November 13, 2010. Artemas, Pa. Randy and Gaby.

They are coming to say hello to us, here at the farm in the hills of Pennsylvania, arriving in time for dinner. Now this will be their first visit to the farm, and it will be dark, so getting there will be a bit difficult, but they are smart and they use a GPS and a cell phone so we feel sure that eventually they will arrive, sooner or later.

For the past week they have been traveling in the Carolinas, just the two of them, without their two girls. Both Ken and I enjoy getting together with them. Randy is the son of Ken's first cousin Ray, from the Sudbury family, who Ken stayed with when he worked at the mines during college. So we have contact and history. Randy was wise in his choice of a wife, so we have the whole package coming to visit us tonight. They are family and we like them, definitely a good combination.

Charleston has been their home base for the week. It's a place Ken and I explored for retirement and decided the city proper was claustrophobic so we struck it off our list, but we love to visit Charleston. Great restaurants, interesting history and wonderful antiques. In one store we say a small table exactly the same as one that sits in our living room, except in their store the price was ten thousand dollars and I bought it for fifty dollars. It is identical, a liquor cabinet, pretending to be a side table. When you visit me, take care with the small table!!

We are looking forward to visiting with Randy and Gaby, even if it is for a short time.