Please continue the story Ice and Moon.

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thanx uli..
Its Ice`s story, and i have, as i said, no idea what he
is planning to write.. but I can contribute with a pic
in between, as I have done.. Just to show that the place
still exist.. lol.
Today it has even come new member in the family! ;-D
My youngest sons female gold fish has got kids.. I have
so far seen only one.. but that is one more than yesterday ;-)
Hopefully it will survive.. Its until now the only creature
born in this house, and that is of course very special..it need
a good name. ;-) Any ideas?

. . . Tangerine

Thats nice ;-) I will have to think out how to do the baptism. lol

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Please continue the story Ice and Moon.

;-)

thanx uli..
Its Ice`s story, and i have, as i said, no idea what he
is planning to write.. but I can contribute with a pic
in between, as I have done.. Just to show that the place
still exist.. lol.
Today it has even come new member in the family! ;-D
My youngest sons female gold fish has got kids.. I have
so far seen only one.. but that is one more than yesterday ;-)
Hopefully it will survive.. Its until now the only creature
born in this house, and that is of course very special..it need
a good name. ;-) Any ideas?

. . . Tangerine

Thats nice ;-) I will have to think out how to do the baptism. lol

;O

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Please continue the story Ice and Moon.

;-)

thanx uli..
Its Ice`s story, and i have, as i said, no idea what he
is planning to write.. but I can contribute with a pic
in between, as I have done.. Just to show that the place
still exist.. lol.
Today it has even come new member in the family! ;-D
My youngest sons female gold fish has got kids.. I have
so far seen only one.. but that is one more than yesterday ;-)
Hopefully it will survive.. Its until now the only creature
born in this house, and that is of course very special..it need
a good name. ;-) Any ideas?

. . . Tangerine

Thats nice ;-) I will have to think out how to do the baptism. lol

;O

Huh? Baptism of a goldfish? Sorry, but that's the funniest I ever read - and I've read a lot of funny stuff. How do you plan to do it? ;)

Please continue wth the story, I love to lurk and read it. The photos chosen by you (Ice and Moon) are really extraordinary.

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Please continue the story Ice and Moon.

;-)

thanx uli..
Its Ice`s story, and i have, as i said, no idea what he
is planning to write.. but I can contribute with a pic
in between, as I have done.. Just to show that the place
still exist.. lol.
Today it has even come new member in the family! ;-D
My youngest sons female gold fish has got kids.. I have
so far seen only one.. but that is one more than yesterday ;-)
Hopefully it will survive.. Its until now the only creature
born in this house, and that is of course very special..it need
a good name. ;-) Any ideas?

. . . Tangerine

Thats nice ;-) I will have to think out how to do the baptism. lol

;O

Huh? Baptism of a goldfish? Sorry, but that's the funniest I ever read - and I've read a lot of funny stuff. How do you plan to do it? ;)

Please continue wth the story, I love to lurk and read it. The photos chosen by you (Ice and Moon) are really extraordinary.

Thanx Thorin.. ;-)

Well.. I have a boble bath.. ehh..
What if I fill it up with nice fresh temperated water, and
put in some "ocean smelling" boble lather, lightening candles
around in the room, and put on some choir music for the
occation? ;-) If Tangerine doesnt grow quick and nice after
that, I dont know.. Yey! ;-D

Edit; ooops.. i can see 4 pair of tiny eyes pondering on me, when i
stick my nose close to the water tank.. I wonder what they are
thinking.. ehh.. lol.

Tangerine, Orando, Pondy and Pernilla...so far... :p

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A journey to the Moon - an overview, part 12.

My last full day on Moon’s islands was a Sunday. I had no special plans, and had thought I might feel sad about having to go by now, but I wasn’t. I was still very happy to be there and spend my time as it came.

I was at Moon’s house again of course, but this time with other company also. I was chatting with Moon’s sister and husband and their kids and Moon’s kids were running around. The other guests eventually, left and Moon told me that we were going for dinner at her mother’s.

Her mother didn’t live too far away. In fact we walked through Moon’s garden, into her mother’s garden and we were there.

Her mother’s house is not so big, it was built over a hundred years ago when house and room sizes were built smaller. But it seemed comfortable enough and even had a garage.

I’m from a large family myself and found it familiar to be in the mix of parents trying to keep order, kids running around, some trying to hold conversations, others helping to prepare the dining area for the meal, and me throwing Moon’s younger son around like a sack of potatoes. Good game ;)

The meal was fantastic; salmon and the best pickled cucumber I can remember. They chatted and Norwegian and in English, and I thought again how comfortable I felt with this group of people. Moon sat across the table from me, but I hardly noticed her at that meal, she was just one of that group as I was. Not that I was of course. I am from outside, a visitor. But that is how I felt, very welcomed, and very much part of what was going on there just now.

