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Good morning from Collegeville,

Barby and I drove through seven states in eight days.  Our first stop was DesMoines to spend the night with Bob and Mari.  That evening was one of the few beautiful evenings of the spring.  The next day, Bob fixed us an early breakfast and we were on the way to Elbert, Colorado by 7 am.  That leg was over 700 miles and took us 12 hours.  The rest stops in Nebraska are very nice.  In Elbert, we stayed with Barby’s cousin Suzy.  Husband Dan and son Nate were traveling to Iowa to launch a homemade raft in which they planned to travel down the Mississippi River.  Check it out at www.bearnakedrafting.com    Suzy and her daughter Jordan treated us to a trip to the top of Pike’s Peak on the cog railroad.  14,000 feet high.

 

On Tuesday we left for Bozeman, Montana to visit Aunt Maggie.  We simply sat in Maggie’s living room and listened to one great story after another.  Maggie has decided to stay in the house as long as she can.  There is a herd of deer, a pheasant and ducks that come to graze in her back yard.  Uncle Bill is sadly missed.  She did give me his putter and his sand wedge.  Perhaps the karma will improve my game at the Osberg/Hagstrom Open next weekend.

I started out driving at 66 mph but I must admit that with the construction zone slowdowns, I reverted to setting the cruise on 75.  I did get 34.8 mpg on the last tank of gas.  I hope to return to my slow-down plan soon.  It takes 21 days to form a habit and 2 days to break it.

The show this week is live from Tanglewood and the Koussevitsky Music Shed in Lenox, MA.  Special guests include the Del McCoury Band, poet Donald Hall and jazz singer Inga Swearingen.  Be sure to listen to this one. 

“Learning to write, be a good person and get to heaven are all the same thing, but trying to do them all at once, is enough to drive you crazy.”   Ron Padgett