Okay, time to play catch-up! For those I miss, believe me it was unintentional!
Keep us posted....there are several tick-borne illnesses, none of them good, and I don’t want you have any of them!
Nope, no ice cream! But the cheesecake was one of the best I’ve ever tasted!
Don’t like the head gasket or the blood pressure, but do love the other numbers!!!!
I am so sorry, Deb! I’ve known you for so long and heard you talk about her so much I felt like I knew her. Thank you for sharing her with us!
Jealous. Jealous!!!!!
How beautiful!
I’m still trying to figure that out myself, Debby! <sigh>
Yayyyy for birthday trips! Where did you make your reservations? There’s a super nice hotel in Hulette - as a matter of fact at this point name me a Wyoming town and I can suggest a place to stay - and it’s a beautiful drive that takes you along the back side of the Tower. It strangely enough looks pretty much like the front side but it’s much more agricultural than commercial.
Sounds like a real headache but when needs must.....that’s quite a chunk of change.
We’re home. I don’t know how I feel right now, besides absolutely exhausted and a more than a little sad. I think it’s a Freudian thing - a feeling of profound loss. I don’t know how else to explain it. For just one short year of my life I was special and unique. During that year there were only 48 other women in the United States to share the title of Grand Master’s Lady - 48! And I didn’t even realize that until we were driving home and I was staring out the car window with tears streaming down my face while I tried to make sense of it. It sounds arrogant and stupid and over-dramatic, and no, I’m not fishing for validation. I do know my own self worth, as bad as that sounds. Ken doesn’t ‘get it’ either. As soon as the words were out of my mouth, he tried. “Honey, you ARE special to me - to the whole family.” How do I say, “Thanks, but at this precise moment it isn’t enough, not after this year.”? How totally self-centered that sounds, and I hate it!
I’m sure I’m just overtired, and this will pass quickly. I’m usually not one to hang on to this sort of trivial crap for long. But so help me I want to find the new Grand Master’s Lady, snatch her bald, and get my pin back!! People came up to me all day Saturday and Sunday and commented on how I could finally relax after this and get back to normal. And I felt that way too, right up Monday at the ladies’ luncheon when I actually had to face physically taking the pin off and giving it to the new Grand Master to pin on his Lady. Then it hit and hit hard. Oh, ignore me. I’m not saying it very well anyway.
But on a lighter note, all we heard the entire time was that this was the most relaxed, fun, and enjoyable Grand Lodge folks could remember! Table decorations, ceremonies, menus, accommodations....all of it! That felt pretty darned good! Okay, I’m gonna get some sleep - or try too. Ever been too tired to sleep? Yeah, I’m there! Love you all!
. Photos! Take a lot, come back and share a lot.
branched out this year. 
