It hasn't stopped raining.  Not just raining.  POURING.  Absolute rivers of orange water are running off the hills, down our road and into the Po river.  The soil here has a lot of calcium which turns the water a chalky white and the trees are all in bloom leaving yellow and orange pollen on every surface.  The combo, orangey rivers.  And I itch.  Damned plants.

On another note we have spent all day, literally hours, trying to re-organize my trip to The States.  With the occurrence of the pandemic came all the trip cancellations.  With all of the cancellations came vouchers.  Trying to utilize these vouchers has proved oh so slightly stressful.  We have vouchers open with 4 different airlines, Iberia, KLM, British and Ryanair.  We can't just re-book the same flights as airlines have reduced the number of flights and some airports are still not open to most traffic.  One of those airports is ours obviously.  I have to fly out of Milan which in itself is a pain in the butt because it's an hour and a half away.  I had to re-buy my tickets to the UK (at 4 times the price) because Ryanair still hasn't issued it's vouchers at all.  Hopefully all of the quarantines I may be subject (London, Maine) to will be over by the time I get there.   So if all goes as planned I will be home from July 12th thru the end of October.  And I'd BETTER NOT GET SICK!  Life used to be easier..

xxoo me