St Patrick's Day-March 17, 2012

We had the traditional St Patrick's Day dinner today. We spent most of the day at Mother's. We had good food and a nice visit. The trees and flowers are really blooming here now. The wisteria is so pretty mixed in with the new green leaves of the hardwood trees. I've seen a few dogwood trees blooming as well as lots of azaleas. Flowers bloom a little later here than on the coast. Of course the downside to the pretty flowers is the pollen. Tons of tons of the yellow stuff everywhere. You cannot escape it. We are going to run out of time before we see everybody, so we will have to return at some point and catch up. We had the chassis serviced on the land barge on Thursday and once again we were blessed with being led to honest, decent people who did a great job. I cannot tell you what a wonderful feeling that is. We are just richly blessed, period. I hope you have a restful and enjoyable day tomorrow. We will start our traveling adventure next week. We are excited to get a chance to do so. Stay tuned!