I just called my parents, my usual Sunday morning call, and heard that they are suffering in 84 degree heat, sleeping under 2 fans and minimal bedclothes. And when they went up into the attic to get the fans they learned that they have bats up there. This is a real problem for my mother who is deathly afriad of them as are som many other people. It seems odd to me but the bats are nesting UNDER the floorboards in the insulation!

Yesterday Wakana cleaned all the old mangoes off the lawn. This morning she went out and filled a bag with the fruit that had fallen during the night. We had fresh mangoes for breakfast. Nice sweet mangoes.

The other day she thought to take some to Gordon and his family. She didn't think they had a tree. When we got there she realized she had left the fruit by the door so she dropped me off and ran home to get it. As she drove off Gordon's son came out from behind the house with a bunch of mangoes and the fruit picker. So I told him to meet her at the curb and offer her a mango.

Gordon's tree has the best mangoes I have ever eaten, far better than ours. Other people here on the island are jealous of his tree. Frank wants to graft a cutting from his tree onto one of his trees. I think it has to do with soil and water but I am not a botanist and Frank is.

The other day I read one of the legal notices in the paper for the first time. There was a piece of land for sale in Malojloj, just a quarter of an acre, but I got the idea that I should research the process behind these notices and the subsequent sales. Gordon has bought land this way and gave me some advice. This piece is well back from the road in a nice rural area. Tomorrow I will take a pocketful of retirement savings to the auction and see what I can do about owning a piece of Guam. Wish me luck.