We have pears on a tree in the backyard. I bought and planted the tree two years back not knowing that pears would grow. Fruitless, I thought. I wonder now if they are edible. I could try and eat one. Be like the pioneers who would eat some food not knowing whether it would taste good or not, nourish or make sick.

Huey Lewis was born in 1950. Sometime this year he will be fifty-seven. On television, we watched him last night sing "I Want A New Drug." I think he is in the minority of fifty-seven year olds. Singing. On stage. A song with the word "drug" in it.

This summer we are going to South Dakota with my family. Mount Rushmore. Maybe Wind Cave, Jewel Cave, Wall Drug Store, the Badlands. Also, Leslie, the kids, and I will go to Austin for a long weekend. Caleb will go to Little Rock on a mission trip. Erin and Caleb will go to E - Camp near Tyler, Texas, and while C and E are there Leslie and I will take Jeb to San Antonio's Sea World and zoo for some time just with Jeb, our youngest. Caleb and I, with some friends, will go to Omaha, Nebraska, for a portion of the College World Series. It would be an extra sweet trip if the Aggies were there but a great event nonetheless. Come November it is Walt Disney World to which we have never been.

About one week left for the senior prank to take place. Crunch time. They have to be feeling the pressure to get it accomplished.

Two Tramps In Mud Time. Robert Frost.

As Garrison Keillor says, "Be well. Do good work, and keep in touch."