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Evening fellow earthlings, crackling, coffee, nads, Autocad, 'puters and all.

lovely quiet weekend, did a little thrift shopping today always like poking around in old stuff. Bought some old glass Christmas Tree decorations, a dollar a piece, so cute. Now all I need is a tree, maybe tomorrow.

You will allbe happy to know that I have defeated the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration office down the road, and now have a Maryland License, thanks to their Reciprocal Treaty/ Agreement with the nation of France. I had to give them a copy of their own policy and enlighten them to what it meant, and that it was their policy and I wanted to take advantage of it and swap my French license for a Maryland License, but after some 'discussions" they apologized for not knowing their own policy, took the French license and gave me a maryland license, of course after I paid them $60, shame though the French license is for life, never have to pay another euro for as long as I am capable of driving. But at least I am legal in the state of Maryland and my insurance company is a lot happier now.

That's one win for the little guy, or woman, told them that hubby would be in next week to do the same thing, but he will bring a copy of the policy just in case the next shift doesn't get the message. I sympathized with them in the end, training is so hard to conduct, policy changes all the time, and it is hard to keep up with all of the changes, even things that were signed off in 2010! Their supervisor had no idea that they have reciprocal agreements with many different countries according to their website, she said it was not possible, ...................they have been educated!

Tweeze can't understand how you have managed to live this long and not know what crackling was. Glad Jeff has given you the recipe, yummo, he is quite the good cook is Jeff.

Went to an Amish Quilt auction yesterday, omg the quilts were beautiful and nowhere near the prices that I had imagined they would be, and apparently from all of the chatter there, the prices were over half on average poorer than they were in previous years. Being a quilter myself, i was shocked at the prices the women were getting for all of their hard work, and the quality was superb. I had gone with a car load of ladies, and after a couple of hours they wanted to leave, so i didn't get to stay and bid on the quilts that I liked, oh well maybe next year. The average price for the quilts of say queen size to large king size was 7-800 dollars, which is so cheap.

Have completed the travel arrangements for the eldest and his girlfriend to come over for Dec Jan, they will be here in three weeks time, very excited, havent seen them for 5 months. They will get a shock when they look at the 14 year old, he has grown about 4 inches and two octaves since we left, lol.

Anyhoo time for bed, night Pelicanites.