HOME AT LAST

Home looks very good to us! All my plants survived the month of August, and have taken over the front yard! Thanks to helping neighbors and an automatic sprinkler system, all stayed alive and colorful.

We are trying to get back in the routine here in Iowa - this thing called JET LAG is for real! Tom and I are both waking up around 1 a.m. and are wide awake, and in the afternoon we are dragging.

My photos from the Yangtze River are coming, as promised, and my excuse is the "Beijing Crud" - which I still have. I started coughing the third day we were in China, and thanks to antibiotics taken after we got home, I am slowly recovering. I know this nasal/lung problem was caused by breathing the polluted air over there, as I am almost never sick. The cough is like none I have ever had before, too. Not fun.

More soon,

Carol