Still alone and still lonely

Valda's still in OK and having a really good time it sounds like. Our son Chris will be joining her this Monday and will be there most all next week visiting his nephews. Actually, I'm the only one in the family that will not be there. Sort of sounds like sour grapes. It's still very hot here in Roanoke but the work is going okay. The pedometer I have tells me that I am walking about 8 miles a day on a normal day. I have lost 13 pounds since I last weighed (about 3 weeks ago), so I guess it isn't all bad.

The American Cancer Society said this week they would support me in my walk. There will be some kind of link to their Team ACS website from my website that will allow people to access their pledge information. I hope you all will touch base on this and do what you can. I know cancer is all over the place and most people have had it in their family somewhere, sometime. My mother died of it in 1970 and she had a sister who died of it in 1967. I also had a sister-in-law who passed away with cancer in 1985. It really never had too much of an impact with me though, until I got it in 2003. And then, it became a bit more real.

Wal-Mart has a program where they will match donations/pledges up to $1500 (this is per store). We are waiting on info from them on this. So...if you can, when it gets all set up, do something for someone you know. If you pledge just 1 cent a mile, that is only $37.00 or so. A nickel a mile will set you back about $185,00. And, you have 8-9 months to get it all together. Later.