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Across the Fence:  My new wonderful job :)  |
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dutchy
True Blue Farmgirl
4427 Posts
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 Posted - Jun 12 2009 : 09:07:46 AM
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Nope Elvis is still not back :( But tomorrow I can collect my new kitty, so won't be alone anymore ^--^
Hugs from Marian/Dutchy, a farmgirl from the Netherlands :)
My personal blog:
http://just-me-a-dutch-girl.blogspot.com/
Almost daily updates on me and mine :)
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Suzan
True Blue Farmgirl
659 Posts
suzanne
duncannon
pa
USA
659 Posts |
Posted - Jun 12 2009 : 09:37:13 AM
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Dutchy, Sounds like things are looking up for you, I'm so glad!
By the way I've been wanting to ask you, how is it you speak english so well???? I've looked at your Dutch blog and it looks so interesting...but of course I don't understand of word of it! |
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dutchy
True Blue Farmgirl
4427 Posts
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Posted - Jun 12 2009 : 09:55:14 AM
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Suzan I also have an English blog (link in my siggy line)
I have always been fascinated by the English language, to be honest as long as I can remember I have a sort of antenna on my head, lol. Whenever I hear somebody talking English my radar pops up, ^--^.
From when I was a little girl of about 6, I always told my mom: When I grow up I want to live in America. I didn't even KNOW where is was, lol. But somehow it has become my biggest hobby and I only read English books and mags, I think, talk, read, sometimes even dream in English DUH!! It IS my 2nd language but often it feels like my primary one.
Silly and strange I know :)
Hugs from Marian/Dutchy, a farmgirl from the Netherlands :)
My personal blog:
http://just-me-a-dutch-girl.blogspot.com/
Almost daily updates on me and mine :)
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Betty J.
True Blue Farmgirl
1403 Posts
Betty
Pasco
WA
USA
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Posted - Jun 12 2009 : 10:00:58 AM
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Dutchy, I'm so glad you like your job delivering mail. My son and daughter-in-law are rural carriers, DIL only part-time to start, so she works different routes. Rain is not bad if you are prepared. I couldn't imagine riding a bicycle on some of the routes here in the Tri-Cities. The longest one is 98 miles. The one I attempted to deliver had 500 customers and was 50 miles. Very rural.
How many customers do you have?
Betty in Pasco |
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dutchy
True Blue Farmgirl
4427 Posts
4427 Posts |
Posted - Jun 12 2009 : 10:19:15 AM
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NO idea, but AL LOT!! I have to deliver the whole village, and we have about 1000 peps. Ofcourse families as well , but maybe 400 houses ?? I really have no idea. Might try and count them, one day lol
Hugs from Marian/Dutchy, a farmgirl from the Netherlands :)
My personal blog:
http://just-me-a-dutch-girl.blogspot.com/
Almost daily updates on me and mine :)
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harmonyfarm
True Blue Farmgirl
785 Posts
Debbie
Southeastern
Ohio
USA
785 Posts |
Posted - Jun 12 2009 : 6:38:09 PM
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Oh what a picture you paint of your new job. I can see you riding that bike with the wind blowing your tresses behind you and you whistling while you pedal along...lol...
Do you wear a uniform? I bet after a while you'll know everyone's business by what type of mail they get....lol....I bet your leg muscles are getting a work out too...aren't they?
Good luck...so happy for you!
Debbie
"If you can't find the time to do it right...how will you find the time to do it over" |
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harmonyfarm
True Blue Farmgirl
785 Posts
Debbie
Southeastern
Ohio
USA
785 Posts |
Posted - Jun 12 2009 : 6:40:32 PM
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARIAN!!!...and many, many more!
Love...
Debbie
"If you can't find the time to do it right...how will you find the time to do it over" |
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dutchy
True Blue Farmgirl
4427 Posts
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Posted - Jun 12 2009 : 8:29:21 PM
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Lol Debbie....yes I DO sing while biking :) AND my leg muscles are getting a wonderful work out indeed, and they needed it too! When mom was alive (she passed away over 2 years ago) she was in a wheelchair for the last 3 or 4 years. So I worked up a lot of strong muscles, both my legs and arms. But since she passed.......I needed to push the wheelchair across bridges, on small side walks, trying to keep it upright etc. ect. And mom was also bed ridden later most of the time so yes, my muscles were very strong, lol. And now they will be again YAY!! And in a more "fun" way too, lol.
Hugs from Marian/Dutchy, a farmgirl from the Netherlands :)
My personal blog:
http://just-me-a-dutch-girl.blogspot.com/
Almost daily updates on me and mine :)
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kissmekate
True Blue Farmgirl
890 Posts
Kate
Delano
Minnesota
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Posted - Jun 12 2009 : 9:07:38 PM
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Oh, Marian, I am so glad to read that you love your new job.
Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!
Happy Birthday too, sweetie!!!
