The Sudoku Challenge

 Here is a game with most of the numbers filled in. It shows the possibilities remaining for each open square.  I don’t see any obvious moves left.  I want to finish it without guessing….. At this point, it looks to me like the only way to finish this one is to run through various scenarios in my head or on paper.  My head isn’t big enough to hold very many consecutive imaginary moves, so that means I write it all out on paper or I guess.  (I don’t really write it out on paper.) Most of the open squares have only two possibilities each.  Only three squares have three possibilities each.  Is there something to make of that? 

baby pictures

 Our newest Granddaughter.  Don’t know her first name yet, but her middle name is Paige.    We get pictures a lot earlier now than we used to… 

Plans change

 Just before we left Edinburg we did our visit with the dermatologist.  Usually it’s just a matter of getting hit with liquid nitrogen, but this time he found something to biopsy on my back.  The next week we got the call with the results.  Positive.  Now we’ve circled back to Sandpipers for surgery on Tuesday.  If all goes well, we’ll be back on the road again on Wednesday. A 280 mile day.  Back to where we started. https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=201563872774147443355.0004e02f0c80f1461c0bf&msa=0&ll=35.46067,-87.143555&spn=21.231648,53.569336  

Fourth of July

 Bandera style. Warm evening,  Hot dogs on the grill.  Potato salad.  Beans. Drive into town to the golf course.  One neighbor, two pickup trucks.  Folding chairs in the truck beds.  Parked close enough to pass the watermelon back and forth.  Killing time with conversation until it’s dark enough.  The whole field fills in with pickup trucks and lawn chairs.  Sporadic fireworks; small town style.  Big finish.  Not completely sure when it’s done.  A couple more go off. We go home.  Still fireworks on the horizon. Perfect.