A Momentary Setback---or, ding, dong the tablet's dead

Much has been happening since I was last able to post anything here.  The most critical thing is that my tablet died.  It just turned black in the middle of searching for a web site and never returned.  That was a week ago, and a week of being pretty much out of touch with everything is really hard.  But the worst is I could not play solitaire or Sudoku--mon dieu, une catastrophe.  My brother arrived a few days ago, with his laptop, so I was able to get email again.  But no pictures are available.  So the blog will remain in a state of suspended animation until I get home and have access to my pictures and more time for finishing the story.

I left St. Saturnin this morning.  I'll admit it was bittersweet.  I am so looking forward to home and Buck and Susie---and all the familiar and good things that I've missed.  But leaving the place where I was beginning to feel comfortable and where so much had happened was a bit sorrowful, too.  I'm now sitting in Paris, in an apartment in the upper Marais, with my brother and sister-in-law.  We'll be here until Wed. morning, then United will get me back to Durango---I hope without problems.  Then I'll catch up on the blog with the last 2 eventful weeks, and maybe some lessons and take-aways from all this time and the adventures.