Gaze in the future and what do you see. Morgan is standing tall dreaming and having fun with life. Morgan is a Lady Hornet. She is on the team that took the girls Vinita basketball game to the state class 4A playoffs having won all their district games and a few area tournaments along the way. I was a lucky grandpa who got to watch her in action in a few of these games. The team played hard in the semi-finals but gave it up to the Ft. Gibson girls by a final second lucky break. I couldn't be more proud of Morgan and her team mates. They will be back next year even stronger and I predict a state championship and I will be there cheering them on.

Two years ago Morgan was on Mt. Hood having a great time in the high country. Hiking and camping was something new to Morgan and she loved every minute of it. We hiked up to a beautiful and breath taking Tunnel Falls on Mt. Hood, Oregon. I nick named this trip Morgan Falls, because she goofed off a lot tripping and falling along the trail. I had a wonderful time getting know a different side of my grand daughter. I would love to do this again with her some day on a trip to the Goat Rocks Wilderness in Packwood, Washington.

It has been a very long time since I have written anything on this blog site and am not even sure if anyone reads this anymore. So, I am posting this to get kick stated again. I have spent the last year with Marsha building our retirement house near Grand Lake in Grove, Ok. It is a cozy 2 bedroom house with a very small yard and even smaller lake view. We have hopes of selling our Skiatook house before retirement. We call this the Grove house. This week I hope to meet with the concrete man about pouring the driveway. This summer will be more fun than last summer because the house is now liveable. We started the house about this time last year when the red bud trees were in bloom. We had the carpet installed when there was 18" of snow on the ground. We are both in agreement now that this will be our last house project as the bones and muscles don't work like they used to. But atlast the hard work is over and now we can sit on the back porch in a relaxing rocking chair sipping on a fresh brewed cup of coffee listening to the birds singing along with the chime of the ringing of the ear for you ole codgers that know what I mean.