You will all have a good chat today, without me. We spent all day yesterday at a graduation and have another to go to later today, almost to the tip of the thumb (which is surely nonsense to non-Michiganders!), and won't be back home until chat is over. Dave will have to rescue anyone who gets lost today.
The father of the girl whose graduation we're going to is a fanatic about backhoes, and I asked him yesterday if he was getting one for us to play with at the graduation party. They are great toys; we took turns a few years ago digging a hole with one and filling it back in. So, I still have hopes he'll manage to borrow one for the party; it's a long shot...