November 2, 2005

Just heard from my cousin Beverly, she is going to be a great-grandma again, (this makes two!). My cousin Diane had surgery for a tumor, we'll keep her in our prayers. Lois and I will be going to Chicago on the 27th of December for 3 days to visit with my daughter Suzankaye and family. Our grandkids up there get to celebrate Christmas twice! Hope to get together with all the rest of my family also
Check out the planet Mars in the eastern sky for the next few weeks it will be the brightest in the sky. Mike has a telescope so we are going over tonite to look at it. See if we can see any Martians!! I think we'll take a trip Friday to Defiance Missouri on route 94 south. It's a nice ride along the river and we can stop at Daniel Boones home for a visit. Maybe go to Jefferson City also to the state capitol. The tour there is very interesting. Last time we were there I got to climb up a narrow winding staircase to the top of the capitol building, quite a view from up there.
Have to take down the Halloween decorations and put up Lois's Christmas stuff. We have more stuff than some stores! The entire top of our entertainment center is covered with her Christmas Village, actually some of the village has gone suburban and continued down in the basement.
Had lots of rain on the weekend but it's perfect now, around 70 degrees and a bright blue sky for the fall. Took some pictures of my kindergarten kids, I'll post them on my web site later today.