I haven’t been able to pull myself away from the gymnasts in the Olympics.  Gold again...so thrilling to watch Simone Byles.

I probably spelled her name wrong?

Everything here is so dry.  My yard looks like dry wheat.  Even when it rains it doesn’t seem to help because it is so hot.

Do you remember Ernie Pyle?  The war correspondent in World War II.  Most of you aren’t old enough?  Anyway I am reading a book he wrote as he moved through Italy with the ground troops.  It is so interesting and so tragic.  I have no idea why people want power so badly that they are willing to sacrifice so many lives.

Why can’t people live in peace.  I don’t get it.