It's hard to realize that it really is so late in the year.  With all that's happened, I feel I've lost a bit of the summer.  Oh well,  enjoy what you have, I guess.  Since my last writing,  Kjell went in and had an operation on a hernia that was giving him problems.  He's recovering nicely.  My brother Tom was having some "tightening in the chest" when he exerted too much energy, so to be on the safe side, he checked with the doctor (Tom had had heart problems before, and had gone through bypass surgery and had a stindt put in on another occasion so he was a bit worried about it). They took some pictures of his heart and then decided they needed to do an Angiograhm ( my spelling of these medical words is probably all messed up).  During that process, they found that they needed to put in two more stindts, and so they did this while he was already on the table.  I was amazed at how fast they did everything. They kept Tom in the hospital overnight and released him the next evening.  He's home now and recovering nicely. The doctor said that his heart was in great shape and that it should not limit his activities at all and that he should expect to live as long as any other person his age who had an average heart. Great news.
Annette continues to get better.  She has a physical therapist helping her because of the accident, and she thinks that she's in better shape now than before the crash. She still is on oxygen, however, so I'm not so sure. There is no doubt that she is improving, though.  Everything else is going well.  We are expecting two new grandchildren by the end of the year.  Most things seem to be going well for the kids as well as for us.  The Lord is good to us.  I can hardly wait for Andrew to be back among us, although I know he's loving his mission and doing well there. I can see his maturing and growing via his letters, and I just want to see him again.  Well, it's late and I better get to bed.  May the Lord bless and be with you.
Sooner,  Badger Bil