I was filling in the information for Karen that I had requested in a previous message today and measured the distance from my house to O'Reilly at 1645.87 miles. I used Mapblast.com to find this number and it sounds so far, but I feel that it's all for naught since we will have Kate Wood Gardner attending from CA so I won't get any door prizes for the longest distance traveled. And of course, there's always the possiblility that Ann Marie will show up and win the prize for the longest distance from a foreign country...that is unless Deborah Sadusky decides to join us from Germany. Maybe we can have the longest distances awards from the North, South, East and West?

Thanks so much for jumping back in Ann Marie, I was really beginning to worry about you. It's good to know you're checking in regularly . Also, thanks for reminding me of the smell in the air during the fall evenings. That's something I can't get out here, nor the variety of beautiful fall colors that I used to take for granted.