Caught this old couple taking a breather.

Isn't this the most beautiful place to be hiking or resting?  We weren't that tired, but the bench beckoned us!  We're going to miss this beautiful woods when we go home.  We'll love our plains, though.  I'm even ready to clean house!  I'm sure it will need it and I'm ready to make it glow.  I hope we'll have some company this summer, so I'm ready to get the house into shape.  I've had some time off, so I'm ready to go back and get busy.

Saturday we will go to our friends' house in Oklahoma City.  They are great friends from way back for me and they were some of my first friends to meet Lee.  They've spent a week with us in Hawaii, so we all feel like 'blood brothers' now, I think.  Anyway, we look forward to spending a night with them and going to Sunday brunch with them before we head for home.  We'll take time out for Lee's granddaughter's wedding on Saturday night, too.  We're missing my family reunion in Tennessee for this wedding, but we sometimes have to recognize priorities and do the best we can with them.  It'll be good to be home.  I have lots of travel planned for us for the fall and then the winter.  Yee haw!

The lady who watches our house took a bad fall a couple of weeks ago, but she has managed to do a great job, anyway, and she's doing much better.  I thank God for her recovery!  She was at her house when she fell and spent a night in the hospital, but nothing was broken, and God is giving her a great recovery.  Our neighbor across the street has been filling in for her and taking care of the yard work, so we are blessed with great friends and neighbors!  Thank you, Joan and Hazel!  We owe you!