.although I suppose I need to stop thinkingof myself as a "guy," at least for the moment.My birthday was coming up. Beth has always gone out of her wa... to makeit special during the five years we've been married, but she reallyoutdid herself this time. She told me she had booked us into a cute bedand breakfast in a little town in Pennsylvania. It was a drive of alittle over three hours from our home in Cleveland.We hit the road right after lunch on the day before my birthday so we'dbe there in. Thomas was particularly satisfied. His own suggestion to check ships bound for French ports had paid off handsomely. The Belle Madeleine with her cargo of Spanish wines and brandies had been only one of three cargoes they had caught. The brig was carrying what had to be the complete furniture from a richly appointed castle, including some beautiful pieces that dated back to the Moorish rule. The other brigantine also carried loot – bales of silk, crates with silverwares, precious china and even. " Speaking of which, why don't you two kiss and make up so that we can get it on tape?" Spot, their producer, stuck his head into the room. Sighing, Bob and Grant followed him out and into the live room. Greg Norton was waiting for them inside, tapping his fingers impatiently on the body of his bass. At a signal from Spot, Bob coaxed a quiet feedback squeal from his guitar: the beginning of Reoccuring Dreams. For the next fourteen minutes, he surrounded Grant's supple drumming with a force. Third week, of the fifth month, fifteen forty-sevenToday Stevan and I went to play in the forest. My mother does not like when we go too far, so we must stay within a kilometer of the village. We went north along the road until we found a worn path. It looked old and we almost missed it, but we decided to look and see where it would lead. When we arrived at the end of the trail, we came up to the entrance of the old Estaben mine. It was where a lot of the metals the village had used had been.