02pxzPgKZQWe0IhxNIYa8atgCoHF7upce3/s1600/triangles.jpg" height="400" width="290" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">imogen cunningham, "triangles," 1928 (copyright the imogen cunningham trust) </div><br />
in continuing with the theme of "this has been the crappiest return to reality imaginable," i decided, after coming back from stockholm, that as my life had become sad and miserable there was no better time than the present to finally part with my darkroom. years ago i spent many, many hours in the darkroom and became an accomplished silver gelatin printer--i'm still very proud of the work i created at that time (the best of which i think was "bed pictures," done while i was pregnant with gus). all of my paper and chemistry have been extinct for 15 years at this point with no equivalent replacements, and with the prospect of moving all of that equipment yet again and probably not setting it up yet again, i decided to give away what i wanted to give away and just sell the rest.<br />
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those in the give-away category went to my sweet friend, chloe. chloe is also a photographer without a darkroom, however she has space for one (but lacked a massive sink, trays, measuring devices and other random accoutrements that one just acquires over the years). actually, she probably does have a lot of it somewhere in storage, but you really can't have too much...she does own four enlargers, so she had me beat there.<br />
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those in the to-sell category went to two places: a local camera store for the really heavy stuff like the medium-format enlarger and the cold light (still unsold, damnit), and ebay for the rest. the stuff i put on ebay was the cream of the crop--my zone vi archival print washer, my saunders v-track easels, my schneider componon-s lenses...stuff like that. again, things that took years to acquire to make my print production flow exactly right.<br />
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after listing on ebay, i received lots of emails about the items--most people wanted to negotiate a lower price and cheaper combined shipping; the usual ebay messages. one person, however, really wanted the washer and the easels (these are expensive, heavy, technical items), and clearly knew what she was talking about. i agreed to sell her everything and we embarked onto a lengthy process of negotiating a price for the objects and trying to figure out how to ship 100 pounds of photographic equipment to her.<br />
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in the beginning, i had no idea who she was or who she represented...but when i received an email from the IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM TRUST i just about fell off of my chair. i had been negotiating with meg, imogen's granddaughter, for articles for the trust's darkroom. i could not have ever even envisioned a better home for my remaining equipment if i tried. once i caught a clue we scrapped all negotiations for money and worked out a trade where i would pay for all shipping and just send my stuff to them. in return, friday in fact, i received the most beautiful copy of "triangles" i have ever seen, printed by meg's dad, rondal.<br />
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and thus ends my tale of the best ebay experience ever, complete with art and a new pen-pal. big, big smile.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4532963168277716411.post-19169581542485828802014-03-27T20:50:00.004-06:002014-03-27T20:50:35.966-06:00hella fantastic people watching at the walgreen's tonight<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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and i'm terribly sorry this is out of focus, because i'd love to see what she's trying to print<br />
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soooo many things to say about what was going down at the walgreen's tonight.<br />
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we have a large amish community about 10ish miles south of here in kalona, and they're quite conservative even for the amish. that they were even out of kalona, at night, is weird enough, but that they were at a walgreen's trying to print out photos at the self-service kiosk was just bizarre (they don't allow photos of themselves because of that graven image thing in the bible...so all you out there shooting selfies have much for which to atone). since they were acting as a group (there were six of them) and they were fairly young, i'm guessing they're on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumspringa"><i>rumspringa</i></a>, but who knows. <br />
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i am absolutely KICKING myself for not standing behind the bigger group and shooting a better picture of their heads crowded around the photo kiosk screen...but i thought i might be pushing my luck as it was. this is why i find this whole sociological event aberrant and fascinating:<br />
