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We just tried to go visit Harvey. We wanted to go today because Fridays are super-busy for us. I just wrote the post about the Yi Peng Lantern Festival and the Loy Krathong Festival. Apparently, the fact that the 2nd night of both festivals is tonight makes traveling anywhere really challenging. We ordered a Grab and then information came up while we were standing outside, saying they would charge more than twice the normal fare one way and that our wait time would be ridiculous. So what is a wonderful celebration tonight is not without problems for us today. We will go visit Harvey tomorrow.
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These are my latest painted sketches.
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I finished “Next of Kin: Rebel Ridge Book 1” the Sharon Sala book I told you about. I enjoyed it and would recommend you check her out. Now I’m re-reading “Watercolor Dreams” by R.G. Ryan, which is technically the first book in his Jake Moriarity series, though I just finished the “Prequel: The Last Happy Summer” that came out recently. I am looking forward to re-reading the 6 books I have and then getting more.
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I have rolled up towels on my window sills, hoping to contain whatever leaks I get from still more rain. I hope the rain doesn’t make the celebrations tonight impossible.
I wish you a grin-filled day.
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Oh goodness, Linda! I hear you about the expensive grabs during events like that. And I love your painted sketches! As always. Whew! I finally am catching up with you and had to edit the Halloween videos to be able to post on YouTube (and via this blog) so you could see! Can’t believe it’s taken me all week to get to it! Here it is: https://sheilamurrey.net/2025/11/07/integrating-the-spirals-halloween-trick-or-treating-in-new-england/
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Congratulations on getting the post up. I’ll take a look after breakfast. 👍
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I hope you got to take a look!
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I got to see fireworks. Apparently these two celebrations bring tourists from all over the world. You can’t get transportation easily, and I don’t like crowds, or being out in crowds at night. I just watched some videos and the fireworks. Maybe next year we can figure out a place to go that has a rooftop that faces East so we can have better luck.
Somehow I deleted your message about the hot air balloons. I agree with your husband that they seem to have an inordinate number of crashes, and that would worry me. The wires strung all over the place here would worry me, as well. Maybe I can settle for traveling somewhere where we can be CLOSE to where they are flying and WATCH them.
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Sounds reasonable, to watch from a safe distance. No worries on deleting my comment. It happens.
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I think to watch the hot air balloons up close would be a delight. I’ll put it on my list to talk to Brian about it.
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