April 30, 2005

I've read all of the 22 emails of this morning and I'mma goin to the dock now for a little fishing session.

The results of the fishing came to 6 keepers and a tired old body. A forty degree outside temperature with a stiff breeze is enough for the head of the body and the chief of the outing to call it enough. I had to work pretty hard for the catches and that just shouldn't be. Throw the lure out anywhere and reel in a keeper is the way I like it. It wasn't that way this morning so I quit at six catches. I don't want a job and surely not a job at fishing.

I did notice a half moon this morning. It was halved by a straight line or it could have been bulging in the middle some. I still don't understand how the moon can be half there then the sun comes up with the half or better moon still in the picture. What is the other thing that cuts off half of the moon?

April 29, 2005

Another great day wish to you! I can add to it I think by sending only a tiny message this morning. This is only possible because I've nothing humorous, important or interesting to relay. I know it! I know it! I never do and it has seldom stopped me but today I've turned over a new leaf and begun anew.

Glenda is probably going bowling today while I'll probably visit the dock in between showers and the reading of my latest books.

Yesterday is over and tomorrow isn't here yet so I think I have ended up typing another 'no interest' note but true to my word it's tiny.

Did you know that you can increase the size of the font in a message by holding down on the 'ctrl' button and rolling the wheel on your mouse? Another way is to click on view on the top toolbar then click on a larger font on the drop down menu.

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.~Lazurus Long

April 28, 2005

You've been blessed! I'm inna hurry this morning. If you're still with the living and able to read this that is a great blessing! The fact this is going to be short is a very small to nothing blessing by comparison but I feel strongly you will still realize it as one anyway.

Fishing and catching was very good again yesterday/ Rain came to visit us last night/ Looks like we'll be driving in the rain/ Glenda and I both have a doctor's appointment in Columbia this morning (regular deal)/ On the list is cholesterol tests/ No food since midnight means hungry/ Going to pick Lena up to go with us/ We'll give Sam's club a quick stop/ Probably work on the hunger problem too/ I'm taking Mikey to insure against a forced stop at a gambling boat/ Home by late evening!

Common sense ain't common.~Will Rogers

April 27, 2005

Fishing and catching were both good this morning however, try as I might I still ended up one shy of a basket. (A basket being one limit of fifteen.) Surly I can catch one more! Of course that's what I was saying for the last forty minutes I spent on the dock.

No big deals planed for the day in my head but..............Who knows what danger lurks in the head of a woman? I think sometimes Glenda just tries her darnest to figure out a chore that she's pretty sure is the very most absolute last thing that I would want to do that day. At least it seems to work out that way. I guess it could be something as simple as a possibility that I absolutely don't want to do anything that day. It usually works out anyway so no sweat...........Doing the chore there is usually a lot of sweat, I just mean there is no need me sweating about the possibility of the rotten little chore.

Even with rain off and on most of the day yesterday I got a new fish basket made and replaced the old wire one, cleaned eleven fish, Mowed the lawn, blew the decks off, blew the road off down to the first curve and went to the dock to fish twenty times. It's down fourteen steps and about twenty five feet to the dock then back and forth across it fishing each time is at least another 350 feet. Figure that out! Let me figure it for you. Just the fishing alone covers a little more than a mile! No wonder I'm so tired at night.

Too tired to go on with this, now that I'm thinking about it!

The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one other person."~-Vi Putnam

April 26, 2005

Some people type for love, some people type for money. I type for reasons unknown. Kind of sick isn't it?.....Aren't they?.....Hey, you never know, you might find one you like if you click on http://wymers.blogspot.com/ then do a little reading around.

No catchy fishy this morning. The sun showed up for the shortest of time then began hiding behind the handy dandy clouds as the breeze kicked up somewhat. Possible rain this afternoon we're told but I expect to see the sun several more times before that comes to pass. I also think a school or two of crappie will swim past sometime today and I'll be there before the next teardrop falls. Excuse me I got mixed up with a song somehow. I'm not the least bit sad. I must have meant before the next raindrop falls.

I had trouble looking up the road with one of my spy camera's this morning and have decided I was trying to focus in the view from one of my neighbors camera's. In the house we can't see the road behind us so I have a camera there to provide us the view. When we're downstairs we can't see the front road so we have a camera for that too. Neither view gets watched much but if we do want to look we can.

