Have a safe trip Susan and everyone else! I’ll see you March 12! 🙂
Bon Voyage
On: Update
Due to circumstances that were mostly within my control, but are not now, The Gathering Place goes global plans have changed. The good news is that Susan and the rest of you will be leaving as scheduled and ON TIME!!! 🙂
I will be leaving on March 12, 2014 and meet up with Susan and the rest of you at that time.
P.S. If you can’t make it on February 26 and you still want to go, you can come with me on 3/12/14. 🙂
On: The Gathering Place Goes Global
In just a few short days, we (Susan and You and I ) are leaving for 65 days. We will be visiting first, Japan for about a month. Then, after about a four hour lay-over in China, we’re off to Australia for about another month. We will be returning home on May 1st, 2014. Not to worry, someone will be staying at your home, your pets will be well cared for, your plants watered, newspapers and mail will be picked up, neighbors will be watching your home and the police will be doing several drive-bys day and night while you are gone. You are covered!! 🙂
I trust by now, your bags are packed, and you have your passports. You will need a Visa for Australia. Are you are ready to take a lot of pictures and do stuff and share stuff to send back to everyone else that are NOT going! 🙂
For our current time here in New York or where you live and for Japan & Australia, ‘Google’ or search:
What time is it in New York What time is (Where You are) What time is it in Kyoto, Japan What time is it in Sydney, Australia or see: http://i-imagine.biz/News.htm (clicking on the link above will open a new tab on your browser. Just close that page when you are finished there or use your back button to return to this page)Please confirm your attendance, in advance…that would be with an, RSVP.
There are some transportation issues, but do not be concerned. We hope you like alternative modes of travel? Do not worry, we’ll pick you up. Will a Limousine Be Ok?
We’ll pick you up at your home and drive you to your nearest airport.
We have sleep masks and noise canceling headphones!
Don’t like flying commercial? Don’t like long lines? Don’t like crowded spaces? We understand, but we can only do, the best that we can do. Once you arrive at the airport, please accept our sincerest apology. We’re sorry, but a private plane is the best that we could come up with.
Relax, chill, chill-lax, have a drink or two or a few. Not to worry, you don’t have to drive (fly the plane). And there is a full professional medical staff on-board to revive you, just in case you suffer from massive excitement or EXTREME HAPPINESS! 🙂 Take pictures of yourselves having a great time and post them instantly to all your social media sites and just imagine all your friends and family (all those by the way, that decided not to come with us) drooling! 🙂
Watch a movie. Read a book. Have some good conversation. But we also want to apologise for the space. You will not be crowded like on commercial flights! 🙂
Don’t have a thing to wear? Forget something? No problem. You can order whatever you need on the plane and it will be in your room, when we arrive!
If you get tired from shopping or IF having too much of a good time just wears you out, no problem.
So sit back, relax and enjoy yourself while we ‘Gather Together!’ The Gathering Place goes global and we’re off to…
And don’t worry, we will get you home! 🙂
“You are: the Writer, Artist, Conductor, Captain, Driver, Pilot, Chauffeur,
Travel Guide and Director of your own Dreams!”
—— Dahni
Note: Due to last minute packing and details, this will be the last post until we are on our way. Stay tuned here or our FaceBook page at:
On: All I’ve Got to Say
If you have not already sent in your RSVP, got your passport in order, have your Visa for Australia and you are not packed and ready to go to Japan and Australia, then all I’ve got to say to you is…
“You’re gonna’ miss me when I’m gone!” 🙂
Our Peeps Report
by Donnie Hayden © 2014, all rights reserved
Our Peeps Report are edited pictures from my iPhone which show the current weather (current at the time) of Our Peeps (our people).
Many people use the weather channel app on their smart phones to daily check their weather. You might think this is silly and/or that I have way too much time on my hands or that I regularly engage in stuff, when I’m really supposed to be doing other stuff?
But think of it this way, the fact that I look up your weather, and it shows up on my phone, probably means I’m thinking about you!
So it begins with home, here at the Gathering Place.
How did the following group make the list? It contains, Family and Friends. And while mentally trying to escape winter here, I may be thinking about the weather there?
Bloomington, IL – Columbia, MO
Murrietta, CA – Raleigh, NC
No one seems too tropical or flip-floppy today, from group #1! 🙂
How did this next group make the list? It contains, Family and Friends. And while mentally trying to escape winter here, I may be thinking about the weather there? No one seems too tropical or flip-floppy today, but I would consider the 67 degrees in Florida! 🙂
Usually, Rochester, NY is around one degree different than where we are in Macedon, NY. Rochester is included because, we used to live there and still have friends there including, the salty sea dogs that are probably on their boat in the Bahamas right now, complaining about how hot it is, complaining about how boring and how blue the beautiful water is and complaining about the cool drinks they are sipping on? Sorry, but I refused to look up or share here, the weather in the Bahamas. It’s probably too tropical or just too depressing. 🙂
You also, could have made the following list because, I talk to you actually, every day (most of the time). Sorry if you were not first on the list though. 🙂
Oakboro, NC – Rochester, NY
Port Orange, FL – Centerville, VA
How did the last group make the list? It contains, all Family and we are getting ready to visit them in about 2 weeks and meet the new grandchildren for the very first time.
Kyoto , Japan – Sydney, Australia
By the way, today, it is already tomorrow in Australia and Japan! This fact always messes with my head. A mind is, a terrible thing. Ooops, right, “A mind is a terrible thing to waste.” Sorry about that, I left out a couple of words. 🙂
So how could YOU (if you are even interested) make it to Our Peeps Report? That’s to me, a great question! Is it that “Inquiring Minds Want to Know,” or is it “Perspiring Minds Want to Know?” I often get those two confused. 🙂
Well, what follows is how you can make it on Our Peeps Report
How to Make it On Our Peeps Report
1. Marry into our Family 2. Petition the Weather Channel people to allow unlimited locations on their app (application) for smart phones. They currently only allow 10. 3. Visit the Gathering Place and we will temporally include your hometown while you are here.Please note: You may only stay here 5 weeks, 6 days and 23 1/2 hours. You and your stuff must be off our property by this time! Due to the “Guests from Hell” that actually stayed with us for 6 weeks, this rule must be strictly enforced – NO EXCEPTIONS!!!! 🙂
4. Send a certified check or money order for $1,000,000.00. Your weather will appear on my phone as soon as all funds are available for use in our bank account. In other words, when your check clears! 🙂 5. MOVE HERE! 🙂Please further note: Just because you are not on Our Peeps Report, does not mean you weren’t. It could mean that due to the Weather Channel’s restrictions of only 10 locations, I might have had to drop some for Japan & Australia, which are important while we are there. It also does not mean that I don’t at least temporarily look up your weather because, I’m thinking about you. And it could also mean that YOU ARE COVERED under Our Peeps Report regionally. I mean, ‘The Report’ pretty much covers most of the country and wherever YOU ARE! 🙂
News from: The Gathering Place
From February 26th through May 1st, 2014, Your Gathering Place will be in Japan and Australia. Susan and I will be traveling to meet our two brand-new grandbabies’ in the lands of the ‘Setting Sun’ and ‘Down Under.’ You’re invited to come along with us! Yes, you are going with us, to Japan and Australia. 🙂
We will be posting pictures and other content as much as possible between the cooing of the babies and the warm-glows we’ll be having when we meet, greet, eat-em’ up and love em’ up! 🙂
Subscribe to this blog or join us at your Gathering Place on the Face book Page, The Gathering Place, and you’re in! Pack lightly and get ready for a trip of a lifetime! See you at the airport! 🙂
A Gathering We will Go,
Donnie & Susan
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