Daughter Lise Arrives

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Lise had a few travel problems before she landed in Atlanta, but I wasn’t a part of those. Her flight from Atlanta to Asheville was canceled. The first reservation she could get was for the following day, early in the morning. First, she had to get her bags. She has had lost luggage several times before, the worst being when she was in Asheville and her luggage in Amsterdam. This time her tracking tag told her the suitcases were around the corner, but the clerks insisted they were downstairs and hadn’t been sent up. She kept checking, until after four (4!!!) hours a supervisor sent someone around the corner to check. Yes, the bags were there, just as Lise had told them. Only then could she make plans to get to me. She could have spent the night in Atlanta, gotten up very early, and taken a flight that would have gotten her here at 9:20 in the morning. I began checking to see if anyone was available to take me to the airport. She had been traveling 24 hours by that time and just wanted to get to her bed in my house. She hired a driver, arriving here at 1:15 am. She would have been a bit earlier if there hadn’t been heavy fog in the mountains.

Lise unpacked the perishables (butter and cheeses) before we fell into bed. She slept for an hour, then couldn’t go back to sleep. She tried again while I went to church on line. We had bagels for breakfast, after which she went back to bed. This is the first chance I’ve had to tell you that I am going to be quite busy for a month while she is here – a month of activity and joy!

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Published by Anne Mehrling

I'm a retiree who loves to write about life in the mountains of North Carolina.

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  6. I didn’t realize Lise was traveling to the States so early for the Thanksgiving holiday. That’s great she’s there and has no transportation worries for a month – hopefully airline travel is better by then, though, as you say, she’s had luggage issues and cancelled flights even before the current issues. Hopefully her friends fare well when they travel here. Have fun!

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      1. With her travel schedule to get to your house, plus her early morning conference call in the 3:00 a.m. hour, Lise would be nodding off if she started it. Will she start it before her friends arrive, then do it over again with them?

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        1. We had a busy day, so she hasn’t seen it yet. Tomorrow she is going to set up to work in the office instead of the bedroom, because her friends will be sleeping in the bedrooms. The puzzle is in the office, so she will probably see it there. There won’t be time to work it beforehand. I think she’ll opt to open it so that the friends can enjoy working on it if they like doing jigsaws.

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          1. That makes sense … more time to spend doing adventures or just walking around when off work, especially as she has a work schedule to adhere to. There are so many hours in a day, especially when Lise is already working with a time difference – best save it to do with friends if they enjoy puzzles.

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              1. Happy birthday to Lise! How nice – first time for Lise to see them since the wedding. And there will be pictures … look at all the 2025 pictures that will not be seen in the 2025 puzzle! Maybe we should pick up where we left off, i.e. November 2025 through October 2026 for next time and not put a date in the middle?

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