Yahoooooo!

I called Roger this morning. He thought I was calling because I had received a letter he had sent me detailing the ongoing mess that is our water canal. But I hadn't.

Roger and the neighbors, managed to divert the water from our basin into a small bypass canal that sends the water into the river. Now the water is not coming into our basin and it isn't going to the Count's basin either.

The blacksmith claims that our "gate" that we would like to open to drain our basin, while still letting water flow to the Count, will not open because it it broken. And he can't work on the gate because there is still a lot of water in our basin. I suspect he just doesn't want to leave his cozy forge and work outside in the wet and the below freezing weather.

So I just purchased a plane ticket to fly out next week and sort out the mess.

However, after I purchased the ticket, I remembered that the Paris Agricultural Show, the creme de la creme of county and state fairs was going on the beginning of March. UNFORTUNATELY, it ends the 6th of March. I couldn't find a reasonably priced ticket that left before the 6th of March.

I cannot express how disappointed I am that I would be able to see the chic sheep. But I am thrilled to be flying to France for a short visit to my own sheep.