Kathy,

Sounds like you made the best decision in your trip. Maybe big brother
will put a few lumps in the kid brother's noggin if he messes up. It is
sad, or ought be for Chris, to realize that his younger siblings don't
want his company for fear he'll ruin an otherwise enjoyable trip. I guess
a brighter side is when he is on the backside of this all, he'll
definitely feel a great relief, but not before feeling the world's biggest
backside. Sixty years for your parents wow! Mine are having their fiftieth
this year and I need to come up with a special event, something to do.
I'll keep that weekend in mind and  well, yikes that is only a couple
weeks away??? I didn't realize that, chances would be slim I'm thinking as
Brenda has spent the past two weekends on the road over yonder and I
haven't gotten any work out of her on the basement project lol.

Brad


on 07:33 AM 7/24/2005, Kathy Du Bois said:
Hey Brad,
Well, we are hoping to be in Stephenson the first weekend of August.  My
parents are having a 60th wedding anniversary celebration on Saturday the
6th.  I'm not really looking forward to any of it though because of the
circumstances.  We are leaving Chris and Matt behind, with the blessing of
Chris's probation officer who would like to see us get a break.  If we
didn't go, we will disappoint my parents.  If we go with Chris, the two
younger kids don't like the idea because they are afraid that Chris will
ruin everything and, if we don't take Chris, as we are planning for now,
I"m afraid that he'll do something else stupid and then we'll get called
on
the carpet for being bad parents or something by the state.  We will
definitely be calling the house every night at midnight to make sure Chris
is keeping curfew, but then, we have to pray that he'll stay put.  We're
talking to friends and neighbors about keeping tabs on the situation, but
this is a tough one.  There is no doubt about that.  However, if you are
in
Stephenson the first weekend of August, We'd love to meet up with you!
God bless,
Kathy


At 10:13 PM 7/23/2005, you wrote:
 >Kathy,
 >
 >I'd rather the heat than cold too. Anyday and twice on Sunday Monday
 >Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday and Saturday. You ought give a heads
up
 >when you head to Michigan, Who knows, maybe we'll be headed over yonder
 >same time and arrange for a bite to eat together or something, if not
 >intruding on your family time, and if we could arrange getting over ther
 >then.
 >
 >Brad
 >
 >
 >on 06:45 PM 7/23/2005, Kathy Du Bois said:
 >Gee Brad,
 >Well now I"m depressed.  I'm hoping to visit Michigan in August
 >too.  Maybe
 >I can manage to bring some of Maine's frigidity with me for you
all.  I'll
 >say this though, I'd rather have the heat than the cold!
 >Kathy
 >
 >
 >At 09:51 AM 7/23/2005, you wrote:
 >  >It has been above norms all over the midwest too. We normally have 15
 >days
 >  >over 90 per year, we had 15 as of yesterday and we haven't gotten to
 >  >August yet where the average 15 days span occurs. We also broke
record
 >  >highs. I just sit back, take a deep breath in, and stick my tongue
out
 >at
 >  >Mother Nature for tossing all that snow and freezing temps  in the
 >winter
 >  >time lol. Humidity here has been very high too, very much Texas
weather.
 >  >
 >  >Brad
 >  >
 >  >on 10:32 PM 7/22/2005, Phil Scovell said:
 >  >Boy, it has been over 100 degrees for the past three days in Denver
and
 >in
 >  >the nineties for many days.  This hot weather is sort of uncommon for
 >  >Denver, too.  The humidity today, however was only something like 17
 >  >percent
 >  >so that helps a lot.  My office air conditioner began to die on me
today
 >  >so
 >  >I had to have my son get me a new one.  The new one will have a
remote
 >  >control so I can switch it off and on, or change to four different
 >speeds,
 >  >from my office desk.  This makes it nicer when people come to my
office
 >  >for
 >  >prayer sessions.  The air conditioner is mounted up high and through
a
 >  >wall
 >  >so it works more efficiently.  I hope my son can get it installed for
me
 >  >over the weekend.  My old one works but only if the timper is a lot
 >lower
 >  >than over 100 degrees.  I just heard the high today, a new record for
 >this
 >  >date, was 102 degrees.  We have topped new records for the last three
 >  >days.
 >  >Our normal for this time of year is 89 degrees.  They claim we will
have
 >  >some rain storms in the afternoon by Sunday and the high will only
reach
 >  >the
 >  >mid eighties.  That will be nice.  I don't normally give weather
reports
 >  >on
 >  >here but this has been so unusual for Denver, and I am bored, so I
 >thought
 >  >I
 >  >would mention it.  All we need is more email on echurch, haw.
 >  >
 >  >Phil.