Gas prices have been horrid.

We’re now on Hwy. 40 which will take us across the country. Traffic is moderate but gas prices are frightening. We just filled up at $2.529 for diesel (not the worst price we’ve paid).

We spent a couple of hours with Bob and Pauline Bedard. They have to be two of the nicest folks I’ve ever met. Sure wish they lived closer. Pauline and I share a love for hand crafts (crocheting, etc.) She even gave us a lovely crocheted doily. Hours of painstaking work. It is perfect!

Bob gave us a tour of his hammer workshop where he makes quality hammers for playing the dulcimer. The smell of the wood was grand.

Lunch couldn’t have been better: taco salad (with Pauline’s special dressing), ice tea flavored with home grown mint, hot Texas toast, and freshly baked blueberry pie. It was hard to stop and I’m still full.

They’re the kind of people you immediately like and feel at home with. I’m so glad we stopped.

We’re a tad behind schedule. We want to be at Sayre, OK, for the night and Sayre is about 115 miles west. John wants to be at our destination each night before dark (no night driving) and it’s 7:00 p.m. right now. Only good thing about being a little late, is that the temperature might drop a tad. Tonight, without power, we can’t run the air conditioner, and with it being 90+ we sure won’t be cold.