Boonie People

The other day, driving in to town from the lake my husband proclaimed, "I feel like a boonie, driving into town for supplies on a old dirt road in a rattle trap car.  Indeed, he had a wild look in his eye and was driving erratically.   He looked like a boonie man;  hair two days from a shower, grey beard with two days growth, duck down growing all down his neck (preparing himself for the thin, grey pony tail) and he wore an old, stained t-shirt.  His attire, along with the wild look completed the uncomfortable image of what my man had become ... a boonie man. Needless to say, he had a boonie woman with him: hair askance, sporting hairy legs and pits.  Yes, we need to get back to town or out of town, one or the other.

We do have some news.  It seems we are on track for departure for October 26th!  The Sri Lankan folks advised us today that they feel that we, along with other volunteers scheduled to arrive in Sri Lanka at that time, should likely receive Visa approvals.  Therefore, we have advised CUSO-VS0 that we are prepared to wait out the next few weeks.  However, it does not appear that we will be able to make our planned rendezvous with Lisa in Korea.  We might have to meet her in Thailand on a vacation or something.

Is all coming together for us? My dad has improved enough to be moved yesterday to the rehab ward  after his month long battle fighting infection and with Shelley's wedding now over, maybe now we are free to go about our volunteer work?

Here is the cabin at the lake where we are living so you have a visual picture of us in the boondocks (the roof of the deck has been completed since this photo was taken):




















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