Camp Riff-Raff

Duncan is visiting this week. So far we saw a rat at the pond and a skunk in a neighbors yard. A thunderstorm scared Rue so bad that she got out of the backyard. She was missing for two days. We went to the pound to see if she got arrested (she and Nathan, wad I gonna do?), but she was not there; and they had not picked up any dead dogs since she became missing. We looked all over town for her. This morning Andrew, our 6 year-old neighbor consistantly banged on the front door as he was frantically yelling, "We found Roof, we found Roof, she's in your backyard!" So I joyously ran to the back yard with the neighborhood kids and was happily reunited with Rue. I got the urge to take a picture of all of the neighborhood kids' barefeet. Last saturday Barry, Jacob, Duncan, and I rode the Galveston Ferry. It was the perfect time of day. The sunset was beautiful, Dolphins were surfacing, a big black ocean-going barge got so close the ferry driver had to divert from his path, and Jacob and Duncan got satisfactually wet from the big waves. I just spilled cold water all over my lap and table top. Good Grief. We have been without A/C for two days. It has been very hot. Earlier as I read through old letters and looked at old pictures, some as old as the 1800's, while listening to talk radio, it dawned on me that I was living out my life as if I was back in the day. The A/C should be back tomorrow. I am so happy Rue is back. Barry has been scraping and painting the windows. The house is starting to look good. We bought it last Friday, June 11, 2004. Our renters are moving out this month. We are considering selling that house and putting the profit into this house. Thank goodness for little a/c's in the bedrooms. Good Night...