May Day!

It’s an overcast day and my mood fits right in with the absence of sunshine. Yeah, well. That’s life and I’ll get over it.


One “downer” for the day (of several) was learning that our upcoming mission trip to Rio Bravo, Mexico was cancelled. I was not surprised and not entirely sure I wanted to go even if the situation improved, but still the confirmation was disappointing. My concern wasn’t as much where we were going, but having to fly and pass through two airports in Texas to get there. My daughter and I went to Rio Bravo in 2007 and 2008 and knew that this might be our last opportunity to do this together. This trip was to be different from the others in that it was a combination construction/medical mission. We were going to build, but there were also doctors, dentists, nurses and pharmacists going as well.


This month’s National Geographic has an interesting photo in it of a descendant of Geronimo taken by British photographer Drew Gardner. It is modeled on the famous kneeling photo of Geronimo that we’re all familiar with. If you go to his website and click on “people”, then “descendants”, you will see others that he has posed and photographed to resemble their forbearers. Quite interesting!


You might remember I was concerned for awhile whether our four inside dogs were all going to get along. As evidenced from the picture below, they’ve all settled in together. We do have the occasional “fight” break out, usually over a coveted toy, but for the most part things are calm. Esther tends to be camera-shy, so I don’t have a decent picture of all four together. Oh, and if you look closely you can see Alice's stitches from her recent spaying. Those are gone now and they're doing just fine.