I hear the weather is great in San Felipe; too bad I can’t say the same for Lake Chelan.  It’s been raining since last night and although we saw some blue skies this morning, it had started to rain again.  My buddy Kenneth Whitmore wrote me regarding A Child’s Garden, The Flying Sams and our American football team, The Tiburones: “I wanted to update you on the Sam’s clinic.  We had 11 patients for operations, 3 more than we had planned. But there was one ‘no show’ and one patient’s blood pressure was too high to operate on, so our final count was 9 operations.  All had their patches removed yesterday morning and all were able to read the eye chart.  The look on their faces was pricless; the last plane leaves in about one hour.  Yesterday we had our first home game, and the Rotary presented the boys their uniforms, and we had a crowd of around 200, including Ken Duffy, President of Rotary, and projects manager – I beleive his name is Jerry. Our boys played hard but the other team was a little bit better, but we are showing improvement daily. After the games some of the parents prepared lunch for both teams and many others. It was truly a great day with no serious injuries.  Anyway that should give you an update on the two events. Did get pictures of Mayor with new equipment, and video of game. Need help getting them on computer. If I can get it done, I will send you the pictures and video.” Thank you Kenny.

Jean Burnham and her group took a trip to the waterfalls on dune buggies and other vehicles.  April showers bring May flowers, but in this case, they arrived in April.  Take a look at Gary and Jean’s album of the trip to the waterfalls by clicking here.  This photo is of flowers in Eastern Washington – my daughter’s front yard.

An update on the highways from Helene Yates: “Hi Kat, just dropping off a word on the roads to SF. How surprised we were the roads were all fixed, that is from the earthquake damage.  We guessed that since the road workers and equipment was there building the new hwy. it was fairly easy to move the men there to get the roads back in shape.  We had a great time again being in PDO. in SF.  So perfect with the weather and the blue blue skies.  Living here in Phoenix we experience a lot of dust and particulates, stuff in the air and not the smog kind. Looking forward to making the full time move as soon as our home here sells. We were quite impressed with the speed in getting the roads moving. Amazing that strength didn’t do more harm and damage, but if it were my home, business or family that would be devastating, even when the count was so low.  Again thank you for the heads up, hope all is well there with you. H.” Thank you Helene and anyone who has scoop on just about anything, drop me a line.  I would love to hear from you.

I will try and write more later in the afternoon.  Please bear with me while I’m on vacation.  Stay tuned.