Wednesday August 25

The feast day of St. Louis, King of France! Patron of the city of St. Louis Missouri, one of my homes away from home!

Short blog tonight. I am tired and it is late.

Family History Library called today--my English parish records and census are in--maybe I'll find more Bells and Jobsons!! That'll start tomorrow night--I get to see my dear friend Joan at the library. We have a great humorous time together--especially finding strange names in parish records!

Had a good evening--finished some church accounting, and some genealogy, wrote letters to some cousins and chatted with a recently new-found friend on-line whom I feel like I've known for years. I am smiling!!

Looking forward to Chinese tomorrow for lunch. Every Thursday a group from work goes to China Cafe on 4th Avenue North in Nashville for lunch. The usual crowd is Suzanne, Tom, Jerry, Joe and me. Sometimes Amy, Nancy and Steve tag along. Good friend Lee will be back next week after his tour of duty at training in south Georgia! Yikes south Georgia in the middle of summer! Heard he graduated today from the training! Congrats Lee!!! Way to go!!

Signing off smiling and looking forward to a great day tomorrow!

Mark