This was indeed one of the memories I would take away with me. Not of climbing a rock, or of going someplace, but sitting down with Moon’s mother’s family for Sunday dinner.

I was discovering more about Moon every day, about her through getting to know about some of her family. On this last day I knew I wasn’t going to reach the end of my journey, primarily because there was no end. It was a journey. I hadn’t planned where it should go and when it should end. A plane leaving Norwegian airspace with me in it will not complete or finish any journey with Moon. That is just it you see, it was never a journey “to”. It never has been a journey “to” the Moon. It has always been a journey ‘with’ Moon.

I had no expectations, no goals, nothing to be achieved. I came to see Moon, and we continued a journey with each other, as any two people do who decide to spend time with each other. Where did that journey start? When we first posted to each other in SETI? Sometime after? Before? Whenever is was, I have been on that journey with her, finding value as well as company form the journey as we continue along.

My last sight of Moon was when I left later that night, my ferry leaving very early. We were at the front door of her house. “See you” she said and smiled. “See you” I replied, and smiled. She turned around and walked back into her house, leaving me to close the front door after me. Nothing had ended, it was just another point on our journey, I had a plane to catch.

I started to walk down her road and turned to look at her house just once more. “I really do love her” I thought. But then I smiled. She knows that ;)

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Aww, I was expecting the last bit :)

So when you going back? :D

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Aww, I was expecting the last bit :)

So when you going back? :D

;)

Hi Andy, I've had another one of these in my pocket for a while now Ticket To The Moon and expect to be Leaving On A Jet Plane pretty soon.

But then I would have been there today if an urgent UK appointment had not popped up for next week, so I'm slightly delayed. But my journey continues... :)

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It never has been a journey “to” the Moon. It has always been a journey ‘with’ Moon.

Hmmmmm.... hehe.. ;-)
it is very strange to sit here and read this part 12..
But it is just a wonderful way to see it.. Not to.. but with.. So this was
what you were talking about..(not there yet) ..Life, isnt it.. a part of all that happens..

I dont know much what to say though.. But i did say you were welcome back,
so... See you...!

;-)

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. . . simply a marvelous story goin' on 'ere AriZ / iX

@ AriZ - don't forget to get some Photographs of little 'Tangerine' and 'er family . . . ;O

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. . . simply a marvelous story goin' on 'ere AriZ / iX

@ AriZ - don't forget to get some Photographs of little 'Tangerine' and 'er family . . . ;O

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hehehe.. If they survive until they are big enough to be seen throug any cam,
then maybe you will get to see them.. ;-) but who knows how long it
takes before the mother eat them.. I have heard that she can do so
to protect her kids.. a very interesting way to do it, i may say.. ;-))

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It never has been a journey “to” the Moon. It has always been a journey ‘with’ Moon.

Hmmmmm.... hehe.. ;-)
it is very strange to sit here and read this part 12..
But it is just a wonderful way to see it.. Not to.. but with.. So this was
what you were talking about..(not there yet) ..Life, isnt it.. a part of all that happens..

I dont know much what to say though.. But i did say you were welcome back,
so... See you...!

;-)

You did, and I will, soon enough

You showed my a picture recently Moon, a card. I didn't say too much about it then, knowing that I was going to say what I said later on, as you quoted me above "It never has been a journey “to” the Moon. It has always been a journey ‘with’ Moon".



Like any relationship, love, friendship, companionship, whatever, what comes out of it is not a place to be, something to achieve, a point where it is suddenly there. It is an ongoing journey, with no clear beginning or end, since two can come together on a journey gradually, and move closer, together, or further apart as their journey takes them

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A journey to the Moon - an overview, part 13.

Aye, it's not over yet ;) Moon's sister's husband turned up in has car at my apartment at the promised time and drove me to the ferry as we chatted, his English being very good. I took a look at the islands at that early hour and still marveled at the beauty of it all, the stillness and the fantastic landscape surrounded by the beautiful frame of the sea.

He dropped my off at the waiting ferry and we shook hands, and said "See you", and I boarded the ferry on my journey to the UK. The ferry arrived at the mainland and it was this point in the picture below that I realized I was leaving the islands, about to set foot on the mainland again, and was uncertain if I would return. Who can be certain about such things?

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So you're getting married......when? :)

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A journey to the Moon - an overview, part 14.

The faster ferry soon came to whisk me to Bergen, where a plane would take me into the air. I sat on a seat by the window and gazed out at the passing rock formations over the water. I thought about going outside to take some photos, but instead watched as crew members came in and out of the bridge through the door in front of me. I thought about how often, at my request, the captain of aircraft had invited me into the cockpit as I flew whist employed by an airline. It was quite magical to see all the controls and how the crew constantly monitored them, making adjustments as the received instruction over the radio. In heard everything that they heard of course, since my headphones were plugged into their systems.

