Thanks for the ideas. I sent her a telegram which was, in the best old fashioned way, hand delivered by a messenger to her in the hotel. She called this morning with some other questions, but said that she got the telegram and liked it (and the joke at the end "have a yen to see you soon stop" - haha - appropriate when in Japan), so that seems good.
The weather here is temporarily warm today and tomorrow so we will plant the tulip bulbs while the soil is still soft - hopefully it will freeze hard before she gets back, so that she is not tempted to do some late season garden work and dig around. Luckily we flew to Istanbul via Holland, where they had a great selection of flowers. My D will help plant, so we all are in on the secret (the kids are sworn to secrecy on a couple of things like this).
They had neat translucent shadow puppets (Karagoz) in Istanbul, made of camel skin and prettily painted, of which we bought a couple; will hang these up in her window as a welcome home thing and maybe do something else beyond simply cleaning the house for her return.
I need to go to the States this coming weekend, so any dates are probably off until I return on Thanksgiving weekend. I then need to go back a week later again, so one or at most two opportunities are available, but something is better than nothing...
Need to come up with romance at a distance ideas now, given all this away time, hmm... but light things...
Time to weightlift (she hasn't noticed yet, but did wonder the other day where I was so long)...
Blue lake, light golden reeds in the sun just now, lively breeze from the west,
Luke
M58, xW54 S22, D18 M 1984, D 2016 Living a new life.
