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Back to Earth...

We got home from our travels in Europe yesterday morning. I have spent the day playing in the gardens, watering and weeding and generally having a wonderful time. Now I am going to take my sunburned nose and sit in the shade with a book or maybe some sewing. I was so hyper when we got home yesterday -- seriously sleep deprived and running on some other clock from some parallel universe -- that I got all the unpacking, laundry and assorted chores done before dinnertime, so I could afford to play today :)

The house sitter was a complete success -- the animals were all well cared for and the house and yard well maintained. I am only missing one cat, and he is the one who has a habit of disappearing for several days at a time in the summer, so I am not yet worried about him. The cats all wanted to sleep on top of me all night -- which did not work out too well! -- and the dogs won't let me out of their sight, but I do not believe that they are telling the truth when they say they had a horrible time while I was away. They are all too fat and healthy to convince me of that! LOL

The holiday was great. We had the pleasure of introducing our 13 year old DGD to some of our favourite places and people, spending a week in each of France (Normandy and Brittany), Austria, and Bavaria. The weather cooperated throughout and a really good number of my relatives in Austria came to a party that a couple of my cousins arranged. I got to see and hug my last remaining aunt, my mother's baby sister, now 83 years old and walking with canes. For that part of the trip we were joined by my brothers and their wives and two of my nephews, which really made for a lot of fun! We put 5800 kilometres on the rental car, despite the fact that gas is almost twice as expensive there than it is here... Now I just have to sort about 2,000 pictures from the digital cameras, and make some albums.

We are now counting down for the big family reunion for my in-laws that we will be hosting in August. My reward for being nice about that will be the trip to Grace's Retreat in September, which I am so-o-o looking forward to! I have my reservations for the flights and the hotel made and I am getting quite excited about seeing so many of those who were at Rosey's Retreat.

I love the pictures from Sisters! That is one quilt show that has been on my 'things to do' list for years now. Maybe in the next couple of years I will be able to get there... Thanks for the pictures, Jill!

Jean, back at Mill Bay

posted by Jean at Mill Bay @ 5:19 PM