With the flag flapping, sun shining, cherry, apple, plum trees, and bright red rhododendron blooming, and after four long months away, mom returned to the farm yesterday! Alan and Bob are checking Dad out from Josephine this morning and he will be joining her. It has been quite a "project" to get to this point, and of course will continue to be, but we are certain they both will be happiest at home!! With Tindy at the "helm" we have really pulled together and rallied. Hard work is not foreign to our family.

This is a very happy Mother's Day for me. the Smith Clan is hiking from West Beach, past Deception Pass to Cornet Bay and Thai Food in Anacortes. Wishing all the remarkable "mamas" in our family a terrific one, too.