Wishful Thinking

Somewhere in the maze of buildings son John and Joellen are visiting all of the sights of Chicago then heading along a route that will take them back to Delaware and hopefully they will find time to blog and put up pictures for all of us to enjoy. I cannot think of anything better that to hop in ones car and take off at a leisurely pace and stop and see all of the interesting places along the way. Jo is a collector of antiques and books while John professes a lack of interest in such things but manages to have a room filled with collectables. Of course we, the family, take credit for this, even though he does protest.

Meanwhile, Christine is in the midst of an office move. The company is downsizing from nine thousand square feet to seven thousand square feet, so you know she and her co-workers are trying to decide what to do with all the excess furnishings. She is sweltering in high ninety to three digit figures this summer, a huge change and weather that they have never had the likes of up there in the state of Washington. Last winter they had snow, unheard of, so . . . something is changing and it takes getting used to. We continue with our foggy mornings, cool fifties to seventies and a bit of sunshine here and there. What we need is rain and I am sure once the season changes I will be complaining of our ocean storms.

Mike is back to work. Yeah!!! The housing bust has hurt the construction workers for months, but hopefully supplies are coming in and they can all get back to work. The only thing is that it postpones Mike's visit here and I never see enough of him.

Pat is entertaining two of Erin's girl friends who are visiting Brookings to pickup a sofa they purchased. It has to be a beauty for them to travel ten hours up and back. Mocha Mia got lots of extra attention so you know she will be spoiled and Pat will have to start all over when the girls leave. Puppies do require lots of loving.

Erin is in Cuba with ten friends and they are going to dance, dance, dance!!! It will be such fun to hear all her news when she gets back.

So today, I muse. Wishful thinking on my part as I'd like to be traveling and seeing all there is to see in our country and anywhere else I could get to. I have to be content with the travel channel and travel vicariously. Oh to be young and wise.

I hope your day is filled with interesting things to do and if you have a chance to travel, you will . . . maybe only a walk around the block, but know travel is good for you.