Tuesday 11th November

Early to bed, early to rise, but far too early to get out of bed so head down and it was a couple of hours later when the day started for real for me.  I opened the curtains to check on the weather and I saw something that I hadn't seen for a while.  A glow of morning sun behind the clouds, a touch of blue sky, the clouds breaking and glimpses of the sun and then it was covered again by dark clouds but the rain stayed away.

I stipped the bed and put my first load of washing into the machine, went down and made my health drink and took it back upstairs and sat on the rocker watching the morning.  The second load went into the machine, I made coffee, put the first load on to the stairs to dry and dressed for town, I didn't have breakfast.  I was driving into Kardjali just before ten, stopped off at the car-shop to see if she wanted anything from Kardjali but as usual she didn't so I carried on and was parking up by ten thirty.  I walked to the immigration office, I only had to sign for my new card, it's much better than the old one with a much larger photograph and it's valid for ten years...ever hopeful.  I'm guessing that they didn't want to see me again in five years time, I was originally told that the ten year card was no longer issued....but hey....I've got one.  I went back to the car and decided to try Kaufland supermarket, I've not used it since the upgrade of the store and I shan't be using it again.  It's just not an easy place to negotiate but there was a funny incident...a man was coming towards me down an aisle and the planners had put a thumping great girder in the centre of the aisle and his trolley wouldn't go through and it was so central that I couldn't get through either.  Having worked in Supermarkets and store refits in my previous life, it brought great mile to my face which the man saw and we both sort of put our feelings on our face at the same time.  We turned round and went our separate ways and wondered why they hadn't built the store fittings round it and hiding it leaving the aisle clear.  Planners egh.

Back to the car and drove to Djebel, stopped off at my little supermarket and got everything else I needed and the prices are much better, the girls working there much more polite, friendly and understand customer service.  I shan't be rushing to Kaufland anytime soon.  Home for one, shopping unpacked and put away, set the fire for later, made coffee and stretched out on the sofa and put Netflix on.  Eventually got round to making cheese and onion sandwich for lunch, made up the bed, lit the fire, put the slow cooker on with the remains of last night's supper which will do for tonight.  LN.....All documents complete.....I can now relax for another ten years on the document front.....LN

Wednesday 12th November

It was a restless night and an early morning start.  I was awake at five thirty and got going quite quickly, I did have a nap over a Sudoku this afternoon but then came to again and carried on with the good work.  Firstly though I made my morning herbal brew and took it upstairs, I'd already made my bed so sat on the rocker watching the rest of the morning come to life.  It was wall to wall mist, I'd gone out onto the balcony around two this morning and took a picture of the shrouded moon, it took me a while to get back off to sleep but eventually I did although it was short lived.  I put the washing away and got on with setting the fire and generally tidying round, washed up from last night.  I changed the cloth on the table, tidied up the cables, put my phone on charged and Sudoku was an easy option...or so I thought.  I was working my way through the Telegraph ones that had been rubbed out several times when it usually fell apart on the last few entries.

I noticed the rubbish bin in the conservatory so picked up the fire lighter, the basket of rubbish and headed down to the bottom of the garden and the burning container.  I'd put the lid back on it from the last time and fortunately despite the incessant rain over the last couple of weeks, it didn't take long to light and was soon destroying the evidence....bean cans, potato peelings and onion skins.  I let it burn without the lid on and watched it for a while, put the lid on and sat on the wall enjoying the view, the blue sky and the beauty of my surroundings.  I left it to its own devices and tackled another job that I should have done probably in the spring.  Some of the large buckets had accumulated lots of rain water almost brimming over the containers so I took a hammer and a nail, drove the nail through the containers at the bottom and the water started to come out.  I'll made a better job of it for next year.  I toyed with the idea of bringing in the plant pots but it still seems early, the temperature went down to eight degrees overnight and despite the sun it's not climbed much higher but I'd dressed for the weather so didn't get cold.

