CarolC: "So how was the visit? Has Jande gone home? Did you have lunch at Mezzaluna? Who won the squash game? We need to know..."

the visit was... was... was.... arrrrrghhhh!!!111!!1!1!!

I went up for a break, you know... a little holiday in Orillia away from the maddness of fending off divorcing wives and tax forms and new furnace bills, and...and... I ended up working! Grrr... The mortgage up ther eneeded renewing and i had to run all over town to get the Sally Hansen stuff LH told me about that makes your finger nails into guitar picks (COOL! --It WORKS!), and run all over the rest of the town to get all the stuff I usually have to purchase in Canada cause I can't find it in the states. I couldn't get the laptop modem to work while I was there, And I was soooo exhausted on Monday night that I couldn't get to the Song Circle! Wahhh!

BUT... I won at least half of my squash games, I had a wonderful though all too brief visit with Hes and LH, Sweetie and Selkie (gave them a raisin for ya Carol! (at least I gave one to Sweetie), had a lovely dinner at the King's Buffet, and we managed to get back home on Tuesday just before the sun dropped down behind the NY hills.

Oh, and we met Len at the Mezzaluna just as we were leaving. Did you get to meet Len Johnston , the storyteller, Carol?

American female border guard quote: "what's all that stuff ya got in there?" pointing to the load of guitars, suitcases, laptops, box of computer cables and software, and bags of groceries...

James says "Just stuff we took up, and some groceries..."

"What groceries?" she asks suspiciously...

"Soymilk", says James.

(except he pronounces it *soo--weee milk* (so cuuuuute!))

She looks at us incredulously for a minute and then waves us through... LOL! Soymilk!

We decided that we would make it at least ten days for our next trip up and perhaps even two weeks or more. Too bad James has to work to support two families.

He sure did enjoy the guitar session with LH. He was so inspired he actually practised last night for an hour and a half! Cool! Looking forward to our next get-together.

Probably here, this time. Anybody want to come and help us finish the two upstairs rooms? (they are only framed in right now)? We could have a building -bee and a hoot-e-nanny! all at the same time!

Okay. Still recovering from the trip. Gotta have a nap now. More later!

~ Jande

PS: Thanks Matt!