2015.02.18 19:00 - Gratitude

The Guardian for this meeting was Lucinda Lavender. The comments are by Lucinda Lavender.

Lucinda Lavender: 's current display-name is "Luci".
Lucinda Lavender: Arriving round 7 pm with stevenaia arriving in a bit....I appreciate so much how my dropped items have been found ...thanks to Storm. Yesterday I was able to find a white hair accessory in the bush with white flowers:)
Lucinda Lavender: I watched the news this evening and feel so much empathy for the people in the eastern part of the US.
Lucinda Lavender: and Canada...
Lucinda Lavender: Welcome Paradise!
Paradise Tennant: hiya luci !
Paradise Tennant: how are you ?
Lucinda Lavender: Hiya!
Paradise Tennant: scratches behind your ear :)
Lucinda Lavender: Doing well.
Lucinda Lavender: !
Lucinda Lavender: How ABOUT YOU?
Lucinda Lavender: oops...
Paradise Tennant: ok had a nice long weekend .. dear friends in for a few days .. was serious fun :))
Paradise Tennant: now it is just about getting to friday night :)
Paradise Tennant: work has been extra busy lately
Lucinda Lavender: I understand! I hope you are keeping warm!
Paradise Tennant: I may go on a driving holiday one of my oldest friends is recovering from cancer and she wants to spend a month down south .. so blue and I may pack up and drive down to see her
Paradise Tennant: been a while since i have been on a road trip
Lucinda Lavender: wow! that sounds fun. would you be driving in this cold?
Paradise Tennant: yep but in a day I bet I would out of the cold :)
Lucinda Lavender: looking at the news tonight it seems to extend quite far south.
Paradise Tennant: would like to spend a day or so in st augustine oldest city in north america .. lovely spanish heritage
Paradise Tennant: yes has been really nippy here
Lucinda Lavender: now which state is that in...I forget
Lucinda Lavender: fla?
Paradise Tennant: you have to blink alot or your eyeballs start to freeze ..
Paradise Tennant: i am not joking :)
Lucinda Lavender: wow!
Paradise Tennant: they get piercingly painful
Lucinda Lavender: Hi Stevenaia!
Paradise Tennant: hiya steve
Lucinda Lavender: goggles?
Lucinda Lavender: would they help?
stevenaia Michinaga: HMMM, I CAN;T SIT DOWN
Paradise Tennant: need parka hoods that zip up into lttle tunnels
stevenaia Michinaga: there
Lucinda Lavender: yes I bet!
--BELL--

Paradise Tennant: smiles
stevenaia Michinaga: How cold was it in CA?
Lucinda Lavender: Steve, wondering about your temperature...smiles at all:)
Paradise Tennant: happy to be sitting with you two
Lucinda Lavender: me too
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, always a pleasure
Lucinda Lavender: CA ?
Paradise Tennant: we are minus 20 degrees celsuis now before wind chill
stevenaia Michinaga: Cananda
Lucinda Lavender: ah!!sorry to forget!
Lucinda Lavender: I kept thinking California:)
Paradise Tennant: http://www.google.org/publicalerts/a...=CA&source=web
stevenaia Michinaga: could be California, I suppose, but it's 70 there
Paradise Tennant: they only issue those when the temperature is dropping below minus 30 to minus 55 for at least 2 hours
Lucinda Lavender: I can hardly imagine!
Paradise Tennant: minus 40 the cars don't start unless they are plugged in
Paradise Tennant: but really minus 20 to 30 is nice .. usually very dry
stevenaia Michinaga: I was in Montreal one New Years when it was -30
Paradise Tennant: worst to be in minus 15 and damp
stevenaia Michinaga: so a "dry cold" is ok
Paradise Tennant: however anything over 30 gets ouchie
Paradise Tennant: yes a dry cold is pretty tolerable
stevenaia Michinaga: how do you walk Blue?
stevenaia Michinaga: mask and boots?
Paradise Tennant: not very far.. he is too old for boots so we don't go far and he often gets carried back ..
stevenaia Michinaga: nods
Lucinda Lavender: aww
Lucinda Lavender: are the sidewalks covered with ice?
Paradise Tennant: nope
Lucinda Lavender: that is good
Paradise Tennant: feel sorry for the birds .. though it pretty miserable for them
stevenaia Michinaga: ice and snow can evaporate when it cold and dry
Lucinda Lavender: oh right
Paradise Tennant: usually lay out extra bird seed on the really cold days they need to eat to be able to stay warm
stevenaia Michinaga: I think it;s call sublimate, from sold to gas directly
stevenaia Michinaga: *solid
Lucinda Lavender: that is a help no doubt...the extra seed
Paradise Tennant: I have a dream luci :))
Lucinda Lavender: I have had help cleaning up my PaB items...
Lucinda Lavender: oh! great! what was it about?
Lucinda Lavender: just feeling thankful for the help from Bleu and Storm
Paradise Tennant: hmm lately been spending dream hours sitting with friends in european cafes and restaurants .. laughing a lot ..always wake up with a sense of loss worried I may never see them again but in this one ..
Paradise Tennant: everyone around the table told a story and somehow we were all transported into the story and they were in different times
Paradise Tennant: it was like a dream time travel bus tour
Lucinda Lavender: interesting!
Lucinda Lavender: can you say more? I will be right back...
Paradise Tennant: yes was fun .. one was in egypt
Paradise Tennant: could feel just so much dry heat and dust .. but amazing moonlit desert scapes and the talk around a campfire.. sme
Paradise Tennant: smells of animals ..
Paradise Tennant: other parts of it .. i think I have lost
--BELL--

