We’ve had some bad storms in April… thanks to those who have been in touch to make sure all were ok here. In the first major storm, we were fortunate to only get 4″ of rain when Houston got 20″. A second storm earlier this week caused a lot of damage in Willis (10 miles from PG), but hardly any damage here. In the third storm, early this (Saturday) morning, we had 5″ of rain in a little over an hour! Here are pictures taken this morning, the first of the lake and the second of the secondary overflow from the lake. The secondary overflow should only have water going over it when the water volume is too great for the normal pipe to handle.
Ann and Alice Harris visited from New York. Elton was the elder in the meeting they went to for many years. Here they are with Elton, and then with the 3 in nursing homes Roger, Naomi and Teresa. Naomi isn’t doing well… loosing weight, not eating… is very weak. Roger and Teresa do well.
Jon and Gianine Peterson brought Diane and Leland Broughton (sister and brother) to visit. Here they’re together and then with their old friend Duane Hinkley.
John caught a bunch of fish… here he is with a bass… so we had a big fish fry when the Broughtons came… over 30 of us. Kathy and Gianine helped John fry the fish. The Hawkins boys enjoyed our new dog Sandy.
Herman Anderson came with the Makis, while my sister Ronda and Mike Rosamond were visiting. Dad got cut off in this picture. Andy and Dorlene Anderson visited Jean. Ted and Teresa Westerbur brought Ted’s parents for a visit.
Alice and I share a common birthday in April.
Elton’s family arranged for a barbershop quartet to visit PG and sing… it was very harmonious!
Jennifer and Rachel visited Teresa in the nursing home. Teresa can still play the piano. Our meeting Wed evening at Milles is shown in the second photo. The couples from left to right, Maki, Valdez (with Josh Maki behind), Mille, Newman, Hinkley, Overby and Colson.
Last month I wrote about the pecan tree grafts we had performed. Here’s two of them (on one tree) a month later. The graft on the left has a new branch growing out of the top of it. The one on the right has a new bud. We’ll have to choose between them when they get bigger. The leaves at the bottom are new branches that sprang out of the old wild root… we call them sucker branches… and cut them off. They would quickly outgrow the branches that have been grafted in.
Ken