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1. if you didn't already know, these young people are <a href="http://www.kalonaiowa.org/Amish.htm">kalona amish, an old-order amish sect</a>. <br />
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2. the amish are extremely conservative in that they do not believe in using zippers or wearing jewelry or neckties or patterns or women wearing pants or cars or electricity...and they definitely don't believe in using the photo kiosk at walgreen's. their view is that the world peaked in like 1820, so anything that came after that is heathen and wrong.<br />
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3. ironically, they do believe in modern healthcare. you see them at the hospital all the time.<br />
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4. they speak this very harsh-sounding, bastardized version of dutch and american english, which sounds like someone is gargling roofing nails and vodka...whilst smoking marlboros...so all i could hear was this chatter of guttural noises and "oh yeah" or "just do this" and "try again" or something like that thrown it.<br />
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5. there was no horse and buggy in the parking lot (that is their method of conveyance), so someone's driving a car illegally (unethically?) as well... <br />
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6. for just doing what they are doing in these photos, these kids could be permanently shunned out of their church...but if it is their rumspringa, which i think it must be, then they could be forgiven once they "grow up." they could even be forgiven for doing much worse than this, assuming they ultimately return to the church. but i find it somehow sad and pitiful that their expression of youthful rebellion takes the form of using the self-service printer at walgreen's. <br />
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it is such a foreign world just in my backyard.<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4532963168277716411.post-39956428871924715442014-03-12T13:50:00.004-06:002014-03-12T21:57:49.026-06:00into the abyss, again<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCd5iu3Zdx6F6FoH9-jeaAvGEx8n8hbeO3D-ePHDPGHFCU_tbEDQnrC4zlfoA3sHRXBG1mc3A2PILnupm3ywh021Z5ec1LpAP_6U1aB7mCSv2lBrdmiJ3zS_Xw5zpqBMwMoezIWpH2He9i/s1600/ext.JPG"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCd5iu3Zdx6F6FoH9-jeaAvGEx8n8hbeO3D-ePHDPGHFCU_tbEDQnrC4zlfoA3sHRXBG1mc3A2PILnupm3ywh021Z5ec1LpAP_6U1aB7mCSv2lBrdmiJ3zS_Xw5zpqBMwMoezIWpH2He9i/s1600/ext.JPG" height="300" width="400" /></a></div><br />
this is our lovely home, and it has a brand spankin' new, bright blue "for sale" sign stuck in the snow in front of it. we are moving...AGAIN. despite what its name implies, life in the allen family bermuda triangle ensures a surprising amount of instability.<br />
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</div><div>i feel a bit like we're jumping off a cliff in that i have zero idea where we will be living after it sells (and i think it will sell--please god let's not have a repeat of <a href="http://cyberallens.blogspot.com/2012/08/three-years-and-26-days.html">our last selling experience</a>). but i can say that i doubt we'll be in another house--i am not going to commit myself to improving another property in the upper midwest ever again. and, living together as we did in stockholm in an 800 sq ft apartment has shown us the benefits of smaller living. there is no shortage of architecturally-uninspired, cookie-cutter townhomes to rent here, so i'm sure we'll find something manageable. seriously, developers: have some pride and take more care with your designs, as people have to live in them. </div><div><br />
</div><div>our house is a true work of art--it was designed by the same architect who designed the university of iowa dental sciences building--and it is an excellent example of 1970s brutalist architecture. it completely kicks ass and we have loved living here. i've worked like a dog to preserve and develop our acre; i feel good about leaving this place in much better shape than i found it.</div><div><br />
</div><div>i wouldn't, however, feel good about not giving thanks where thanks is due, so i need to add a ginormous <strike>FUCK YOU</strike> (whoops--typo) THANK YOU to: the members of the iowa city community school district school board and their fearless leader, The Superintendent, the narcissistic city high promoters who will see city high "beat" west high regardless of logic and expense, and last but not least to that nice lady at the ICCSD offices that i *begged* to let gus transfer to the high school that better suits his needs...the same nice lady who gleefully refused because they know what is best for us. y'all have done a smashing job of doing what's right for our family and plenty of others in our neighborhood. don't break your arm patting yourself on the back.</div><div><br />
