Cathy has a life and it isn't holding my hand editing my stories. She does it anyway. Hand holding that is. One would not believe nor understand the herculean task that goes into editing unless they have done it themselves.

She makes suggestions to clarify the story to the readers.

I don't understand? "Cathy Honey, the story is clear as a bell. I know exactly what I meant. Can't they read?"

The grammar and spelling gotchus always sneak in. Cathy asks if that is really the way I intended to spell it as a colloquialism or is it bad spelling??? Do Okies talk funny like that? Are you sure you weren't out on the tractor in the heat and sun too long before you wrote that?

Actually, Cathy is better than good finding the spelling errors and leaving the colloquialisms without asking. She must be part Okie herself? If not I'll make her an honorary Okie.

All those knudos for a good story belong to Cathy. She cleans them up where they are readable.

Garden is thinking about growing in this drouth. Might be like the wheat crop. Didn't put a combine in the field this year. No wheat to harvest. They say we are setting new drouth records every day. Worse than the Dust Bowl days. Momma and Daddy lived through that. Wish I had them now to tell me how they survived. Sure would like to write a storybook ending for the times we are living in.

Have fun with life
It's too short to take it seriously