Hello on Wednesday Morning

Dear Friends,

We had another pleasant day in Leavenworth on Tuesday. We went off to a family
working farm that has everything for children. We were there with about 10 bus
loads of school children. I told everyone that the weather was going to be
relatively nice, well we were are under dressed, and only Danielle had an extra
jacket in the car. No one will listen to me anymore.
For the second day in a row, our grandchild hasn't warmed up to Grandpa.
Isabelle always goes to Grandma to have her hand held or if she wants to be
picked up. She doesn't scream, yell, or hide, but she just say "No" when I make
an offer to get close to her.

We are off to the zoo in a couple of hours. We are all dressing with layers of
clothes since it is 36 degrees out right now.

Sports -- I watched the seemingly never ending baseball game in which the Twins
were victorious. It was a smart move for the Yankees to play the winner of
Tuesday's game today at Yankee Stadium. The Minnesota Twins will arrive in New
York hungover from the celebration of the win and exhausted from the extra
inning game.
My Red Sox don't play until Thursday in Los Angeles.

There is a Wamart not to far from our son's home. It is one of the largest ones
in the United States. We might go there on Thursday since there is a 100 percent
chance of rain. Kansas is going to get their first frost this weekend.

I have been reading the Kansas Star each morning. It is like a larger version
of the Boston Globe. The same time of incidents which occur on the East Coast
happen in the Midwest. Bill Graham has a daily religious column which we don't
get back East. This religious aspect hasn't decreased the bad thing which
people do to each other or themselves.


Politics -- I have to admit that I have not been paying much attention to what
has been going on in Washington. I think health care is still on the front
burner.

Observation -- Every time that we travel to a different place in the United
States or the world, I think that I love the Northeast the most. I still like
the Northeast even though several friends have purchased properties, or rent for
months at a time in warmer climates like Florida.
Is there any place in the United States that could have all four seasons as
well as the fewest natural disasters? Every place that we have been has its
drawbacks. Florida and the Georgia area is unbearable during the summer months.
When our son and his bride to be at the time was stationed in North Carolina,
and living in the Pinehusrt area, with golf courses everywhere, the summer
months were too warm.
San Diego, California was too nice almost every day of the year. If you escaped
the cities in Calfornia and built in the mountains, there is a good chance that
your house would burn to the ground by means of a wildfire. If you live in
hurricane prone areas like Florida or the Gulf Coast, you always worry about
your property making it through a storm.
We have been to some fun places like New Orleans, but us East Coast people
could never make it through a summer there because of the heat.
Parts of the country get too much water, and other parts not enough. We have
such a large natural amount of water that they draw down the lakes in the fall
in preparation of the winter snowfall. They couldn't do that in places like Las
Vegas because they don't get enough rain to fill their water supply.
You get my point! I am so glad that we live where our country had it origins.

Have to go, and prepare for the day's activities.
Talk to you soon. The Curley Lad