Our great nephew is visiting from Texas and other than all the wonderful things we see in Maine, he has seen a few different things.

My night blooming cactus opened one night for him. This wasn't too different as he said he mom had one in Texas.

Sunday on the way to church Uncle Tom noticed a turtle laying her eggs on the side of the road at Labrador Pond. That photo made the Sun Journal this morning under the title, "Sign of Spring".

Planting a garden was new to Christopher and yesterday he planted tomato and pepper plants.

Helping his Uncle Tom put together an old pump for the water garden was a new experience for him, but he slept while the garden club toured the gardens.

The really unique experience was hearing his Uncle Tom preach in church on Sunday as our pastor is on vacation and Tom usually fills in for him. Christopher lived through the experience. Then we ate at the Cross Stone where the owner had just finished a marvelous fireplace with stones from all around the world. This area is known for tourmaline and many other minerals. He had a sample of most all of them. There were hundreds of stones and we each put our estimate of how many stones were actually in the massive structure. The owner happened to come in and gave us an education of all the stones and where they came from. Chris was enthrawled. I think he likes Maine.

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