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OMG freyasmom!  Thanks for sharing!    I am soo glad you have freya and she's now a certified helper animal!  What a blessing she must be.

Mila, you're funny, lol. 
My helper came out Friday and he had to sleep in the game for a couple nights and he has it soooo tidy.  I love him.  When I first met him he was a young teenager and he looked just like Doogie Howser MD, if you remember that show.  Now he looks more like Tosh .O , if you've ever seen that show.
I'm in the spot where I can use a free wifi hotspot from Brighthouse internet but it's so much slower than last year, hopefully it will be faster late at night, or in the morning,
I sent money home to fix the front end of our car, it's been smashed up for awhile now.  His mechanic buddy told him he could get it fixed for 3 or 4 hundred so I sent the money home, I'm embarrassed driving around in it.  Of course it turned out to be twice as much, and it has white parts instead of really dark grey/brown.  It looks totally stupid.  A dark grey hood with a black grill, white bumper, and white everything that surrounds the grill.  The guy did a good job fixing it but I just can't get past the color.  At least with the smashed front end I just looked poor, now I'm going to look crazy.  Is there a way I can post pictures from Facebook on here?

I actually got a couple of hours off yesterday while my sister was here and was able to go out to lunch with a friend who lives downstairs.  This is the first time in the 4 months I've been here that we've actually been able to catch up as I never have any free time!



We walked about 150m along the beach (and I mean along the sand) to a yummy restaurant and sat at one of the window tables, looking out over the beach and harbour.  I had my usual scrumptious meal but tried a new dessert this time.  I had beef medallions (that just melt in your mouth) on a bed of French-style peas (with bacon, spinach and onion), swimming in a yummy jus, and a round medallion of potato au gratin on top.  I followed that with sticky date pudding with a butterscotch sauce and candied ginger ice cream. Lucky I was walking back home after all that!



Now it's back to the usual fare - cereal for breakfast, tinned chunky soup for lunch, and I'll be cooking honey sausages with baked sweet potato and vegies for dinner, with ice cream for dessert.  What a comedown after yesterday!


 

I love me some beef, I'm from Iowa, we eat lots of cows and pigs out there.
We went in search of my help's bank and ended up crossing the Appalachian Trail, I hadn't realized it went so close here.  So we stopped on the way home to take a picture in front of the sign, only a couple minutes, 5 tops.  So we're on top of a big mountain and when we get back in the car we remark on how we can see the storm coming.  We start down the mountain and there's a car pulled over, we got a chuckle cause it was a convertible putting it's top up...about one minute too late.  The wind and rain got really, really bad really quickly.  We drove another minute and there's another car stopped in the road.  As we pulled up behind it we saw there was a tree across the road.  We were surrounded by trees so we turned around and found a road where there was a clearing so we didn't have to worry about a tree falling on us.  It let up after a few minutes so we went back and someone had drug the tree partially out of the road, just enough for a car to get by.  So we go through that and not a quarter mile further there's another tree in the road!  If we had taken a minute or two less at the trail those trees might have landed on us!!!  Two in a very short stretch of road.  The second one you could drive over if you had a truck but we were in a small, low to the ground Honda and Leo babies that thing so he wasn't going over it.  There was a pickup that stopped in back of us and I was waving the guy around, figured if enough vehicles went over it it would flatten out.  Well, the guy in back of us didn't go around us, he got out of his truck with a chainsaw and started cutting the tree  up, then all these guys got out of their cars and started pulling chunks of tree off the road.  It was great!!!  What are the odds the guy behind you had a chainsaw?  So we had a little adventure.