The weather wasn’t very nice today. It was rainy and muddy and too cold to be outside much. I wouldn’t have cared except that my brother is here (hi Laura<3) with his friends and their families and they were supposed to use today to put the taps in the trees and do gun shooting. I heard people driving around earlier so they were out for a while but I don’t know what they did.

My other brother was here too, along with my sister and three of her girls. So that was nice to see them for a little bit. We hung out some last night and then more this morning. Elianna and I went to the store to get super bowl food and left the boys here with Zorro and a short list of chores. Dad was at a morning meeting for the summer homecoming in August.

Later Elianna and I went back into town. Something happened where I ended up pulling over into a parking lot and she got out and walked the half mile or whatever it was to the store. This is predictable as predictable can be and I don’t know how after years of doing this that I still cannot stop the inevitable from happening where I am unable handle a certain thing.

Later we came home and ate supper. My brother has a friend who trains dogs and he said he’d be willing to talk to us about Zorro. After supper we brought Zorro over to the CGC and my brother’s friend gave us like a half-hour crash course in dog training. He seems like he’s doing well but we definitely learned some things. I never thought I’d ever like having a dog.

But I do. My aunt sends us updates at night about my grandma. She said she told her today that she doesn’t need to stay for us and that it’s okay to go be with Jesus and all the ones she’s longing to see. It’s breaking her heart seeing her linger like this but it takes a while for everything to shut down sometimes. I wish there was a way for her to tell us what heaven is like.