[Marilyn]

I was in Austin with the girls on Saturday for a shower for Melissa. Sunday was my birthday, so the girls took me out to a really good restaurant there for supper Saturday evening and then I drove back home. They gave me a Yankee candle, and the absolute best birthday cards ever. I cried when I read them. They are such a blessing. Then drove home.

Sunday was quiet, went to church and out to eat with friends.

Monday we went to our place in the country that we are selling and sorted through some of my parents old things. Picked out what we want to keep and what's going to the trash. There's not much of value left, and I'm not up for a garage sale right now, so we're just getting rid of much of it. At least this is one chore to check off the list. We need to sell the place. It's more than we have time to take care of. Land has to be maintained, or nature tries to take it all back, and we just don't have the time to maintain it. I could not believe what some of it looked like. Hadn't been back there in years. Huesache coming up everywhere. A huge grapevine had completely covered a windmill and cistern out in the back pasture. It was neat to walk under, but needs to be cleared away. The bittersweet sale of this property is one monkey off our backs.