September 26, 2014. Western Head, N.S. Departures.

Our group is getting smaller. After tomorrow, we will be down to 3 when Wendy and Clausen depart. And next Wednesday Gill will leave to spend a month in New York. Soon our homes will all be dark. Each of us have travel in 2015 so our leave taking comes with the hope that the winter will be kind and we will all return next June to pick up where we left off and to share our travel experiences. And of course, we e mail to each other too. But we all enjoy having friends within walking distance so we miss proximity to each other. This evening, we five dined at Lane's. Typically, we get together before departures, usually in each others homes but instead we decided not to work but to eat dinner at Lane's. We were delighted to know that the restaurant was full. We want them to keep open as they are really the only good restaurant in town. Their scallops were excellent, big juicy Digby scallops that I will have trouble eating in Texas. Katie in Mississippi hates saying goodbye so instead she always hugs you and says, "I hope to see you tomorrow". We say that we will see each other next June. Then we laugh.