FAMILY FOURTH

Our daughter and son and their spouses along with two beautiful granddaughters and a granddog came to celebrate the Fourth and fix a lot of great food. Each one came in carrying huge containers of food. Mark cooked pork ribs, Mary Kathryn fixed pork chops so we were celebrating Mark returning from Pakistan where they don't serve pork. Kathy brought a great pimento cheese mix. A lot of great desserts. Mark & MK had a new ice cream freezer they had to try out with a new chocolate recipe. Came out great and we still have some around.



Mary Kathryn got special early approval to pick peaches at the Childers Farm in Cottonwood and they got a lot of great peaches. Ours aren't yet ripe on our trees in front but the squirrels are harvesting them and eating them on the upper porch, or maybe the raccoons. We see a raccoon come in every afternoon and I have to run him off. Or her. We still have the fox, but she hasn't brought her pups out this year.

Kathy came in Tuesday and went with us Thursday for Lou to have another complete CT Scan. They did three different scans ordered by Dr. Hancock. While Kathy stayed with Lou, I went to our doctor's office to pick up my new prescription and test results that show my kidneys are going south. I will FAX it to my urologist for his recommendations when I go to Lubbock July 29. Kathy says she will be here and I am fairly well decided to have cataract surgery July 28. She will drive us to Lubbock. When Dr. Hancock gets the results of Lou's latest CT Scan he may want to see her before her scheduled meeting in September.

Today my two beautiful granddaughters went to Sunday School with me and were the stars. Vanessa told about her mission trip to India last summer and got a lot of questions. Kathy and Lou came to church and I got drafted to be worship leader when the scheduled one came up sick. Keith has been working himself to death mowing and trimming the yards. He kept working this morning but came in and staked out a table for us at the Staghorn. Church ran long because of special services to celebrate Independence and communion. Vanessa went on back to Lubbock to work an 11-7 shift tonight at the hospital. Keith went back home this afternoon, but Valerie and Kathy are staying. Kathy will be here all week.