BS: 'Catter deployed in southwest Asia

Subject: RE: BS: 'Catter deployed in southwest Asia
From: Marion
Date: 28 Nov 08 - 08:44 AM

That's great news, Charmion and Edmund. Welcome back.

Marion

Subject: RE: BS: 'Catter deployed in southwest Asia
From: wysiwyg
Date: 27 Nov 08 - 02:23 PM

Yes, Charmion did a brilliant job of holding down the home front.

Strangely neat and tidy, too, I bet.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: 'Catter deployed in southwest Asia
From: GUEST,Charmion's brother Andrew
Date: 27 Nov 08 - 11:02 AM

Deb and I are so glad you're home, and are looking forward to a delayed Thanksgiving dinner with you and Charmion on Saturday.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Catter deployed in southwest Asia
From: wysiwyg
Date: 26 Nov 08 - 05:18 PM

Ah, he ventures out for a note to his mates. Back in the rack with you, Edmund!

:~)

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: 'Catter deployed in southwest Asia
From: gnu
Date: 26 Nov 08 - 05:06 PM

Wassail!

Subject: RE: BS: 'Catter deployed in southwest Asia
From: CET
Date: 26 Nov 08 - 04:18 PM

Yes, Charmion did a brilliant job of holding down the home front. She kept me supplied with decent coffee from our favourite roastery in Ottawa as well as Globe and Mail crosswords. She has also been practising the guitar assiduously, and we have a new song to work out. Bill the Cat is as big and bumptious as ever.

I have spent a lot of time in the departure lounge at Heathrow Terminal 3 over the last couple of years. The thrill is wearing off, even if I did come back with a bottle of Highland Park 21 year old.

Edmund

Subject: RE: BS: 'Catter deployed in southwest Asia
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 01:44 PM

Good to have you back in this hemisphere, Edmund! Welcome home!

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: 'Catter deployed in southwest Asia
From: katlaughing
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 10:05 AM

YES!! Welcome back and thanks to the deity/or not of one's choice for your safe return!

Subject: RE: BS: 'Catter deployed in southwest Asia
From: wysiwyg
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 09:59 AM

eDMUND, YOUR ARRIVAL WAS SUCH A BIG DEAL THAT THE cAT WENT DOWN A COUPLA DAYS oh sorry capslock

And just got back up in time for your post!


Didn't Charmion do a GREAT job of holding down the home front!!!!?

It's gonna take a little time to settle back in. We'll continue to keep you both in our thoughts and prayers.

~Susan & Greg

Subject: RE: BS: 'Catter deployed in southwest Asia
From: Amos
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 09:40 AM

Good on ya, Edmund, for finding your way back!! We're all delighted to hear it!! Welcome, welcome, welcome!!



A

Subject: RE: BS: 'Catter deployed in southwest Asia
From: SINSULL
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 09:31 AM

Welcome home, Edmund. Big sigh of relief. Glad our yanks treated you well.
Love,
Mary

Subject: RE: BS: 'Catter deployed in southwest Asia
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 09:24 AM

Glad it's over for you.
keith.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Catter deployed in southwest Asia
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 08:10 AM

(((Cet and Charmion))) although I suspect there's a lot of that going on anyway!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: 'Catter deployed in southwest Asia
From: gnu
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 05:28 AM

WELCOME HOME!!!

Subject: RE: BS: 'Catter deployed in southwest Asia
From: Micca
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 04:20 AM

Edmund, Welcome home mate!!!Relax, Jet Lag only lasts a week or two!!!Did you wave on your way through Heathrow?, I thought you would go by way of Brise Norton if you came through here!!
anyway glad to see you back
Micca

Subject: RE: BS: 'Catter deployed in southwest Asia
From: CET
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 03:48 AM

Well, I'm back. I arrived late in the afternoon on the 23rd, via Heathrow and the Middle East, after being up for almost 24 hours. My internal clock is still off, which is why I am posting at this ungodly hour. There is snow on the ground and I don't care. It's good to be home.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Catter deployed in southwest Asia
From: CET
Date: 13 Nov 08 - 12:30 PM

The only battles I'm fighting these days are with certain Canadian military bureaucrats. Never mind - that too will pass. My U.S. colleagues gave me a great send off tonight, and I start my travels home tomorrow. It takes a while to get out of Afghanistan and then I have a few days "decompression" leave before I actually get on a flight to Canada.