Don't miss out on a blessing, just because it isn't packaged the way you expected. ~MaryJo Copeland |
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Tapestry
True Blue Farmgirl
1223 Posts
Cheryl
Wisconsin
USA
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kpaints
True Blue Farmgirl
1564 Posts
karen
cheney
wa
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Beverly Gill
True Blue Farmgirl
1114 Posts
Beverly
Marlborough
USA
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Posted - Jun 14 2009 : 11:05:15 AM
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Happy Happy Birthday, Dutchy. Thanks for replying about hoe long it takes you.....I know I would love that job if I could walk---I am definitely a walker......have a great day
Beverly |
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Amie C.
True Blue Farmgirl
2099 Posts
Finger Lakes Region
NY
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Posted - Jun 14 2009 : 6:40:06 PM
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Happy Birthday! That's very interesting about you and the English. You use it like a native (although a European one, not American!) and I was wondering how you came to be such an English speaker in the Netherlands. I wish I had a gift for languages, but I've never had one "take." I always have to go through a long translating process in my head and I get so flustered trying to have a conversation that way.
I'm so glad you like your new job. I always wanted to be a mail carrier. It's a hard job to get in the US. In my neighborhood, they drive large amounts of mail from the central processing location in little jeeps, and then park and walk up and down each street. I'm amazed that you can carry your whole village's mail on a bike.
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therusticcottage
True Blue Farmgirl
4439 Posts
Kay
Vancouver
WA
USA
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junkjunkie
True Blue Farmgirl
1306 Posts
Judy
Lawrenceville
NJ
USA
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Posted - Jun 21 2009 : 05:53:01 AM
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That is great news, Marian! Congratulations! You will be in super shape with all that biking and toting the mail!
"To have life in focus, we must have death in our field of vision." Benedictine monk John Main |
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peapicker
True Blue Farmgirl
716 Posts
texas
USA
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Posted - Jun 21 2009 : 07:24:40 AM
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HI Marian,
Congratulations on your new job. I had no idea delivering mail would be so much fun. The biclycle riding sounds great though. Do you feel like you've been through boot camp? I would. You have me wondering now just how far I could really ride now. I haven't been a bike for years. Congrats on little Pinky too.
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22941 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
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dutchy
True Blue Farmgirl
4427 Posts
4427 Posts |
Posted - Jun 21 2009 : 09:33:24 AM
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Lol Alee, the first 2 days were the worst!! Leg cramps are terrible AUCH!!!!! But now doing fine. No this will not be enough income on it's own, but thankfully I will be compensated by SS for the rest. So then i will have a sort of reasonable, living very frugally income. I can survive on that, as long as they pay me on time every month, lol. IF not.....but this is a, what you might call a "state" co. so they are bound to be on time, right??
Yup, guess I need to stock up on good solid food lol. I DO eat better since working here. I eat a warm meal more days of the week then in the 2 1/2 since living alone :)
Hugs from Marian/Dutchy, a farmgirl from the Netherlands :)
My personal blog:
http://just-me-a-dutch-girl.blogspot.com/
Almost daily updates on me and mine :)
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harmonyfarm
True Blue Farmgirl
785 Posts
Debbie
Southeastern
Ohio
USA
785 Posts |
Posted - Jun 25 2009 : 09:27:39 AM
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ok...Dutchy.....it's been a couple of weeks since you started your new job.....how's it going?
Debbie
"If you can't find the time to do it right...how will you find the time to do it over" |
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dutchy
True Blue Farmgirl
4427 Posts
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Posted - Jun 25 2009 : 11:07:33 AM
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Still love it, lol. As a matter of fact, I start to like it better every day YAY! The weather here is perfect, nice warm and sunshine all day. So I realize it might only get worse, weather wise.But even THAT doesn't make me like it less. You meet so many nice people this way.Most make a small chat when they are outside in the garden or even when I bike past.
Yesterday I was delivering again and suddenly I heard out of the blue "HELLO MAILLADY" !! I was looking around, didn't see anyone. But suddenly, out of a top window, I saw a face with a big smile. Just someone I never saw before greeted me! SO nice :)
And children in a street where I deliver greet me, and they want to take their mail from me so I don't have to walk to their house, too sweet.
Yup I love it, every single day :) And I get faster too. In the beginning it took me more than 2 1/2 hrs to do the round and now less then 2. And that gets faster every day. So I think in a week I am up to 1 and a half hours every day. With the junk mail a little longer but still, close to the 1 1/2 hrs YAY
I was talking to one of my supervisors today. He came with his car to give me a form i have to complete for my uniform. He wanted to know how it went and I told him. He was pleased :-) He wants tocome by to my house one day and give me the uniform and a "degree" that I passed my trial period YAY! Will get a little prezzie too, just a key cord but still so nice. We also have a "bike plan"a way to get a very good sturdy bike for 20% off. It is a very pretty bike, so who knows......
Hugs from Marian/Dutchy, a farmgirl from the Netherlands :)
My personal blog:
http://just-me-a-dutch-girl.blogspot.com/
Almost daily updates on me and mine :)
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kissmekate
True Blue Farmgirl
890 Posts
Kate
Delano
Minnesota
890 Posts |
Posted - Jun 25 2009 : 8:44:22 PM
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Oh Marian, I am so glad you still love your job.
Don't miss out on a blessing, just because it isn't packaged the way you expected. ~MaryJo Copeland |
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Across the Fence: My new wonderful job :) |
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My new wonderful job :)
