Well dodger, if we can't get there to see your beautiful valley, you'll need to bring it to us.

Post some pics of your valley.

PS. Your favourite book "Wind in the Willows" was written in a house not 3 miles from where I am sitting. Willows was inspired by walks in our local woods next to the River Thames when Greene lived with his grandmother who had a riverside house.

oh brit,

i should of knowen you wood reed/talk about this! i just took a few pichers of the valley the other day .charlie a young friend who set me up with tbd said that

my program windows was to old to download photos from my camera. imnot sure that i conveyed that correctly,but he did say it would not work.

by the way i enjoy your pitcher changes.

what a wonderful image you convey of wind in the willows origin. sometimes i am mole sometimes river rat.

Dodger

Where are you located? Jackie

hello jackie,

i amm in up state new york. finger lakes region. why do yuo ask? where are you? DODGER

I agree, you live in a very beautiful, very lonely place. There used to be some dairy industry up there...then it got too expensive? Are there still any wineries? Or has the army base in Watertown swallowed everything up?

I live in Central NJ...Where everything is a mirror image of something else...(hence TheInquiringEye's expertise in the area of 'sanity'.... Jackie (TheInquiringEye)

Wow. That sounds sad. I love you dearly and I never want to see you sad.

Roughly 20 years ago, I got a job doing pharmaceutical sales. My territory was very large, rural, and my boss lived in another state. I got used to spending alot of time alone. I'd go for long walks, study nature, cook, occasionally work. When my son was born, I stopped working all together. We moved to a suburban NJ community, where with the exception of my children, I've had no friends for 15 years.

This should bother me, and perhaps to some degree it does, but frankly, I enjoy the privacy. I do what I please and if I need company or critisism, I come here.

But Suzie, I've always had a pretty reclusive nature. I can be very social, but my preference is to be alone. How does this work with you?

Love always! Jackie

Hello my deer friend,

Its good to see yuo posting and proding and questioning again!!Truly i missed yuo a lot wen yuo wer gone.

Well Igave a pretty acurate idea of my valley. Whenever i get help with the scrap book I will post pictures of t.

Wen im around people and loudness like a job ,and dont have quietness ofter enuogh,

I kind of fall apart-overload-no time to think. Itis also very expensive to my soul to go uot there and "act" totally confident,not shy,in charge. But thats what the world esp.builders expects of you.

Ive never had a lot of friends but the ones

that i do have i wood go to the wall for,and

they for me.My 2 long time friends/family are gone now.i came home because dad needed help tripple by pass, he died in 90.Sort of saw dad thru and learned a hole lot abuot living and dieing.

Not 6 months later mom started haveing major thinking trouble she was56 after all the many many changes we did the alshimers

walk for 13 years. She died not that long ago.

Theres no body left Jackie.No deer friends,no family. No one to cherish or be cherished by. As quiet as i am in person,I

need to love and beloved.

I love yuo long distance girl,

suzan