Thanks again to everyone who posted. It's been a long six months without singing (barring a little karaoke before I got tired of it) and I am looking forward to seeing you again.

Edmund

Subject: RE: BS: 'Catter deployed in southwest Asia
From: GUEST,Charmion's brother Andrew
Date: 12 Nov 08 - 10:30 PM

If weather's an issue, give me a call, and we'll truck him home in the Pathfinder.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Catter deployed in southwest Asia
From: Charmion
Date: 12 Nov 08 - 05:19 PM

The flight is booked: the big day is ****Sunday, 23 November****.

Only eleven (count 'em, 11) days. Gee, I wonder ... Can I get the snow tires on the car by then?

Subject: RE: BS: 'Catter deployed in southwest Asia
From: gnu
Date: 12 Nov 08 - 04:39 PM

Three weeks! God Bless and Godspeed!

And, once again, thanks.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Catter deployed in southwest Asia
From: katlaughing
Date: 12 Nov 08 - 04:35 PM

He'll be home before you know it, Charmion. How's the decluttering going?**bg**

Be safe, Be well, Be swiftly home and sound,

kat

Subject: RE: BS: 'Catter deployed in southwest Asia
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Nov 08 - 03:40 PM

Click your heels together and say three times "There's no place like home...There's no place like home...There's no place like home..."

Subject: RE: BS: 'Catter deployed in southwest Asia
From: kendall
Date: 12 Nov 08 - 08:54 AM

A trainer for the SEALS said that the biggest cause of death in battle is panic. Edmund doesn't strike me as a panic prone person.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Catter deployed in southwest Asia
From: ClaireBear
Date: 11 Nov 08 - 11:32 AM

Oh, wonderful news in the offing! May the day be hastened, Charmion.

I think of you often. Hoping to meet Edmund at the next Getaway, after you've plumped him up some of course.

ClaireBear

Subject: RE: BS: 'Catter deployed in southwest Asia
From: wysiwyg
Date: 11 Nov 08 - 10:27 AM

How come your updates always come just when I'm particularly thinking of you both?

GOOD NEWS!

Fly, time, fly.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: 'Catter deployed in southwest Asia
From: Charmion
Date: 11 Nov 08 - 09:33 AM

It's Remembrance Day, which is important enough but, even better, it's three weeks, at most, until Edmund comes home.

I just got an e-mail with photos of medals parade in Kabul. He looks great, if just a wee, little bit too thin. (That's gym.)

Subject: RE: BS: 'Catter deployed in southwest Asia
From: Teribus
Date: 04 Oct 08 - 07:37 AM

All the best for a safe return CET, my son got back to UK a couple of weeks ago.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Catter deployed in southwest Asia
From: GUEST,jh
Date: 04 Oct 08 - 06:04 AM

hat?

Subject: RE: BS: 'Catter deployed in southwest Asia
From: wysiwyg
Date: 03 Oct 08 - 01:27 PM

You're still on our list, Edmund. Go ahead and be in two places at once-- I'll get it cleared upstairs. :~)

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: 'Catter deployed in southwest Asia
From: CET
Date: 03 Oct 08 - 12:23 PM

I'm doing fine, Gary. Thanks for asking. I am also wishing I could be at the Getaway, which starts tonight. I will sit outside instead, smoking a cigar and listening to my Ipod, and be there in spirit.

Edmund

Subject: RE: BS: 'Catter deployed in southwest Asia
From: gnu
Date: 03 Oct 08 - 06:14 AM

Yo Edmund.... saw a post from you on another thread. Just wondering how you are getting along.

Gary

Subject: RE: BS: 'Catter deployed in southwest Asia
From: katlaughing
Date: 23 Aug 08 - 12:21 AM

Wish you could just tell them all to go by the "rule of thumb" and bug out of there, CET. Stay safe and we look forward to your safe and uneventful return.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Catter deployed in southwest Asia
From: Charmion
Date: 22 Aug 08 - 05:01 PM

Ah, the wonderfully hospitable Hendrix! Let's hope the weather co-operates; last year getting there and back again was definitely not half the fun.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Catter deployed in southwest Asia
From: Susan A-R
Date: 20 Aug 08 - 01:35 PM

Glad you got a good musical break from Afghanistan. Looking forward to the usual New Years trip through on your way to Maine. Stay safe. Charmion, if you come through between now and then, there's a cat foot warmer waiting.