Everything locked away by five, I lit the fire and it's ticking along in the background.  I made a cheese and onion sandwich about an hour ago so that looks like being my supper for tonight....I'm not in the mood for cooking and I certainly won't starve.  I think a bath might ease out the aches and pains, my back has been given me a few twitches today....time to put the boiler on.  LN......Another gentle day tomorrow, if the weather is good I'll be out with the loppers, if it's not I'll be catching up on the ancestry that I've committed to for a friend......LN

Thursday 13th November

No sunrise to speak of ....it was probably going on but well hidden by the morning mist and it took ages to burn off.  It was only one degree outside according to my phone and it didn't go up much all day.  Health drink becoming the norm, it was just before seven when I was sitting on the rocker drinking it and I've now taken to adding clove water to the mix, I've a jar steeping cloves and use this to have it ready available to mix with the rest of the contents.  This morning I grated fresh ginger that I'd bought a couple of days ago, it was really fresh and eating the dregs from my drink made up for the fact that I hadn't got round to making breakfast.  I disturbed Cat when I was throwing out some bread for the birds, I noticed that the food that I'd put out yesterday had disappeared and I wasn't sure if Cat had had it or one of the others.  I put more out, it was only the dry stuff but any port in a storm so to speak, if Cat was hungry it would fill the gap.

I did my usual chores, set the fire for later, the house was still warm from last night so choose not to light it and didn't do so until just before five this evening.  I made bacon and fried tomatoes for breakfast and was washing up at eleven so really late but then set about making soup in the slow cooker for supper.  I peeled carrots, potatoes, an onion and beetroot which left me with very red hands, put them all in the slow cooker with water and left it to its own devices.  I took a spicy sausage from the freezer, microwaved it to thaw it and added it to the slow cooker and by four thirty I was blending half of the contents of the slow cooker, served it with the sausage that had been removed before blending and a chunk of bread and it was delicious.  The remains of the slow cooker I also blended and that's now in the freezer for another day.  I should make more for the freezer, it's wholesome, filling and with really little effort.

I went out with the camera to catch the sunset and surprised Cat yet again lingering at the corner of the house so I went in and found the dried food, the cooked skin from the sausage and left Cat to it and when I checked, everything had been eaten so nothing for an vagrants to scavenge on.  LN.....That bath that I was having last night didn't materialise so it looks like it's on for tonight.....LN

Friday 14th November

Beautiful morning, not a very good night.  I had the most vivid dream that I couldn't escape from, woke up two or three times and have felt unsettled for most of the day.  I should really have gone out into the garden, found jobs to do there are always things to do, some more taxing than others but instead I chose to chase the renewal of my health card, I found telephone numbers on the internet which advised me that I'd tried to dial a 'wrong' number.  I searched for new number and eventually emailed the 'Help Line' with a reply that they were unable to assist with my request.  No wonder so many people choose to give up....everything is so complicated and if a telephone number is no longer active, update to a new number or suggest solutions....just my complaint for the day!!..

This took me to more or less lunchtime so I got on with the things that I usually have completed mid morning but Cat was earlier to the breakfast buffet.  I checked for the cushion on the bench around eight this morning, Cat opened the eyes, got up and stretched so I filled up the bowl and Cat gingerly approached, ate most of it but still a 'scaredy cat', and there is still food in the bowl.  I guess that the rest of the village still support it and it would now go and 'do the rounds' so to speak.  I made my normal jungle juice, settled for toast for my breakfast and that's done me through until now.  I snoozed for part of the day on the sofa, tried to watch Netflix but wasn't in the mood to chase down a new series, nothing on offer 'newly added' incited interest and that will obviously take more time.  I settled on Sudoku and I have two more to rub out and start again and on the whole I haven't felt that I've had a very successful day....but I suppose we all get those.

I've just lit the fire, am waiting for the 'super moon' to start to rise up, apparently it's the closest it will be to the earth this year and hopefully I shall see it come up over the mountains.  It's a clear sky, there are stars out already at six thirty my time but I've just checked on the time of the moon rise, tonight and I'm not sure I can stay awake that long and it's the 'crescent phase' so might or might not see anything worth recording if indeed, I manage to wake up.  There must be a full moon somewhere.

The air fryer has just pinged, chicken on skewers are ready along with potato slices and I shall not heed the warning about mayo being bad for me....my life in my hands....but the minimum quantity will be squeezed out of the 'Healthy Option' bottle.  LN....Supper and then a Netflix search in the absence of a moon watch.......LN

Saturday 15th November

I left the curtains open last night just in case I woke up and spotted the moon and sure enough I did. it was dark, cold, the mist was hanging over the mountains and the moon had a halo round it.  Lots of stars out and I'm still none the wiser which were the planets, Aquarius is supposed to be very close to where I was looking but I couldn't make it out.  I need an expert to point me in the right direction.  Anyway, I recognised the moon and took a couple of pickies just in case and as promised, but it certainly wasn't as dramatic as I was led to believe.   Coupled with the fact that it's only a third moon and I hadn't got my measuring tape with me, it looked the same as normal to me.  I did manage to get back to sleep but once disturbed, the deep sleep eluded me and at six I was on my phone playing around.

