Thursday, August 08, 2024

midwest represent

We had a visit from Engie today. Huck and Max *loved* her; Nu and Big A automatically looped her into the ribbing and silly jokes around the dinner table. Engie has the prettiest toes and sparkling quips and tried hard to get us to follow "dog" rules. I loved hanging out with her solo later and we took a long after-dinner walk to Beal Gardens before saying goodbye.

It felt like meeting a dear long-lost friend... it was meeting a dear long-lost friend although we'd never hung out in person before. I love all the ways we can connect in the world.

(Also, this is Engie's 20th year of blogging. I helped celebrate by writing a guest post on poetry a few months ago and forgot to log it here.)

Pic: Engie and me--our hand signs are supposed to rep the midwest (MW). Pic by Nu.

14 comments:

Nicole said...

Oh, how wonderful you two got to meet up! I had no idea you were so close geographically *goes to check map, brushes up on midwest geography*
What this means is that *I* need to take a trip to the midwest! There are so many great bloggy people there!

Gillian said...

Nice.

Sarah said...

PLEASE!!

Sarah said...

Awwwww, how delightful

Nance said...

How wonderful and fun! I'm so jealous; I could have zipped up there from NEO and repped The MW with you.

I'm sure Huck and Max appreciated having two bosses so much! LOL

Jenny said...

ENGIE!!! How fun! Wow, the midwest is really a blogging mecca. Glad you guys got to meet in person!

maya said...

Nicole!! You're back!! And how wonderful would it be to meet you in person!! I second Sarah's "PLEASE." Perhaps even PLEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAASE!!!"

maya said...

Thanks :)!

maya said...

Engie IS delightful!

maya said...

Nance--It would *truly* be an *honor* to meet you. I'm going to write to you at your blog email this weekend...

maya said...

Jenny--There have been a fair number of meetups recently, right? I think Engie is the common denominator :)! It would be so lovely to see you here!

StephLove said...

How fun to meet a blog friend.

NGS said...

Prettiest toes!! LOLOLOL. The color is I'm Not Really a Waitress by OPI. It looks good on everyone.

It was so wonderful to meet you - you and your family are lovely and you're so welcoming and generous. Everyone could take hosting tips from you!

I think we should hold a MidwestFest bloggy meetup. And all the non-Midwestern folks would have to come here!!

maya said...

Engie--Let's do it! Steph--I hope you'll come!!

I'm there

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