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My favourite hobby by far is caving. It's a little bit more challenging than the hiking, and scrambling I normally do. Caves are very fascinating to me. Recently, I explored the ape caves at Mt. St. Helen's national park. The caves were chilly, and damp. Moss covered everything, which is classic for Washington state. These caves are a little different from traditional caves that are carved out by water mostly. These caves are old lava tunnels. You can still see where some of the lava flowed out of the rocks, and solidified. It was a intresting experience climbing over rocks, and crawling through tunnels. I got a little banged up, and muddy, but it was a fun adventure. I especially liked the way the light came down from openings in the ceiling, and made the place look even more enchanting. Any one else been caving?

Afternoon storms rolled in Thursday and Friday... raining so hard the weather service issued flood warnings in parts of South Florida. I was on the phone with customer service for a cabinet company in Canada and asked how their weather was... "Blizzard, said the customer service representative. "We've got you beat!"
So it's Friday night. I left the office without finishing 2 orders I was in the middle of placing. At some point, I need to get that done before Monday because I have 2 kitchens being installed and have to be out of the office to oversee those projects. One of my associates wants to go in on Sunday, so I'll probably open the place for a few hours. We are pushing to get out 5 custom projects before the end of the year.

Summer is gone and the weather is cooler at night. It's 78F (25.55C) breezy and we've got the windows open. I dislike air conditioning, but when it's 93F outside, we have little choice but to run it.
We declined the company cruise earlier this year because they book the trip when it's cold, windy and the seas are rough. We were in the Bahamas and had to abort 2 of the stops as the waves were so high it was too dangerous for the taxi boats to take us to the island.
Every year, we talk about a weekend road trip... somewhere within a 4 hour drive and never seem to go. The elusive night on the beach at Kokomo resort hasn't happened.

In 1988 the Beach Boys released a song called Kokomo about a fictional resort of the Florida Keys. Some research revealed there really was a Kokomo Island in the Bahamas that was renamed and shortly after the fame of the Beach Boys song, it seems like every resort in the Keys wanted to be called Kokomo.

I suppose when the renovation work is done to my house in Miami and we put it up for sale, it will be time for a weekend... and not just talk about it. Actually, I need to book tickets to China to attend the New Year celebration in January 2020. It's coming up quickly... The year of the rat!



During the renovation in Miami a mouse got into the house. The only food left there were some Chinese Noodles and I see the wrapper was torn away and some of the dry noodles were eaten.

These next two months have many sunny days, perfect for a vintace MC road trip oooooout to Quebec, EH? Leaving this AM. Vroom vroom. Canada rocks, in so many ways. Our Brilliant President Trump has a mouth, and a brass pair and sharp tweet fingers. But even he can't match certain teachers and now PM's from our friends home in the great white North. Black face, pitch dark, several times. Awesome. Man o man, I loves dem swinging pairs on dat dere Boss man.

Great people and land. But my long term interest in visiting once more, this time to teach and to learn the language, is waning, as I watch Hong Kong. The Party bosses simply seem most interested in a gross misbalance betwen putting food in mouths, and personal political freedoms. Of course, it's always a trade off, even here in the West. We must all look closely to goings on there, into our own hearts, and decide. Regrets.

I met someone a long time ago. Years, in fact. I met her at a party through my roomie and his then-girlfriend, who is my friends sister. At first I thought she hated me, but we got to talking, and she's super chilled out and a lot of fun to be with.

We have talked about going on a holiday together, sometime next year. We have a destination in mind: Alanya, Turkey.

She wanted me to go with her on a holiday to Spain a few years ago, but I didn't have the money then. I do now, so it's only fitting that we do something about that. I was not even sure, if she wanted to go on a holiday with me, so I sort of put it aside. Then, I decided to just man up and ask her. So, the other day, I asked hed if she was interested in going on a holiday with me.

She said yes.

Now we just need to find the perfect place, at the perfect price. I am guessing we are gonna get two separate rooms, which works for me. I snore a lot, and I am not sure she wants me to see her in her nightly clothes. I will ask her what she would like to do.

But - so far the holiday location is planned. Now we just need to find the date and the hotel.

Oh Lord I guess I'll never know.








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So, I woke up, look at my garden and see this:



Snow in June July! Of course, living on the opposite side of the planet this is normal. Oh well, I've been stuck in my home since last saturday because we had the yearly super duper snow that makes the whole place frozen for weeks, with -10ºC temps and lower.

So I was thinking I should get back to blogging, or something else.

PS: Yes, we have Xmas in summertime!

I'm cooking pasta.

Fjuck Yeah.

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