Per Mom's request, I am posting a picture of the new curtains in the kitchen. Thanks for making curtains for me, Mom! I know you have been asking me for about 3 weeks to post pictures...it's too bad that I didn't get it done until you are in Italy.... sorry.

Also, since Melissa and Emily are here visiting, we went out to Ransom Canyon to see the only contour to the land you can find in the area surrounding Lubbock. Plus it was a great place to take Emily for a walk. But after all the traveling she has done and all the excitement of being on "vacation," she is very tired tonight.

"So I started to walk into the water. I won't lie to you boys, I was terrified. But I pressed on, and as I made my way past the breakers a strange calm came over me. I don't know if it was divine intervention or the kinship of all living things, but I tell you Jerry, at that moment I was a marine biologist."
- George, in "The Marine Biologist"