marie thankyou for yours and rays hospitality for the week it was excellent ,you made me feel like your home was mine and for that i am truly thankful to you both ... 
your children are a credit to you and ray, they are  very well mannered and polite , when i was flying home, i could not stop thinking about them especially little rachel  
  
thank her for  me, for the loan of her bedroom for the week . 
  
  
i must say to everyone that irish lassie is a top lady hunter , she does not need to wait for sounder to take her out hunting ,she goes on her own, if not out with sounder , me and sounde