The Contest is Ending Soon

For those of you that don’t know, I had started this blog in response to a contest posted by Highland Titles and it’s going to be ending soon, in October I believe.

Regardless of whether I win the contest or not, it’s been great to have a place to post all my fun stuff and stories from the past year.  It would be so frickin’ awesome (oops, not very ladylike but I managed to edit it so it isn’t quite the word that initially popped in mind!) to get a trip to Scotland, that goes without saying.  But my sweetie and I do have a bunch of Aeroplan miles kicking around from when we built our house so perhaps we can make our way over there regardless!

We shall see.  Either way, wish me luck!

What If There Are Trees?

I was daydreaming the other day about camping out on my land that I bought in Glencoe Wood and I suddenly realized that it might not be so easy as I thought – what if there are trees packed in there with no space to lie down!?!

Don’t get me wrong, having trees on my plot would be awesome, especially if they are big old ones!  I suppose I could bring a hammock just in case?  Sleep curled up in a ball, hedgehog style (are there hedgehogs in Scotland?) ?  Not sleep at all?  Who knows!  It’s fun to daydream about going there, and hopefully I actually will go sooner than later.

I promised my good friend Mark who lives in Ireland that I would come and visit him before we turned 50, so I’ve only got 12 years left!  I was thinking it might be this year, but then his job moved him to Portland Oregon for a couple years so now he’s going to come visit me instead, and no point in going all the way over the ocean if he’s not there, it would be much better if we could wrap all visits together.

Guess I’ll just have to wait a little bit longer….That’s okay, it’ll give me more time to perfect my Gaelic!

 

Just Cleaned Off My Desk and Guess What I Found…

It’s very unusual, I admit, but somehow there was a small-ish stack of to-do papers on my desk.  And there they sat.  Very odd for me!

So I finally went through them and dealt with them accordingly, and lo and behold I found my Highland Titles package at the very bottom!  How lovely!  It was great to have a look at it all again and remember why I bought myself a plot in the first place.  I feel rejuvenated, reconnected!  I even tried again, unsuccessfully unfortunately, to find a home for the clan map but alas, there is barely any wall space in our 730 sqft home.  *Big Sigh*  Oh well.

Anyways, I was happy to clean off my desk and even happier to discover my package waiting at the bottom!  Yes Highland Titles, you are still on my mind and still on my radar for a visit.  Probably not this year, but next year maybe when my good friend Mark is back in Ireland and we can combine the visit.  A plan is forming…

We Were So Close

I never would have guessed it, but back in 1998 I came within a few minutes of my future Estate in Scotland!

Yes, I have been to Scotland once in my life already, and in my excitement after checking out the Highland Titles website and making my decision to become a Lady of Glencoe I suddenly had this niggling feeling of familiarity – had I been here before?  Not quite deja-vu, but something was ringing a bell deep in my memories.  Glencoe, hmmmm, what was it?

And then I remembered!

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