Wednesday in Darrington, Washington

No more pictures today, friends. Mommy is using Uncle Charlie's dial up computer and we've been here half an hour just getting these two pictures on!! I mean, I know it's country out here, but I didn't realize how backwards it is!! Sorry, Uncle Charlie, dial up is LAST century! Oh well, some is better than none, I guess.

So yesterday, Uncle Al and Daddy worked to build a roof on the second doorway....so it would look like the first one. They got it all done but the top part, so today, they went down below, to Everett, to get some plexiglass. While Uncles Al and Charlie were doing that, Daddy took our truck to the Dodge place to have it fixed. It needs a U joint for the front axle and something else that I didn't understand, so Daddy had to leave it there overnight. The parts had to be ordered, I guess. The uncles picked him up on their way down, so they all got to go shopping together. Daddy came back a nervous wreck.....he said it sounded like this...."Yak yak yak."....." Yik yik yik yik!!!" "Yak yak yak yak yak yak?" "Yik!" Yuk yuk yuk yuk yuk.....so Daddy needed a nerve pill. He used to go get a quart and a pint and another little bottle, but Mommy won't let him do that anymore. Hence the pill. Oh, down below is to Arlington, 20 miles west, or Marysville, 23 miles west, or Everett, 40 miles west and south, or Seattle, 65 miles west and south.

While they were gone, Mommy and I went down to see Uncle Gene. He lives just down the road a little, so we walked. I tried to make a friend on the way there, but the little bitch snarled at me, so Mommy said we couldn't be friends. And Uncle Gene likes me, but he won't let me kiss him. I don't get that. Mommy loves it when I kiss her, and Daddy tolerates it....but I guess non-family members aren't that way. Oh well. Uncle Gene is a very nice man. He and Mommy have been friends for a long time.....he's 80 now and has Parkinson's so he shakes a little bit and has lost his sight in one eye. But he and Mommy talk and laugh and hug and have a good time together. I'm really making so many new friends. Today we are going to a dinner party at the home of Mommy's old principal and some of her old friends are going to be there. Maybe Mom will take some pictures and then go somewhere where the internet is faster so we can share them with you. Until then, hope you are all well and in good spirits. I miss you all.....and love you, too. Juni