As the World Turns

We're back to normal weather here at the Woods Edge.  We can take a breath and relax for now. 

I think it's a shame that Bob couldn't enjoy the cooler clearer weather we have now.  Paul is in seventh Heaven.  He loves the cooler weather.  I do too, but the heat doesn't bother me as much as it does Paul.    It was either raining (in the beginning - one of the queries Bob made was - Did it ever stop?) Or it was hotter than Florida.  Or as hot as Florida.  Go figure. 

Well, all I have to compare with our area here is Long Island.  The summers there could be very hot and humid, and August wasn't much better.  August up here can be like Fall.  

According to a text message,  Bob's back from Toronto, and now is in Pittsburgh with his son, Paul.  Paul will be driving back to Florida with Bob and looking for work in his field, Gunsmithing.  He graduated in May.  He has a lead on a couple of jobs near Venice.  They'll be home by Sunday.

Had a nice lunch Monday with a teacher/friend of mine from Corning.  Rosemarie and Ron were the people I visited for a time in Shanghai, ten years ago. They have a home on Waneta Lake, one of the smaller lakes around here, and they have a home at The Villages in Florida. They spent three winters in Venice beforehand.  So we've kept in touch.   We met at the Seneca Harbor Station in Watkins and sat outside. 

  So - Rosemarie has four grown children.

A prayer request for her youngest, Emily and her husband: Good Lord.  And we think we've got problems. . .

Emily got married two years ago.   Emily knew she never could carry a pregnancy to term.   She and her husband are  expecting twins by a surrogate mother who lives in Guatamala.  The surrogate has had a problem pregnancy - and is on bed rest  until the babies come.  The due date would have been December, but they're thinking - because of twins - end of October, into November.

In late September,  Emily, her husband and  Rosemarie and Ron are going down to Guatamala to be with the surrogate.  Emily's husband needs to get back to work, but Emily, her mom and dad, will stay down there til the babies are born and then bring them back up when they're able to travel.  

Guess that's all the news from this end.  How're things goin' in your neck o' the woods?