I know many of you have been dealing with flooding and more flooding. While we aren't having huge problems here in our part of Missouri, we are having rain virtually every day! I'm sure like others, I'm really tired of it! The flooding is so devastating and destructive. Hope all of you are safe and dry.

I just returned from our NY trip and we had our award celebration at work. Things should be calmer at work for the next few months, except we have a number of meetings and trainings we have to attend. With gas prices so high, I really wish they'd come up with some other way for us to do training. We do a lot of conference calls with "go to meeting" web training sessions. But I guess that's not enough. I think we're going to be having at least one travel meeting in June and July and possibly 2 in August.

DH has been working on our yard for the last 3 weeks in between rain days. We finally came up with an idea for our front area - we're creating a sitting area/patio/rock bed beside our front porch with beds on either side of the porch area. This area is about 8 feet by 10 feet, so it should make a nice area for chairs and a small table and it's shaded most of the time in the evenings. It's coming along nicely - except he has to keep stopping for rain delay!

Hope you are all staying dry and I'm hoping that all this rain doesn't increase the mosquito population this summer from all the moisture. I absolutely detest those things!

Wishing you all sunshine,
Renee