i'm sure at some point i won't be quite so pissed about being made to list my house less than six weeks since returning from stockholm, but today is not that day. bring on tomorrow.</div><div><br />
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4532963168277716411.post-54591954616218240982014-02-11T19:56:00.001-07:002014-02-11T19:56:11.455-07:00taking gammy's advice......and saying nothing at all. my grandmother frequently reminded me to keep my mouth shut and i am certain she would want me to here as well (i'm sure she's cringing over what i've written in the past). as i can't bring myself to say anything nice about our return quite yet--this bitter cold has made me incapable of thinking about doing anything except running up and down our street screaming "GET ME OUT OF HERE! GET ME OUT OF HERE! GET ME OUT OF HERE!"--and my recent facebook posts consists solely of weather-related complaining (thank you for sticking with me if you are my friend there), until i can figure out something positive with which to occupy my thoughts i think i'll just stay silent for a bit. i have a bajillion photos to edit, anyway.<br />
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stay warm!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4532963168277716411.post-81419582961947594492014-02-03T17:58:00.001-07:002014-02-03T17:58:59.047-07:00what a difference a day (or three) makes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5GA4OXVYNGAXC1NosjS7yIKti3FJMzNuSR77iRraadPQwlpkhv2as3xuxbKoz2UDPLG8GEnq_B-aL7jeplmla3cFrEoWGUiSKUh09DmmmuykHjlD9utAyxFg0k1ec3sWdFVDaYsN4Q2hA/s1600/swankydinnerparty.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5GA4OXVYNGAXC1NosjS7yIKti3FJMzNuSR77iRraadPQwlpkhv2as3xuxbKoz2UDPLG8GEnq_B-aL7jeplmla3cFrEoWGUiSKUh09DmmmuykHjlD9utAyxFg0k1ec3sWdFVDaYsN4Q2hA/s400/swankydinnerparty.jpg" /></a></div><br />
welcome back, my lovelies! take a break from your daily grind of three-martini lunches, flitting from soirée to soirée, and dancing 'til dawn--pull up a butterfly chair, plop an umbrella in that beverage, and come see-and-be-seen at the allen family bermuda triangle. while i pop some canapes into the convecto-range, have a listen to a tale of our last 72 hours...<br />
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three days ago we were living in a sophisticated european capital, getting ourselves, our stuff, and our offspring onto our transatlantic flight back to the states to face our inevitable reality of living in the american midwest. we landed in 6 inches of snow, of course, fought our way through customs, and arrived at the united counter to find our flight cancelled. okay, fine. we weren't expecting it, but we weren't surprised--the weather has been crap all winter and this day was no exception, so we'll work on plan B. since it is a weather-related cancellation, united is not required to provide us with a hotel room or transportation to such, but they will look for another flight...only there are no other flights that day nor the next as so many flights have been cancelled. okay, fine. we'll work on plan C, finding a rental car company that has something on the lot that 1) we can rent one way to iowa and 2) is big enough to hold our six massive bags, four carry-ons, and us. this is not easy in a town that is running out of hotel rooms and has almost no flights going west.<br />
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amazingly, hertz did us a solid and provided us with a really high-mileage minivan...for $800. i tried to explain that we didn't actually wish to purchase the minivan, but the agent didn't laugh and i didn't want to push my luck any further than i already had. i've rented several cars one way to and from "the paris of the prairies" (yes, they call it that), and $800 is way off the mark--the agent then explained that the price was actually for a two-day rental, as the hertz counter in iowa city is closed on sunday and thus doesn't take returns. okay, bonus. as an aside, there was a man from sweden next to me at the hertz counter who was visiting the US and freaking out because he did not receive the cadillac escalade he had reserved, but instead had been rewarded with an "involuntary upgrade" to a large mercedes SUV that he did not want because, and i quote, "mercedes are everywhere in sweden...we know mercedes...but i asked for an escalade because we want the big american car...we reserved an escalade...there must be one somewhere...". we were "involuntarily driving" 200 miles on 6 inches of snow after a 10-hour flight, and i seriously wanted to punch him in the neck for being a dick but, again, i didn't want to push my luck. he's probably still there bitching about it. anyway we made it home, said goodbye to our housesitter, tried to hang out with a very confused brown dog, and went to bed at a reasonable time. we were home, i guess, but not very happy about it.<br />
