From Mom, Mon 9/20/10 1:56 AM

Fav,

Darn I was hoping to catch you so we could exchange emails in real time. Oh well, I am glad to hear from you. I'm sorry you had to have the little bugger removed like this. Remember Chelsea that worked in the office? Blonde, talked way to fast? Anyways she had to have her's suddenly removed while she was working there. Your lucky it was caught early and not like what happened with Grandma when her's went south on her. Her's burst and they couldn't close the wound from it's removal and she had to go around with her stomach open until it healed from the inside out. I had to help her with it a few times when she got out of the hospital, she had to have gauze packed into the wound. Now she has a big scar from it. I was going to get you stuff tomorrow to send you. I got you a whole box of your favorite sun flower seeds, I asked at the Chevron in BG about it and they actually had an unopened box in the store room. So there is 12 bags in a box and Sandy only charged me for 11. Gave me a little discount when she found out I was sending them to you in Afghanistan. Now I guess I will have to wait on sending it. Where are you going next?

Kevin who's at Blessing with you, his mom and I exchange emails, got a staff infection on one of his knees and is in Jalalabad right now for treatment also. His mom also said that there was an earthquake there yesterday.

I think the phone bill changes every month because I send pictures from my phone to my email. It charges for data sent. I can limit that, easily. Went to Shirley's today. We worked on the roof. We finally got the vents installed for the bath and kitchen fans and the plumbing vent stacks. The rains have started and because we didn't get those on, the boy's bathroom ceiling started to get moldy from water leaking in. We still need to replaced the wood stove pipe.

I wish you were here to play with Pony, she is a sweet girl. I took with us of course. She was real fascinated with Amber's cats when we got there so we put her and a couple of cats in the bathroom together so they could resolve their issues with each other. Pony got in to the tub and stayed there. lol. We later shut the big gate and let all the big dogs out to get a chance to really run and play. Grettle discovered a chicken outside of the chicken pen and killed it. Pony didn't seem to be focused on them like she was with the cats.

I love and miss you so much. Please update me when you can. Loves, Mom. XOXOXOXOX