House Guests - Invited

We had a great weekend with friends visiting from Brookfield, WI. Tim & Dawn and their three lovely daughters arrived Thursday evening and left Sunday afternoon to take Missy, the oldest daughter, to UT Knoxville to start her sophomore year. We enjoyed and treasure every moment we got to spend together. Dawn and Tim we miss you soooo much!!!

Monday afternoon we had another house guest. This guest, however, was not invited or welcome. Shortly after Timm and I got home from work we were both walking into the great room when Timm noticed something on the floor. He thought at first that someone had left a hanger on the floor, but then IT MOVED. The movement also caught my attention. It didn't just move it SLITHERED and disappeared under the couch. Our uninvited guest was a SMALL king snake (non poisonous). Timm caught it with a long barbecue tongs and relocated it a ways away outside. It has been extremely dry here (no rain since mid July) so we speculate that it was looking for water. I'd gladly set a dish outside for it, perhaps down the street a bit. I'm just very grateful that Timm was home and I didn't have to deal with it alone. We didn't take time to photograph our guest but it looked similar to the one below. It was about a foot long.

House Guest - Uninvited

August 2-9, 2007 Time with Lisa and Adam !!

What a joy to be able to have Lisa HOME for her birthday !!!! We're glad that she chose to include a stop in Collierville on her big road trip. She requested the drill for the work she does with theater. She seemed happy to get it.

We enjoyed some great music from our piano with Lisa at the keyboard.

On Sunday the 5th we drove to Dallas and had a great time visiting Adam. Yes, we claim them, those are two of our four adorable "grown up" children.

Do you remember this building? It's located in downtown Dallas. Go back a bit to November of 1963. Any memories stirring now? That corner window second from the top on the right (in the lighter brick building) is where Oswald fired from. You can faintly see an X in the road in front of the car. That's the approximate location on the street of where Kennedy's car was when he was shot the first time. Looking from that window toward the street we both commented on how much closer it seemed than all the pictures seemed to make it.

Dallas 2007

This X marks the location of President Kennedy's car when he was shot the second time. The view across the street is the "grassy knoll".

Looking behind us from the sidewalk was the fence where they theorized a second shooter might have hidden. We enjoyed our tour of the Kennedy museum on the 6th floor of the former book depository in downtown Dallas. It stirred alot of memories. I particularly remember sitting on a footstool in our living room watching President Kennedy's funeral with the family. I was a third grader.

We also got to browse through the Fort Worth Art Musuem. They have an interesting collection.

Couldn't resist taking a couple of opportune photos of Adam.