{"id":575,"date":"2009-10-11T18:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T18:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/2009\/10\/11\/the-guest-room-is-ready\/"},"modified":"2025-01-05T02:25:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T02:25:38","slug":"the-guest-room-is-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/2009\/10\/11\/the-guest-room-is-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guest Room is Ready"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/coyotetrips\/3999151515\/\">guest room is ready<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, this is the tent I bought in 1996, that I used to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coyotecommunications.com\/dogcamp.html\">camp with Buster and Wiley<\/a> in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas back in the day. It&#8217;s been in storage for about nine years, so it needed a thorough airing out. Not sure what we will do with it, since we already have two three-person tents; this is a two-person tent &#8212; or a one person, two dogs tent. And it&#8217;s SO easy to put up (if I can do it, by myself, anyone can).<\/p>\n<p>Buster and Wiley were always so reluctant to get in and so anxious to get out &#8212; Albi walked right in and laid down.<\/p>\n<p>Were we in Eastern Europe or rural Western Europe, we could rent out our back yard to tent campers no problem!<\/p>\n<p>Everyone keep your fingers crossed that this week, at long last, Stefan&#8217;s get his motorcycle title. He&#8217;s still reeling from not getting to be a volunteer firefighter &#8212; if he also can&#8217;t get a title for his motorcycle&#8230; well, we&#8217;ll probably go back to Germany and take a loss on our moving expenses, no kidding. It would be the last straw. So please whip out your religious icons and make those sacrifices and start prayin&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s going to be a busy week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Monday I&#8217;m doing a tryout training for a potential employer for consulting and trying out the supposedly wonderful Portland-metro-area mass transit, as Stefan needs the car for a job interview. <\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Tuesday, I <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">may<\/span> be getting a motorcycle, and that evening, we are presenting at one of the two Portland hostels regarding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jaynecravens\/sets\/72157607799751723\/\">our trip to Eastern Europe<\/a>. <\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Thursday, I have a job interview by phone. <\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Friday, I present at a certain state volunteer firefighters association&#8217;s board meeting (I will be polite, don&#8217;t worry).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Whew! And, no, I&#8217;m still not unpacked. But Stefan is.  I&#8217;ve been going through files. I have a LOT of files &#8212; when you work in public relations and marketing, you have to save examples of your work, and examples of other people&#8217;s work as well. I also tended to save special letters and postcards from people, and I&#8217;ve been moved to tears a few times reading things you all wrote 20 years ago. Ah, the power of words. I know a picture is supposed to be worth a thousand words but, well, sometimes, I really wonder &#8212; because photos make me smile, but words touch my soul.<\/p>\n<p>I have a friend that&#8217;s returned to Afghanistan. Do you remember <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jaynecravens\/3079768517\/in\/set-72157602473075495\/\">Thomas, at my wedding<\/a>, from Paris? He was there just before I was, and after swearing he&#8217;d never go back, he&#8217;s there again, but for just 60 days. And I keep making friends with female aid workers about to depart or now living in Afghanistan, per <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coyotecommunications.com\/travel\/afghanistan\/\">my blogs about my time there<\/a>. And, ofcourse, I&#8217;m still in contact with dear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jaynecravens\/1201088031\/in\/set-72157601141863721\/\">Fariba<\/a>. So, if you have any questions about what&#8217;s really going on in the country, let me know &#8212; I&#8217;ll give you an earful that, unfortunately, rarely gets reported in the snappy, short soundbites of television news.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; come visit!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our guest room is ready. Seriously, this is the tent I bought in 1996, that I used to camp with Buster and Wiley in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas back in the day. It&#8217;s been in storage for about nine years, so it needed a thorough airing out. 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