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Our original plans for this evening were to drive to Freistatt with friends for ErnteFest where we could drink beer, eat German food and watch the dancers do the polka.  But our friends had to cancel due to illness and we decided we really didn’t want to drive all that way just to eat and [...]

We’ve spent the last couple of days volunteering for the Price Cutter Charity Championship which is a stop on the Nationwide PGA tournament.  It’s the 20thyear for this event to be held here and we’ve both worked over half of the tourneys.  This year we once again assisted Boys and Girls Town of Missouri on [...]

A week ago I was thinking we should have planted more stuff in the garden – but after the past few days of harvesting I’m re-thinking that decision.  The green beans we wondered about are prolific and result in daily picking which then means I need to get them in the freezer ASAP to insure [...]

In my own little world away from the pesky day job, feedback is limited to the wag of Mulligan’s tail when he sees me and Burl saying “great dinner, honey” on those rare occasions when he actually is fed a home-cooked meal.  Now I’m not one of those people who does things to solicit praise [...]

Looks like a pretty simple equation, doesn’t it?  For someone who started college as a math major, it really shouldn’t be too difficult but at the birthday party we attended tonight, I would have flunked because the answer is NOT 69 – it’s 70!  The party was for our DIL’s father, Woodrow, who was born [...]

What a great summer day – I didn’t even mind having to listen to the alarm clock because when it went off I remembered I was going on a great bike ride.  I rode the short route (27.5 miles) on the Tour de Cox with my friends Matt and Sarah Kerner and had such a [...]

With our Phoenix crew in town we’re getting to experience lots of family fun times and it’s especially great that it’s summer time and we can hang out at our pool.  Mike flew in yesterday arriving around 1 and by 2:30, he was surrounded by his son Devin, niece Bella and nephew Corey in our [...]

When I was a kid in Girl Scouts we sang a song about friendship that said “Make new friends, but keep the old – one is silver and the other gold.”  I’ve thought of that song several times over the last few days as I read Jeffrey Zaslow’s book “The Girls From Ames.”   This book [...]

When we left on our trip we mourned the fact that we might not get to see the fruits of our labors in the garden – but bountiful rain and an early return have insured fresh green beans and tomatoes for us.  We’ve eaten green beans a couple of times and they are on the [...]

Part of the fun of blogging is coming up with great titles for mindless postings – but today any creative juices I have aren’t conjuring up anything too catchy for a title.  I’ll just offer up a few blurbs on life from the last few days. Sunday was the annual Shrine day at Camp Barnabas [...]