Trailer and Laif's pickup loaded and ready to go to Pullman, WA

Michael finishing up his breakfast while his mom and dad are looking over paperwork. Donna is multi-tasking as you can see she is holding a bottle to Hazel's mouth.

Debbie making pancakes for everyone. Erik and Kent are enjoying Debbie's labor of love.

I have not written anything on my blog for a few days so thought I should so you can catch up with what has been happening. The pictures above were taken on Saturday morning, June 6th. Michael, Rachel, Noah and Hazel were moving to Pullman Saturday morning with help from Donna, Laif and Rachel's dad. Since everything was packed up from their apt., they spent Friday night here so that they could get an early start Saturday morning. We will miss them but I know they will be fine.

We had a mini-heatwave here. We had two very hot days. On Wednesday the 3rd, it got to 89 degrees and on Thursday the 4th, it got to 90 degrees. I just love the summer weather. If I get too hot, I just turn on my air conditioner for awhile.

The first real hot day, Wednesday, Heidi came over. She got here about 9am so we could go shopping, etc. We had a great time. I did not get home until almost 3pm. Heidi is like me she loves the hot weather. We just felt like we were in California. I am sure I will see some more hot weather when Donna and I go to the midwest.

Another interesting story. I was talking to one of the younger sisters at Church, Emily. I told Emily about the trip that Donna and I are planning for July and how we are planning to see the Laura Ingalls Wilder museums. She was so excited. She said just a few months ago she started reading the "Little House on the Prairie" books. She had never read them before. She said she started watching the TV series awhile back (all those re-runs) and a friend of hers told her to read the books because they were more factual than the TV series. Besides reading the "Little House on the Prairie" books she said she has started reading some of the books written by Rose Wilder. Emily said now her dream is to go back to the midwest and see the museums. When we get back from the trip, I will have to share some pictures with her.

I had not heard from Diane for so long, it was like she fell off the face of the earth. On her carepage I know she talked about going to Disneyland but I don't think she mentioned her business trip to Orlando, Florida. Richard had picked her and Frank up at the airport after the Disneyland trip and she was only home a few hours and had to get back on a plane to fly to Florida. Her business trip was a week too. I called her Saturday to see what was going on. She says she is still sore but is very tired from all the travel. Diane will probably be starting her Radiation treatments about the 16th.

Tomorrow I plan on going to the Senior Center to the handicraft class. It is nice to get out once in awhile. There are so many more people at the Senior Center than when Clayton and I were going. There was always lots of parking when we went (that was a few years ago) but now the parking lot is almost filled. One of the ladies in the class says she comes at 8:30 so she can find a place to park. The center doesn't open until nine. I am not that dedicated. If I can't find a place to park, I will just go home or shopping or something. Debbie asked me if there was parking on the street. I said yes, but who wants to park on the street. A lot of us old people get weirder as time goes on.