I got up and made coffee and took it back upstairs with me, the outside temperature was one degree, mountain to mountain fog but it eventually cleared and we've had a pleasant day.  I fried off mushrooms and bacon, was going to make an omelette, forgot all about it and put a couple of slices of toast in toaster and had the mushrooms and bacon on toast.  Thinking about it it was probably much better for me especially on brown bread, the white that I'd got out of the freezer a couple of days ago had green specks on it so it's now sitting on the grass for the benefit of anything that wants it.  Cat wasn't around this morning but the food from yesterday had gone but I didn't stress myself, she eventually showed up this afternoon and so I topped up the dish and there's nothing left.  I've just checked the cushion on my bench under my bedroom balcony but she hasn't come home to roost yet.

As for the rest of the day, I settled in to a little housework, fetched some small wood in, set the fire for later, added the rest of the details required for my flight to the UK and that was quite eventful.  I was unable to get into my email account on my old machine and tried several passwords but none worked.  Eventually I resorted to changing it which meant that it stopped working on this machine....how complicated can things get.  Eventually I managed to add my passport details and print off my boarding passes to that's another thing off the list ticked off.  

Supper is in the oven.  I haven't done roasted vegetables for ages and I have potatoes, onions, carrots and beetroot along with half a rack of pork ribs with savoury spice on them and the other half went back into the freezer for another day.  It should be ready any time soon, the fire needs another log on it to last me until bedtime, temperature outside is dropping and currently nine degrees but according to a friend from Latvia, she woke up to snow and apparently it's been spotted in the UK.....winter draws on.  LN...Time to check supper, then back to sorting out the paperwork for my family chart and return chaos to order....LN

Sunday 16th November

It's not seemed like a Sunday today....Dull old morning, I spotted the grasshopper or locust, I didn't get that close but it's mighty big and still there now, I've just checked.  It was dark when I woke up, made myself my usual drink adding lots of fresh grated ginger, turmeric, lemon juice, salt and pepper and it really does start the day off well.  I made the bed as I got out of it, that's when I spotted the large thing in the corner of one of the large windows to the balcony and it's still there now.  It's still ten degrees outside according to my weather station, cat didn't sleep on the cushion last night and must have found a warmer spot, maybe it's headed to the garage housing the Beast, there is still the 'nest' that I made up for it last year.

The mist eventually cleared, today I was expecting a friend to arrive but there wasn't a time put on it.  She was supposedly out on the town last night in Kardjali and had booked a room in the venue so I didn't expect her early so I had a lazy morning.  I filled up the bath, left the boiler on for top-ups and emerged fully soaked around nine, dressed for the weather in jeans and long sweater, made toast for breakfast, set the fire and I was now filling in time before she arrived.  I've been doing a family chart for a friend for a while but not completed it and I've not been very active on the ancestry front.  You have to remember such a lot and having been away from it for a couple of months, it's almost like starting from scratch again.....you have to get to know the characters.  I'd dug out the print-offs yesterday and started to sort them into centuries....the research is back to the middle seventeen hundreds and in those days that had lots of children.  It didn't help that the name was 'Smith' and it seems that in one particular village they are all related so it was 'wheat and chaff' situation but all's good after a day of it.

My friend arrived around ten thirty so ti was down tools and coffee on the go.  We caught up on her exploits, and I related my brush with immigration and she said that she's found a new little supermarket in Greece and we've planned a visit on Wednesday.  Apparently the fresh meat counter knocks spots off the butchers here and minced meat is exactly that so I better sort the freezer out and make some space.  My village friend came round with fluffy pancakes in memory of a passing from one of her neighbours.  She noticed the flowers on the terrace so I said she could have a pot, but not today since I had a visitor,  She said that her mother had had a fall and her knee wasn't so good and did I have any cream which I don't...I've not used it for ages.  She's obviously used up the tube that I gave her so I better buy another and take it down to her mother at some point.