Retired people can do just things they want to. I'm retired and I want to quit typing this and I can. You never know what might be deemed a blessing.

"There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from."~Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

April 25, 2005

Looking at another day lacking another dollar. I do hope we have more days left than we have dollars! It would be nice to still have a little moola left when we're ready to check out but we'll need to hope real hard that somehow some of what we have figures out a way to multiply. You never know but I don't think we will be asking for any assistance in the near future so don't sweat it.......However if you should find yourself with a little spare laying around..........Oh, forget it!

Fishing was good again yesterday with several bursts of good catching too. I probably make eleven or twenty trips to the dock everyday. Some trips you catch a few fish and some you don't. Don't is the most common outcome and it lessens the desire some but a catching trip can revive it all in a flash. So far this morning the one trip was a don't.

You put buns in an oven to warm them and I thought about sticking mine in one yesterday. I probably would have but standing on the dock it seems the cold blistery wind had pretty well frozen them off. I'm not too worried about them. I have enough extra hanging around, I'm sure whatever was lost will be replaced pronto.

Hey, I like the pronto word. I'm going to use it again in like I'm quitting this message pronto.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. -Sir Winston Churchill

April 24, 2005

Not a whole lot shakin around here but the leaves on the trees and anyone who might be dumb enough to be out in that cold wind! I may play a little dumb myself and brave it after while. I just want to give a few Crappie the chance to surrender to their piggish hunger induced ignorance as they succumb to the expertly cranked lure of the jig on the end of my line.

Other than that a day of rest and relaxation is in my book. Glenda does have a way to strip the bookmark from that little jewel losing my place, causing me to end up doing her bidding. I know I don't haft to if I don't want to but................Glenda doesn't haft to cook, clean house, wash the clothes or any of that other around the home stuff if she doesn't want to either. I wouldn't want to cause any problems!

One thing I don't ever haft to do if I don't want to, without any repercussions from anyone, is type this note every day and I don't want to type on it anymore today!...............Bye.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an "ethic."~Barbara Ehrenreich

April 23, 2005

We're headed out for Norwood/Mountain Grove and what that leaves me to say is only sad, so no more from here this day. Putting an eighty seven year old gentleman six feet into the cold ground is not a very happy time.

Uncle Novia was very ill there near the end and then his time came. The blessing given to the loved one is something we should all realize and give thanks for the happening. Still, that knowledge doesn't make things any easier to accept. A selfish person are we who overly morn the will of God.

Now a few tears are not improper and may help to ease the passing. Passing and memories are both real things. After the tears are gone the happy memories will remain. Those memories can be with us for all our time!

For some life lasts a short while, but the memories they leave last forever. -~Laura Swenson (alt)

April 22, 2005

Terrible weather came across Missouri yesterday but thankfully, all we got here was some rain around midnight. I think they are saying a possibility of a repeat performance for this afternoon.

Whatever the reason the fish were biting this morning. I had to quit or clean them so I chose the easiest way and came to the house. I'll clean them after while then see if there are anymore hanging around.

Glenda is voicing some thought to bowling this afternoon but my thoughts haven't left the house past the dock or the mailbox.

I hope you get to do whatever you want today!

Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.~Ovid

April 21, 2005

Fishing was as good as could be expected this morning but the catching was lousy! I could catch three fish and only one of those was a keeper. It's starting to cloud up now so I may fare a little better a little later. I did end up cleaning 30 fish yesterday. The limit is 15 so Glenda and I both got our limits.

I think the TV said there would possibly be some storms around here this afternoon including hail and threats of a tornado or two. Just another regular Missouri spring day. We did get a hard rain with hail yesterday but it passed pretty quickly. Everybody has got to be somewhere!

I'm thinking I need to be somewhere else at this time....Bye

"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made." --Groucho Marx

April 20, 2005

It's cloudy here but again no rain in the near future according to the guy on TV. Possible late this afternoon but who knows for sure. Certainly not the TV guy. I'm of the opinion that we could use a little rain. Or at least the earth around here and its contents could. A few mushrooms would really be nice.

We did get the leaves all cleaned up yesterday so I'm not sure what today will bring. I asked Glenda once already, all she said was that she was thinking about it. She may go to see her mother who called last night after returning from the boat at Booneville with an extra $700 in her purse.

I believe breakfast is almost ready. That belief has saved us all from any further crap for this day.

