I set the alarm for 5:30 so I could give our neighbor Susie a hug as she left for the US. Bless her heart, she feels so strongly that God means for her to be here - so strongly that she is willing to spend the summer raising money to pay her salary to come back, but she does miss her family and friends. I think it must have been terribly hard for her to give up her job and strike out over here alone. She said she cried every day the first semester, but has been less homesick since she got back after Christmas. It's probably even harder because she is a small town girl who had never lived far from home before. Tomorrow she will be home.
Today was a rainy day here, so I stayed home to do chores. Del went out to settle final details for our trip to Rhodes. I had laundry all lined up to do, so did several loads even though it will take a bit longer to dry with the rain. I persuaded Susie to let me do her sheets and towels instead of getting up extra early to do them herself, so we have stuff hung up all over the place. Fortunately, the front loader only uses what looks like a cup or two of water and spins really well, so there is no dripping. I do wonder just how clean things are when you don't drown them in water, but I've probably commented about that before. The kitchen also needed a polish.
I would have thought that having slept most of yesterday, I would have tossed and turned last night. Not so. I slept like a log. The rain must have taken care of some of what was making me drip and sneeze, because I am much better today without drugs.
We have planned a quiet week end. I need to go to the market because the fridge is getting bare. I can't wait to see what vegetables the vendors have this week. I wonder if they grow asparagus here and when it comes. Hopefully the berries will come in before we leave. I understand they are wonderful, and I want more of those delicious mushrooms. If it stops raining, we want to take a walk. There are still a couple of sculptures we have not seen. One must be hidden in plain sight, because we know the address of it, but just can't seem to see it.
One of my Rick Steves correspondents is sitting out the bad weather in Vilnius. He had planned to spend the week end here biking the spit, but postponed hoping for clear weather. I have my fingers crossed. You do meet up with the nicest people on that website. I enjoy browsing it every few weeks, cause I do worship at Rick's feet, you know. Del calls him St. Rick because when we were planning the trip to Rome and Florence, I quoted him every other breath. He can laugh, but Rick never steered us wrong, and neither did his groupies. They seem to be so eager to help others and do not get snippy like the people on the Forbes site. I finally just stopped looking at it because people just seemed to want to get their noses out of joint.
I think I had posting problems the last couple of days. I got a message that they were posted, but I'm not sure they were. Something about blogspot having an issue. I still can't find Thursday.
Have a great week end.
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