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It's been a little tough here lately. Seems I'm just a little stuck. You know how you kind of get in a funk - for really no reason - just kind of zone out of life for a while. I think I tend to do this more than most.

I worry about Sal. Almost every transition brings these kinds of feelings. I *know* she's going to be ok - but I'm always wondering what I could have done better, different.

So, school's out and Sal starts summer school on Tuesday. They both go to camp on Monday. I think both Sal and I are a little anxious about summer school. It's the whole school - camp thing. Once we do it a couple times we'll be ok.

Our baseball team is now 2-10. That sure doesn't show the progress of this team and their heart. They are really starting to play well and they've always been SO good at helping each other through tears and celebrating the success'. They are a really cool bunch of kids. They really crack me up while we sit in the dug out together.

Mabel has been extra crazy lately. She refuses to believe that she cannot chew gum. I find her with some every once in a while and then plying it out of her mouth is a real joke. She tried to hang herself outside one night. We came home from baseball and found she had somehow wound herself around things, jumped down through the deck and when she tried to jump back she got hung up. Her little feet just BARELY hitting the ground. Ugghh - she had me really worried that night - until we all started to get ready for bed and she beat me into mine. Until then she was all panty and laying down and howling if you picked her up. ughh - what a pain.

We have acquired a hot tub - or should I say hot pool. The thing is HUGE. Jeremy found it and we were #3 on the hot tub list. :-) We're getting elec hooked up today. Jeremy's guys made a very nice brick patio for it and we also bricked up the front hill. Things are *starting* to look nice around here - but it's a slow process. When all is done we hope to have a FLAT backyard too. Jeremy is gong to use our yard to dump dirt he doesn't need or can't sell and then we'll buy bricks to make a retaining wall back there. By the time it's done - maybe we can roll our wheelchairs back there . :-) It really would be nice to play horse shoes or something back there.