Now to go and do something with the remains of the roasted veg from last night.  I did far too much so tonight the rest will go into an omelette to use them up.  I have to go and poke the fire, it's burning but not very brightly.  LN......Tonight I shall be cutting, gluing and pasting sections of the family chart on to a large sheet of paper so that I can get it to the stage that I can put it into Excel, add hyperlinks to make it easier to understand.  Press the link and the children pop up and can be made to disappear again....it only life were like that......LN

Monday 17th November

I didn't have a very good night, I fell asleep on the sofa early, woke up and went to bed and not an ounce of sleep in me so played reels until three, back to sleep and woke at seven so good the zzz's in but in patches.  Managed to get through the day without resorting to an afternoon nap and did some quite strenuous exercise this afternoon.  This morning was the usual morning routine, I had saved the remains of yesterdays jungle juice containing mainly the grated ginger, added hot water, lemon juice, sea salt and that was sufficient to 'break my fast'.  I didn't rush to make breakfast, I put the washing away, made the bed and was cooking the rest of the mushrooms and the remains of the bacon, making toast and setting myself up for the rest of the day and it was eleven thirty when I was washing up the breakfast things.

I played around with ancestry for a while, photo copied my new documents and laminated them ready to pack for the UK,  tried on a few clothes that I've not worn for a while, I'm taking limited luggage so want to pack what I really need, no space for 'maybe's.  I sorted out my make-up bag and cut it down to one of everything instead of what the make-up bag currently contained, found a mirror that stays together not separates into two sections and then went on the hunt for a book that I have to return.  Unfortunately I'd put it somewhere 'safe' and it took me a couple of panics to find it but now it's where I know it to be with other things that I need to return before I set sail for the UK.  I received a missive from my local post office, a photo of the letter that has only taken one month to arrive, via snail mail, so I messaged back to say that I was on my way but when I got there just before three, the office was all locked up.  Now on the door it gives the afternoon hours of work as three until five so I phoned the young lady, who doesn't speak English and gabbles in Bulgarian and asked her if she was working this afternoon.  I took it that she wasn't, not sure if she was on holiday or ill so I said that I would go to the post office tomorrow morning at approximately ten so that should give her time to get herself organised, fingers crossed she's there otherwise I shall be waiting for her after my next phone call.

When I got back I decided to fill up the log carrier that only had a few logs in so trundled it from the conservatory to the woodstore and I noticed how many leaves had found their way into the garage and all over the yard.  Knowing that the cows are good hoovers I used the barrow and the scarifier to move them outside the gate and onto the grass so that the wind blew them away from my drive and fortunately the cows got there first.  Next to split a few logs, I've done lots of them but it's easier to do them when there isn't snow around and winter's on it's way nobody wants to be out when it's minus five outside in the snow.  I wheeled the logs into the conservatory, got the fire going,  made sure everything was locked up, made a coffee and messaged a couple of friends retarding the return of property and apologies in advance that I shan't be able to get to see people in the UK over Christmas, I have work to do in the UK.

The wind appears to have gotten up again, there will probably be another pile of leaves to move in the morning.  If the weather is good tomorrow, I intend getting the plants in just in case the temperature really drops and the hope of salvaging them disappears.    The fairy lights over the two fir trees are being tossed around with the 'breeze', they might be down the bottom of the garden if the wind keeps at it.  LN.....Post office then pottering, plants in, benches in water bottles filled from the spring and Wednesday, the new supermarket that my friend has found it Komotini....the sausages are supposed to be good......LN

Tuesday 18th November

Woke up early but did go to bed after waking up on the sofa yet again.....I'm managing my sleeping allowance in stages...or rather not managing it.  I need another good Netflix series that manages to keep me awake until I decided when I should be going to bed.  I slept really well until six, tried to bed down again but it wasn't happening so I settled for reels and FB, out of bed by eight and then the usual routines kept me busy.  I think I went to be too well fed last night.  I was working on ancestry and it's now at the stage to start writing it up but I've got to break it down into pages and families, my friend is not computer literate so I'll make a hard copy but with feeds to the next generation.  It's an easy way for her to follow the years back.  I made the mistake of winding down with a series I'd half watched before and that's when the attention went and the sleep bugs took over.

