We enjoyed having the family here today. Missed those of you that could not come. After lunch, we walked to the park where Emma could play. Of course she was not the only one that played. It was good seeing Ben too.
Howie called tonight and it seems that one of his dogs bit a teenage boy today. The boy first said that he was not in their yard, but he had to have been because the dogs do not cross the invisible fence. It is so unlike his dogs or any labs, that we feel that he and the others with him must have been antaginizing the dog. Howie had been in the bathroom when he had heard the dogs really barking and getting upset. The boy came with his mother and asked if the dog had had her shots and of course they had. A few minutes after the boy and his mother came, the police showed up. Even though she had shots, she was taken to the pound for 10 days. They will be able to have her transferred to their own vet tomorrow.
Kids cross the back of Howie's lot very often. Howie has given the boy notice that if he is caught transpassing again, they will press charges. Not a good day for the Hickory Belvin family.

Got an email from Chris. He has been sick for two days, throwing up, as he said,"about 10 or more times in 3 hours". He said he didn't know what caused it, that he had eaten at Burger King the night before and at skeikhs' houses for 2 days before that. He had gotten two bags of IV fluid and some medications. Maybe he had the same thing that Lol and Amber had last weekend.

Quoteing more of his email. "We've been out bouncing around the villages again, looking at road improvements and water tank projects and a school that was started by the Texas brigade we relieved and had just gotten finished. Same ol, same ol. I
don't really take pictures any more because it's the same places over and
over again. I will start taking my camera because this one road we went down
by the Euphrates goes through what you would think was the garden of Eden,
plush, green area with lots of palm trees; a really pretty area.

Well, not much more to tell. Feeling sleepy again. I love you."

Good night to all. Love ya all, Margaret