We Actonians drive our hybrids to Idylwilde and buy our blueberries by the pint in cellophane wrapped containers with prices carefully inked in the calligraphic font Vespasiano. Jeff and Karen pick their own at a local farm and truck home forty pounds of blueberries in a cardboard box.
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He’s here.
This reminds me, Debbie, have you snapped your handstand photo?
A little something to cheer you up while I’m here and you’re there.
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If you have a pc here’s a link to movie player for (among most other formats) Apple’s Quicktime.
When I lived here in the sixties thunderstorms announced themselves. Since the November tornado , which killed twenty-four people, local communities sound sirens if the weather appears to be especially threatening. As soon as we hear the wailing Jeff and I walk outside to watch the storm. And Karen, who has moved the grill into the garage, continues to cook dinner.
We took the overnight train again, although this ride was much more comfortable considering that we only had to fit three people into the really small compartment, at least for most of the ride. This train left at eight and we enjoyed it much more because the ten hours seemed to go by much faster. So we are now back in venice, although not in the same area. We are actually in the part where there are streets which is okay by us because you just take a five min bus ride to the other part. We could prolly walk but at the moment we have no idea what direction that would be. We arrived at our hotel at about 5:45, and it was locked. Although someone heard us and came to the door. He said that he would take our bags but we would not be able to check in for another three hours. Not great news but we are handling it in stride… debbie is doing well and i am very proud of her. After the news about the three hours we went back to the train station and read for a while, then walked around aimlessly for about a half hour and then found this internet point. So we plan on spending a little more time here before heading back to our hotel and sleeping for about seven hours if i get my way.
I don’t know if it was in an email or a post on the blog but one of my parents asked me how i was doing on my books. Deciding how many to bring was a tough decision, for two weeks and a couple days i had no idea how many i would read. For a while i was considering bringing two to four, then i up’ed it to six. Well I finished those two days ago and had to buy more. Oh and i read the one debbie brought. Which now brings my total to nine books read. I have one more that i can read, bridget jones diary… something debbie bought the other day. I can’t say that i am looking all that forward to it, but anything will help.
Debbie says hi but she doesn’t think that she is capable of writing at the moment. While I seem to be able to I’m sure there are many mistakes that me and debbie are not catching as i write. And believe me, we are finding many. Seeing as both of us are at that point right near incoherent.
Debbie says i’m rambling now and i would have to agree, but we kinda need something to do for the next fifty mins… oh well maybe check up on cnn.
Much love from both of us and we will write again tomorrow when we have had a good night’s sleep or two.