August

Darn, lost what I wrote and have to start over. That's the story of my life sometimes. I think my fingers are faster than my brain.

We were busy last week entertaining a friend from Denver. She was down for a funeral of a friend of ours that passed away the weekend before. She stayed here from a week ago Sun. to this last Tues. It was nice having her here because we have been trying to get her down here ever since her son passed away last Dec. We would have preferred a better time for her visit but I guess we take what we can get. We were looking at some places for her to rent this Fall. I don't know if she ever decided on anything or not. Hopefully she will have some things available when she comes down to look again otherwise.

The funeral was very nice. Joe retired a Captain out of the Marines so they had a full military funeral. He was buried at the National Memorial cemetary here in Phoenix. He had a lot of health problems and had just had a four bypass heart surgery. He also had started dialysis and guess his system just couldn't take all that shock at one time.

We may have an old high school friend I worked at the phone company with visiting in October with her husband. We have stayed in touch all these years so will be nice to see her if she makes it. It will depend on if she has to have some back surgery or not. She'll know more later in Sept. if she will be able to come out. It's been a long time since she visited us in Colorado. Her daughters are grown and married now. We never have made it up to North Dakota to see them although we had planned on it a lot of times.

October is a nice month for company. Also may have someone else stopping over on their way to Tuscon. That will be fun also. These visits will be short visits in comparisson to when our Denver friend was here. She was here 9 days and we found we aren't used to that long a visit. We played lots of cards when she was here. I did make some extra money though! I couldn't believe how lucky I was that visit. J was glad to get his bathroom back!

We started walking again. We only did a mile today but hope to make it longer as we go along. It rained today and was pretty humid outside. We even went early. I couldn't believe I woke up that early. Now J is going to want that all the time since we get our walk in before it gets to warm. My feet did real good today so we will try it again tomorrow. We figure it will be a couple of days and then we will try and go longer. Just have to walk slower since J gets out of breath if we go to fast. We have a 1/4 mile track around the Sun Bowl which is pretty and easy to walk since the lane is gravel and not the hard cement. We just take the golf cart up there and will do our walking. I found walking on the cement for any period of time still hurts my feet so this is best for us. At least we will be out and about.

That's about it for now.
Talk with ya later.
CL