That website was up and running before I left Maine, Mary, but I am surprised Charley hasn't excised me from the picture yet. Brian used to be in that picture and Charley took him out. He'd have been a favorite son in the old Soviet Union for his ability to make people disappear from photos.

There is some good news on the ID theft front. The credit onion (deliberately misspelled) has redeposited some of the money that was stolen. I now have a positive bank balance! Of course it's nowhere near what was there before. Take my advice, protect yourself even if the money is in a "safe" place, like a bank.

And now that the move is over I need to clean up the pick up and put it up for sale. I guess this weekend it goes on our "lemon lot". This is a place on the base where people can sell their cars. I will not be able to afford the payments once I retire and it has to go.

The Mitsuko River continues to flow strongly. Gordon and I talked about following it back to its source somewhere in the jungle behind the house. I guess I better sharpen my machete. Yesterday the mayor's office sent some loads of coral our to rebuild the side of the road where the water has washed it out. They built a speed bump dam to reroute the water to the other side of the road and then filled in the washed out area. Unfortunately they used cold patch asphalt for the dam. Cold patch compresses when you drive over it so now the water is flowing through the tire marks and is running in sheets down the middle of the road. And it is starting to wash out pot holes in the road itself. They really need to come in and place some concrete culverts to take the flow where it wants to go. You cannot stop Mother Nature. You can only make it easier for her to follow her chosen path.