Panther Dear,

Please be careful with what you eat. I'm happy to sew your costumes but it's sometimes hard to find a good cat pattern in your size. Speaking of that, Halloween will be here in another month. Have you given some thought to what you want to be? How about a Black Cat, ha ha ha? Let me know!

I had a funny thing happen! I've been doing little paintings of cactus and flowers and trees and I brought three of the pictures into a store to be framed. I was at the counter looking at different matting and the salesgirl said to me, "Grandchildren?" I didn't know what she was talking about! I looked up and said, "Yes, I have grandchildren! Why?" She said, "Were these painted by your grandchildren?" I said, "NO! They were painted by ME!"

Love to you,
Mom