"They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel." -Carl W. Buechner

April 19, 2005

Another nice day and the rain has been moved back a day giving us another chance to do some work around the outside. I haven't been thinking very well lately and so far I haven't been able to come up with a reason to put the work off. I have a bad feeling we're going to get all the remaining leaves gathered and burned today. I can't see that it needs it. I suppose that means my eyesight has traveled off along with my thinking where ever that may be.

I really wanted to laze around another day but I'm afraid I may be forced to modify my plans.

I did catch five Crappie this morning but I had to work for them. The lake was very still this morning and the tree pollen etc. had pretty well scrummed up around the dock at 6:00. That made the fishing less than a happy time but we stayed the course. Around 7:45 the wind picked up and moved it on but it seemed like the fish moved on too.

Speaking of moving on.....................I hear Glenda calling!

It will not do to leave a live dragon out of your plans if you live near one.~J.R.R.Tolkien

April 18, 2005

The fish aren't biting, breakfast isn't ready yet and I'm without words again. Ah, I've got words but meaningful or humorous words are missing. I'm into my third cup of coffee and still can't get anything started. I think the best thing I could do is shut'er down. No need for me to go through all this resulting in no one ending up with a thing more than they had when they began to read this. I guess someone could come away with a question like, 'what does he waste his and our time like this for?'

Well by Jobe, I'm not going to waste much of it this morning!............No 'thank you'' is necessary!

"The most wasted day of all is that during which we have not laughed." -Sebastian R. N. Chamfort

April 17, 2005

The poor cat was under the bed in the wrong room. He spent the night in a room with strangers including a strange dog. After they had all been gone for at least three hours Tomi came out but he was very spooky. This morning he seems to constantly want on my lap for some reason.

I finally caught enough fish to have another limit to clean. You can catch fish right and left then all of a sudden you can't even buy a nibble. I only caught five this morning and it only took ten minutes to do it. I fished another good half an hour and didn't do squat! I'll clean what I have here in a little bit then try to catch a few more. I guess I need to get the boat running if I want to catch a lot of fish.

Today is a lay around and watch the race day mixing in a little reading I imagine. One of those really nice days that comes along around here pretty regularly. RETIRED YOU KNOW.

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.~Eric Hoffer

April 16, 2005

Jim Cottengim and his friend Holly finally did make it yesterday. We ended up eating fried fish and swilling a few brews. A pretty good visit I'd say. They are all still in bed so far this morning.

I don't know what to think about Tomi. He is missing. I guess he got out somehow yesterday. If that is the case he hasn't seen the necessity of making his way back home yet. Upsets me a little but we'll just need to wait and see. Maybe he is under the bed in their room. Won't be able to look there for awhile.

I ended up cleaning nineteen fish yesterday and catching eight more for the basket then they just quit cold. I didn't catch a fish all afternoon and I tried pretty hard at it too.

"Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road."-- Dag Hammarskjold

April 15, 2005

Here, a very nice day is in the making. High is forecast to be around 73. It's only 58 right now but the old sun has been out for a little while doing it's thing.

We have company coming for a visit today and I've only got eight fish in the basket. I need to catch at least another seven before they get here so I'll have my limit to clean. If they're biting like they did the other day there will be no problem. We may feed the company a few fish for lunch.

Hope your day will be all that you want it to be!

May you never forget what is worth remembering, or remember what is best forgotten! - Franklin Adams

April 14, 2005

I fixed the blind! Well, as most other things I might not have fixed it as much as only making it work again. I used the old cord making what once hung beside the window dragging the floor, now hit about half way down the window. I got a little birthday candle and dropped wax on the end of the cord to keep it from flaring, strung it back through the tiny holes to a dead place where I tied it off with what was already there. WALLA! Now it works just as well as it did or maybe better. Better it might be, because I used some canning wax to lube the channel where the vane holders slide. It didn't take long at all, giving the state of mind no time to deteriorate even one tiny bit. Happily, I slipped back down to the recliner.

I even cleaned fifteen fish yesterday then turned around and caught twenty two more. Unfortunately only eight of them were of the keeping size. If this catching keeps up we'll restock our deepfreeze pronto.

We're heading out for Norwood this morning so I must get on with my getting's on..........

