He saidhe?d be done in about forty-five minutes, so we should be at AuntAlison?s in about an hour.?Lilly sighed. ?Can you believe he?d do something li...e this ? today ofall days!? Oh, well. Whatever he?s up to, I?m sure we?ll hear about itsoon enough.??I?m sure.? Lori laughed.?The reason I wanted to talk to you, though is because I?d like you tocome dressed up for the photographer, if you wouldn?t mind.??Sure. Are we going out after???Well, that might be nice, but, actually, I was thinking that,. We’ve got lots of food."She showed me a big cupboard-style thing in the kitchen and explained the Americans had given it to her, rather than ship it back when they left. "It's called a fridge," she said proudly. "It keeps food fresh for ages." Wow." I'd heard of this invention but it was the first I'd seen. I was hugely impressed, especially when she produced two T-bone steaks and four eggs!"How long have you had these?" I asked and looked doubtful when she told me her old boss had sent them. More when he took her downstairs to Alejandra’s office. Better when he tapped his lap when he sat on Alejandra’s office chair and she sat on it.Alejandra had a computer on the desk, and Joe turned it on. Waited for it to open and clicked on the internet. Typed in Actualist on the search. “Show me,” he said.She found a way to shift things to English and opened a site. “This is the most succinct history,” she said, finding a feature on the sort of web magazine. “It’s where I first learned of. He had almost forgotten that some varieties of trees could grow and even thrive in the middle of the desert, particularly near underground water. From the looks of this one, what water might have given it the chance to sprout and grow was long since dried up. He skirted the branches laying across the wash bottom and nearly kept walking. He did stop, however. Picking up a slim but sturdy length of limb that had snapped free from the tree when it fell, Lou cleaned it of snags. He held the limb.