Starship III

 We lost our beloved Coco on Wednesday night.  She was almost 13 years and 8 months old. We got her not long after we found out Babydoll had a collaped trachea,  I knew as attached as we both were to Babydoll I knew Cheryl would cry for weeks if something happened to her.  We found Coco at breeder in Perryville AR.  She soon captured our hearts just like Babydoll did.   We had a lot of good times together.  The most fun was probably the trip to Alaska.  Don Turney took a beautiful picture of both of the girls on that trip.  Most of you know about our NOMADS work, we even canceled one project when we found out pets were not allowed.  They went with us on all of our projects.   Fortunaly we still have the Bitsy to keep us company.   She is lost too, but probably doing better than we are.  After all, she lost her best friend and playmate.

 Bill has a Pastor friend that he likes to fish with at Lakeview.  Last Monday they decided it was a good day to fish - Any bad day fishing is better that an good day anywhere else, right??  Well...... Doug was helping Bill get into the canoe and somehow something went wrong and Bill fell in.  Billfold, cell phone, credit cards, etc., etc.  Doug happened to have a blanket, so he gave it to Bill to dry off somewhat so he could drive home.  Immediately jumped into a hot shower. About an hour later, Doug called to make sure Bill had made it home okay.  He apologized profusely. Later that afteroon Doug called again. Same thing, asking if he was okay and asked if Cheryl was mad at him for "throwing him in". Then, Tuesday we had friends over for lunch.  While we were eating, Bill got a text from Doug........ "When I got home and told my wife what happened, she accused me of deliberately tipping you over, so I could count you as a baptism for my preacher...

 We are in and somewhat settled in our new home in Texas.  We are SOOO happy to be Texans! Their motto is "Don't Mess With Texas!"   The move went smoothly.  Because of the one-lane driveway and the fact that it had rained on Saturday, the moving van driver decided it was not wise to try to make the turn into the driveway, so he had to go rent a U-Haul, back it up to the van in the road, transer everything into the  U-Haul, back the U-Haul up the driveway, unload, repeat, then repeat again.  They finished about 6:30 on Sunday night.  But surprisingly, the only thing that was damaged was a fan.  We highly recommend United Van Lines for anyone who needs to move.  They were great to work with. Grace, our housekeeper and great friend, showed up the day after the movers came, and literally unpacked all the boxes! We could not have done all this without her!  She has been such a wonderful help.  She had Christmas with us, then left t...