Both of the rose bushes are still blooming. This is one of Tom's roses.

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The Family Thing

Mom and Pop, along with eight of their offspring arrived around 11:30 or so. Let's see, there was Nancy (Tom's sister) and her husband, Skip. There was Ellen (Tom's sister from Holland) and her husband Martin, and their two kids, Kevin and Christy. Tom's brother, Mike and his wife Toni arrived about forty-five minutes later after church. Missing was Mary (Tom's sister) and her husband Randy.

At Luby's, Nancy asked them to put a table together for 15, which they did, but by the time we were through the line, someone had taken one end of our table, so we put our own group together. Lunch was quite pleasant, lots of interesting conversations and some time to share the latest news with one another.

After lunch, we all went over to Mike's and Toni's new home. It is lovely, well appointed with a comfortable mix of the old and the new. There were enough plants and flowers to add a touch of elegance.

I fell in love with their kitchen. I love sinks with windows and theirs was a nice bay window with a view of their vegetable garden (small but huge in comparison to mine.)

Teresa called tonight. It was good to hear from her. Working two jobs leaves her very little time to call and chit-chat so I'm glad she had a day off to call.

Rodney asked for help with his algebra homework. When I first wrote down the equation that he gave me, it looked like a foreign animal. A few minutes later, it suddenly came to me -- the rules, so we worked the problem, came up with an answer and then checked with the answer plugged in to the variable.

We came up with X=something else so I went back to pondering how to do this simple little linear equation, got out an old college algebra book, but couldn't figure out what I had done wrong.

It finally came to me! Ask all of those people on thediary-l how to do it. Those folks seem to know everything. Sure enough, in a few short minutes, I got responses from John, Kate, Ophelia and Arendel. And, you know what? They all matched the answer I kept getting! So I went back and double checked again, plugging the answer in the variable and sure enough, it was correct!

I'm very proud of myself.