….in September was fabulous! The plan was to go over and celebrate Uncle Andy’s 87th birthday with him but he had other plans as the week before we arrived he died. He’s been ready to join Aunt Beth for a while and as much as we missed him it was hard to grieve his wonderful life even though there were challenges. These, of course, were his two fights with cancer but they didn’t go near the tragedy of losing his son Darryl in the late 1970’s and then Aunt Beth a few years ago. On Sept. 6th we celebrated his life with Donny, Angie and their five children and Andrea over a great meal of Japanese food and told many stories and shared quite a few laughs. For all who knew Uncle Andy and his wonderful laugh you’ll know how much that was missed. On Saturday Andrea, Jim and I headed out of town to explore Brigus(in the picture) and Cupids where we ate at a wonderful cafe a feed of baked beans, fishcakes and fried tottens……..very full we were! We then hiked through many blueberry fields, having dessert along the way, out to the ocean. We knew we had to work off some of that lunch as we were headed to Carbonear to have supper with Beth and John. Of course they didn’t disappoint and after a wonderful evening and meal we left the next morning loaded down with BB muffins, BB jam and a jar of moose meat!!! Back to St. John’s we go in the torrential rain to prepare for Andrea’s get together with friends and munchies so cooking had to be done and, as usual, Andrea did a fabulous job! The next two days brought great fall weather as we walked the dogs to Quidi Vidi both days and hiked around Signal Hill on our own and then a scrumptious

supper with Andrea at Aqua before we left on Wednesday with a heavy heart leaving her behind. However we shall be returning as long as she’s there, and even if she isn’t, because that Island known as The Rock is one of the most beautiful and hospitable places we’ve ever visited and will truly always be called home.