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I received an email with suggestions for t-shirt slogans.  I was thinking about getting this for “him”….I think it might  be quite appropriate for what will happen at Glacier National Park come September….

29 years ago – we went to Mackinaw Island on our honeymoon…we cut it pretty close to get on the ferry – so in my haste, I forgot the shoe bag…all I had were the thongs on my feet….I made it, though…never fear, we rock climbed, we walked along the water over boulders…it wasn’t easy…but I did it.  The next day my feet were so deformed from gripping my toes that I could have perched on a tree limb….

I’m still having some difficulty moving around after the falling tree incident May 31st.  I may have already told you this (this is probably just the beginning of my repeat story telling) but the MRI showed nothing torn and the only damage looks like a bruised bone – which my internet study shows can take 3 weeks to 4 months to heal…I’m a lot better but have only a month to perfect walking again…or he’d better bulk up and prepare to carry…..

Until next time… 

Country living and the Iowa State Fair

This is what a 3,012 bull at the Iowa State Fair looks like….

Big cow

U gotta love it!!

Mom called this morning to say she thought she needed to go to the ER because she thought she had pneumonia…..

She has pneumonia..she’s in the hospital…

Having cook-out tomorrow night for Aunt Frances, Jenny and “his” birthday.  I just pulled pumpkin bars out of the oven…Aunt Frances will be mad that there isn’t a birthday cake…

He’s been cleaning up the yard today – we tried to sit out around a fire tonight – it felt really good – the evening cooled off…I had just mentioned something about it being nice and quiet here in the country other than the frogs, locusts and birds when the neighbor’s kid started up the 4 wheeler – obviously dad told him to run it in low gear..just didn’t mention how fast he should be going in low gear…then when that stopped the dogs started in…first the neighbors about a mile to the east…then the neighbor closest to us – his coon hound went off – then mine started barking then up the road to the north started barking…I said screw it…I’ve got enough baking to do in the house.  I’m feeling a little irritable…decided to visit some xanga friends..that was fun..feeling a little better.

Weather is supposed to be glorious here tomorrow – I wish the same for all of you!

Until next time….

HOT

It is so humid in Iowa that it takes no activity at all to sweat when you are outside.  “He” was out working on the boat yesterday and came in and he was soaked all of the way through.  Here’s a couple of pictures of the boat stripped down. 

Boat2 BOAT

Seriously…it is not foggy out – that is the humidity fogging over my camera lens.  I had it outside quite a while waiting for it to clear and it never did….you get the idea..plus, if this were on water it would be considered an eeeerie picture 🙂

 

Lots of new xanga themes popping up amongst my friends…gets me in the mood to do some switchin’ also.  I don’t know if I shared the lastest chapter in the boat saga.  The marine repair called and said that it was going to be too difficult and time consuming to remove the deck of our boat in order to get to the cracks that need to be soddered .. so after keeping it a month, they call with this news.  Fine…but why did it take me calling you before you had the gonads to call and tell us you were not going to fix it.  %@*^  He got it home and started taking it apart…said since we are taking it down to bare bones we might as well put a new deck on it and new carpet to match the seats we bought…so..now I have two pontoons sitting on a boat trailer in my driveway.  Looks wierd.

Also…has anyone signed up on the www.goodreads.com website.  This is a pretty fun website.  Jenny and Katy and I signed up…you can share information on books you have read – this website is very user friendly.  Users can rate books and/or write reviews..also you can compare your book list with a friend’s book list and compare ratings.  Very fun.  If you sign up, let me know and I’ll message you my name…..

Working lots of extra hours this week.  Lots of folks on vacation and the day shift operator is sick so I’ll be working a couple of 11 hour shifts.  By the way, I got a letter of reprimand placed in my file for my woopsi.  I’m glad that nightmare is over.

Until next time…..