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next day: unpacking. crying. being despondent and forlorn. hard. gus and astrid went sledding with one of gus' friends; rich went god knows where in the minivan--he took full advantage of that forced extra day rental and probably drove to cedar rapids just for the hell of it. he may have been doing donuts in the hospital parking lot because of the full-insurance coverage waiver. found out the car we actually own was completely dead, had to call a tow truck to jump the battery and go get it charged at the firestone, but ultimately all was well--it just took time. found out that many of our items weren't just broken but pulverized in transit, so i had a little more mourning to do. then, after the super bowl and a somewhat more subdued evening at home, i was awakened to the unmistakable distress call of a child being sick...gus came down with astrid's stomach flu, or the stockholm syndrome as i prefer to call it. the stockholm syndrome lasted all night. my poor man-child was super sick, and it was miserable for everyone. we all felt bad for him; he definitely felt bad. no one slept (except rich, of course...i'm a bit mad at him). i will say, to his credit, at least gus waited until he got home to get sick rather than being on the plane or in the car...as has happened before...<br />
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today, i bleached the house and threw away some formerly good bedding because i just can't do everything right now. i hit target with astrid to buy her school supplies because after the craziness of the past few days she is demanding to be enrolled in school by AT LEAST tomorrow morning. okay, fine. i steam cleaned gus' room and bathroom and the kitchen sink just for good measure (how smart was i to buy a steamer before we left?!) and gradually tried to reintroduce moisture to my cracked, bleach-beaten hands, then remembered there were traps i had to check in the basement...and while i was picking up my FIFTH mouse mummy, whilst shouting upstairs at rich, "I'M NOT PICKING UP ANY MORE MOUSE SHIT!!! COME AND DO THE REST OF THIS NOW!" that i couldn't help but sing in my head, "what a difference a day makes"...or rather three. how far the mighty have fallen! <br />
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i cringe at what the fourth day may bring.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4532963168277716411.post-15831913518495367992014-01-31T01:00:00.000-07:002014-01-31T04:14:17.290-07:00#1: friends i have known and loved#1 to-be-missed: my friends. of course. i'm guessing you saw this one coming a mile away...<br />
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i cannot even believe my good fortune to have come across this amazing group of friends i've/we've amassed in such a short period of time. it has been an amazing, heartwarming, glorious experience to find you all, and i cannot express in words how much your absence will affect me. we're all on this weird, strange journey of living far away from our homelands (and some who have recently returned to theirs, only to find their hearts are elsewhere), and we've managed to somehow find each other. <br />
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there are two schools of thought regarding whether or not you should tell your friends that you love them: first, that you shouldn't do it because it might make the receiver uncomfortable; second, that life is short so you should say what you feel while you have the chance...i'm firmly in the second school of thought. thus, if you're a first-schooler, and i've met you in the last six months, you might want to stop reading now...because i do love you. i really do. i hope there is a point in time when i am able to be together with you again, but barring that i hope you at least keep in touch with me! you will always have a place in my heart and, more practically, in my home should you ever care to visit. <br />
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i love you all so much...you've made me so happy over these past six months! and, you are my #1 thing to be missed--in fact, i miss you already.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4532963168277716411.post-39610085368516593152014-01-27T13:01:00.001-07:002014-01-27T13:01:18.644-07:00#2: our swede-o-rific lifestyleit isn't just quality-of-life, it isn't just convenience, it isn't just awesomeness...but it is all those things and more rolled into one. i just call it our swede-o-rific lifestyle. it is everything from the not needing or wanting a car to the massive two-story grocery store in the basement, from the dearth of material items that surround us to the dryer that sucks and blows, everything done with a maximum of efficiency and good design...the total package. we're healthier and happier than we've ever been, albeit a bit more strapped financially, but it is worth it (i think).<br />
