RAIN CAME LAST NIGHT, RELATIVES COMING TODAY

Friday, August 15, 2008

Rain blew in last night. Man, were we glad to see it here in the desert.

Relatives will “blow” in today. Man, will we be glad to see them. They live across the border (California). Hopefully they will enter our grand state legally.

For many years we lived close to these relatives and we spent a lot of time together. But for the last nineteen years we have lived in Arizona and it has been hard to be together.

I love for company to come but I am terrible at saying, “Good-bye.” I will miss them for days after they are gone.

A dear friend of ours told us that when he and his wife visited his mother and then got ready to leave, she always walked them to the car and said, “Love to see you come, hate to see you go.”

As we get older, it becomes increasingly difficult to say, “Good-bye.”

Spend as much time with your loved ones as you can—while you can!