Susan

Subject: RE: BS: 'Catter deployed in southwest Asia
From: CET
Date: 20 Aug 08 - 12:30 PM

I'm looking forward to it, Mary.

Charmion and I had a wonderful time at the Goderich Celtic College & Festival. It would be great to see some more Mudcatters there.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Catter deployed in southwest Asia
From: SINSULL
Date: 19 Aug 08 - 04:12 PM

Your package will be mailed Saturday AM. look for the box leaking chocolate.
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: 'Catter deployed in southwest Asia
From: CET
Date: 19 Aug 08 - 01:28 PM

I am now back on the ground after enjoying three weeks of music and good cooking. I can't say I'm glad to be back, but I am definitely looking forward to finishing the second half of this gig.

Thanks again to all my Mudcat friends.

Edmund

Subject: RE: BS: 'Catter deployed in southwest Asia
From: gnu
Date: 17 Aug 08 - 07:47 AM

Stay safe and thanks again lad.

Hang in there darlin.

Gary

Subject: RE: BS: 'Catter deployed in southwest Asia
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 Aug 08 - 09:25 PM

Ah, we shall *see* him returned, safe and sound.


{{{{{{{HUGS}}}}}}} to you both.

kat

Subject: RE: BS: 'Catter deployed in southwest Asia
From: Charmion
Date: 16 Aug 08 - 09:07 PM

I dropped Edmund at the airport a little after four o'clock this afternoon, and he's now heading back to Kabul. Three and a half months to go ...

Subject: RE: BS: 'Catter deployed in southwest Asia
From: curmudgeon
Date: 29 Jul 08 - 12:34 PM

Make sure to drink lots of good beer to make up for the deprivation - Tom

Subject: RE: BS: 'Catter deployed in southwest Asia
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 Jul 08 - 12:16 PM

Come to Maine this weekend. We are having a MAritime festival.
Glad you are safe.
Mary

Subject: RE: BS: 'Catter deployed in southwest Asia
From: CET
Date: 29 Jul 08 - 05:10 AM

I must have been really jet lagged. I obviously sent that message on Monday, not Sunday.

No Getaway for me, I'm afraid. My leave ends the third week of August. I hope somebody does some hanging or beheading songs on my behalf.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Catter deployed in southwest Asia
From: gnu
Date: 29 Jul 08 - 04:46 AM

Enjoy your leave, lad!!

Subject: RE: BS: 'Catter deployed in southwest Asia
From: Micca
Date: 29 Jul 08 - 12:27 AM

Hi Edmund, have a good leave, hope to see you somewhere soon

Subject: RE: BS: 'Catter deployed in southwest Asia
From: Amos
Date: 28 Jul 08 - 11:14 PM

Edmund!! Welcome home!! Does this mean you'll be making the Getaway??


A

Subject: RE: BS: 'Catter deployed in southwest Asia
From: CET
Date: 28 Jul 08 - 06:11 PM

I am now back in the True North Strong and Free for my mid-tour leave. I think it's Sunday, but I'm not 100% sure, having slept about eight hours in the last seventy-two. It's raining, but a wet Ottawa summer is a welcome change after the dust of Afghanistan.

I am looking forward to a meal that doesn't include meat cooked to ratshit and covered with barbecue sauce.

A few days to get over the jet lag and then it's off to Goderich, Ontario for the annual Celtic College and Festival.

Edmund

Subject: RE: BS: 'Catter deployed in southwest Asia
From: gnu
Date: 07 Jul 08 - 10:10 AM

Charmion... don't believe everything yo read. We put brown (or white) sugar on them. Never heard of anyone wasting Maple Slurpup on them.

At La Frolique, Edgar (Edgorre) has the best poutine (poo-tin). The $20 dollar ones do not have salt pork in the middle.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Catter deployed in southwest Asia
From: CET
Date: 07 Jul 08 - 09:58 AM

Any chocolate mailed to Afghanistan ends as a package of soup. However, as long as it's well wrapped to prevent leaks, an hour or so in the fridge repairs the damage.

So now I'm racking my brain, trying to what I might have "requested" without knowing it. How will I be able to concentrate on my little part of establishing the rule of law in Afghanistan?

Subject: RE: BS: 'Catter deployed in southwest Asia
From: SINSULL
Date: 07 Jul 08 - 08:37 AM

Wonder what condition the chocolate will be in? Chocolate Soup, maybe/