Degrassi, have a good time with your grandpa.
Robin, I know you will be glad when this weekend is in the past. I hope it will go as smoothly as possible.
It's been an eventful 24 hours here. My daughter and my "little" cousin (close to my daughter's age) came yesterday early afternoon. They've been in and out, attending all the homecoming activities. They just headed out for what's happening today, and will leave from there to go home. So all is quiet here again. It was so very good to get to visit with them for a little while. My cousin and I have a close connection but we hardly ever get to see each other. We all talked as fast as we could, but the time just wasn't long enough.
Yesterday morning my niece and I met with the dozer guy at 10:00. We had to take him all around the place to show him what needs to be done. Thought we'd be done by the time my daughter and niece arrived, but down near the river we got stuck in a mudhole!. I felt bad for the man. He is a fairly young fellow, third generation in his family's welding/dozer business. Has been away working as a mechanic so is just now learning the dozer thing. We were riding with him in his pickup truck, which was pretty new and looked exceptionally clean.
We've had drought for so many years, I guess he isn't used to mudholes either. He went out of his way to avoid several small ones, and then drove right into one that looked bigger than the others combined. Standing in water too. Well, long story....a couple of hours of fooling around. Finally my niece walked to the house and got my truck and some chain and came and pulled him out. Then we still had another hour or more of driving around to show him things.
We were tired and hungry, was 2:00 o'clock by now. My daughter and niece had eaten in town on the way in and had thoughtfully brought us some hamburgers. I don't think a hamburger ever tasted so good, and they weren't even hot or very warm by the time we got to eat them!
Nice weather here. But allergies are awful. Wishing all of you a good day. Shan, I hope your little granddaughter is better. And Noel, wishing you increasing strength and better days.