Happy Birthday Erin! have a great day! and I really like the way you go bragh or braghless!
haha (sorry)
I'm sitting in the lobby of the West Bend motel on the lobby computer waiting for my friends to come down so I can have a waffle!...my friends from Omaha came up to visit me, and are staying here (they were grossed out by the Burr Oak in Algona)...One of us should open a hotel in Algona, Americinn is often sold out ($130 per night) the B&B was sold out, rooms from $100-$150)
My knapsack may be understocked, but, being a highly competent woman, I make up for it by having lots of tricks up my sleeves. Just another way to get things done.
I don't know if I could vote for a vegan. That's just not natural. :) Kidding, vegans, don't go oraganize a parade or anything.
"Parts of Minnesota - already walloped by heavy rains and damaging winds over the weekend - could face large hair, tornadoes and flooding Monday afternoon and evening, the National Weather Service said."
ok so, Mary Ellan is at the West Bend hotel and I'm at her house in Omaha this morning typing on her computer. Randy and Mike are both at work, Emma and Mary Laurel are still asleep. We found a couple houses we like but aren't sure we can afford. Actually, we are pretty sure we cannot afford them. But they're nice!
Tom or Nance or Joe3, do you think the Algona pool will be open fthe week of Aug. 27-30? That is the week I think we'll be home. Then we'll go to the farm, of course.
Just got back from my hair appointment which began at 10am! Oh well, the gray is gone and that's good. Em~ Yes, the pool is open until Labor Day weekend...I'm pretty sure. :-)
I was Dad's guest today at Rotary...it was very nice, and he introduced me and put a dollar in the happy comment hat and said a happy comment about Mike and I buying the business...it was nice.
Farm report. OK, so we didn't get it all painted. Brian and Molly, Ed, and Stevo and I spent a lot of the weekend sitting in the shade drinking at least as much water as beer. That's because the rest of the time we were painting in temps that reached 103 in the shade! The front and East sides and a lot of the back are done. Catie and Mia pretty much took care of themselves. Ed brought some yummy marinated boneless pork chops for sandwiches. Shortly after he left on Sunday, the power went out. No air conditioning and no water! I called Alan Norman (the farmer) and he called the power company and the whole area was out, but it came back on so we decided to stay one more night and finish as much as we could. Then a big, scary storm flew across the sky toward us - alternating bands of greenish-black and white, the temp dropped about 30 degrees and the wind started up. Power went out again. Stevo and Brian were just getting the ladders down, while Molly and I picked up all the clutter, when right overhead, a circle of sky opened up and the clouds started swirling around it, dangling writhing black snakes of cloud that were trying to form a funnel. We decided that it was time to try out the storm cellar, so we grabbed kids, lawn chairs and a lantern and headed down. Mia suddenly tried to climb through Molly as we descended into the darkness (no power) through swaths of spider webs and damp walls plastered with mud wasps nests. She said, "Let's go back, Mom. This is not good." We stayed down there until the wind died down. Dashed thru the downpour into the house where we had dinner by candlelight (steaks cooked on the grill on the front porch) and then played Trivial pursuit by lantern light while the girls watched a movie on their battery-powered DVD player. Finished up the east side this morning. Bad things: it was SO hot! It really slowed us down. And the air conditioning going out. And I had to tell Stevo he was right and I was wrong. He always insists on bringing these two 5-gallon things of water along and about six lanterns and I said we had plent of bottled water down there. But when the power went out - no pump, no water - we were able to use them to flush the toilet. And we had plenty of lanterns when the lights were out. We all went to bed sweaty and disgusting. Good things: It's always fun when Ed comes. And the power came back on late in the night, so we had air, although Stevo was too tired to prime the pump till morning. And 2/3 of the house is done. It glows. It shimmers. It blinds you when you're painting it. And Erin's birthday! Happy Birthday! Yay! I can't wait to see everyone at the farm. Hope it's cooler!
Oh - and Stevo has the front porch floor almost fixed. We'll finish it up next weekend. And the skunk family has apparently departed. We were talking with Alan Norman and asked him what you do about skunks in the barn and he shrugged and said, "Catch 'em out and shoot'em, I guess. From a distance." But it looks like there will be no skunk-shooting competition at the games this year.
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Happy Birthday to you
Have fun in all you do
Jim can clean and cook
Sit back and read a book
Go out for some fondue!
Happy Birthday, Erin!
Happy Birthday Erin!
have a great day!
and I really like the way
you go bragh or braghless!
haha (sorry)
I'm sitting in the lobby of the West Bend motel on the lobby computer waiting for my friends to come down so I can have a waffle!...my friends from Omaha came up to visit me, and are staying here (they were grossed out by the Burr Oak in Algona)...One of us should open a hotel in Algona, Americinn is often sold out ($130 per night) the B&B was sold out, rooms from $100-$150)
HBE.
