The Dryer and Vacance.......*

Bonjour pilgrims,

After another extended absence (I know I keep promising not to do that....) I'm back this morning. Cassie and the twins left for the US Thursday morning and I leave for Frontignan in the South of France this afternoon to spend a little over a week there on the beach and in that area with my old friend Christine Holtzbauer who will be helping my write my book about my experiences with the twins in the schools which even on a slow day is quite a story. Christine is who talked me into doing this (I'm NOT a professional writer) and she wants to translate it into French in hopes that it might help others who have similar family situations to ours here. From what I know, France is about 25 years behind just about everyone else on all things that have to do with Autism and frankly, if our sons had been here when they started school they would have been lost in the system immediately. In any event, it should be an interesting 9 days.
Will keep everyone posted as to when and where the book will be published.

There is a really nice young British lady who will be tending to the cats while I'm gone which leaves me with little or no worry to take the trip. Of course even being at the beach will be interesting for me as I'm not supposed to be out in the sun very much so I'm curious how that's going to go. I will endeavor to post again while there and hopefully also post a couple of photos.

The photo above was taken on July 14th (Bastille Day) from a friend's apartment terrace in Saint Germaine but the camera I was using didn't have a wobble fix. It's the Tour Eiffel with fireworks going off around it.

We've been without a clothes dryer now for over a month and have had 3 repair persons come over the last 3 weeks all of who brought parts none of which ever fixed the dryer. Of course now they won't be back until vacance is over. Perhaps we will never have a dryer again while living here. There's no telling.

My illness is pretty much the same although it's migrated to other parts of my body which I will not share today. Needless to say I'm living with it but as life partners go I'd just as soon murder this one......*

Try and stay cool wherever you are. It's been an unnaturally cool Summer here with temps primarily in the high 60s the last 2 weeks and that won't be topping 75 even over the next 10 days. Fall arrives here in August......

Please keep the folks in Norway in your thoughts today and be happy wherever you are.

Love to all,

Sid