13 CAN BE GOOD If it is August 13. Today we had Lou's cancer 3-month checkup by Dr. Hancock. His visual inspection found no new suspicious lumps and we will get the blood report Wednesday. He felt good enough to schedule the next appointment in 4 months. We also called our missionary granddaughter, Vanessa Wilcox, and she has returned safely from India and the monsoon weather. She will come visit us Thursday for the weekend when her family as well as Mark & MK will be here as well as Sylvia Grider. So it will be a fun informative weekend. Doug is bringing his wedding photos to deliver to MK this weekend also. Mark gave us a copy of the DVD that he prepared for the wedding showing photos of the bride and groom from infancy to their marraige.

I went by Cokesbury in FW to pick up SS literature for next quarter and then Mark and MK took us to eat at BooRays in Weatherford ( I guess really in Hudson Oaks). It is New Orleans food and was very good. We hadn't eaten since breakfast which made it doubly tasty.

This morning I got to spend some time at the Library board meeting before taking Lou to Dr. We got a new board member and made Joan McCowen a Director ExOfficio while she battles her newly diagnosed lung cancer.

One down part of 13 was that our daughter Kathy called early this morning with the news that Mandi Wilcox has had a miscarraige last night and we won't have a third great grandchild as soon as we had expected. She went home from the hospital today at noon and is resting there. We know something about that kind of problem. Lou miscarried her first baby when I was in the USAF at Reese AFB in Lubbock in '51.

We got home before 9 and I didn't have to drive at night. Got home just after sunset. There were some clouds in FW and now the weatherman says rainy weather may return this week. Our cottonwood trees are looking like they need some more rain.