Old Maid

Don’t take this title personally as I’m referring to the card game that Lucas recently played. He is a poor loser so he hated this game until yesterday when he suggested that we change the rules slightly so the person left holding the Old Maid wins the game. Claire, Anna Marie and I played the game with him after Sunday dinner and he really enjoyed winning.

He and Miles spent a long time in the backyard shoveling and throwing snow. Today we have more snow so tomorrow will be the day I take Alberta to get her third cast on her arm. She loves removing the casts by herself but this new one should go over the elbow so maybe she won’t be able to get the best of the cast clinicians, Bruce and Richard, who are now close acquaintances competing for the cast application that stays on the longest.

My registration forms for the Katrina clean-up effort are in the mail. Diana said if she were retired she’d be interested in helping and your sister felt bad that she couldn’t go since you would be there too.

Nancy phoned from sunny Palm Desert this morning and we’re all excited about going to CA for a few days. I wish you were joining us so you’d better sign up early for next years session now. We might decide to stay longer then if all goes well during this year’s visit.

Here are the twins sharing a trike for a change. Walker can’t pedal yet so he lets Peyton ride him around.