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#2 on my to-be-missed list is the life we lead in stockholm. now how do i choose a photo to reflect this?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4532963168277716411.post-22726361488756030712014-01-25T01:35:00.000-07:002014-01-25T02:52:30.200-07:00#3: fikamy #3 to-be-missed is the swedish tradition of fika, which is kind of like a coffee break but with a soul. it is to be enjoyed, shared with friends, and not rushed. fika can happen at any time, but it usually occurs around mid-morning or mid-afternoon. it usually consists of strong coffee (or, god forbid, <i><b>nescafe</b></i> ***shudder***) and some form of sweet bread/pastries like a kanelbulle, or if you're really lucky, a cake. hot tea is an acceptable substitute for coffee. sometimes people add a little sandwich or juice, but traditionally it seems like the coffee + kanelbulle is the way to go. i've heard on fridays a lättöl (low-alcohol beer) can be included, but that hasn't been my experience as i'm usually going the other direction, energy-wise. <br />
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fortunately, fika is something i plan to take with me to the states, so while i'll miss it in stockholm i won't be without it completely!<br />
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i went through my photos and found that i do not have a single picture of me and my friends at fika, so i need to rectify this as soon as possible before leaving!!! message me and let's plan something here or in the states--i'm a week away from returning now. yikes.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4532963168277716411.post-17957854663841330452014-01-24T03:13:00.003-07:002014-01-24T03:22:04.255-07:00#4: a plethora of exceptional museums<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_FouTqBVY27JT4qweo6PnBldEWF9lR2TfvJosyr9Qo2KWnzYlAgL01C7DIFoW82GR9lkMk21Qw5-LxlEyhUfFehY5Tx3bevgi-sdAGjyjEQzFO19hmvzhlwKBN_XO1-SvDmvg5M_THxam/s1600/IMG_1843+copy.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_FouTqBVY27JT4qweo6PnBldEWF9lR2TfvJosyr9Qo2KWnzYlAgL01C7DIFoW82GR9lkMk21Qw5-LxlEyhUfFehY5Tx3bevgi-sdAGjyjEQzFO19hmvzhlwKBN_XO1-SvDmvg5M_THxam/s400/IMG_1843+copy.jpg" /></a></div>i swear i didn't tag this...<br />
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this one may seem a little obvious to any of you who know me, but i've got to say it all the same: stockholm has more high quality museums per square kilometer than possibly any other city on the planet. rome is a probable exception, because the entire city is like a museum (as is venice), and of course paris has its share as well, but for organized collections housed under a roof i've got to give the number-per-square-kilometer distinction to stockholm. at last count there were 85 active museums in stockholm proper--that's an impressive count for any city--and the majority of them are unusually good. it's museumpalooza here...<br />
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my favorite: <a href="http://en.fotografiska.eu/">fotografiska</a>, without a doubt. it is the largest all-photography museum in the world, it is open almost all the time, and it has a wicked good bar/cafe on site. the shows change regularly and are interesting and engaging. fotografiska introduced a side of helmut newton to me that actually made me want to look at his work, and for that i am appreciative (i'm still not a fan overall, though). i couldn't recommend it more highly...except if they were to give me a show, then i would broadcast their greatness of vision from the mountaintops until i was hoarse. <br />
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close seconds: <a href="http://www.nrm.se/english.16_en.html">naturhistoriska riksmuseet</a>, <a href="http://www.modernamuseet.se/en/Stockholm/">moderna museet</a>, <a href="http://www.kasiden.se/english-summary/">almgren's silk museum</a> (see my earlier post about it <a href="http://cyberallens.blogspot.se/2013/10/almgren-silk-weaving-mill-and-museum.html">here</a>), <a href="http://www.vasamuseet.se/en/">vasamuseet</a>, and <a href="http://www.millesgarden.se/?languageID=5">millesgården</a>. all are excellent; all deserve at least one visit. <br />
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my #4 to-be-missed thing about stockholm is its bounty of good museums in a fairly small area.<br />
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say you are at a store, trying to buy a dress. you are standing outside the fitting room at the 3-way mirror and you ask a fellow shopper if it looks alright...and you hear a sharp intake of breath, then something emotionless like, "yes, it is good." that's all. your first response would be "did i scare her?" then "what the hell was that?" followed by, "that was weird...". you probably wouldn't even hear the "yes, it is good" because you're too busy processing the surprised-sounding breathing-in thing. and you probably wouldn't buy the dress.<br />
