Vacation Continued

Yesterday, Carole took Holly and Diane Stevenson to see the Duke Chapel and a tour of Duke.  Holly and Mrs. Stevenson went to the Duke Gardens earlier and they are gorgeous!

Dad, Mom, Neal and Diane Stevenson

I really like the "Duke Blue" plastic around the scaffolding - they are doing massive renovation projects at Duke - most to enhance student life.

The chapel entrance - the entire chapel is closed until next May.

 Then we all met at El Corral for dinner - Jim and Lori's favorite Mexican place.  Thank goodness I moved the garage around and got the treadmill repositioned so it can be used and Jane is the first user.  We open the garage door and have a fan blowing so no one dies of heat exhaustion.  

The weather forcaster says it is "chokingly humid".  And that would be correct.

Jane on the treadmill.

 Jesse didn't join us for dinner - he was out making his first adult purchase - a new truck!  When he was in Austin for his job, his company rented him a big white Dodge Ram pickup truck and he really liked it, so this is his new baby. 

Jesse's new truck!

I have a box of photos that I brought downstairs so we could go thru them and WRITE names on the back of the photos so the people could be identified.  I also started taking a photo of the ones I liked and putting them on the hard drive.  

First box of pictures to identify.

Nancy e-mailed me about the Family Weekend in Pittsburg at Carnegie Mellon ~ 

"We had a terrific time at Family Weekend in Pittsburgh.  Zoe is happy as a clam living on campus and loves what she's learning.  Can you imagine being sixteen and knowing exactly what you want to do with your life?  Drew was talking with the director of the program and was asked which child was his.  When Drew said Zoe, the man's face lit up and he raved about how wonderful she is and the future she will have.  He then told Drew that he would write a letter of recommendation for her to whatever university she is interested in attending."

I know that has never happened with me!!!! And then the bad news ~ 

"On the home front:  I was cleaning the kitchen this morning when I heard a loud boom.  I walked to the bathroom window and watched smoke billowing out of my generator.  The battery exploded like a small bomb and covered the insides with acid and small bits of metal.  As soon as the guy finishes the hazmat cleanup, he will be able to assess the damage."

I might have had a heart attack if I heard that explosion.  Our neighbor has a generator, so if it ever happens, I will at least know what it was.

Love, Leslie