I decided to make a page elsewhere and give a link here when I have completed that page, for reasons of continuity. I made a few collages between 6-13 and 6-17 that I could not upload because of problems with the tool, regardless of which computer I used, so it is obvioously an in house problem that I do not wish to work on anymore. Thus, I will place here the entry I did not post on 6-17-2006 and then come back later with the new page link which gives the last few collages made. This is where I left off right before vacation:

 

“Mel Fisher’s most famous quotation “Today’s the Day!” became a reality on July 20, 1985. After 16 years of hardship and determination, he had finally discovered the “Mother Lode” of the Nuestra Señora de Atocha, the richest Spanish treasure galleon ever lost in the Western Hemisphere. “

 

“Today’s the day”, said the be-speckled visitor, who introduced himself as Mark. He said he had traveled past the property a number of times, and he said he kept hoping to stop because the yard was so “intriguing”. I laughed and said I had not considered using that word to describe what was going on here, but would consider it.  He said the parking space was available he said to himself, “today’s the day”, and got out of his car. We talked about a place in Cincinnati that he and his partner were trying to sell, in Prospect Hill, and that he and his partner now live in Vevay. We talked a little about “the yard” and the work I have done here since moving in. At the point when we were discussing the edible part of the garden I said he should take home a bag of lettuce, since I couldn’t possibly eat it all. About that point, my beau came back home and we went over the who’s and how’s of the moment. My visitor said next time I would be on the receiving end of a kindness. I laughed, telling him it is the Italian in me, no one can come and not leave with food, lol.

 

Atochian treasures…they showed up in my anagramming), so I looked up the Atocha online and found, sure enough, “Today’s the day!” {The] “Atocha coin wonderful reference, explain who lost it, define way I live, IC You sense code is chest” came from the two cartoon balloons which contained the text, “How can you tell the difference [and] I can’t explain it sir, the code cases were only out of view for only seconds.” I put that in m collage today with the front page of AOL that shows a man with the words CODE ENFORCEMENT written on the back of his jacket, and the article headlines: “City Stops Man Digging for Gold”.

 

That’s as far as I got…a little disappointed that the MS upload tool was not working properly. It cannot be MY computer, since it did not work on either computer, and I checked online and saw others were having a problem as well. Who knows, but it has spoiled my fun and interest in trying to post, when I cannot do so without my collages being part of my daily journaling. I will have to decide what I want to do at this point. Of course, as of tomorrow, I will be in Kansas City, then Ft. Dodge, Iowa. Oh boy.

 

C’est la vie…more or less.

6-17-06

 

That was what was written before the vacation....this is the link made for reasons of continuity, including the collages with anagrams made before I left, which could not be uploaded on this site:

 

http://www.geocities.com/rii4u/continuity.html 

 

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