Hello, Friends! I sure do hope this here letter finds all of you enjoying good weather and fun times with your family! My grand babies sure are enjoying being out of school now, and they pop in to say hello to their Meemaw. I love 'em and it's so good to see more of them now since they are home on summer vacation. I really had a great time at my first ranch concert recently. Seeing all of you there makes it all like seeing family again. Recognizing so many of you at each concert truly warms my heart. These concerts at the ranch are always the best since we never know what we're gonna do, or sing. It's like all of us just get together to sing a few songs together, laugh, and have fun! It was a great surprise to have Mark Lawry to come and sing, too! I love Mark, and really enjoy seeing him perform. He's one of the funniest guys I know, and you never know what he's going to say. I hope he will come back and see us again, too! Our concert the night before, in Pigeon Forge was so much fun, and the crowd was too amazing. I love performing there, and get to see my family that lives up that way, too. We all get to catch up the family news when we get together, since we are all busy.

I've been spending time at home working on my songs. I am really enjoying my new music room at the ranch. I just go over there, lock the door, and write. It's so funny that everyone around here knows not to disturb me when I'm writin'. They don't want to see "the squaw on the warpath"! We've gotten a lot of songs done and are working on many more right now. I have had a great time writing with Shawn Camp, too. He's the boy that wrote, "Loretta Lynn's Lincoln". Friends, Shawn is the sweetest, most down to earth guy, you'd ever know. I love him. His talents sure do amaze me, too! I can't wait for all of y'all to hear the things we've been working on. I was so proud to get our new tribute to Johnny and June Carter Cash up in my museum! I could not have done that if it were not for John Carter and his sweet wife Laura. I love them so, and so proud of both of 'em. I sure do hope y'all will come and see it soon! While you're there, you'll have to go in the boutique and see my new museum t-shirts I designed! I just thought that we already have shirts for the concerts and for the ranch, so I wanted one special for my museum, too. I picked out one of my pictures taken when I first became a member of the Opry, and I'm wearing the dress I wore when I first went on that Ryman stage! I am looking forward to returning to Texas next week. Texas sure holds dear to this heart since when I first started singing, me and Jay Lee, my brother performed in every honky tonk, Texas had! Those days sure are different, especially with doing all those one night shows and traveling all piled up in a car, to get to each place. Still, friends, we had a great time! I will be going up to New York City right after we get back. I found out I'm being inducted into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame! That is such a great honor for this Kentucky girl! I have always loved to write songs and getting this, for my songwriting makes it even more special. I've always just wrote about real life, and that came easy to me. Anyone that knows me and my shows knows Doo was my best inspiration for most of these songs! But Friends, I want you all to know each of you are my best inspiration to do what I love most. That is getting on my bus and coming out to see you to sing! It don't get much better than that! Hopefully we will be near you soon so we can see you again, too! It's time for me to close this note so I can get busy around here. I wanted to write to say hello, and tell y'all I love you. You all are in my thoughts and prayers, just as our boys and girls out there protecting our freedom, too. Please remember these great individuals, always! Love you, Loretta Lynn