So Far, A Great Football Season

One of the joys we had last year at about this time while visiting Patty and her family in Naperville, IL, was going to the high school football games of our grandson, Austin. He is now a junior at Waubonsie Valley High School and his heroics continue this year. The team has started out 2-0, and Austin has been a significant factor in the fast start. After scoring the teams first touchdown of the season last week, this week he scored 4 touchdowns in a lopsided 34-14 win. Patty sent an email to us yesterday indicating that Austin has just received his first official college recruiting letter - from Penn State. Now that's a pretty good football school. His interest is in going to Iowa, and we're sure he will receive an offer from them eventually. We're very proud of him, as you can imagine.

Our day at work yesterday was another in the area that we dread - Transhiping. That's where we have to handle many heavy plastic totes while stowing the products that are in them. Some of them are heavy and it is more difficult locating empty bins in which to place the items, so there is a lot more physical work involved. We were tired at the end of the day, to say the least.

Our initial plans are pretty well set for when we leave here - projected at the end of December. Reservations are made for 3 weeks at the Orlando Thousand Trails beginning on December 31, and leaving on January 20. That gives us a little time to travel to Florida, and relax for a few weeks in the warm weather before heading west. We are working on plans for the period from February to March, during which we hope to have a summer job nailed down. Our preference is still the areas of Santa Barbara, CA, Las Vegas, NV, or southern Colorado where we have been talking to an owner of a campground in Creede, CO, not far from Durango. There is always Cody, WY again, but it is always nice to try something different, in a new area. Anyway, we would like to try to spend some time in AZ during the months of Feb-Mar.

Day 3 of our work week is a short time away, so I'll close for now...