Neighbours!! It's been about two and a half months now since our neighbours moved in across the road. This is what I see when I look out my kitchen window,(except now in the summer time when the trees allow me to only see the roof). I know that in those four walls, live some of my favorite people and it's good to have them near. It's good to see the schoolbus drive up and see Granddaughter #1 get on it and head off to school. (Guess I'll have a couple of months off now). It is good to hear happy voices as the girls play out on the trampoline. It is good to see 2 or 3 little girls, holding hands and coming down the driveway to visit Gramma and Papa. (and it is good when their mommy and daddy come too). It is good to be able to walk across the road and borrow "a cup of sugar", when I am out and don't want to run to the store. It is good to be able to deliver some of that fresh baking without having to get in the car to do it. It is good to be able to look over there in the evenings, and see the lights in the windows. It is GOOD to have neighbours!!!

Friends! In our work with MDS over that last number of years we have made a lot of good friends. Consequently we have friends all over the US and Canada, and would have no problem "mennoniting our way" across either. When we part from our friends we make sure to tell them to come on down if they ever are in our neck of the woods.
Well on Monday, our friends from SK did just that. They were on a road trip, driving their 1931 vintage car home from Minnesota, and swung round to come and visit us. They arrived Monday night for supper and then Kerry took Glenn on a crop tour, and out with him when he had to go spraying.(These folks are farmers too). Edna and I stayed indoors, out of the cool wind, and visited and had a good time catching up. They spent the night and the next morning we got to enjoy the warm and sunny morning with breakfast in the screen porch, but then we had to say Good-bye again, they needed to get back home, the farming was calling. It was a good time with them and we sure were glad they decided to look us up.

Sisters are special. They know all about you and still love you! At least mine do. I have 5 sisters and 1 sister-in-law and we all get along. We were a close family, (there were nine people living in a small 5 room house) and so we had no choice. We shared beds, we shared clothes, we fought, we played, we loved each other most of the time, and not so much at other times. We no longer share the same house, we have all married and gone our own ways, but still we are sisters. We don't all get together very often, because one of us lives in another province. Last week she came to visit and we decided to spend time together.....all of us! The plan was to have brunch out in my screen porch, but the weather didn't co-operate so we went with plan B, brunch at our dining room table. We had a potluck and there was lots of good food. We got together after 10AM and ate, (lots) and drank copious amounts of coffee, visited, laughed, reminisced, took pictures, talked and laughed some more and just enjoyed spending time together and catching up with each other, sharing our lives as they are now, and remembering what things used to be like. It was GOOD! We really should do this more often. Thanks girls for making it a fun day!