Happy Halloween

 Hello everyone

While you all are getting ready for the trick or treat fun, people here are standing in their front windows looking outside, and hoping for a better day.  I have started walking through the village at about noon, and wave to all the faces in the windows.  I came across one student and her grandma--they sit and wait for that wave and "window" visit.  That outreach made my day, but it sure made it for them!!

The planes are flying again, I was at the airport when one plane arrived, and few people got off.  Some locals, and some construction workers.  No word on the count today, but yesterday we were down 2.

I continue to marvel at the rocks--how those boulders got there!!  Really when you look up--you could swear it is someone looking down on you!

As my dear friend, D says, I am finding great personal peace and introspection during this time of  the "existential recess".  Yesterday I started on a project that I have been wanting to do for a long time.  It is the transcription of all of the 60  some letters my dad wrote to my mother during their courtship and early marriage while he was serving in the navy in WWII.   My mother kept these letters in their original envelopes, in sequential order from the love notes written to her when she worked at Empress hotel  to the last letter dated December  31, 1944.  The letters are all written on Canadian YMCA letter head, and      all are stamped "from HMC  ship examined by  DB/N.

On the front of the scrap book, my mother wrote, "please don't open this book, whoever you are!"  I hope she won't mind now!!

Close up of the Quebec flag.

Here, you can see it from my house.

Here are samples of the rock harvest!

Someone moved the chair to a new place!