[Grovenet] Sunday greetings

[Eric Canon]

Thanks and understood. We have some cross words
sometimes in these parts, but we remain friends
and neighbors none the less (speaking only for
myself here, but that's what I've found in real
life as well). I hope you and Steve feel very
welcome. This is a great community: Grovenet and
Forest Grove, as well as the county and state.

There's a person I know on this list who is
Canadian. In fact, they may be visiting there
now. Perhaps they will introduce themselves to
you at some point.

True story: when you feed your dog he/she looks
up at you and thinks to itself, "This person MUST
be a God!"

When you feed your cat, the cat looks up at you
and thinks, "I must be a God!"

--- Marguerite Storbo <mstorbo at comcast.net>
wrote:

> Thanks for all the welcoming words. To take
> some of the bai^H^H^H, er,
> answer your questions;
> 
> We moved here because it seemed the most
> livable (for our definition of
> same) place in the Metroplex when Steve got a
> job at Intel. Also, the
> in-laws are close by, formerly Tualatin, now
> Wamic. I wanted our son to have
> these early school years outside a huge urban
> area and Steve wanted a good
> commute and I wanted to be close to the surf
> and we both like to ride
> (motorcyles) on all the great backroads around
> here.
> 
> Moving here in an election year may have
> contributed to a higher-than-usual
> level of culture shock for me. 2004
> was...interesting, shall we say. On that
> note, I shall refrain from discussing the
> relative merits of the two health
> care systems until one of the following
> happens: the discussion goes
> off-list with an interested/reasonable subset
> of subscribers, or, I take the
> political temperature of the list well enough
> to avoid the inevitable flame
> mines lurking here. And while I might be
> considered a small-l liberal by my
> politically savvy Canadian friends, I suspect I
> may be tarred with a more
> social democratic brush hereabouts. My heart
> truly lies somewhere in the
> never-never land between anarchism and
> libertarianism; we all have our pipe
> dreams, yeah?
> 
> Do I miss Canada? Well, yeah, but it's awfully
> nice here too. 
> 
> Marguerite
> 
> 
> p.s. for the record, I don't believe I am a cat
> 'owner'. Guardian, maybe,
> but most days I feel rather like they own me
> than the other way round.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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