Visiting

Visiting

I spent the afternoon visiting yesterday. One of my step-daughters, along with 3 of her children (the fourth was in school) picked me up and we went for lunch. Her oldest has just started Grade One and was quite disgusted that he had to go to school, rather coming along. The twin girls will start Kindergarten today, while the youngest is 3 years old. We then picked up my mother-in-law and went to visit her sister. My mother-in-law will be 82 in October and her sister turned 80 this year, they both are much more active than I am and they both walk a mile or more every day. We had a nice visit with her, the grandchildren were quite happy to sit outside and watch the power company employees replace a transformer on the power pole right at her driveway. The twins were excited to show me their new lunch bags for school and sang a few songs for us all, and as usual, they had lots of stories to tell. It was a nice afternoon.

The youngest grand-daughter in the van.

My mother-in-law, her sister, the twins, the "baby", and my step-daughter.

While I was gone Roy built a gate to go across the driveway for when we are away, it seems strange to have to find keys for everything and try to lock everything up, as we don't normally worry about doing this.

I remembered to bring in the rain gauge last night, so that it won't freeze and break, and then of course it rained again last night.

It is damp and chilly this morning and Roy had to go to work, yuck.

7 days to go!!