Jim & Gregor Taking a Break

It's been awhile since I wrote last. Gregor has gone now and we had a very nice visit. A lot more traveling around than I would have done on my own. We went up to L'Aquila and saw the incredible earthquake damage. We made a weekend trip up to see Flaminia and her family up in Tuscany and had a very nice time there. Lots of good food and lots of laughs and a few tears. We also made it over to the ocean for a couple of hours on the beach. It's about an hour and a half to this beach, but it's very nice and free. We finished up the painting in the kitchen and have everything up and running. we have running water with no leaks anywhere. we have electricity and everything worked including an old television that was left behind. We also have heat and hot water now, something that we thought was not going to happen this trip, and was going to cost a lot of money. Luckily we found a very good plumber/handyman who was very good. Got everything working and did things like drilling through 2 foot thick walls to put air vents in to bring it all up to code. All of that cost about $400 including all of the materials involved. A very good deal. Well It's market day so I should get going, only 5 more days here and then I travel home. It will be good to be back with Jeneane, but I really wish that she had been with me on this trip.