"You must never feel badly about making mistakes," explained Reason quietly, "as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons." -Norton Juster

April 13, 2005

A nasty looking day if you look out the window and judge it only because of the rainy foggy wind blowing weather but on the other hand a beautiful day to partake of another's imagination and read. Turn the gas fireplace on low and kickback in the old recliner and let any worries be gone. I think I'm going to like this day!

Glenda has a haircut and a stop at the grocery store on her list but that will be later this afternoon allowing her some time to wallow in this happiness too. I am a bit concerned that she might not want to wallow this morning. I do have a blind to re-string but in my mind I have the rest of my life to do it. There are times when Glenda seems to act like she thinks my days are nearing the end. If this happens to be one of those days I may be forced to let the reading go for awhile. Since happy is just a state of mind anyway, I think I can hold on to it while I work on the blind.

However, I've never re-strung a blind before. This one is huge and opens from the middle. I'm thinking it will be a simple job but before taking it down I can't be sure. Just thinking about it I can't figure out how you can pull a cord from the right hand side of the blind and pull open both sides from the middle. The same wonder is there about how it closes. I know I can figure it out but there-in lies a big possibilty that it could temporarily cause a misfire to my happy state of mind.

The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.~John Milton

April 12, 2005

I finally put the fiftieth crappie into the basket yesterday making my first caught limit for the year. It was a struggle and a wet time but worth it all so far. Now comes the cleaning part which really isn't all that complicated nor that hard to do.

Made a successful trip to the Eldon Library yesterday tho none of the suggested books were available and the computer's were down so they went un-requested. Dug around in their piles and finally come up with five that might be readable. I don't really care for older books. We like mysteries or fiction based on current times and prefer them to be of happenings in the good old USA.

This day will include a visit to the dentist followed by a much needed visit with Lena. Out of the pan into the fire. Just joking, just joking!

I got back from a short walk yesterday and thought either she had come to visit us or that Glenda was getting ready to go somewhere when I noticed a broom leaning against the wall beside the door. Just joking, just joking! When I mentioned this to Glenda the broom just flew about my head and back inflicting some moderate damage there. Boy, Glenda has a lot more strength in those arms and shoulders than one might imagine. I learned later that Glenda had only been sweeping the porch. I was able to utter through my bloodied lips that it sure did look nice.

Getting married is easy. Staying married is more difficult. Staying happily married for a lifetime should rank among the fine arts--~Roberta Flack

April 11, 2005

Rained like a... like a.... like a.... it really rained here this morning. It slacked off a little first thing so I slipped down to the dock. Sure enough it started back up big time hanging me up on the dock unless I wanted to get very wet. Anyway I did catch five crappie while stranded there. I intend to give it another shot in just a little while.

I'm thinking a visit to the Eldon Library might be a good venture for today, tho it is still 61 degrees the rainy type weather tends to keep one in the house. Reading is a good time passer. An activity that I'm mighty partial to anyway.

Typing an expression of thought or of doings while keeping them light and humorous or just interesting is a skill that I've lost or more probably one that I never had but only recently began to realize.

With that sad note comes the end........................Who gives a rat's ass anyway?

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending. Lazurus Long

April 10, 2005

Another day very similar to a lot of the others that we've been blessed to receive but it will be unique in it's own right as nothing ever stays the same, no matter what we think.

If one can waste time fishing I sure am a very wasteful person. I'm thinking that not catching anything might be called a waste of time by some but there sure is a powerful feeling of contentment that comes while casting and retrieving the lure over and over. This is especially so if fishing pretty early in the morning before the boats begin their nasty loud wave making sounds as they flash in and out of this cove. The drivers are all searching for some kind of pleasure that must be just around the point or maybe the next point. I don't know what drives them. They leave out of here as if they have a place to go but I know they usually come back having been nowhere. I think we used to do that but I have no idea what we were looking for back then either.

It is a lot like my trying to type something every day. I begin like I've got something to say speeding along with my three typing fingers only to come clear down to the end, realizing that I had again got here and as always the case, without having been nowhere.

Most people have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. - Helen Keller

April 9, 2005

Another day that is supposed to be warm enough to go shirtless again. I mowed the lawn yesterday and had to peel the old shirt off. It was a very warm springy type day. Late Sunday it will change so it's said. Oh well, into each life a little rain must fall.

