We love being outdoors on these spring nights

 I tried to email this to Ron Devlin, but no dice.

Dear Ron,

Hope this reaches you. Had a terrible time making out your tiny email address.

Your story of the "2 prominent historians lost"  read like a chapter in a novel.

How amazing that these men, who I've never heard of - Earl Ibach and Dick Shaner and also George M Meiser IX - went to such great lengths as if they were discovering where the Mississippi River started.

And though we can no longer buy cigars at Burdick's Newsstand in Hatboro, PA, which folded, I have a fondness for them and appreciated Ibach writing a history about "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar," as Sigmund Freud said.

I can just see 91-year-old Jay F. Miller sitting on the backyard patio, maybe with a nice cold glass of lemonade, reminiscing over the good ole days that sadly will never come again.

Warmly,

Ruth Z. Deming

If you watched the PBS EVENING NEWS HOUR tonight, you saw a segment about Gabby Giffords who was shot in the head 9 yrs ago.

We have all wondered how she is doing.

She is married to wise guy astronaut Scott Kelly whose book ENDURANCE is one of 70 books I am currently reading.

Gabby, who is 50, has aphasia, which makes it difficult to get words out of her head. She understands everything, though.

The French horn helps her. 

Born in 1970, here is what WIKI says about her.

Thank you Wiki for your help. 

BOUNCE BOUNCE BOUNCE

That would be neighbor George from Columbia bouncing his basketball after he erected a new basketball net on our street.

A nice healthy sport.

The size of the net can be adjusted so the growing taller girls who live next door can also play with him. He also is a soccer player.

SCOTT and I walked for a mile or so at Pennypack's THE LORD'S NEW CHURCH. I wanted to sit down on a bench and ponder the many imponderables, but he said, I came to walk, not sit.