Grandma Ree's letters

 Dear Family and friends, March has been very rainy, a deluge in fact, causing the river to race by high up over its banks. The small creek that runs alongside the homes that face the river was also spilling out its banks well over its normal size. It was interesting to watch but we were never in any danger. One day, we were even surprised to wake up to snowflakes drifting down onto the already lightly covered streets and trees. It was a beautiful but totally unexpected sight. It's hard to tell about the weather these days. However, we were dumbfounded when we began spotting places inside the house that were wet. It wasn’t coming from the rain outside and evidently had been getting things wet in the back room for quite some time. That room used to be True’s sewing room, but was later transformed into an office for me. It also contains a closet with the water heater - which proved to be the culprit. True turned off the main valve so no mo...

 Dear Family and Friends, With snow still on the ground in Grants Pass, True made it home from Sedona Arizona.  She plans to stay during the time Linda has her surgery (March 4th) and during the recovery time beyond. I was delighted to have her home again, and particularly glad for her to take over running things here again, to relieve Diane and especially Linda of their responsibilities. Linda was sure that she could work part-time and still manage both households when True left, but it was an extra strain on her though she didn’t want to admit it. And of course once True was home, everything in the house was back to the way it was before she left. Which is fine with me since I no longer have much use for more than the bare essentials anyway. True brought home for me a signed copy of her published book (now available on Amazon) called “Anasazi Vision”.  Slow reader that I am, I spent the next few days reading in book-form the same ...