So to bed at twelve and awake at six, and eventually I managed to get to the bathroom and decided to sort out the medicine depository under the washbasin but firstly I'd noticed that the water was slow to go down the drain so I found a packet of sink blocker in the kitchen, first unscrewed the water catcher under the washbasin and gave that a good clean, screwed it back together and put the crystals down the drain and slowly turned on the tap and got water into the drain and I could hear it bubbling away.  It's good stuff and works well.  That was when I noticed the container with the tablets in so I got rid of anything that had an expired sell-by date and they're already in the burning box so now I know that everything is current in there.

Next job was to go to the post office to get my letter from the bank so I phoned the girl and we agreed on twelve thirty and since I had time to spare, I went into Djebel, paid my phone bill that's not an automatic payment from the bank and is my reserve phone only costing three pounds a month.  Stopped off at a couple of friends shops killing more time and met up with friends that I'd not seen for ages.  I went to the chemist and bought some more 'Reparil' gel but didn't manage to deliver to my neighbour, I'll save it for when her daughter is here at the weekend.  I dashed into the supermarket for some bread, I was down to dregs this morning, and then carried on to the post office and the young lady wasn't there as arranged so I phoned her again and she said that she was on her way.....it appears that the hours of work displayed on the door don't mean a thing so I shall be moving my post to Djebel post office, they work to normal hours.  So I opened up the envelope and there was only one card in there so I told her that there was another on the way and asked if she would phone me when it arrived and hopefully be there to hand it over....or am I asking too much.

I came home, phoned the bank and advised them that I'd received one card and could they please take the block off it so that I could use it....I wasn't sure how it would be accepted at the cash-point if the block was still in place.  While I was on I asked the clerk it he could check my balances, I don't get bank statements to Bulgaria but I've changed that now..........On checking the balance of the second account, he noticed that no interest had been added since August, said he'd never seen it before and wanted to pass it on which he did.  It was investigated and another person advised me that it was being paid into the other account so now problems, the figures add up.  I've now requested monthly bank statements so I know where my money goes.  

I then looked at the desk and decided that it was time that I had a cull of 'bits of paper' and spent a couple of hours and it's looking much better...time well spent.  I've just  lit the fire, the wind appears to be in the wrong direction so might need a little more starter wood to get the heat up.  We've gone back to normal, dark clouds, spots of rain and clouds and I've just checked the weather for Greece, I'm going down there tomorrow with the friend who's found the new supermarket, Thursday looks better but but we'll just have to run between shops and eat inside not out on the terrace in Fanari if we get that far.  Added a photo of my sister and myself, it was her (heavenly) birthday yesterday....and this is what I put her through as a sprog.  LN....I've just put some really dry old stuff on the fire....it's looking better already....I shall have hot radiators......LN

Wednesday 19th November

Washed my hair and had a shower, I was off to Greece today with a friend to visit a supermarket that she was introduced to by another friend.  I was over at her house by ten as arranged and she said that she'd had a message to say that the border road was closed earlier but that it appeared that everything was back to normal and the day out was on.  It was a dull old morning on my drive down but it wasn't raining, visibility was good and the sun was trying hard to peep through but not quite managing it.  We set off and took the backroad down to the road to Greece and as we reached a junction, there was an old man thumbing a lift and I'm quite used to men flagging me down when I'm going into Djebel with only two buses a week at that time in the morning.  One on Monday and the next on Friday, market and mosque days so I usually stop, she was reticent but she gave way, there were two of us and we both looked healthier than he did.  He was so grateful and we dropped him off where our roads separated, he wanted to go into the town and we wanted the highway to Greece, he thanked us and went on his way.

As we hit the road to Greece we fell upon the reason that the road had been closed, the fog was really thick and the authorities had probably waited for the morning to build before the road had been opened up.  There were the usual maniacs around, we took it steadily, turned off towards the market in Komotini and unfortunately took the wrong turning to where we wanted to be.  I take my hat off to my chauffeur, she worked her way through the backstreets and low and behold, the supermarket was before us and there was a Mall in close proximity so we went there first.  They had the usual shops that we have in Bulgaria but they're not ones that I normally go into, I've got too many clothes to think of buying more.  We stopped for a coffee, it was good enough to sit outside and I everyone that we met that morning were pleased to be working, had smiles on faces and nothing was too much trouble.  The second good point was that most of them spoke English but at least I am able to say 'thank you' in Greek so felt I was doing my bit to even things out.

