Hi folks. Been a while. I've got a bunch of news, so here goes:
First things first, I got engaged.
I'm wicked excited about it. My lady came out to visit me in upstate NY. We drove over to NH to visit my uncle who was really good to the future Mrs. Ascanius when she was in the hospital. After spending a couple of days there we decided to swing back through southern VT to see some college friends. I told her we had to go someplace really nice and we decided we could get her wheelchair to Sweet Pond. Or rather I decided, because she'd never been there.
We sat on the bank for a while watching the water bugs swim by. Then I said "Oh, I brought your birthday present." Her birthday was a month before, but we'd been on different ends of the country so I hadn't given her anything yet.
Well, what I had for her was a wooden box that I'd commissioned a friend of ours to make. He made it all from some sort of beautiful curly elm, or some such, and carved a butterfly on top. The butterfly is because when we got in the car accident that left her in the wheelchair I would sing the Magnetic Fields' song 'You are a Splendid Butterfly,' to put her to sleep.
So, she unwraps the box (it's wrapped in a scrap of old t-shirt and tied with shoelace) and looks it over and is pleased. She puts it up to her face to smell it. I say, "well, why don't you open it?" As she does I get down on one knee. The ring is on a little dowel that rests horizontally in slots in the side of the box for that purpose. I take the dowel out and remove the ring and hand it to her. "Will you marry me," I ask?
"Are you asking me to marry you?"
"Uh huh."
"Really?"
"Yeah, really."
"Oh."
"Well?
"Yes, of course."
So we sat for a while longer and watched a gentle rain roll over the pond from the cover of a pine tree.
So, I'm engaged. In other news I went to Israel and Jordan for a couple of weeks. You know what? I'll get back to that in my next post. For now friends, I'm engaged and I couldn't be happier about it. We still need to decide where we want to end up. She's really set on Oregon and I'm all bout Vermont, but we've got time to figure that out. The next two years until the wedding, to be exact.
First things first, I got engaged.
I'm wicked excited about it. My lady came out to visit me in upstate NY. We drove over to NH to visit my uncle who was really good to the future Mrs. Ascanius when she was in the hospital. After spending a couple of days there we decided to swing back through southern VT to see some college friends. I told her we had to go someplace really nice and we decided we could get her wheelchair to Sweet Pond. Or rather I decided, because she'd never been there.
We sat on the bank for a while watching the water bugs swim by. Then I said "Oh, I brought your birthday present." Her birthday was a month before, but we'd been on different ends of the country so I hadn't given her anything yet.
Well, what I had for her was a wooden box that I'd commissioned a friend of ours to make. He made it all from some sort of beautiful curly elm, or some such, and carved a butterfly on top. The butterfly is because when we got in the car accident that left her in the wheelchair I would sing the Magnetic Fields' song 'You are a Splendid Butterfly,' to put her to sleep.
So, she unwraps the box (it's wrapped in a scrap of old t-shirt and tied with shoelace) and looks it over and is pleased. She puts it up to her face to smell it. I say, "well, why don't you open it?" As she does I get down on one knee. The ring is on a little dowel that rests horizontally in slots in the side of the box for that purpose. I take the dowel out and remove the ring and hand it to her. "Will you marry me," I ask?
"Are you asking me to marry you?"
"Uh huh."
"Really?"
"Yeah, really."
"Oh."
"Well?
"Yes, of course."
So we sat for a while longer and watched a gentle rain roll over the pond from the cover of a pine tree.
So, I'm engaged. In other news I went to Israel and Jordan for a couple of weeks. You know what? I'll get back to that in my next post. For now friends, I'm engaged and I couldn't be happier about it. We still need to decide where we want to end up. She's really set on Oregon and I'm all bout Vermont, but we've got time to figure that out. The next two years until the wedding, to be exact.
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Thank you for the input, anyhow