Lucinda Lavender: was this recent?
Paradise Tennant: no was set in a time that was long ago .. maybe biblical
Paradise Tennant: funny I never feel sleepy in my dreams am always really energetic I wonder why that is
Lucinda Lavender: seems to me that if you have energy...you can remember your dreams more(having gotten rest)
Lucinda Lavender: rather than when you are very tired
stevenaia Michinaga: I don't ever remember being tired or sleeping in dreams
stevenaia Michinaga: what made it appear like different times
Paradise Tennant: hmm the story line ..
Paradise Tennant: involved a merchant family .. an ancient trading routes..
Paradise Tennant: there intrigue :))
Paradise Tennant: was
Paradise Tennant: was interesting to watch how intense .. the feelings were and yet know everyone was dust now .. and it would not be even remembered
Lucinda Lavender: perhaps you were dreaming needed images for others
Paradise Tennant: wouldn't it be fun if we could go off together in the same dream :)
Paradise Tennant: sort like a no restrictions mini break vacation together ..
Lucinda Lavender: yes...where would we meet?
Paradise Tennant: tibet ..
Lucinda Lavender: :))
stevenaia Michinaga: shangrila
Paradise Tennant: want to go tea house trekking in tibet .. think I could crawl those mountain trails if I knew there was a tea house at the end
Lucinda Lavender: perfect...tea
Lucinda Lavender: so I have a new favorite drink...the matcha latte
Lucinda Lavender: have you ever tried one?
Paradise Tennant: yummies the starbucks one ?
stevenaia Michinaga: chocolate?
Lucinda Lavender: i have not seen it there but find it at Whole Foods
Lucinda Lavender: just milk and matcha and a tiny bit of brown sugar
Lucinda Lavender: a beautiful green drink
Paradise Tennant: hmm yes I like it too .. make it up and keep it cold in the fridge ..
--BELL--

Lucinda Lavender: so if I had a green tea I would pass it to you now...
Paradise Tennant: smiles and sips her wine and wonders when we are going to be able to think objects places :))
Lucinda Lavender: an interesting idea
stevenaia Michinaga: think object places?
Paradise Tennant: yes kind of just mentally transport matter :))
stevenaia Michinaga: aww
Paradise Tennant: eventually we will get the knack I am sure
Paradise Tennant: think how handy it would be ..
Paradise Tennant: no lugging groceries
Lucinda Lavender: it would:)
Paradise Tennant: no commute to work
Paradise Tennant: no line ups and the airline check in counter
Paradise Tennant: but then the flip side would be people could literally just drop in on you
Paradise Tennant: no notice .. just be there .. lol
Paradise Tennant: that could be funny at times
stevenaia Michinaga: sounds like SL to me
Paradise Tennant: yes!
Lucinda Lavender: it would take some manners to manage:)
Lucinda Lavender: ok getting tea..
Lucinda Lavender: I wonder if you have ideas for me regarding the loss of my original avatar...
Lucinda Lavender: i can pick a new one but do not like any of them really.
stevenaia Michinaga: I did that too, jsut put on a new skin
Paradise Tennant: hmm sure I have something that would work for you
stevenaia Michinaga: it must be in your inventory somewhere
Lucinda Lavender: the old one's skin is in the inventory ...putting it on was showing 2 skins
Paradise Tennant: ok well lets go to pulse and fit you out .. with something you like .. lots of selection there
Lucinda Lavender: and how to avoid tow meant wearing the invisible avatar to see only one skin
Paradise Tennant: problem with inventory items is that they are most often no transfer
Lucinda Lavender: ok
Lucinda Lavender: well with help I might improve the look
Paradise Tennant: do you want to do that now or are you getting tired ?
Lucinda Lavender: I think I am good for another 15 min
Lucinda Lavender: even puchasing it would help
Paradise Tennant: ok lets see what we can get done in 15 minutes
stevenaia Michinaga: :), I'm off to bed, you ahve fun
Lucinda Lavender: stay warm Steve!!
Paradise Tennant: okies night stev
stevenaia Michinaga: night my friends
Lucinda Lavender: sleep and dream well