Today

It was just gray today. I went and picked up my friend S. Today for a small hike. I  am keeping it light as Kate is working on feeling better. So, we took the easy Castellas hike up to the little development on the hill. S. Told me something about how a wealthy family lived there. They would come down and rob the local people and take the spoils up to their little compound....when, eventually, the locals ganged up and destroyed their little enclave. It was  nice walk and talk. S. Has some interesting stories involving first wives that worked in lighting stores in Liverpool and buying all kinds of lighting and tickets to Jesus Christ superstar and Godspell to get her attention...and his present wife P and her mini trampoline and how on their wedding night in Antwerp, his sone ate a nut and all had to go to the hospital where he almost died.

Anyway...after that, I went to the post to send a letter to AAA to renew my international drivers license. I had 2 men behind the counter including my very amiable tiny man...but, there was also an older woman that was putting stamps on her letters. They all stood very close together, like a unit...and I had to come up and spill my french. I was so concerned with the beginning that I flubbed the end. I must have said to the United States and I should have said plural...and all 3 , ath the sMe time, piped up and said...aux Etata Unis. ..hell. They were very sweet about it and had a chuckle amongst themselves ...but, I was proud to step up and ask, in french, to have my envelope mailed.

I have been to many a La Poste in France. I prefer this one over any as
They are so conciliatory. ....I am more than ok with being corrected.

My landlady fell last night while doing too much gardening and now she has a black eye. She is in her 60s, with money, and she just won't stop. I saw her this evening in her newsprint pants And b and w top, Chanel ballet slippers, diamonds and newly coiffed hair. She is off to holland next week for a month..