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Got mine today - Thank you so much for the personal touches. Mine had a leaf and a flier from FLW home. Somehow you knew I loved architecture and trees! - Katie

Not many evergreens where I am. Big maples and chestnut trees, though. You sure want to be careful walking under one of those in the fall.

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I received my book today as well. Mine had a Frank Lloyd Wright brochure and a Talking Taco Music CD...and it warmed my heart. It was exactly the right pick-me-up I needed to finish off my week.

I'm so glad that you're gaining so much from this experience, because I guarantee you are blessing all of us in the process. Happy shipping!

Wow - that's me! (The I-35 person). If you're that close to 35 then it would be easy to do a road trip to visit you - straight down the interstate!

Maybe I'll send you some random things from my apartment. I promise it won't be one of our naughty kittens.

Don't be too disappointed with your search for my place: the best Google can do is 5 levels of accuracy down the scale from what most city dwellers get, and even the street map showing my place is wrong. That's what you get when you live 20 km. outside a minor city!

Horseman Bree
NB, Canada

RLP - of all the things thought, written, or done on this blog .. I find the "distribution" technique of your book one of your most unique, interesting, and nice touches. Keep it up.

Speaking of chili piquins ... this is one of my families favorite chilis. A set of bushes grew wild on one side of my grandmother's house in her flower beds in Sonora, Texas. And no matter how hard she tried to move some to the other side of the house they just would not grow. Nothing really had to be done to keep the ones growing wild. They were plentiful and last I check (she has passed on) they were still there. They ran all along that side of the house. Very pretty when the peppers are going green to red too.

We would harvest them and make salsa or put them in a bottle with vinegar and make a hot sauce. Sometimes just crunch them up in food.

Warning, as with most peppers but piquins are serious this way, do not crunch them up by hand and then rub your eyes or scratch yourself (especially in certain delicate places) with that hand without several good washings and a few days to let it wear off. LOL ;)

Thanks for the memories,
Dr. Bubba

This is pretty exciting for the readers too, Gordon -- I think you may have hit on a really great "community building" experience. Of course first the aspiring community builder would need to write a book that doesn't quite sell out...oh, and wait, before that there needs to be a blog with tons of readers. Maybe not such a widely-applicable process after all. But for *this* community? Perfect!

Ack -- that was me! I haven't figured out how to get to be un-anonymous here yet :-(

Carroll

RLP,

You are recapturing the whimsy that the church disposed of years ago. as you gather flotsam and write "silly" little notes you are passing along the joy we are to have as followers of Jesus. Thank you for the hard work.

I ordered my book late last Friday and it was sitting in my mailbox by Saturday afternoon. Pretty impressive turnaround, preacher man! Way better than Amazon. Thank you for the extra work of the notes and goodies and the peering at us from above. It adds such a sense of wonder and curiosity to a simple transaction. What a flat-out delight! Oh, yeah, the book is damn good too. Please continue to keep us informed about your shipping adventures.

I took a gander at your house too. Hey, what's that big open area off of Jung Rd.--a stockyard?

I got an email today to say my book has been posted. I am excited. I wonder how long it will take to come to Aussie!!

Janet McK

Was SO excited when my book arrived today, especially after the 'drought' of post here thanks to a postal strike. The gifts (Kansas quarter and Buffalo nickel) and inscription inside make it extra special. The long red roof on Google maps is the church which we llive next door to, we are the shorter red roof with a couple of velux windows in the roof. Bless you for taking such time and trouble with us all.
Love and prayers Janet

That part of the city did not flood. everything close to the river except the lower 9th ward was ok. The industrial canal broke and flooded it and the Holy Cross neighborhood but if you were close to the river you probably made out pretty well considering.

This is really cool because I asked people questions in the notes I wrote inside many of the books. I was kind of hoping some might come here to post the answers.

Further note from New Brunswick: Got the book today. Thanks for the wafer (How did you know I am Anglican?)

In response to your comment on PEI/Anne of Green Gables: I'm about an hour and a half to the bridge, in a hilly area, not open like the fields of The Island. Fundy National Park makes one boundary of my school district.

And you, no, can't go swim in the Bay (of Fundy), because a) the tides run 35 to 40 feet, so the currents are HUGE, and b)the water being all stirred up keeps the temp down to about 50 degrees F (unlike the PEI shore, where the water temp is as warm as on the Virginia coast)

But, yes, the scenery is spectacular, especially if, like me, you grew up in the flattest bit of Manitoba.

Horseman Bree
aka John

Just wanted to say thanks for the book and your note. The Calvin and Hobbes cartoon was a nice touch as well.

This book is a treasure. I have already recommended it to several others. I find myself re-reading essays that speak powerfully to me (which is most if not all of them), and I imagine I'll be doing that for years. I laugh. I cry. I wonder what it would be like to be able to write like this. And I thank God that you can and do.

Thanks again,
Mark Hobbs
Waco, TX

Ordered my debit card today, so in 3 days time I'll finally be able to order a copy. I'm getting so excited! Another overseas order for you to fill I'm afraid. :)

Matthew Everitt

I got my book today - I'll let you know if the Starbuck's card has anything letft on it. Thanks for the sweet note. I actually across the street from the big U shaped brick building, which is actually a transitional housing building for women and kids getting over all kinds of horrible things in their lives.

When I moved out here from New Mexico we spent a loooooong time driving on I-35. And we carried the dusty red dirt from Texas around in my car forever! We just couldn't get rid of the stuff!

Andrea

My book was waiting when I arrived home yesterday - a nice surprise. Thanks for the note and the unique manuscript - I'm honored to receive such a gift not to mention the book. This is a fun process and I'm glad you'll be getting the new computer plus.

Gordon - Got the book today - love the CD but the 'Something weird' is the BEST! I am going to frame my "Wash away your sins" towlettes - I even posted about them on my blog. Thanks so much.
Paddyanglican aka Stephen