Thanks CF for your well wishes and also for your wisdom. We agree entirely with what you siad. My fiance and I were good friends for a long time before we ever realized that we'd fallen in love and as much as loving each other we like and respect each other as well. This is so important and some people lose it somewhere along the way and over the years.

Long and hot day today. Half of my brother's crew on his lobster boat banged out with sickness from the heat and Sean called me to ask me if I could lend a hand so after I got home from school I was out on the boat for a good long while. Even with the ten to fifteen degree lower temperature out on the water it's still really hot work and all the lobsters were down on the bottom where it's cooler for them. Nobody wanted to come up to traps on the surface or close to it and become the star attraction at a clam bake or a good restaurant!
There's precious little money to be made these days lobstering. The waters around here are pretty well fished out and I honestly don't know how my brother and his family survive it. Well, yes I do. He is also part of the crew of a sword line out of Gloucester, MA, too. You couldn't pay me enough to get me to do that work but Sean loves it and wouldn't want to be anywhere else but out on the water every day. You really have to be dedicated to do that for a living! Tomorrow, after I get home from school I hope I'll have some good recipes for you.

Ian

Congrats on her exceptance and I wish you a very long and happy life together. Ms. Katie "do have a surprise" when she returns.

Thanks JP. In about ten minutes I'm out the door and on the way to my 9:30 class but did want to say thank you and also let you know that Mum isn't going to be very surprised. I've never been good at keeping secrets and surprises (that's how come nobody ever tells me any!) and called her in Holland and let her know the news the night it happened. She's really happy about it as she believes Fallon will settle me down. Right!