)"Sundowner" berthed, port side to, and the paid off crew with their possessions in pusser bags departed as soon as Customs was cleared. Provisions we...e loaded and the remaining Sundowners swung into trading mode to ready House of Tulip and New Harriers. It was a saddened crew and while the work was performed well there was no joyous atmosphere — the pall hung heavily.It took three days to open C forward and the depleted crew were stretched to their physical limits; after two days of trading,. Bobby was doing remarkably well in reacting to that real world he knew so little about. It would have been easy for him to sink to basic survival level and just kill anybody he saw as a threat. His talent couldn’t be defended against, and if he could see you, he could kill you.Again, thankfully, all that never occurred to him. He had killed once and had not liked how it made him feel. I thank God for that on a regular basis.But there weren’t three or four of us shepherding Bobby Wilson into the. When we moved back in the place had been completely redone by the former owners and needed very little work on my part. Baby Girl liked being back home on Scottish turf, and her brood were happy to be wherever she was. They also enjoyed roaming the many and varied corridors of the castle.Joan Davidson moved in just after we did. Joan retired just in time for our move, but she might have been pushed into retirement, but that is another story, altogether, in plenty of time to sell off her. Here was my excuse for not putting up with all the boring spouses and their boring talk. I could ‘Ho! Ho! HO!’ it through the night and not have to worry what anybody was saying. Alice sent me out to find a costume, telling me not come back without a good-looking Santa suit. It took awhile but I found a great suit at an outrageous rental, I felt that not only had I done what my wife asked, I was sticking it to her company at the same time. When I got back home, my wife was still in.