Social networking is not for me!

Social networking is not for me!

I keep getting invitations to be “friends” with people on Facebook, Myspace or other such sites (at least 4 others). I feel it is time for me to tell family and friends that I intend to be UN-sociable – I will not even go to these sites to reply. If you are a friend or relative or even someone remotely interested in me from this blog – you can contact me by email at vagabondmarlatt@gmail.com. I will respond to personal emails and if you have a blog, I will come to it to see what you are about. My computer is slow and my network is sometimes unreliable because of the remote places that I visit and that causes me much grief when I have excess communications. During a brief exposure on Facebook a couple of years ago my email was filled to the point that it took me several hours to get to the mail that I really needed ad wanted. It was a devastating experience. Enough of the soapbox – here’s what’s new!

The road up to Cathy's property is now packed down and has proved to be very good. When I left OK it was an easy exit. We spent an afternoon playing board games with the grandkids the day before I went to Texas. Cathy and Michelle, Mary and Jeff, and two of Gary’s AA friends all met at the courthouse for Gary’s hearing. We didn’t hear much, but we were there to support him. The DA offered a plea bargain, which Gary accepted, for 5 years of penitentiary time to be served. Since his jail time will count double as time served, he is already doing time. We don’t know when he will be transferred to the pen, but he is in good spirits and very hopeful for a reduced time and that his parole will be better than probation has been. It seems that the Texas probation system is just a trap set for getting the felons back into incarceration – making any kind of normal life impossible.

After I left Waxahachie I went to Livingston and delivered 13 quilts and some old recordings to the CARE Center for Cathy. Then I went to the Houston Chapter of the Red Cross and did the groundwork for a Disaster Kitchen Training course that is scheduled in January. Now I am settled in at my favorite state park – Lake Texana – as a Campground Host. I will be here until the first of January and then will take a months break and come back for February thru April. I’m in site 79 – come and visit – family can stay free on my site!

At Cathy's in Oklahoma

While waiting for my Doctor’s appointment in Livingston I spent 2 days at Lake Livingston State Park. It rained all of the first day, which really messed up the geocaching on the next day. It took me about an hour to clean the mud off of my bicycle – but I did find eight caches in and around the park.

The doctor appointment was for an echo cardiogram and I guess that I’m still alright because the nurse called me to tell me to come back in 6 months, since nothing changed. After the appointment I went to Waxahachie to visit Gary in jail. His spirits are good and I left him a little fund to get more to eat, since they don’t seem to feed him enough. His revocation of probation hearing will be on Nov. 18th, so I will head south then

Arriving in Oklahoma, I started by working on Cathy’s projects – surfacing the driveway up the hill and patching the roof. Since it hasn’t rained yet we don’t know if the patch job was any good. Michelle got rid of the old cars (3) to Pick a Part. Then we put down 2 loads of clay to fill in the big holes in the road and got a load of gravel spread on the top. Hopefully the road fix will hold for a while! It sure is nice going up and down that smooth road now.

Thursday, on our anniversary we went out to Chili's for baby back ribs and battered onions. It was a good time.

In my spare time I have gotten a lot of little jobs done for myself as well - things like installing a new propane changeover regulator system and, of course, geocaching.