My Friend From Another "O" State...

I just looked through my blog for a story of when my friend Linda from Oklahoma came to visit. I can't believe I didn't write anything! I was sure I did, but I can't find it so if you've heard this before, you'll know that I must have written about it before! ahhahha

Years ago, when I sold Longaberger baskets, I joined an email group of about 20 women that either sold Longaberger or were LB baskets lovers. About 12 of us still communicate by email as a group. The "Basket Loop" was started in about 1997! (I just know I've written about this before!....) Anyways, a few of us had met when we attended the LB conferences in Ohio back in 1997 and 1998. But a lot of us have still never met face to face. In October of 2004 we planned a trip to get as many of us to meet in Ohio as we could for a few days and go to the LB factory and to the town of Dresden where LB got its start. By the time the trip was upon us, only 3 committed to going. Myself, Linda from Okla. and Meg from Ohio. So we dubbed ourselves the 3 girls from the "O" states. We had a great time together. Meg and I had met before but I had never met Linda. Linda and I hit it off like we had known each other forever. Well, I guess we had kind of known each other for 7 years just not in person!

November of 2010 Linda flew to Oregon to see me. She flew in one afternoon, stayed overnight and then flew back home late that night. We didn't have time to do much, but we filled every hour with talking and visiting with some of the friends I've talked about to her over the years.

She's coming back out to see us next week. We pick her up on Monday night at 9pm, and she'll fly back home on Thursday at 3:00pm. Another quick trip but staying 3 nights, so we are going to take her to the coast for one of the days.

She and her husband and another couple own an oil well drilling supply store in Oklahoma and she's in charge of the office. She's the only one that does the invoicing, so she can't be gone but a couple of days from her job. Here is a photo of us from 11/2010:



Ha! And look, there are Longaberger baskets in the photo too.... Can't wait to see my sweet friend again!

Blog at you later!
Flojo