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it took me weeks to realize that that surprised-sounding breathing-in thing means "yes." it is an acknowledgement of agreement; it's emphasis can be determined by how big of an ingressive breath the speaker takes and if extra sound is added while breathing in. as a non-native ingressive sound maker, it sounds to me like i've just unintentionally terrified someone. when i was walking through almgren's silk mill in södermalm, i overheard a group of three (one man, two women in their late 50s or so) from northern sweden (i asked) who were talking about the mill and its attributes, and i swear half their conversation was made up of non-words--ingressive breathings with added sounds and "ah"s. i have no clue what they were talking about, but from what i've learned it sounded positive.<br />
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i have come to learn to love the ingressive breath as speech, and if i'm lucky my friends camilla (swede) and jette (dane--they do it to) will let me record them speaking so everyone can hear it. it is beautiful, and it is my #5 to-be-missed thing about sweden.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4532963168277716411.post-1839284895895242892014-01-21T14:14:00.003-07:002014-01-21T14:14:53.838-07:00#6: rosendals trädgård<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwke6Q_H2qHazxD3ks8yu83vfHk6zJg85pl2X8I3gv6xIB0CvG9V0fwQEnmhZp_p50pI6mkobSzukQjaC9kexQZWi42FsyIEH8AhTMODlc8qN6M-_KtFpqoEQgpCDcFCnczr2ylJF8IegK/s1600/L1060062+copy.JPG"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwke6Q_H2qHazxD3ks8yu83vfHk6zJg85pl2X8I3gv6xIB0CvG9V0fwQEnmhZp_p50pI6mkobSzukQjaC9kexQZWi42FsyIEH8AhTMODlc8qN6M-_KtFpqoEQgpCDcFCnczr2ylJF8IegK/s400/L1060062+copy.JPG" /></a></div>the family in late summer at rosendals trädgård<br />
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djurgården, the former hunting grounds of kings and royals, is now home to my #6 to-be-missed site in stockholm, rosendals trädgården. whilst the men were off shooting bears or elk/moose (same thing here) or pesky european hares, the women could stroll around the gardens, first dug sometime around 300+ years ago. the site was expanded and greatly enhanced in the mid-19th century; the swedish royal horticultural society flourished here along with its carefully-tended plants, which were GIVEN to fellow swedes of lesser means. proper. <br />
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today it is home to an organic vegetable garden and rows, rows, rows of native plants, as well as an orchard of relatively old apple trees and a delicious café. there are cooking classes...in swedish...that are probably wonderful (i have to believe i would have loved them if i could have understood them). i actually tried to get a job here when i first came to sweden, but i'm glad that didn't work out as i truly just love walking around the grounds and enjoying to space. unfortunately, they're closed the whole month of january so my christmas gift shopping there will have to be my last memory of going!<br />
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continuing my countdown of the top 10 things i'll miss about sweden, this is #9: the noble dala horse. they are everywhere in the tourist areas, and nowhere in the "high" art settings. i find it to be a shame that they've been scuttled to the realm of not-quite kitsch but definitely not-quite serious, either--i'm not even sure if swedes have them in their own houses. perhaps the realm of craft is better for it, but there seems to be room for the dalahäst beyond its role in material culture.<br />
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it dates from roughly 400 years ago, yet its shape has retained essentially its original nature and its decoration has changed little (ahem, russian icons, anyone? it was unfashionable to change the eyes, face, composition, colors, anything about the madonna and child for 700 years!). anyway, enough of that--this stocky, ungraceful little beast makes me smile everytime i see one, therefore it is one of my 10 most to-be-missed. that being said, we've acquired quite a few to keep us company in iowa...<br />
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this is #10, in all its powder blue perfection: an hermes bike, permanently parked by gus and astrid's school. i see it every single time i walk over there, so if i'm counting that's somewhere around 400 views. it makes my day to see it, no matter the weather--in the fall i picked the leaves out of its spokes so it didn't look neglected. i'd totally throw it in my suitcase if i could get that lock off.</div>
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gus and astrid, on the exact site of where it all began...<br />
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these are the last of the paris pictures, and i saved the most iconic for last--the eiffel tower. 20.5 years ago, rich asked me to marry him underneath the western leg; 20 years ago we were married...and thus this past christmas we came to paris with our lovely offspring to celebrate two decades of marriage. we were at the very top of it, glass of champagne in hand, for the day itself--i had been planning our 20th anniversary celebration for a while and it did not disappoint. paris is astonishingly gorgeous, and i cannot wait to return...au revoir!<br />
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