Music: Tarzan Boy


The further misadventures of a D/W* witch. . .

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"Me Tarzan, you Lilith..."
OR
"Needs of the Navy..."

On the road again with Tarzan Boy...
Tarzan Boy...and a Ryder truck with Oklahoma plates..oh my!


My husband has often said we move around like Tarzan. Well, here's Tarzan Boy filling it up at the Continental Divide, circa November 1993.
Temperature: 19 degrees. Wind chill: -15 degrees.

Thus begins the "PCS MOVE***" countdown!

5 months and a miscellaneous number of days until it's Washington D.C. or bust...

Time to remember the "best of times":

1989:
LAX Airport after a 20 hour flight from Guam..."What do you mean you lost my cats!?"
Trying to find enough luggage carts to hold 3 cat carriers, 3 sea bags, 4 suitcases and 2 carry-ons...and enough hands to push them all.
Trying to find a cab big enough to carry it all to a hotel for the night...then back to the airport to start all over again in time for our flight early the next morning.
1993:
Losing our brakes in Oklahoma...twice.
Having the rear gate to our trailer--hauling my brand new Suzuki Sidekick--fall off in the middle of a blizzard...in the middle of the Rockies.
Passing around the mentholatum and potpourri sachet when all four cats decide to relieve themselves in unison...thus, we learned gale force winds through open moving truck windows can be a GOOD thing.
1996:
Watching our household goods shipment go by on a train in the Arizona desert as we stop for gas. Temperature: 116 degrees. (Yes, we took pictures!)
Blowing a tire on the truck 40 miles outside of Tucson...in the middle of the night...in the middle of the desert....because it melted. Temperature at 11:30pm: 113 degrees.
Drinking every conceivable flavor of All-Sport and Gatoraide known to mankind.
Eating Taco Bell bean burritos...three times a day...for three days.
Stay tuned to this same channel for:
"The Further Adventures of the moving-around-the-world-like-Tarzan D/W* Witch Who Would Be Web Mistress."

The Reverend Mother Gaius Lilith EmeraldLioness** has spoken.

Last month's adventure!

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This month's simply scrumptious background is a 50's retro on those old picnic baskets every family seemed to have. You know the one, from Stanley Home Products, that even had your names monogrammed on the inside of the lid? My family's rotted, hidden away in some cabinet. But that's an entirely different story!

* D/W is a Navy acronym for "Dependent Wife." So all you smart guys out there who thought it meant "Dead Weight". . .50 lashes with a wet Russell Crowe for you!
** This is an inside joke based on an obscure DUNE reference. It's along the lines of, 'had-to-have-been-there.'
*** This is one of the Navy's many acronyms. It stands for "Permanent Change of Station"
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