That great soap opera, Dallas, that kept us all entertained for thirteen seasons back in the late 70's and early 80's returns on TNT this summer for an encore.  Original cast members, Larry Hagman, Linda Gray, and Patrick Duffy, will highlight the performers along with some new faces.  Don't they look great?  I know all of us who were fans will be anxious to see what this family has been up to since we last visited with them.

Received the loveliest bouquet of flowers this morning BEFORE 7 A. M. for Mother's Day from Holly, Bevan, and the Girls.  I'll take a picture and post it tomorrow or the next day.  It's a good thing the florist called me at 6:45 to tell me she would be arriving in the next ten minutes because I was still fast asleep.  Don't they know we retired folk sleep in?

Got up and put on my robe;  that's the best I could do that early, and barely got it on before she arrived.  I was so groggy that I noticed after she left that I had it on wrong side out.  Well, what did she expect!   She did apologize but said they were trying to get an early start  because they had so many deliveries for Mother's Day.  I must have been first on the list.

Even more interesting is that she asked me if a guy named Joe Something? (forgot the last name...I was barely awake) lived here also.

When I replied that he did not, she said, "REALLY!"

I checked the other side of the bed and had to report back once more that there was no one there.  Darn!  Too bad!  She was so sure Joe lived with me. " Joe, where are you, you scoundrel?  Cheating on me, I guess with some other cute senior citizen!!"

On the front page of today's paper was an article that flags will soon be going up at the DFW National Cemetery in preparation for Memorial Day.  This cemetery opened in 2000, and already there are 27,000 former vets laid to rest there.  It is also where the girls chose to have their dad interred when he passed away in 2006.  We were extremely lucky.  He is in the very first garden next to a pathway, so it is so easy to walk right to his grave site.  There's also a nice shade tree nearby.

One day a couple of years ago when we were visiting the cemetery, suddenly jets made a swoop over the cemetery with one breaking away.  Then we saw the caisson carrying the casket preceded by the riderless horse,  making its way up toward the pavilions where graveside services are held prior to interment.  We wondered who it was. 

That night on the news we learned it was the remains of a pilot who had been killed in Vietnam.  The government had been notified that a mound had been located that the Vietnamese government believed to be a downed US aircraft.  A team went to Vietnam, recovered his body and brought it back.  He was a Dallas native, so his family elected to have him laid to rest at the national cemetery here.  After some forty years, another family finally had closure.

We try to take the children to visit Kenneth's resting place as often as possible.  Taylor was 10 and Bailey was 7 when he passed, so they have fond memories of him.  They each drew pictures showing him with them as he ascends to Heaven that we placed in his casket.  Kenzie was just a baby, but she likes to go also because it helps her connect with her heritage, even though she cannot remember him.

Sorry, Martin, if I got too maudlin for you there at the end.  Just a sweet memory triggered by the picture in today's paper.

That's it for this Friday...Have a super weekend....see you next Friday with another special report on the doings in Dallas.