Met friends for drinks the other night and heard some good news, they are getting married!!! Congradulations, Karen and Paul. We're very happy for you. Had planned on leaving for Home2 on Oct. 1, but will stay around to help them celebrate. Leave the next day for Canada, Minnesota, Gettysburgh, Washington DC and them Florida arriving around Oct.30.

Labor Day was a labor day and we enjoyed every minute of it. Went to Kent and spent the week end with Bryan and family. Helped seal his new fence and it looks wonderful. Maggie can now run outside and not have to be on a leash. Came home on Monday and was glad we were headed for the Tri-Cities as the traffic headed into Seattle was backed up from the top of the pass back to Ellensburgh.

Back into exercising, it's been so hard this summer to keep at it. We've been gone so much and so active working around the house that exercising just didn't fit in to our schedules. But now we are working out every morning with one of two tapes, Yoga one day and Weights the next. Plus we walk or ride our bikes seven plus miles after the work outs. Maybe we can take off some of this weight we've packed back on this summer.

When we first got home this spring had our fish pond remodeled and it turned out beautifully. Ended up with two ponds in the place of just one. One one side we have 13 gold fish and on the other 2 large Koi. Spent a week in Canada when Doug's step-father, Cecil, passed, on turning found a small fish on the Koi side. Wondering if they had a baby or if one of the goldfish somehow got to the other side.

Next had the area behind our bedroom screened in so we could sleep with our french doors open. Have a small table and two chairs out there so we can sit and have coffee and read our newspaper in the mornings. I admit we enjoy our life :)

Yesterday we walked down to the mall and saw the movie "The Help". I would recommend it as one of the better movies I've seen this year.