Hi and thank-you very much for looking, my new story will continue using the beautiful V4 (Victoria 4) & M4 (Michael) ... down-under Quick up-date about Darren and he is doing well and recovery is good just a bit slower than he would like, I did not realise what was involved in his operation and it is obvious that his skin needed to be cut to operate but also his tummy muscles had to be cut to get inside to fix damage, that is what is going to take time to mend, tummy muscles are important and used a lot in daily life, just have to be careful and patient. picture 1; Green light and we are racing to first corner and already Evelyn is getting a good lead on us, Mira is keeping pace with Evelyn and I manage to get beside and pass Daniel, less weight is helping. picture 2; Middle of race and things are getting closer, warm tyres are giving us all more confidence to try harder. picture 3; Contessa is getting into the Halloween spirit early by dressing up and wearing make-up as she waves chequered flag to give Evelyn victory, I may or may not be blocking Mira and Daniel from trying to pass haha, it is Evelyn's first date night and I want to help make it special for her. I wanted to do a picture showing us on the podium getting trophies but time beat me again, it was a great night and I am sure we will do go-kart race again. Hopefully with Darren who paid for us this time. picture 4; Dam camping trip was so much fun and Clarky is a very generous man and has a shed full of camping equipment and so much other stuff, take anything you might need he told us and I saw the archery equipment and knew that would be something I would enjoy, Archery was a big thing at my school and it is a great sport, I loved it and even did it after school in a club, I represented my school at sporting events and did well always placing highly in results, but would I still be able to show Mira and Evelyn that I was good?. picture 5; Nailed it first shot and Mira and Evelyn are pointing in dis-belief but are very impressed and feel safer now knowing if we are ever attacked by little green apples I can defend us haha, we spent some time doing archery it is relaxing. picture 6; Not the best posed, lighting or scenery for a picture I have ever done but easily the most important picture I have ever done, after releasing the worms and archery we were going to have some lunch, we sat down and I am not sure who said what but we started talking about our time and experience with the typhoon and how bad it was, we shared stories and cried a lot and were all so thankful that all our families and friends were safe and that we had this chance to meet, Darren and Evelyn first met working together in another orchard 12 months before Mira and Darren met at our current bosses orchard and then a few weeks later I met Mira just before Mira was leaving and I would be girl supervisor, Mira and Myself only met Darren because he was tractor driver that year and we would work together, if he was still fruit picker we might not have met, to me he might have just been another fruit picker for me to be boss of haha. The world is such a big place but sometimes it seems so small, we all made decisions that saw our paths join years ago then we went our separate ways, now our paths have joined again and we know soon they will leads us in separate ways again, Mira has a great chance at a better job so we all wish her well, Darren has a long path to recovery and we all wish him well, Evelyn has a chance to find love and we all wish her well and I have my plane ticket home booked for May 15th 2027 and they all wish me well, my path is set and cannot be changed I will make the best of each day and enjoy the company of some good friends. This is Friday and tomorrow Saturday will be my first Halloween that I am excited about, the plan was for all four of us Darren, Mira, Evelyn and Myself to go as a group of 4 in costume, but Darren's illness means it will just be the 3 of us trick or treating, I love cosplay and went all out on my costume, Mira and Evelyn are warming to the idea and will make a good effort to get into costume and the spirit of Halloween. Darren will lend me his other computer so I can do lots of Halloween pictures and lend Mira his car so she can go to Melbourne for job interview and make it back in time for trick or treating, if she had to travel on train and taxi no way would she make it there and back in time. Thank-you for all your support and lots of Halloween pictures soon, not sure how big Halloween is celebrated but will try anyway, stay safe and trick or treat?. picture 7; Hint!! hint! ... I cannot keep a secret about Halloween costume, haha, Darren just messaged me and said if you get a chance before trick or treating I have another surprise for you in my bedroom, check it out if you can, he moved his bed into lounge room so he only needs to heat 1 room now while recovering. He is a little bit naughty for doing this because I know he did not find a KISS pinball machine already made, big thank-you though because it is one thing I would love to have. #NO-AI I cannot use photos now it has AI added, I use a old program called Microsoft PhotoDraw 2000, it is on discs and never up-dates so no AI can be added. Windows 11 wants to up-date again, I checked the page to see up-dates and yes it wants to add more AI, at bottom of page I ticked "Was this helpful" ... YES" and wrote comment "It was helpful and clearly if I up-date now I am inviting AI to wreck my computer, stop using AI it is bad". I have paused up-dates for now but that does not always stop Windows from up-dating...