Visitors Leave and A Visitor Arrives

Kim and Kenny prepared to leave this morning as Linda was baking cookies. We said our good byes and passed out hugs and they headed north about 10 AM. Linda finished baking about 4 dozen cookies that were for the Army Reserve 623rd Division that returned from Iraq. Burkesville was having a parade through town at 2 PM for the soldiers that had returned. We finished baking the cookies and I went to split a few more pieces of wood in the hay shed. Stacey and Linda were going to walk around the hay field again so I said I would ride along with the chain saw and trailer behind the Mule. While they walked around the field, I cut the last section of the log into pieces that I could pick up and split for the wood stove. I finished sawing the wood and picked up Stacey, Linda, Missy, Pico and Poco and we rode back to the hay shed, where I backed the trailer full of wood inside the shed by the log splitter. Stacey and Linda walked the dogs to the house and I continued to split wood. They returned and helped stack the pieces that were split.
A little after sunset Pauline and Brent brought us another visitor, Trevon. He is the son of our niece, Jessica. I guess he is going to stay about a week. It was nice to see P&B in 'kid mode', where they are responsible for the actions of a child and are having to make their decisions based on what the kid needs, even if it was just for a few hours. Brent seemed worried that we might not know what to do with Trevon and as they were getting ready to leave, he started explaining some things to us, we laughed and told him we had some experience with raising kids. I think he then realized, that we had been through most of it with him.