Salt of the Earth

It’s so hot here now. Currently 88 inside the house 96 outside. I have several fans going- and that does help. We are supposed to be in this heat wave until Friday. Friday was 104 in Portland.

Summer is flying by before my very eyes. I forgot to mention in my cub scout camp recollection that the last day of camp Kai’s parents brought a gift for me to thank me for taking care of Kai. They gave me a beautiful sumi brush, ink, and rice paper set from Japan. I LOVE stuff like that and they remember me telling them so. It was a wonderful surprise and greatly appreciated. What kind people they are- and thank God I found their child.

seems like my friends are having a hard time now. I find it surprising that they come to me- I think I am the last person to ask about relationships. I will listen, i will sympathize, I WON’T husband bash and I will let them know I care about them. That’s what I can offer. I always thought I knew a lot about relationships- and my friends seem to think I do, but really, I don’t. I don’t know what makes them work or not work. I know you make a lot of sacrifices in relationships to make them work and sometimes not even that’s good enough. You hear people boasting all the time about what they would and wouldn’t put up with if they were in “THAT” relationship. But how can you know unless you ARE in THAT relationship? you can’t. But then again what do I know….

T