Back in the car and we drove to the supermarket and my friend likened it to 'Sainsbury' and I was struck by the openness of the aisles and the cleanliness and that there weren't that many people there that morning.  I found the fish counter by the smell and we moved on to the fresh produce and the quality was just so good.  I bought pomegranates, lemons, pineapple ready cubed, green apples at half the price than they would have been in BG.  I also bought beetroot, sweet potatoes, ordinary potatoes at a fraction of the price.  Water was only one euro fifty for twelve small bottles and it was strange to see tins of English brands, baked beans and corned beef, shampoos and shower gels from Spain and when we arrived at the meat counter they had real beef and pork and it looked like a real meat counter.  I selected a chunk of beef and had it minced freshly in front of me so that you know what you are getting.  Minced meat in BG is such a let down, and having got my one kilogram of beef for fifteen euro I managed to get six portions out of it and it's now in the freezer for whenever I need it.  The exercise now is to compare the prices of equivalent items for value and price differences.....identify what needs to go on the list for our next visit. One comparison we did do was on Ariel washing powder, the same product, six hundred ml. more in the Greek pack for two euro cheaper.

I drove home along the road where the Beast had it's catastrophe last year and it brought back not so good memories.  No issues tonight though, I unpacked the shopping, lit the fire, put away most of the shopping,  we'd not had lunch so I settled for toast with Taramasalata (fish roe) that I'd bought in Greece.  For dessert I had the fresh pineapple with Greek yogurt and it was so much nicer than the Bulgarian yogurt.  Fire going well, hot water belting round the system, I'll tidy the kitchen in the morning, the washing that I did before I set off is ready to be put away and tomorrow there is absolutely nothing on the agenda....so far.  LN....We shall definitely be paying the store another visit...well worth the drive down there.  LN

Friday 20th November

What a busy day, lots achieved but it's been a little jumbled.  Firstly the weather hasn't really helped, it was similar to April showers, fine then throwing it down, then fine again and back to square one.  I did take advantage of the rain, I was tempted to put the water barrel back under the downpipe from the roof but that seemed a lot of effort since I'd cleaned it and put it away so instead I put one of the large grey storage pins and save the water that way.  I was amazed how much came down from one downpour.  The container was almost full and I transferred it into eleven litre bottles and I filled three from one session.  The container was now ready for the next downpour and collected for free from the roof, the filled bottles have gone into the little house to water the flowers over the winter when I'm here that is.

I tried to start the Beast but without success, I intended to take it for its winter check-up so that frost can't do any damage.  The hardest job was lifting the bonnet, I really had to put some strength into it, the easy part was connecting the contacts to the charger and I did various other jobs while I was waiting for it do get enough charge to start.  I was waiting for things to do so I looked through one of the data boxes that I have and came upon an old photo of the lady from the village that's recently passed away.  I remember when the photo was taken, the tree in the yard had blossom on it and she was determined, along with Haciber to make some tea for me to sample.  Now I'm not really into local customs without they have been tried and tested before hand by me and it was along time ago in my early days in the house..  It was a lovely photo of the one that has died but not too good of the other so I found a frame that made it possible to cut away the part not required and job's a gud'un.

So the charger did its job, the Beast engine turned over so I bagged up the pomegranates that I'd bought for the garage along with some of the green apples and set off for Djebel.  My lady was very pleased with the offerings, I told her all about the supermarket and now she's eager to try it, asked me its name but it was all Greek to me.  Sorted now though and details sent through eventually but this programme that intercepts access to sites was still challenging me as to whether I'm human or not....a good idea that can seriously upset to put it politely.  The anti-freeze is sorted, the engine oil and gear box oil checked and all OK, I shall probably leave it at the garage while I'm away and put the little one in the garage where it will be protected.  I was amazed I managed to get the Beast into the garage first time without having to nudge backwards and forwards, I haven't lost the touch.

Back home, fire lit and going well, Sofia hotel booked,  for toasted cheese sandwiches for supper, I wasn't in the mood to prepare a culinary delight.  I might just have to have another dish of the superb Greek yogurt with honey.....just to confirm how delish it is.  LN.......Photo delivery tomorrow, now to start on the manual of everything pertaining to the house as a 'just in case'.......LN