Butch's Birthday Party

Leo and Keri made a big deal out of Butch's birthday yesterday. We ate at The Howling Coyote in Panora. Very good food by the way. This was followed by birthday cake and it was wonderful too. There were gifts and cards and a suitable notation of Butch's 70th. That is hard for either of us to fathom. That number has always seemed far, far away. And now it is here. Thank God it is only a number.
I forgot my camera but I tried a couple of shots with my phone. I have never mastered getting good shots with it so they are okay but I am far from proud. While getting the pictures from the phone to the computer I notice a couple taken last winter in Magnolia park. One is Butch trying to figure out what was wrong with Pecan Bills golf cart and the other is Pecan Bill and Kay's geraniums

Keri, Butch, Leo and Norma

With my Verizon connection I have noticed every day at the same time my connection gets cranky. It grinds away, taking forever to connect and gets quite annoying. So we have learned to leave it alone when it is cranky and it seems to work itself out and be okay again. We are in a cranky period as I am writing this so I may have to wait to upload pictures.
I endured my annual checkup yesterday and all my numbers were good except the weight of course. So that little visit is over for another year. Butch's were okay too when he went on Tuesday.

Been doing same ol' stuff

And getting caught up on details. Sometimes the details of life pile up and they need attention. The annual check ups, mailing in rebates,running out of band aids, getting address changes made, cleaning house, doing laundry etc. And those are the things we have dealt with so far this week. Butch has continued demo on the house in between these details. So progress is being made and it is satisfying to see things move along. I would guess you could say demo is 1/3 done.
We are settling in. Just like we do in any new location. It takes awhile but pretty soon a routine becomes discernible and you find you are doing the same things on the same days and thus the routine in established. We are creatures of habit and that is a good thing. Some order in life is necessary and welcome. It has a calming effect. So we are calm and settled and we hope you are as well.

Boat ride plus

Sunday while Butch was playing golf with Jason, Tallman's called to ask if we would like to come to Lake Panorama for a boat ride followed by sandwiches and then play some cards. We jumped at the chance to shake off the insulation and have a different kind of fun. Here are some pictures from our ride on the lake. We used to live on Lake Panorama from 1979 to 1988 so it was interesting to see our old house and many other changes.

Used to be ours

Cannot see it well for all the trees-north side

Lowest level

Relaxing on the lake- Jan Tallman, Marvin Smith and Judi Smith.

Goslings out for a practice run

Fancy recirculating pool at a fancy lake house

Curly likes to bring you gifts. He brought Butch a towel. He doesn't like to give them up however. Some dogs are above the rest in endearing ways and Curly is one of those.

Granddaughter Ann and her daughter Nina Grace

Ann

and Nina Grace...both blessed with beauty.

Snipped from Facebook

Try again for the kaleidoscope...

Some of you have told me you cannot get to the kaleidoscope from the link in the blog so I am trying to post it again. Maybe the link got broken. So try again!
http://inoyan.narod.ru/kaleidoskop.swf

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And Now...

Butch is off golfing with Jason and I just finished a short bike ride.( 4 miles) I went on the trail but didn't stop to take pictures. The trail gets a lot of use on weekends so thought it best to stay on the move.
We cleaned up the house the past few days-burning some stuff-putting some things in the dumpster and bagging up insulation. We now have 10 bags of loose insulation. Sure wish we knew of someone who could use it. We hate to fill the dumpster up with it but that may be what we have to do in the end. So things are coming along. It encourages us to stop demo and clean things up a bit now and then.
One of the bedrooms, soon to be bathroom is now free of old drywall and all the ceiling insulation is bagged up .

Now up to 10 bags of loose insulation.

Kaleidoscope

This is so cool...had to share

Click here: for a beautiful kaleidoscope to watch

 

http://inoyan.narod.ru/kaleidoskop.swf