Greetings from the Sommers and Milams

April 2010 greetings from Aphrodites Rock, Cyprus:

Look like the four of you are having a great time. Keep on trucking.

June

and...

How cool!!!  And how proud it made me for you to toast my son, David, =

and his partner, Vince---- at least that is what I thought you said!!!

What a great trip you must be having and I wish I were a mouse in your =

pockets!!!

Love, Dottie

more...

How nice to be able to share a sunset with you.  April 5.  I was in
Cappadocia, Turkey, that day.  We enjoyed the same sunset.  Nice to
keep connected. 

Claire

Friends

NAILS IN THE FENCE
Make sure you
read all the way down to the last sentence.

(Most
importantly the last sentence)

There once was
a little boy who had a bad temper. His Father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence..


The first day
the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next
few weeks, as he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily
gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence. Finally the day came when the boy didn ' t lose his temper at all.


He told his
father about it and the father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his
temper.



The days
passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone.


The father
took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. He said, ' You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence.. The fence will
never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out. But It won ' t matter how many times you say I ' m sorry, the wound will still be there. A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one..

Remember that friends are very rare jewels indeed.
They make you smile and encourage you to succeed; They lend an ear, they share words of praise and they always want to open
their hearts to us.



It ' s National
Friendship Week. Show your friends how much you care.. Send this to everyone you consider a
FRIEND, even if it means sending it
back to the person who sent it to you! If it comes back to you,
you will then know you have a circle of
friends.



YOU
ARE MY FRIEND AND I AM HONORED!



Now send this
to every friend you have!! And to your
family(they need to
know that you love them too)...



Please forgive
me if I have ever left a ' hole ' in your fence.