Enjoying life in LA …

“Eucoir nas miosa na leabhraichean a losgadh – gun a bhith gan leughadh” – Joseph Brodsky
{There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.}

Last weekend we drove down to PA {Prince Albert} to take the dogs in for their quarterly check-up & such, to get some shopping done & to tools & materials & to just wander a bit. Since the trip is normally a 2½ hour drive at this time of year we generally plan for a more careful 3 hour one so we decided to stay overnight at our usual motel. Lately I have become quite chatty with the manager {not much of a surprise for those that know me, eh?) … anyway the subject of hot sauces & large bottles of Tobasco sauce & how hot I like my foods. She proceeded to tell the folks from the McIlhenny Company stay at the motel when they come up from Louisiana to hunt geese & other birds. Then she slipped into her office & came back with a 5oz bottle of a HABANERO Tobasco hot sauce. Wow, eh? And what a flavour! You just never can tell what will happen when you step out & talked to someone. Try it … you’ll be pleasantly surprised … there’s some real nice folks out there. 🙂

Both of us are really enjoying being back in LA & especially now that the weather is beginning to get ‘winter-ish". At the moment there’s been a light dusting of snow. The driveway slopes downwards to the street so clearing it was much easy inspite of the smooth tires on my chair. Just as I was finishing a few of the local kids a came by with their shovels looking to make a few bucks. One of them even pitched in & helped finish the walk. Looking forward to giving them some work in future days this winter & help them along with their business.

I must also add that we do miss the Island & our family & friends {as well as Gàidhlig}. And to that end we got up earlier than usual so that we could listen to Atlantic Canada’s Weekend Morning with Stan Carew. Turned out they were celebrating his 40th year in broadcasting with guests like David Myles. Thanks to the wonders of ‘real’ Highspeed & the CBC’s website live feed we connected once again with everyone l back home.

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“The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to be credible. – Mark Twain”
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