Monday morning after a heavy rain (the remnants of storm Karen), we are still in Boone. Jessie (the dog) and I are in the office which has sliding glass doors to the porch. We can look out at trees turning yellow and red, and Jessie started to do a low growl…. There was a deer looking in the window! She saw Jessie and maybe saw me get up to get Chuck… she ran off and her fawn followed after her. Jessie was thanked for guarding the house..  Karla teaches every day so we will be taking Mark to a "follow up" doctor’s appointment in Boone on Tuesday and then packing the van to go "home." I’ll be dropped in LaGrange where I’ll visit with my Mom and Chuck will be heading home to Miami (with a stop to visit Peter Skipp who is trying to sell the Tampa home). Chuck will unload and then load the van with hunting gear and head north again. I’ll visit my Mom and family and Lee might have to have surgery to repair a mitral valve. Life goes on, and sometimes we have to work at Peace! I’ll pray that I bring Peace to my sister’s home. Meanwhile, we had some wonderful sunny days with Mark’s daughter Sarah visiting and lunches at cafes where we can bring "dog Jessie" culminating in a visit to Valle Crusis park yesterday where Mark and I sat side by side and painted… Well, Mark drew and I painted. Karla and Mark planted an anniversary tree that was dug up by beavers and carried away… Trees were replanted twice. This little tree is now strong and will be turning yellow in a week or two. Sometimes life is like that little tree isn’t it?! So my darlings… don’t let the beavers get you down, and if they do and they crunch up your bones and carry you off to make a dam… don’t worry, your memory or even another tree will be planted! May our memories be good ones, and may others’ memories of us be brilliant! God bless you.
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