My first Skype text message today, with Cousin Hap, who lives in Tacoma, Washington. He has been taking care of my cat, Sugar, while I’m traveling. Sugar is a wild cat that wondered down from the mountain one day, and has lived around the farm for a few years….

Anyway, Since I have been traveling, (up in Bhutan now), I have really learned to LOVE Skype, I can talk for free to my friends and family, and I love the instant messaging, and with Skype it is all free!!

Here is how we used it today (actual trascript..)

HW

[4:18:19 PM] Harmon Wilbury says: Hey Hap, Now you have Skype!!
[4:18:29 PM] Harmon Wilbury says:  Now we can do Instant Messages!!
[4:18:37 PM] Harmon Wilbury says:  How is my old cat Sugar doing?
[4:18:43 PM] Hap Wilbuy  says: She is fat !!
[4:18:45 PM] Harmon Wilbury says: what?
[4:18:47 PM] Harmon Wilbury says: no way
[4:18:52 PM] Harmon Wilbury says: stop that!!!
[4:18:56 PM] Harmon Wilbury says: FAT?
[4:18:59 PM] Harmon Wilbury says: ohh.. that’s  no good..
[4:19:08 PM] Harmon Wilbury says: Please cut her off …
[4:19:27 PM] Harmon Wilbury says: Hap how could you let her get fat?
[4:19:21 PM] Hap Wilbuy  says:  She drinks too much beer!!
[4:20:23 PM] Harmon Wilbury says:  Ok, well that’s okey then. So, Please buy her one on me!
[4:21:41 PM] Harmon Wilbury says: I sure miss puttin down a pitcher of that  ElkHead  beer with you Hap
[4:21:48 PM] Harmon Wilbury says: hahhaahhaha,  Good old days befor you went sober on me..
[4:21:58 PM] Hap Wilbuy  says: Just memories now.
[4:22:05 PM] Harmon Wilbury says: Hey Did Sugar Bite anyone in the last year?
[4:21:21 PM] Hap Wilbuy  says:  Just Cousin Marion ..
[4:22:48 PM] Harmon Wilbury says: I pay her extra for that you know…..
[4:22:59 PM] Harmon Wilbury says:   so don’t lie to me about this!….
[4:23:09 PM] Hap Wilbuy  says: Really only one that I saw, and that was just Marion
[4:23:13 PM] Harmon Wilbury says: Ahh…Good,
[4:23:17 PM] Harmon Wilbury says: then she can be fat (a bit),  Okey…..
[4:23:19 PM] Hap Wilbuy  says: LOL
[4:23:32 PM] Harmon Wilbury says: If she ever slacks,
[4:23:35 PM] Harmon Wilbury says: Well, then,   you let me know…
[4:23:49 PM] Hap Wilbuy  says: ok
[4:23:59 PM] Harmon Wilbury says: Back to the Farm for a few days…
[4:24:09 PM] Hap Wilbuy  says: I think she likes the life she has here in the City.
[4:24:17 PM] Harmon Wilbury says: Hey Hap…
[4:24:26 PM] Hap Wilbuy  says:  Yah?
[4:24:39 PM] Harmon Wilbury says: Please feed her some Johnny’s smoked salmon for me?
[4:24:49 PM] Harmon Wilbury says:  Sugar loves That Johnny’s Salmon!! 
[4:24:58 PM] Hap Wilbuy  says: You Got It HW!!
[4:25:10 PM] Harmon Wilbury says: And a cool glass of  that good Buckley ElkHead Beer…
[4:25:29 PM] Hap Wilbuy  says: Opening it right now ..
[4:25:41 PM] Harmon Wilbury says: Gotta Run Hap, see ya!!
[4:23:57 PM] Hap Wilbuy  says: Okay Harmonious, see ya later  brother!!  Thanks for Skype!!

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