Thanks for asking! We're all pretty mopey. He got fairly homesick the first night. He's at a three-day-long mixer type of event, getting to know everyone and the campus. That seems to be offsetting the down side. It's the evenings that are getting to him. I leave the contacting to him, and I get a lot of texts in the evening. He even called me yesterday. Hopefully he'll settle in next week. I guess my difficulty with it is, you spend all of their lives bonding with them as much as possible, so that they'll be well-adjusted adults. And then it just suddenly gets cut off. It's such a strange feeling!

eden on one of our trips to the farm store. she was a social butterfly and loved interacting with anyone who wanted to pet her. this particular lady saw her and instantly wanted to give her a hug (i blacked out her face for privacy reasons). she told me she had a great dane when she was a young girl and it made her day to be able to get up and close and personal with one. eden was more than happy to oblige. 💖

River trail. One of the "perks" of Covid was that people in the neighborhood, being denied many entertaining activities, established a walking trail, skating rinks and games on the river.

Masada in Isreal, July 1990. They had elevators but it was a holiday so they weren't in use, we had to walk up 700 steps in heat. Luckily the water system was still working up there and the water was nice and cool.