Thank you Annette

We are going to Seattle in late Aug. Jim is going to marry some friends of ours. The wedding is in Gig Harbor. Some of them are going on a cruise to Alaska (we might go if we can come up with the money) otherwise we will spend some time with Brandon and Cheryl. The rest of our summer will be spent doing things that don’t cost money.

Gig Harbor is nice as it’s just over the Narrows Bridge on the Olympic Peninsula, I’m sure you’ll have fun. We too are looking for things that don’t cost money and surprisingly, there’s lots of things to do! I think today we’re going for a hike as yesterday was a long bike ride and then walk. Just going to the mountains for a picnic is a blast. We also will be doing some fishing and shooting and general exploring as that’s what boys love to do. We’re still going to try for South Dakota and Mt Rushmore, we’ll see.

Ben spent the night here for the second night in a row with Ty. The boys played until after 10pm when I made them all turn out the lights. I talked to my Mom yesterday after the Belmont (the horse race) and I think she now knows how to comment. We were talking about the cowboy owner of California Chrome and his comments after the race and while he’s generally right, it was too bad he came out and said what he said as it just makes him look like a poor loser. If he felt this way, he should have said those things before the race as they would have carried more weight. You can read the paper of you don”t know what I’m talking about but he basically called all the other owners who didn’t race in the Preakness or Derby, cowards for saving their horses for the Belmont as they were fresher and not worn out. Anyhow it was nice to see a $10,000 horse compete and do well this year against all those multi million dollar horses.

Time for me to run, more storms today and I need to get to the gym. First up though is the newspaper (don’t know why I read it, it’s all negative crap anyhow) and finish my coffee, keep those comments coming, God Bless.