end of summer blues?

So Marta & Domentx has been around now for 9 days. It was a bit chaotic that 20th of August... I was cooking and bedmaking all morning as far as I remember even had a haircut at Csilla's before Timi called for me at 5pm. We made it in 2 hours 20minutes from Petőfi 71 to the Metro terminal in Budapest via the very quiet new motorway.
I watched the scaled-down fire-works (there was a public outcry for spending all fire-works money on the Hungarian flood victims - Pakistan wasn't in the news those days - a private company provided the fire-works for free, apparently. The rockets etc were going off from 3 boats on the Danube, so the firemen didn't have to attend to Gellért hill on fire, as they usually had to.) from Marta's it was great to see some of her family.
Going home on Monday, after a quiet couple of days at anyu's was not as smooth, with more traffic and road closures.
Alan looked after 11 people meanwhile...
Bit by bit we shedded the crowds, wwoofers gone, and a couple of late-booker one-nighters yesterday, so now it's just us and as the first line... they did a bit of fare-well lunch, as they are also leaving tomorrow, a nice bottle of wine and a weird sea=food paella made from and instant tin with roasted vermicelli bits instead of rice, very interesting...
The weather turned - Alan was lucky to bring down the hay before it started to rain. he's got red eyes again - it was very hot and humid the last few days before this rapid change. We took down the two little-big billygoats to Erzsi's who are happy for the extras and do all the work, we can collect the lean curry meat - sorry, this is what farming is about...
Meanwhile we managed to fit in a bit of the Adult Puppet Theatre festival of the Capital of Culture on Thursday; by accident we caught a 5pm performance by a French company doing Moby Dick in sort of English; it was very good with live cafe-house music and good puppets and actors. It was a (groovy olde worlde) tent, very very hot. Same day at 8pm we saw the long awaited Vietnamese Water Puppet Theatre in the Ice-skate rink, we were given cushions which is lucky as the concrete steps where we sat were still hot from the sun. It was interesting, again, the music was half of the show. The dragons snaking-dancing about blowing fire and water alternatively were very impressive indeed.
We plunged into it - bought our Florida tickets! We'll be at Martin's and Sharon's on and off from 23rd of November till 13th of January, poor things. We even have our Authorisation! All we need is now insurance and a proper plan of action while There.
Timi and Feri will look after our place, we think it should be ok, they have family backing here in the village to help them.
We haven't had much of a response from the house-sitter ad.
As we are happier with letting the water down to ensure that no pipe freezes, we'll have to close the hostel, not that there would be that much interest in those winter weeks...
And now off to help with the salad, Marta and Domentx's last night, we are getting Catalan omlette...