Dear  Emma and Eliza,

Hi!  How are you doing?  How’s school?  I’ve been watching you on Instagram, so I can see that you are both getting prettier every day.  I hope you are also behaving and being a help around the house, picking up after yourself and waking up cheerfully in the mornings.

I miss you guys.  Sonnystone looks a lot different since the season changed from Summer to Autumn.  The pool is down and I have harvested a lot of green beans, green peppers, and tomatoes.  Emma, I have been practicing saying “ar-u-guhla” instead of “ar-u-gyula” as I munch on my crop of thusly-named greens. I wish I could share…

There are a lot of flowers that are just now blooming—a monster bush of pineapple sage, and the morning glories have vined so far up the chimney that they are nearly touching the sky…

We have been seeing a lot of hummingbirds feeding on both the sage flowers and the feeders.

PawPaw took last week off work and we have been busy in the yard.  All the mosquitoes and chiggers are gone and the weather has been perfect.  We put in some new holly bushes and added a dwarf Alberta spruce on the side of the house.  I have a great idea to decorate the little tree at Christmas, all of us together.

I moved furniture upstairs and made some curtains.  There’s plenty of room for dancing now…

Oh, PawPaw says, “Hi!”

And Wink says, “Hey”…

I have to go and make some supper now.  I just wanted to tell you both how great you are and how much you are loved: You are both great and loved immensely.  Keep smiling and be kind…

Love, Hugs, Kisses, Peace, Joy, Forever and ever…

JoJo