At sea on way to Halifax

Woke fairly early, good sleep. Off to breakfast where I met Margaret, Bob was walking his laps, and we chatted and knitted until a bit before 11 when I'd arraned to meet Lis and Merril for tea before lunch. (These Aussies drink more tea than many of the Brits I know). Diane and Peter, also from Perth, joined us as they are the ladies' table mates for dinner. The five of us never ate lunch, we shared stories, dinner party themes, entertaining successes and failures, games preferences (Squatter?) and birthday surprises (my 65th birthday to self at Woody's, Merril's hummingbird cake party at a table in the railroad station in Philadephia, Diane's soursop cake). Generally, we talked and laughed until just before  3!!!!!! 

  

Later I was sitting at Roy Hunt's lecture on Frank Sinatra when Lis and Merril found me for a much quieter hour!

The day has blown by and I did very little productive, except for a few rows of knitting. One excllent occurrence was a text from Sonny that he walked my property before he went to work today and saw no damage from Hurricane Matthew! Apparently there's a loss of power all around, but I can easily toss any ruined refrigerator/freezer contents. All my friends seem to have "weathered" the storm. I can't say for sure until I connect with Jean and Brian, which will be tomorrow as soon as I get in range of my Sprint connections, which were unavailable in Gaspe'. I'm a bit concerned about them all, but accept there is not one damn thing I can do. 

One note: I did discover the meaning of the bronze man with antlers coming from his head in Gaspe'. He is not a Lord Herne of Sherwood Forest, he is a nothing! Apparently the sculptor has horned heads on all his sculptures mwhich he has installed all over Quebec province as an arts project. The residents of Gaspe' accepted his offer of a statue presuming it would be something/someone relating to Jacques Cartier or the region, no such luck - they got a logger!! Thus information was from a gentleman at the next sofa set from Margaret and me this morning!