Family News

Reports from Maine are good.  Luke is attending Webelo camp at Camp Hinds where I visited when I took the kidlets home.  He'll be making lots of new friends and figuring out how to run the place someday I expect.  Luke has a very shrewd, analytical mind and has given me many pointers here on the farm.  For example - Omi, why in the world did you want so many dogs?????  Hannah is helping Annie unpack the many boxes delivered from the Dallas Palace.  She likes her periwinkle blue room with the Ikea loft bed.  Little Fergus is settling in nicely and has figured out how to climb the ladder to the upper bunk.  Eric continues to get the Pine Tree Council on track with his vision for it.  There are many meetings and dinners to attend.  The job of a Scout Executive is a way of life.  I'm hoping to get back to Maine with all the little things left behind, along with Luke's motorbike and bicycle.  Mia reports that her nurse practitioner job is coming along nicely.  She and one of her surgeons saw 35 patients in the office on Friday.  Her hours are long, making hospital rounds early in the morning, then seeing patients in the office in the afternoon.   She's learning all kinds of neat medical stuff.  Father Aaron is visiting in New Jersey now and will come up to the farm on Thursday to see me, continuing on to Maine on Saturday.  He's having fun with old friends and burning off some of that Army Chaplain stress.  He sounds so happy to be home.