Visitors

To me, one of life's great pleasures is welcoming old friends into our home and enjoying each other's company for a long visit. Dick Schroeder and I grew up together and experienced many things together. On Monday, he and his wife Karen arrived to stay the night with us as they journeyed to St. Paul. Their main reason for traveling through was to visit with Karen's aged mother. Coming across Canada they had stayed the previous night in Moosejaw, Sask.

Dick and I have not done much visiting over the last 50 years or so and a lot of reminiscing needed to get done. He retired from an accounting career and Karen from her job as nurse practitioner.


A highlight from most of our visitors' visits is to tour Mary's gardens. Here they inspect an arbor which caught Karen's eye, after which she told Dick she wants one too. His reaction seemed to be, "We haven't got the room in our small yard." Next year I want to remember to ask them who won out on this matter.

When they drove off the house seemed empty, but we had a good time while it lasted.