BIG BIRTHDAY BASH FOR DON 77TH DAY !

We celebrated Dons 76th bithday in style today,

Sunday, April 13th with dinner. Wannie,James

and his friend, Chase were there. We ate hommade

rolls, roast beef and gravey, asparagus, corn and

choc chip cookies. Don got phone calls from his

girls, a couple of sons--in-law and a couple of grand

kids. He had a wonderful day. Wannie gavie him a

new Tilly hat that he's excited to wear on the river crusie.He played with is new lap top for hours! 76 Years Young !

CRAZY???? ABOUT BOOKS????

I know that all of you

are crazy about books.

Me too. But...I wish

I was a super fast

fast reader so that I

could even read more!

A woman in my book

club told me that I had

weird tastes in books.

Maybe she's right. Look

at some of these titles I've

read lately: Diary of a

Mad Man; Hard Times;

Diary of a Mad Man;

Quiet Flow the Don;

The Red and the Black; Eugene Onegin; Glass Castle; Vinegar Hill; Winter of our Discontent;Angle of Repose; Moll Flanders; Grayson; The Assistant; and STILL working on Gene Christophe -- the most frustrating and l o n g e s t book I've ever tried to read!

BOOKS FOR ORPHANS

Today three ladies and I put together ten picture books (pictures cut from magazines) for little kids in orphanages. Twenty-four pages in each book: birds, fish, jungle animals, farm animals, modes of transportation, food, flowers, kids, kids, kids, seasons, music and dance, reptiles, insects and etc. It has taken us a long time to compile 240 pages but we finally did it and today we put them together. It was supposed to be a RS work activity but only three showed up! Ah, the blessings they missed!