That's Happy Birthday Erin.
Happy Birthday, Erin!
My knapsack may be understocked, but, being a highly competent woman, I make up for it by having lots of tricks up my sleeves. Just another way to get things done.
I don't know if I could vote for a vegan. That's just not natural. :) Kidding, vegans, don't go oraganize a parade or anything.
Nance we went with natural.
Pete
Okay. :-)
Okay, so we bought Eli and Liam, "Listen-Up," super-sonic and amazing listening devices. What were we thinking?!
From this morning's paper:
"Parts of Minnesota - already walloped by heavy rains and damaging winds over the weekend - could face large hair, tornadoes and flooding Monday afternoon and evening, the National Weather Service said."
Large hair scares me, too.
Happy birthday, Erin!
wishing you a great and fun day.
ok
so, Mary Ellan is at the West Bend hotel and I'm at her house in Omaha this morning typing on her computer. Randy and Mike are both at work, Emma and Mary Laurel are still asleep. We found a couple houses we like but aren't sure we can afford. Actually, we are pretty sure we cannot afford them. But they're nice!
Happy Birthday Erin! I'm not going to try to compete with Pat's exclamation marks. Hope you had a good one. See you in a few weeks.
Tom or Nance or Joe3, do you think the Algona pool will be open fthe week of Aug. 27-30? That is the week I think we'll be home. Then we'll go to the farm, of course.
Just got back from my hair appointment which began at 10am! Oh well, the gray is gone and that's good. Em~ Yes, the pool is open until Labor Day weekend...I'm pretty sure. :-)
GeeEmily...you didn't ask me about the Algona pool! I'll find out about the Whittemore pool if you want.
I was Dad's guest today at Rotary...it was very nice, and he introduced me and put a dollar in the happy comment hat and said a happy comment about Mike and I buying the business...it was nice.
What's the happy comment hat? I should get one for my work.
p
I love lamp.
Farm report.
OK, so we didn't get it all painted. Brian and Molly, Ed, and Stevo and I spent a lot of the weekend sitting in the shade drinking at least as much water as beer. That's because the rest of the time we were painting in temps that reached 103 in the shade! The front and East sides and a lot of the back are done. Catie and Mia pretty much took care of themselves. Ed brought some yummy marinated boneless pork chops for sandwiches. Shortly after he left on Sunday, the power went out. No air conditioning and no water! I called Alan Norman (the farmer) and he called the power company and the whole area was out, but it came back on so we decided to stay one more night and finish as much as we could. Then a big, scary storm flew across the sky toward us - alternating bands of greenish-black and white, the temp dropped about 30 degrees and the wind started up. Power went out again. Stevo and Brian were just getting the ladders down, while Molly and I picked up all the clutter, when right overhead, a circle of sky opened up and the clouds started swirling around it, dangling writhing black snakes of cloud that were trying to form a funnel. We decided that it was time to try out the storm cellar, so we grabbed kids, lawn chairs and a lantern and headed down. Mia suddenly tried to climb through Molly as we descended into the darkness (no power) through swaths of spider webs and damp walls plastered with mud wasps nests. She said, "Let's go back, Mom. This is not good." We stayed down there until the wind died down. Dashed thru the downpour into the house where we had dinner by candlelight (steaks cooked on the grill on the front porch) and then played Trivial pursuit by lantern light while the girls watched a movie on their battery-powered DVD player. Finished up the east side this morning.
Bad things: it was SO hot! It really slowed us down. And the air conditioning going out. And I had to tell Stevo he was right and I was wrong. He always insists on bringing these two 5-gallon things of water along and about six lanterns and I said we had plent of bottled water down there. But when the power went out - no pump, no water - we were able to use them to flush the toilet. And we had plenty of lanterns when the lights were out. We all went to bed sweaty and disgusting.
Good things: It's always fun when Ed comes. And the power came back on late in the night, so we had air, although Stevo was too tired to prime the pump till morning. And 2/3 of the house is done. It glows. It shimmers. It blinds you when you're painting it. And Erin's birthday! Happy Birthday! Yay! I can't wait to see everyone at the farm. Hope it's cooler!
Oh - and Stevo has the front porch floor almost fixed. We'll finish it up next weekend. And the skunk family has apparently departed. We were talking with Alan Norman and asked him what you do about skunks in the barn and he shrugged and said, "Catch 'em out and shoot'em, I guess. From a distance." But it looks like there will be no skunk-shooting competition at the games this year.
Happy Birtday Erin! (Just one)
IT WAS SOOO HOT AT THE FARM!!!! 103 IN THE SHADE.
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