The Cottage

We have been here in Goor since Monday. It has not been a vacation. There is so much to sort through and get rid of that I hit my limit yesterday. I told Naomi that if I see one more plastic bag I will need to set it on fire or something. I started on the shed and it is a nightmare. After taking away two carloads (with the back seats removed) worth of junk it looks like I haven't even made a dent yet.

I guess it is time to back off a bit, as Naomi's Aunt Erna suggested, and save some for later. Time to enjoy the vacation a bit. It wasn't all bad either. We are setting up a little online store which is kind of fun. It is also a bit of a treasure hunt - never quite sure what you might find. One of the most surprising things I found was a brand new, unopened, Miele vacuum cleaner. Must be the only time that the outside of the box matches the inside.

Today is Naomi's birthday party. The weather says it won't rain, but right now it is cloudy and overcast. Hopefully we will still have a nice time, even though one of the main reasons to have it here was to sit out on the patio. I guess we used up our week's allotment of sunshine yesterday. Tomorrow we head back to Rotterdam, and I am looking forward to it.

I started writing a bit again...nice to get back into it.

A few crisp syllables of Italian reached his ears and without hesitation he grasped the handle fully although a part of him half expected to feel a searing pain. The door opened before him and he was greeted with a billowing cloud of smoke. His eyes instantly blurred and after some of the relatively fresh hallway air cleared the smoke, he took in a scene that put him instantly at ease.

A small voice in the back of his head had been constantly wondering what was leading him to this place, but once Jack saw the poker table before him he figured that on some subconscious level he was searching for a card came. The voice wasn’t appeased for long...

Week 20

It might not look like much progress...but it took ages.