Comments from Illinois

I have chuckled a great deal reading the blog this summer. Thanks for the continuing entertainment!

Aunt Marge - I know it has been very disruptive to be completely displaced by the storm damage, but your account of the missing tooth and ensuing search for the extra set of dentures was laugh-out-loud funny (especially since I know all the characters in your story and could picture the scene at the storage unit perfectly, in my mind ). Thanks for sharing and please do post again. I had almost forgotten what a talented writer you are.

MaryJo - I have known several people who have had successful hip replacements, and the more physical therapy they had, the more complete and quick the recovery. Ed's mother's doctor didn't send her to therapy and it took her FOREVER to recuperate fully. Ed is currently having therapy on his little finger (loooong story, but it was badly dislocated while he was out of town) and has become a big fan.

Nancy - Genetics run deep - I share your photo ID obsession. I always ask family members at least twice, every time they leave for the airport, and check my wallet countless times. The one time I did not ask, Mom had left her purse hanging in my hall closet. (She had brought two purses along, and switched for some dressy event, but the wallet was in the one she left behind.) Ed was their ride to the airport and, fortunately, parked the car and took them in, instead of kicking them out at the curb like we do to all of our slightly younger guests. He called home to confirm the other purse was here, but there was no time to get it to her. She was allowed to board with NO form of ID at all. Guess she doesn't look too threatening.

Joe Warren - Any advice on fungus problems in the lawn? We have some bad stuff circulating around our area. After searching through the Scott's lawn problem book and talking to neighbors, I'm sure it's fungus. A couple of people have lost their lawns entirely. Our yard starts off great in the spring, then gets very thin in places about this time of the summer, no matter what the weather. If my memory serves me correctly, and that's a risky assumption, we have brown spot and/or summer patch. I have had it aerated every fall for the past 3 years, as the Scott's book recommended.

Elissa, Matt, and Kelly were all in this past weekend to enjoy a "two-fer" shower, baby and bridal. The original plan was a baby shower for Elissa, but Kelly's schedule was too full of working weekends and friends' weddings to come home again, so we made some phone calls, Paul and Kelly hurriedly did some registering at Bed, Bath, and Beyond, and we combined. It was great fun and a good use of resources. I would post pictures, but I was shooting with Kelly's and Elissa's cameras. Maybe they will post, when they get time.

The weather has finally cooled and the humidity is gone today, so I had better go for a walk before dark.

Love,

Janice