You know that it's been proven as a pretty accurate fact that if you have a dorm or a house of women of menstrual age that they will after a time all get on the same schedule. Does that hold true for babies potty training?

Ever since school started and I've had both babies again and both are being potty trained, whenever one says "gotta pee pee", both of them take off for the bathroom and when I get there to turn the light on, one will be on the commode and the other on the potty chair. And they'll both pee pee! If it happens to be poopie, it's the same thing. One mentions it and they both have to go. Tell me why! It's wearing me out, just running to turn on light, wipe lil butts, is getting to me. Of course, I'm very glad thatI don't have diapers to contend with. It's much easier to do "it" the big girl way.But is it contagious?

Yesterday Danville lost it's heart. Ned Richardson was the Voice and Soul of Radio Station WBTM for many years. In addition to his memorable stint as "moderator" of Trading Post for 40 plus years, host of Ned's Place immediately following Trading Post, he was the smooth voice of the Sunday Swing Shift.This, for those of you who don't know, was an hour and a half show on Sunday morning consisting of music from the 30's,40's,50's, and an occasional 60's song. He could tell you all about the artist who did the song, when it was recorded, how many albums it sold and how nuch it cost when it first came out.

He was a treasure trove of musical trivia in addition to being knowledgable about many, many other things. His memory was phenomenal; he could probably tell you at least half of the telephone numbers of the regulars who called Trading Post.

He loved traveling and whenever he went off on one of his jaunts we could count on being entertained by his account of his travels. I think his favorite trip was to Oregon to visit his daughters and grandchildren. They were truly lucky to be loved by such a wonderful man.

In closing, let me say that while the different people who subbed for him while he was sick were great, there will never be another Ned and he will be sorely missed. Rest in peace, dear friend to us all.

It seems like a long time since I wrote anything. My computer has it's ups and downs......mostly downs.

Since I wrote last, Fara, my niece sent me three jars of peanut butter from The Peanut Butter Co. This is a shop in New York which grinds it's own peanuts and adds different "stuff" to the peanut butter. She sent cinnamon raisin swirl, which is delicious, Also chocolate dream and extra peanutty which I haven't opened yet, because I like to finish one jar before I start on another. Also, if you don't eat peanut butter fairly fast, it tends to taste rancid. Ukrops is the only place in Va. that sells this peanut butter and Fara is a long time shopper of Ukrops.

Also, Danville had its second annual Old 97 celebration this past weekend. Tommy had been spending the week with me so we went down to the Crossing at the Dan where the celebration was held. In addition to the Old 97 they had a big display of "N" model trains set up in the pepsi building. These were complete with towns, farms, factories, animals and people, cars and trucks, all in minature. The trains ran around the tracks, sometimes several at the time, and were really interesting. In fact, we enjoyed them so much that I took Chad down to see them on Sunday.

They also had a red caboose there on the tracks that you could tour and there was a guy there to tell us all about why they had cabooses on the early trains and don't now. Long ago the trains had bigger wheels and really big bearings to keep them turning smoothly.There are two openings facing forward and two facing back and men stood up in them and watched the wheels for smoke. If they saw smoke coming out from under neath, that meant the bearings were burning and they would tug on a cord that went to the engine and would alert the engineer and he would stop the train and they would take care of the burning bearing. Sometimes this meant slowing down almost to a crawl to make it to the next station or sometimes they had to disconnect the boxcar and just leave it there. I guess it depended on how bad the "burn" was.

We also spent a couple of hours in the Science Museum. The have a new exhibit called "Head to Toe" that is very interesting. Lots of hands on stuff and interactive games. Of course, we had to "do" the old stuff, too. You know, the things that are always there. Then we went to the Butterfly house for a while and checked out all the species of butterflies. Some just hatched and the wings not even dried out yet. There are lots of flowers and a little fish pond and benches to sit and enjoy nature. All in all, it was a lovely day.