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Here’s to a great holiday weekend!  I’m almost done painting the trim on the main floor and the guys are busy preparing the floor for carpeting.  Glad they started early, because the installer called and said he can come sooner than expected next week.  So excited!  We’re looking forward to meeting family for the State […]

A beautiful out of town wedding last Saturday and an enjoyable visit with good friends on Sunday.  The eclipse on Monday was three minutes of awesome!!!  We went to the viewing at the local college stadium with several thousand high school kids and the college marching band drummers — so fun!!   Now I’m back to […]

Bought our eclipse glasses so we are ready!  We are near the middle of the totality swath crossing the US from Oregon to the Carolinas.  We’ll only have two minutes of total darkness here, but people from all over the country and the world are expected to arrive just to experience those two minutes — […]

Had a great family reunion last weekend.  Lots of fun and laughter and good food.  The weather was absolutely perfect — not always something to count on in August on the Great Plains.  Kids were able to play in the splashpad while adults caught up with those they hadn’t seen for a while.  I wasn’t […]

Busy week with preparation for the family reunion.  Looking forward to seeing all those cousins  with the same crazy sense of humor and intense curiosity.    This gathering is only two branches of the vast family tree that spans four  centuries in the New World and stretches around the world — amazing!!    Even more […]

Next weekend is the big family reunion.  We are so excited to be able to help host  after living so far away for so long.  Family members have been gathering in August for the past seventy years.  My mother and her younger sisters were the last ones living who attended the first reunion and it […]