Hi everybody.

[Dusty Ol' Man]

Originally Posted by Diane56Victor

Congratulations on the sale, I hope you get a similar speedy result when looking for a place to live.
Rip Van Winkle was the guy you were thinking of, I think I could find more to do than sleep in the Catskills though!

I still say it was Pappy Van Winkle. (Google it)

[Diane56Victor]

Originally Posted by Dusty Ol' Man

I still say it was Pappy Van Winkle. (Google it)

In the UK where I grew up, the story of Rip Van Winkle was a character in a fairy tale by Washington Irving. This story is based on several other stories.

RVW was a Dutch-American in colonial America who meets other strange Dutchmen and drinks their liquor and falls asleep in the mountains for 20 years, completely missing the American Revolution.

There is a similar well known story called the Seven sleepers of Ephesus.

Further research shows many, many stories across the world appear with the same theme.

It seems to me that all the stories seem to protect the the sleepers from what would be a traumatic time in their life, RVW and the American Revolution, the Ephesus sleepers escaped the persecution of Christians in Roman times.

I remember a movie starring Gene Kelly called Brigadoon, very similar theme there too.


I did Google Pappy Van Winkle and got loads of references to whisky, that would certainly account for the long time sleeping....lol
Julian Proctor 'Pappy' Van Winkle was the namesake to the whisky.
So I understand where you get the name from.

[TZ-Someplace]

I hope everyone is doing well.

I finally made it to Florida AND got a new computer. The first buyer pulled out of the deal at the end of January at the last minute (without bothering to tell us), but we got the house sold (again) and hit the road first week of May. It was a horrible trip due to a wheel coming off of the trailer (we bought instead of hiring/renting a moving van) in Kentucky that resulted in several days in a hotel, rental of a big U-Haul truck, and eventual loss of the trailer all together because the damaged axel could not be repaired or replaced. In the span of four days we loaded one trailer, transferred to the U-Haul, then bought another trailer in Florida and transferred everything to that for storage.

We are currently house sitting in Titusville in a house under long term renovation, with a hot plate for cooking and a bathroom sink for washing dishes. I don't want to jinx our prospects for buying a new place so I won't say how that process is going.

My orchids seem very happy out in the side yard under some trees and shade cloth and are doing well except for an attack and damage from the largest grasshopper I have ever seen. I am familiar with that species from my time in Louisianna, but that particular one was about the size of a sparrow rather than normal hummingbird size.

[Ray]

And I thought my moves were an adventure!

Glad you're at least temporarily settled.