I felt content with the glimpses as the door to this ship's bridge occasionally opened and closed, as various crew members came and went. My thoughts drifted to the islands behind me and a yellow house with and rock outcrop bearing an "X" to mark the spot. I hadn't seen that much of the islands, hadn't explored it much at all, or even taken a photo of all the lighthouses, or "lights" as Moon called them, as I tend to do when I visit coastlines.

I thought about Moon of course, and wondered what she would be doing that day. I hadn't asked, I didn't have a clue. Oh, here's my mobile, maybe I'll call and ask. Or maybe I'll just sit here and gaze at the rock formations across the water. I had told her I would phone when I got to Bergen, and that is what I would do, as I dozed off to sleep still thinking of my journey with Moon ... ;)

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A journey to the Moon - an overview, part 15.

The twin lytranium outfliers hummed as the ship started to vibrate slightly as it massively decelerated to a hovering stop just meters over the landing pad. Dimmed lights were now coming up as cabin crew came by each passenger to check that they were OK as we all came out of hibernation. I always hated the foggy sensation as I tried to remember where I was, as dulled thoughts started picking up to normal speed again. It was always amazing to fall asleep on one planet and then awake on another with no more than a confused thought as I awoke.

I was in Port Bergen again, on the blue white planet, so different to the dark grey I had left behind in what seemed just minutes ago. My personal videocom hummed and a bright smiling face appeared. “Hurry up” she said, “you need to get over here quick”. I hurried to the waiting shuttle that would take me to the Moon. It was amazing how quickly these personal shuttles could whisk you to a nearby moon, in this case, the Moon.

I was soon practicing a rapid braking decent on a remote area of the Moon, where Moon was waiting for me. “Hurry up” she beckoned to me, as I hurried over to her. I could see her yellow-domed Moon House on the hill above us, with it’s glistening golden lights. “Look there”, she pointed excitedly.

I had dashed across all the way from Pluto at her sudden glee to come and see this. On the rock was a natural formation, made with twin parallel lines of a deep blue colour against the grey rock. It was a huge almost symmetrical “X”, sitting there right under her yellow domed house. I couldn’t believe that no one, including myself, had not seen it before.

“We are here now”, Moon said as she shook my shoulder. It wasn’t Moon of course, it was one of the crew members of the fast ferry, the lady from the café, waking me up to tell me we had arrived at Bergen. “You must go now”, she said. Yes I must, I thought, I have coffee to find, and a call I promised to make… ;)

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Here I am gazing out of another window as my plane takes off from Bergen airport

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A journey to the Moon - an overview, part 16.

It was very misty as I trudged up the winding path through the forest, the dew almost percolating in the air as the damp made my heavy cloak even heavier. I disliked these early starts, this tradition of having to perform this duty at such an unearthly hour. Still, I had to do what was expected of my position.

The other civil nobles and myself eventually came to clearing near the top of this hill. A small group of soldiers and magistrates waited for us patiently as we made our way to them. “This is the one” a magistrate beckoned to me as he pointed to a figure with two soldiers by her side, ready to carry out the punishment. She wore a white cloak with a hood, and looked sorrowful as she awaited her fate.

I asked the magistrate to remind me what she had done. Apparently she had been feeding the local workers who were hungry because of the poor harvests that year, and had been taking the food from the storehouses of her estate without her husband’s permission. I asked if her husband had objected, to warrant a judgement of death. He replied that her husband was away on a lengthy trip, and no such consultation was necessary to carry out this judgement.

The magistrate indicated the two sentries to make ready, expecting my confirmation and official judgement to come. They faced each other with her in between them and raised their swords over her. I looked at the “X” made as the swords crossed and looked up at the Moon as it waned in the early light.

It is not the law that is at fault I thought, as I looked down again to her tearful face, but the hopeless way in which it can be applied.

“Let her go” I ordered, “and send men to give her every protection and help to distribute her husband’s food until he decides it should not be so. At that time order him to me when he will explain to me why he has this food when others have none”.

I had always thought about having my own coat of arms, especially now that they were talking about knighting me. Two crossed swords under the Moon. Yes, that is what it will be, an “X” under the Moon.

Sure enough I awoke again, and gazed out of my aircraft window, and there is was…. the Moon… ;)

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. . . To the Moon & iX



> maybe this is the Cover to the Journal: 'To the Moon & iX'

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. . . To the Moon & iX



> maybe this is the Cover to the Journal: 'To the Moon & iX'

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Another view from my window as I took off from Bergen

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