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Rain…

It’s amazing how wherever I go on vacation- it rains. Always. It doesn’t matter where. Canada, USA, France, Malta, Japan, Denmark, Croatia… Even in Dubai, U.A.E.! It rained in the DESERT just to thwart me! Or perhaps I’m a”Quasi Supernormal Incremental Precipitation Inducer,” like the guy in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy? Luckily, I don’t particularly mind the rain and got to snuggle up to my latest book, White Witch, Black Curse (witches, vampires, werewolves.. what’s not to like?)

Today was also a good day for hair-cutting. So my cuddle monkey is now a prickly hedgehog His dad buzzed enough hair off him to make an entire Lhasa Apso. He offered to cut my hair as well, but I declined his generosity.

Step 1. Shear Max

Step 2. Collect Hair

Step 3. Make Lhasa Apso

Step 4. Try not to wonder who this new person is and what he did with your boyfriend

We also took the van out for a mini-drive, so Max can get a feel for it before we borrow it to go to Corsica. Unfortunately, Max cannot open the door to the van. That would hamper our plans to use the van for transport and camping, except I seem to have no problems at all opening the doors. It’s a good thing I wasn’t supposed to drive though, because I’d had more wine with lunch than I meant to and my lips were numb. (Someone kept refilling my wine glass!)

To finish off our day were the best part of France – the most delicious individually packed “desserts” in existence. I had a tiny mini Tarte Citron meringuée, and Max had a MaronSuis‘, which is a delicious whipped chestnut cream so beloved that it has it’s own facebook group. People rave about French cooking, and yes French food is wonderful. But how do they make these delicious beautiful little meringuée pies in their tiny little individual packages?