Family Love

Romain would always address letters from his home in France to "Family Love."  If all works out for Annie, maybe she can see Romain and his "Family Ollivier" in August when she travels to Europe.

We all miss seeing Romain who spent a month with us over each of three summers back in the 1990s.  

Romain is now a cardiologist in Luxembourg, and he has a family of his own.  Annie hopes to connect with him when she does some traveling through several European countries.

For today, she will come home to spend some time with Family Love.  As will Willie.

He's been gone for the past week, fully engaged in a multicultural journalism seminar at the University of Idaho, where one of their speakers was the first Native American astronaut.  They also spent a day visiting  Coeur d'Alene Tribal grounds.

Two of Willie's students spent part of the week there, and yesterday Willie sent a phone photo to Debbie of "Bill" interviewing Idaho Vandal football coach Coach Rob Akey.

Debbie and I latched on to "Bill" as one of our favorite JV basketball players.  Bill is built like a football fullback, and during games he always wore a head band over his red hair. 

Bill's brother just graduated from West Point, and Willie has high hopes for Bill's work this next school year as the Cedar Post sports editor.

Anyway, Willie's seminar ends today, so he'll be driving home from Moscow this afternoon.  This morning Annie is driving from Seattle with RAINE, one of her colleagues at Groundspeak.  

Raine felt slighted when I didn't mention his name in the blog the other day.  I told him that if I had told readers "Raine" was coming later this week, they would start booing because they like the sunshine.  

Unfortunately, "rain" did come yesterday, but this beautiful Friday morning sets the tone for a lovely, memorable family day ahead.  

Bill plans to come home early today from work.  He's been diligent in making sure the new old motorhome is fully equipped and ready for Raine. 

Maybe this afternoon we can go do something along some trail and maybe even find a geocache or two.  This evening we plan to enjoy what Annie calls our anniversary, Bill's Father's Day and my birthday dinner.  And, for sure, Family Love will all be together.

This morning I'm hoping to complete a plan which had to go on the shelf with all the rain yesterday.  The horse trailer is ready, and later the two young horses will be loaded up and hauled to the Colburn farm.

I figured out that if I go via Selle Road to my sisters' house, the route will be all right turns.  So, having a left turn signal that doesn't work will not be a factor.

Once there, we'll saddle up Lefty and Heather.  Laurie will check out Lefty's retention of what he learned in training last fall, and I'll give Heather some more under-saddle experience.  I rode her last week in the round pen with no incidents.  She's a very willing little horse AND still for sale. 

If she does not sell, Debbie will start riding her along with me when I take Lily out.  I'm fairly sure she'll be just fine for Debbie, although we'll take extra care in the beginning to make ensure safe rides. 

In the meantime, a great day lies ahead, and the best part is that the whole Family Love with RAINE will share in all the action on this sunny summer day.  

Happy Friday to all.  Enjoy the sunshine.