I've not given the fish a chance to hook up with my lure yet this morning but the time is near. Today I can fish legally too. I ran to the store yesterday and paid $12 for the privilege. Glenda decided she didn't want her license this year. We couldn't remember nary a time that she fished last year.

Just talking about it has stirred up the desire to get on down the plank/walkway.................bye.

”A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.” - Adlai Stevenson

April 8, 2005

Woke up to a grand looking day but there remains the question; How do you keep them down on the farm after they've been to Boulder City?" We have only been home for one full day and yet I've noticed some restlessness in my partner and maybe a little touch of it within myself. I'm pretty sure it's nothing that will hang around for very long..........Too much stuff needs to be done to have your head hung up in a bunch of yesterdays!

I did catch one crappie yesterday and two this morning. Pretty gutsy considering I have no fishing license yet. If I can finagle a way I'll slip by and get them sometime today. I might pick up a few minnows too. I think that might improve the catching.

One of my cousins called yesterday to tell us that my Uncle Novia isn't doing very well. He had been in the hospital but they brought him home now. She thinks if we could come down that it would improve his mood some. She says that he is very depressed. He will be 88 on May 1 if my records are correct. We'll probably go down there to Norwood, (really really down on the farm), Monday or Tuesday.

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

April 7, 2005

A few things need to be done more than unpacking around here. A light bulb out, a couple of leaking faucets, sticks of all sizes everywhere outside, plus many many other things. The most disheartening thing was to discover that the new next door owner had taken about six feet of our property when he put his new gravel yard down. I'm sure that it was just a little mistake. All will be taken care of in due time.

That piece of broken down house next door, setting in the middle of a jungle has been transformed into a mighty good looking joint. The jungle has been cut out and only sparsely landscaped but it sure does look nice compared.

One of the priorities of this day will be a trip to the grocery store. We are without food here in this land of aplenty. Glenda was able to scrape up something to eat last evening and it was pretty tasty but hunger shouldn't be a challenge. At least not at this time and I'm hungry!

Got things to do so I'm outta here!

The average resident of Nevada gambles $846 each year in casinos.

April 6, 2005

We left Amarillo at 4:22 am Missouri time. Cleared Texas at 6:12 am. The wind was terrible! Got caught up in a very hard downpour as we tried to get through Oklahoma City which caused some unneeded stress and again some rain as we were getting out of Tulsa. Hit the blessed Missouri state line at 11:22am then drove up to our garage at 2:30pm. Home is a pretty nice place to be!

The trip was 1493.4 miles overall with 837.3 miles covered the first day in 12 hours and about 20 minutes then the second day of only 656.1 miles that took only about 10 hours. Not a bad trip no matter.............

April 5, 2005

Left Boulder City at 4:22 am Nevada time. Drove 837.3 mile to Amarillo, Texas getting to a motel at 6:45 pm Missouri time. We spent the night there. What little sleep we got was really good. Unfortunately Tomi didn't sleep well which caused Mikey some unrest that eventually led to our missing a lot of our sleep.

April 4, 2005

To finish getting things read to roll is a high priority today. Around 4:00, if things aren't finished, we may take a break as the Krohn's have invited us to join them at the Railroad Pass for a bite of supper. Surely we'll have everything done and even loaded by then. I may have time for a long walk and maybe enough time to pull some more of the weeds that have popped up where weeds aren't supposed to be.

I hate to say this but Glenda failed me yesterday. She didn't bring home a dime more than she took. As a diversion tho, she did bring home a couple of Santa Fe Salads from Applebee's. That worked just fine with me. It was twice as good as it looked.

I may not be sending another message until we get home. Even then I'm not sure when our phone and computer cable will be restarted. Glenda has been in touch with the needed persons so hopefully they are in a usable mode at this time. For sure by the time we get there.

It will take quite awhile to get things back to going when we get home so don't look for anything very soon. Ourxxxxx My hope is to get there sometime mid-afternoon or just a tad later on Wednesday. However, Glenda holds the key and she has, at least verbally, been pretty stringent with it's use, saying she didn't want to get up so early nor spend so much time on the road on the first day as we usually do. We'll see.

We'll see you later too...........I mean type.

Life is so constructed that any event involving a woman, probably does not, probably cannot, probably will not, match the expectation. ~Charlotte Bronte (w/modfi)

April 3, 2005

Yesterday my concentration must have slipped really bad...................I didn't win at anything I played! I guess I was driving home all day. Now Glenda has the ability to focus and she used some of it yesterday winning a little at every stop. She didn't start the day with much but by the time we got home she had doubled it. Still, I had enough luck to get us to and fro safely so all is good, just not quite as good as it could have been.

