Saturday, June 14th

It's a beautiful day here in Southern Nevada. Our granddaughter is visiting for a couple of weeks. We have adult children who live with us and a granddaughter too. My husband loves to work on projects. Right now he is making me a glider swing. It's sort of an old timey lawn swing with two benches. We ordered the plans from the Internet and he's followed them specifically but the swing is looking weird. He is absolutely the greatest at building anything, so he will figure it out.

I am 63 and have difficulty dealing with the aches and pains of this age. I took care of my second son for almost 10 years after he had an accident while he served in the Army. He passed away in 2000. I think the stress and strain of caring for him then losing him took a lot out of me.

I have a great friendship with my husband and we are looking forward to selling our large home and purchasing a more compact place with less required work so that we can travel without worry.

We raised four children - three boys and a girl and we also raised a grandson. My daughter developed mental problems when our grandson was three so she asked us to take care of him and we did raise him.

We are really concerned about this years election. Our world is changing so quickly. So many blame President Bush and his decisions but I don't completely. The congress has had opportunities to change things but they were too busy bashing the other party to really concentrate on the important issues of this country. I am uncertain of Obama's lack of experience and McCain's voting record. I believe our first priority should be our energy resources and drilling. I don't understand why the Chinese can drill so close to our border, but our own oil companies can't.

Well, that's it for now. Do take good care.