October 29

Oh, what a beautiful morning, oh, what a beautiful day. Actually it is a nasty looking rainy beginning and rain is in the forcast for the rest of the day, but we're just so proud to be here!

A couple of friends over the hill from here were planning to travel to Egypt, leaving here on the 8th of November. They travel a lot every year and have been most everywhere but this years trip may be in jeopardy. We're told he, Ron, had some chest pains yesterday so his wife took him to the emergency room where they discovered he was in an immediate need of a bypass operation. If this is so I'm thinking their trip will probably need to be rescheduled. I believe too, it would certainly be time to sit down and thank God that this problem didn't wait to come up while they were on their trip, out in the middle of nowhere.

Also one of our son-in-laws, Mike, had some chest pains this week. He was taken to the hospital where they run some tests including the, from the groin area look. They saw no problems and surmised it to be a stress related problem. I talked to him just now and he sounds good but is going to work from home because of the soreness and need to be very careful of the incision at the groin.

At our house we just keep pidy padin along, blowing leaves, watching them fall, blowing leaves then watching them fall. The gas bill for the blower is really mounting up but you can't let the leaves get too far ahead of you because larger mounds are much harder to move. I did catch a nice Crappie yesterday. He must have been playing hooky. He was the only catch so the school must have been elsewhere.

Hey! As I look out the window now I'm thinking we may get a little sunshine before the rain.

"Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine."-- William Feather, Author and Publisher

You get the sense that if George W. Bush said it was sunny, John Kerry would rise in indignation to speak about how a 10 percent possibility of light rain proves that George W. Bush has not been honest with the American people." --John Podhoretz