Today I'm thinking about staying home while Glenda takes my cards to the three places where we supposedly have free money coming. Just maybe she can bring home to me, another one or two hundred bucks. I need to work on getting a few things ready for the going home trip anyway. I may even whistle while I work. Happy times are near again. Not that it hasn't been happy here but it's a quarter mile or so beyond being old.

Our plans still see us leaving for Missouri, dark and early Tuesday morning..............

For now my blankity blank mind seems to have blanked. (Dirty old man mind?)

How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seedtime of character?-~Henry David Thoreau

April 2, 2005

An April fools joke? Glenda called me from the Fiesta to tell me my free cash, which was expected to be around $5 was worth $100 this time. She asked if I wanted to drive in and play it myself. I declined and suspected a joke but she sounded so sincere. To shorten it up, she brought me $120 home. She hadn't been joking! She had gone ahead and played it as I had suggested, turning it into $120. She also turned her free $5 into $10. Those happenings really made my happy staying at home even happier! I did give her a little of the money back to play another day.

Counting today we have only three days that we could slip in a little play if we should so desire. We still plan to leave out of here dark and early Tuesday morning. At least the savings time won't cost us anything this trip. In times past we've been caught on the road when the time changes. That hour loss is a real pain when traveling!

Glenda has a lot to do today so I'd better get off here and get outside. I go out and act like I'm doing something so Glenda won't feel like I'm fluffing off while she does all of the work. It usually works out pretty good that way. She likes to do everything her way! When I'm out and about there are a lot of problems avoided.

Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.~Albert Einstein

April 1, 2005

The Krohn's treated us to a wonderful dinner last night at the Fuego restaurant in the Fiesta. I think it had something to do with our helping them with a few things but they have helped us just as much or more. Whatever the reason, we had a great meal!

A few more stops to make today then tomorrow a few last time stops for the year............well, until sometime in November I'd say. A lot of things to do before we close up house and move on down the road. No screaming, but we will be doing a lot of culling out. There is just no way we can get all we have here in the car. We do have a promise from Randy to come by before he leaves for home in Missouri to pick up five boxes of stuff and our bowling balls. We'll work out a way to retrieve them in Missouri. What a life saver! Still, we're going to be forced to leave some stuff. I'm talking about stuff more than what we always end up forgetting. That stuff is a given.

Yep, Tuesday will begin one of our largest sustained gambles of the year. Sitting strapped into a speeding vehicle trying to find a way to steer it past all of the dangers hurtling by. That is less dangerous than the driving we do out here everyday but here we don't find any time to be lulled like you do on a long trip. Oh well, I'm sure we'll make it just fine or else we wouldn't go. Something like, "Have ye the faith of a mustard seed".

"Do not withhold good from those whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it."~ Proverbs 3: 27

March 31, 2005

A good trip was ended yesterday around 8:00 pm with mission accomplished. It did leave us with a couple of roll top desks and a few other things to unload today but that will be a piece of cake.

The Branson's got into their rental car and was soon off for their trip to Scottsdale in fine shape. Their destination is to very high class joint there but I can't remember the name. Sandy is looking forward to being pampered in the spa while Bob's main thrill will be playing a few rounds of golf on the world class golf course there. After lolling around for a couple of days they'll board a flight sometime Friday afternoon and head for home.

I Believe that by now Sallie and Annie are at the airport waiting to board their Frontier flown F9 AIRBUS JET transporter which is scheduled to leave at 8:35 this morning. It is listed that after a stop over in Denver they will board a Frontier flown BOEING 737 for the final leg of the trip to Kansas City that should arrive there at 3:50 this afternoon.

Meanwhile back here in the jungle...................We will be setting our things to pack for our trip home. That trip most probably will begin very early Monday morning. If things go as expected we should get to Rocky Mount sometime during the mid to late afternoon hours of Wednesday April 6. Of course, due to the normal happenings of a woman's mind to change in a flash and my being the wimpy hen-pecked person that I am, these plans are only good for this minute and should not be banked as fact.

"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till the other is ready, and it may be along time before they get off." -Henry David Thoreau