Come one, come all!!!!

Way to go Jude, that's the way I feel today too. 
As we hit the down ward side of January Terry and I are looking forward to several visitors in the months ahead.  As I write some friends from the Villages in FL, Shirley/Jerry, are spending the weekend with us.  Terry, Shirley and several girl friends had lunch today.  The gals are not back and I noticed that Terry brought her purse so we may be in trouble!!  The place they had lunch is surrounded by nice shops.  Next weekend Terry's brother and wife will be with us.  They are spending the week near Miami.  The first week in February we are hoping Jerry/Susan Wind can get here for an over night.  They will spend the week with Susan's dad in Lakeland.  Towards the end of February Aaron/Amy and the kids will spend a week in Ft Myers as Amy's parents are there for the month of February.  We are hoping to see them twice during the week.  We just found out this morning that John/Mary and the kids will be with us for 5 nights in April, arriving Holy Saturday.  So that sounds like so much fun.  It also means that I need to get the seating done in the kitchen.  I have the wood but I just need to get working on it.  Actually I have been waiting to buy a saw and hoping Home Depot would come up with a special but no luck yet so I may just need to bit the bullet and pay the going price for a compound mitre saw.  I almost forgot.  Next week, the 26th, Jim Clasen is coming for half and day and we will go on a bike ride and have lunch.  He and Judy are spending January in Ft Myers.
I got on the tennis court this morning for the first time in a month.  It was fun.  A bit cool to start out but it did not take long to work up a sweat.  Because I played tennis for an hour and a half I did not get my run in today but will get out tomorrow again and do the 2.2 miles.  It is so hard to do that but the rewards come at the end when I step on the scale.  I have lost 10 pounds since we returned from MN and for that I am thankful.  I feel so much better when I carry less weight.  I have also been able to keep up scripture reading and journaling which has been very good. 
I went to my second writing class last night and actually got a nice compliment from the teacher for something I had written.  I know we should not live for that kind of thing but it is always nice when a person gets a pat on the back and is told to keep up the good work.  It is 3:11 PM here so I can not end with "no more coffee but I can say I think the gals are back and maybe I need to see if or how many packages they have!!