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Molly vowed that she would never try traveling again by car from Prescott   to Pagosa with both little kids and grandpa in the car.  The grandchildren are not great travelers with only one parent in the car, but a second parent makes all the difference.  Barry cannot make it, plus it would be very tight with two small children in their car seats with an adult sandwiched in between them.  But Molly has such a servant’s heart; when she realized that I am just not up to traveling that long of a distance to see my Dad and she realized her grandpa really wanted to see me once more before we have a memorial service, ( no date set on that yet!) she decided to give it a try.  Someone from my Dad’s church in Phoenix will bring my Dad to Barry and Molly’s on Thursday and he will take the other front seat on Friday while Molly drives, with Connor and Makenzie in their car seats in the back.  So please be praying for all of them on Friday; Molly for stamina and relaxed nerves, the kids to sleep a bunch while they travel and otherwise be good little travelers and for my Dad that he is a good traveler too!

I had a visit from my oncology doctor today who felt that I had an idyllic, tranquil, low stress location, surrounded by beauty here on the lake with all the remaining flowers and how green everything has become again with our wonderful Arizona Monsoon this year, which continue to give some great rains with close-by spectacular thunder and lightning.  I really like this doctor, even though she only comes herself once every two months.

I’ve had a real hard time capturing the cosmos in bloom with our camera- at least where any justice is done to them.  The California Poppies are still blooming but only at about 10% of their former glory of a few weeks ago.  The delphiniums and columbines are pretty much finished- but we do have a few morning glories and some convolulus- which are non climbing morning glories.

We have a group of us friends whom we refer to as the Gang of Ten- which are 5 couples:  Paul and Cathy Henry, Mike and Bobbi Coppenger, George and Linda Muirhead, Bill and Barbara Fair and Joanie and I.  We all manage to get together once a quarter for a potluck at one of our houses – ostensibly for the birthdays of the members of the Gang that have occurred since our previous get-together.  We had such a potluck this past Sunday out on our deck!

The garage cleanout-reorganization project is just about finished, except for the big garage sale.  Joanie really did it all and I just sat in a chair out in the garage where my oxygen tube reached and made decisions.  It’s a alot easier when I realize that most of the stuff I’m deciding about getting rid of are things I most likely will never use myself again!  We thought maybe we should use most of the Z-Rays still in packages as door prizes at the memorial service- but it would probably take up too much time.

I’ve been reading a book entitled “Heaven” by Randy Alcorn.  I recently finished on by David Jeremiah entitled, “Discovering Paradise”.  I have another on the table ready to read by Joni Eareckson Tada.  All very interesting, but the one by Randy Alcorn is pretty long and exhaustive and not real easy reading for me.

Well, it’s been a while since I last wrote, so I guess this one kind of ran on. Thanks for your continued prayers!  Love, Jerry

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