Annie's Adventures

hollydolly said:
Annie that's a brilliant story about your house and the owner coming out and telling you the history of it since your family moved out way back 55 years ago..wow!! I'd never heard of a Cape Cod house, so I just googled it, and learned your house is what is known as a 3/4 Cape Cod home..because it has 2 windows on one side of the door and one on the other..how fascinating.:D..but if I might pick your brains for a moment , it also says that a Cape Cod house is typically a ''storey and a half''...as you know we don't have 1/2 storeys here ..it's either a bungalow or a 2 or 3 storey house etc..so what exactly does a storey and a half mean? Ha!! I love learning new stuff!! :)
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Interesting. I built a Cape here in FL... Have the 3/4 window configuration. Not a second floor though. Many houses in New England are Capes built without the second floor, then as a family grew, bedrooms were built in the attic space. Sometimes with a dormer roof, sometimes not, Holly.
 

Thanks Nona and Annie...I'd never heard of it before. Here in the Uk Nona as I'm sure Annie knows ...a similar house would be called a Dormer or a Chalet Bungalow..
 
Ameriscot said:
Small world. Brother is on Weaver!!
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OH MY...really? That is amazing. Was a nice quiet street. You can walk anywhere from there. Is he military? Do they have a grocery store anyplace now? Unless you were military there were none.
 

Nona, got to ask. What was your house number. Just curious. Won't post brother's of course. :D He has been there 30 years.
 
Ameriscot said:
Nona, got to ask. What was your house number. Just curious. Won't post brother's of course. :D He has been there 30 years.
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Funny you should ask. I have been wracking my brain trying to remember. Have lived in so many houses since. Was across the street from the back of the Freeport Park stadium. Third or fourth house down I think. Was a bad period in my life....
 
Until Hollydolly told me that you were posting in Diaries, I thought you were just busy doing vacation things because I only looked for you on the Agenda thread. Well, duh!

Love the pictures, love the coincidence of your brother's and ndynt's homes. It really is a small, small world:)
 
Thanks Georgia. What made me wonder is the large amount of views and rare comments. So people were looking and I wondered why they didn't bother to comment.

I've been only on my phone on this trip for past 11 days.
 
I don't think you should take it personally too much Annie by the lack of comments. I can only speak for myself, and possibly others may be the same, and I know we can comment on the Personal Diaries, but I often feel I'm intruding if I do...and really I feel that when someone's posting in their online diary they want people to read but not necessarily make a comment. ...so perhaps others given the large viewers may be thinking the same.
 
About the views... something weird happened Wednesday night (2 nights ago). There were nearly a record number of users online (guests) around 5-8pm. Nearly 300 were viewing the Health Insurance subforum alone at one time. The only thing I can figure is it is nearing the period when you can change Medicare supplement enrollments. Or maybe someone recommended this site on a popular webpage. But it trickled over to other subforums, too. There were nearly 400 on the Humor subforum. Next night they were all gone. Or maybe there was a full moon that night.
 
RadishRose said:
Annie I'm sure those who viewed your photos found them interesting. I did.
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Thanks. I do want interaction as I feel it's pointless to post on a diary on a forum like this and not get feedback. I do a separate blog on Blogspot and don't expect feedback although I do sometimes get comments. On Facebook I get lots of comments and feedback.

I think it's better if I just post links to my photo albums and blog rather than having info and pics about a trip in 4 different places. Plus on the other sites I don't have to resize photos.
 
I am so glad that you did post here, Annie. I was looking in the Agenda, waiting for pictures of New England. I am still amazed about your brother. Does he live on the same end of Weaver I did or further down? Other than the helicopter ride, what else have you done? If you have time, Tiverton is interesting. An artist's colony. Used to be a place with wonderful fried clams..on the right, just after the Inn.
 
Nona, I don't think posting a lot about a trip on Agenda is the right thread. Yes, it is amazing about the coincidence about my brother's road!! Not a long road either.

Anyway, this was our trip:
Sept 8 - Gettysburg for 3 nights. Battlefield tour, museums
Sept 11 - Newport for 6 nights in a hotel as brother's house is too small.
Newport town, mansions, historic houses, helicopter ride over the area, a day in Mystic Harbor CT, Quincy MA to see John Adams houses, our old house in Rockland. We never made it to Boston.
Sept 17 - Niagara Falls Canada

Posting photos here from my phone is difficult as I can't fix them. And I can't post the ones off my big camera until I'm using a computer. I can easily post phone photos to FB. And on my blog I do a travelogue, and then dump any decent photos into my Flickr albums.

So when I get them done I'll post a link in the Agenda.
 
hollydolly said:
I don't think you should take it personally too much Annie by the lack of comments. I can only speak for myself, and possibly others may be the same, and I know we can comment on the Personal Diaries, but I often feel I'm intruding if I do...and really I feel that when someone's posting in their online diary they want people to read but not necessarily make a comment. ...so perhaps others given the large viewers may be thinking the same.
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I thought the same thing, that it was intruding to comment on diaries. I have only discovered the diaries recently and have only been over here a few times. I do know there are a lot of "lurkers" on the internet, something I just don't understand. I have a friend who spends hours each day reading on some Big Brother tv show forums but she never ever posts. I just don't see why people want to read and not comment. Oh, and here is another reason for me to stay off the diaries area, every time I post something I manage to get off topic and go on some tangent about something or another and I don't think that's ever polite but especially on someones diary area.
 
Annie I love reading your posts and especially the ones about your travels and looking at your photos. I even dreamed about you last night. I dreamed that you and Shalimar were the same person and just had 2 separate IDs set up on here. So this morning as I was waking up I thought I'd come in here first thing and look at both of your profiles and posts and try to figure out if it was true or not. Then I decided, no, that's crazy --- it was just a dream. :)
 
Honestly, I didn't even know this was a diary, I just comment as I see some postings at the top of the columns in the new postings. Depending on when I get here I miss a lot of post and unless I go directly to my subscribed threads, I might miss the ones I've posted to earlier as well.

Either way, I've been enjoying the pictures posted by Annie and hope to see more as time permits, I enjoy viewing her adventures through her lenses. :)
 
Thanks ladies. I didn't see diaries as read-only and I see on other diaries that comments are welcome.

I am working on a blog about the trip and it'll take a few days.
 
I hope you post the blog link so we can read it. So far yours is the only diaries I've looked at except for Lara's and I don't think I've posted on there. I plan to spend more time over here reading when I can.
 
Linda said:
I hope you post the blog link so we can read it. So far yours is the only diaries I've looked at except for Lara's and I don't think I've posted on there. I plan to spend more time over here reading when I can.
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I will post it when finished. :)
 
I too questioned commenting on diaries until I read the thread's sticky, encouraging us to make comments. When are you going to Asia, Annie? Looking forward to your adventures there.
 
ndynt said:
I too questioned commenting on diaries until I read the thread's sticky, encouraging us to make comments. When are you going to Asia, Annie? I looking forward to your adventures there.
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We will go to Thailand Dec 1st and stay 3 months. I planned on using this diary for updates and photos on our stay, but I get more feedback when I do it in a Photos thread.
 
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