We're leaving Sury-pres-Lere this morning and will lose our access to high speed WiFi so we don't know when we'll be able to post pictures, somewhere up the canal. Dimitri has been showing a lot of interest in getting off the boat - first in our home port of Roanne, where he visited Elizabeth and Richard on Larbesque, the boat next to us. We let him come out on the back deck for fresh air, and walks around the deck, but every so often, he jumps off. Yesterday, while I was writing a letter, I heard Randy ask if Dimi was down below with me. No Dimi, so we both ran out and jumped off the boat. Next to the quai the town has put in a little green belt with pique-nique tables. There's a little irrigation ditch, the sloping side heading up to the canal quai, its been recently landscaped and is still covered with black plastic to hold the shrubs and flowers on the slope. You know where this is going - Dimitri was on the slope, tumbled down into the irrigation ditch, and out of the corner of my eye, I saw one very wet scared slimy cat climbing out of the ditch. Of course, I ran and got the camera.
A bucket of fresh water, a trip to the shower, and rubdown with a towel, and all was well again!
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