So what else do you want to know?

I'm going to try to catch up for several months of not communicating with people!

Here's another out-of-order picture from this spring at Grandma and Papa Owen's house. This is Graham operating Papa's remote control boat on his new pond. There sure are a lot of fun things to do at Papa's -- throw stones in the pond, ride in the pickup truck, and sometimes getting to operate the backhoe!

We've had some work done on the house this year. First, we had a wall taken down between the kitchen and the dining room. It really opened up the kitchen, which is at the back of the house, and improved the heating and cooling, too, as a bonus! We're about to have a sliding glass door installed in our breezeway to the backyard. There currently are no doors to the backyard; you have to walk all the way around the garage or the house and when Graham falls off the swingset, that's a long run! We'll eventually install a deck but are not sure that will happen this summer as the house is desperately in need of a coat or two of stain.

Chuck continues to search for answers to his ongoing pain. It's narrowed down at this point to psoriatic arthristis or post-Lyme disorder. He's on some super-strength NSAIDs right now, and is tapering off some pretty high doses of prednisone and is feely pretty yucky right now.

We had horrendous rain/thunderstorms yesterday. There was a hailstorm in Exeter with golfball sized hail which damaged our van. Chuck says we're lucky as a number of cars in the lot had smashed windshields!