Well what do you say when your ex husband calls after 35 years? Hello seems a bit inadequate, but that's how I responded when he called this morning. It was a call totally out of the blue, he and his wife of many years now live here in Nanaimo though he is originally from Vancouver. He is still interested in motorcycles and sailing. I am not.
Seems he's moving and wants to get rid of lots of stuff, and some of the books he had about sailing were written by friends of my parents, or else gifted to us from my parents. So I guess he kept them til now. Nice of him to return them, however. I'd like to sell them myself, as we are also trying to downsize what we have here in the house.
We went out for lunch down to Duncan, and while we were gone the books arrived, so guess we won't see each other for another 35 years or so.
It was truly a bit surreal, but there you go.
Had lunch at the Good Company Steakhouse in Duncan, the first get together for our camping group, the restaurant is now run by a young Dutch fellow who is very personable, and the food was good, and plenty of it. Service also good for our table, but another table waited nearly an hour for their meals. Erg. It's pretty hard to handle a big group smoothly for a kitchen I guess.
Good to see everybody once again, after that we headed down to Victoria, I wanted to pick up some books from a series I am reading currently, by J.A. Jance, the Joanna Brady series about a crime fighting sheriff from Cochise County, near Bisbee, Arizona.
Russell Books in Victoria has super used books, one of the ones I bought was the Publishers release book before the public distribution, so that is interesting. I had never seen one of those before, and it said not for public sale, but I guess that limitation had expired long ago, as the book has been out since 2003 or so. No art work on the cover, not sure if the story was edited after that, but oh well, at least I get to continue with the series I am enjoying.
It was a lovely sunny day here on the island today, everybody is saying that the cool spring is long and warm weather is slow arriving. I agree with them.
That's it for now.
