Medical procedures plus this and that

Butch and I are getting tired of medical procedures. Butch had his second one on the left side of his face yesterday. If Dr. Poag didn't get it all this time it will mean a trip to the hospital so lets all hope for a positive outcome. We will be finding out next Wednesday.
We want to still get in a trip on the Mississippi River but with all these interruptions it is hard to get it scheduled.

My trivia experience was a good one last Wednesday. We still have only two teams however those two teams change a bit each week and they tell me they are having a good time. 
For a little background, Butch and I are on Team McDugan on Thursday nights at HyVee. The name of the team is "McDugan" because Dick (Dugan) McQuillen and his wife Sharon first formed the team and chose that name because Dick was christened with the name Dugan by one of his classmates in high school and it stuck. 
Dugan is VERY good at trivia and we all gladly let him take the lead, Sometimes we argue with him and sometimes we check his answer before he turns it in so nothing wonky happens because it did once but for the most part we look to Dugan for the answers. So on Wednesday nights at the Elks, the trivia night that I put together, everyone wants to be on Dugan's team. At the Elks Club his team is known as A-Team so the other team chose B-Team for their name. A-team was doing very well in the first half and I was feeling sorry for the B-Team. It looked like they were going to be a complete bust. Those of you who play know that the Double Down 4th round can change everything and it certainly did. B-Team won!! I hope this win generates some more people coming next week.



I was asked to remove the questions from the blog by the owner of the questions so I have done so.

Odd Happenings

Yesterday on the bike trail as Virginia and I were walking we found a 3/4 full DeepWoods Off can that had obviously fallen off a bike. It was missing the little spray nozzle but thought maybe I could find a substitute so brought it home. Later in the day, Butch went golfing and as he pulled out of the driveway at the course he spotted a Bug Soother laying alongside the road. It had fallen off a golf cart most likely. They cost in the range of $7 for the 8 oz bottle. The Missouri kids loaded up on this stuff when they were here. It is an Iowa product. Safe for kids and it works. Pleasant to use.

Bug Soother: The All Natural Bug Repellent. A great way to repel those nasty bugs year round. A blend of vanilla and fresh lemony scents that smells great, but bugs hate. DEET Free, safe for children and pets, Bug Soother is a safe all-natural product that qualifies as an EPA exempted product.

So we have restocked at no cost.

It has been a hot one! 73 degrees at 6:00 am this morning. A few minutes ago I had some squirrel photo ops.

 And this is what the one up top was looking at. I think they decided it was too hot for race and chase.

Busy life!

Missouri kids went home on Sunday. On Monday we had scheduled a trip to Atlantic so we took off bright and early headed south. Bright and early for Butch is 9:00AM in case you wondered. I had purchased a Nuwave induction plate from a Facebook sale site and it was in Audubon so we went by way of Audubon to finalize the purchase. It really was not out of our way more than a couple of miles. Then we met up with the Gunderson's, enjoyed lunch with them at the new location of the Downtown Cafe in the old hotel. Great food. Back to Bill and Bev's to get in a few hands of Bridge. Bill and I didn't get even one chance of beating them.
We then went to Sherri and Randy's so the guys could get some golf played. Sherri has a very busy daycare and in addition, her grandkids were visiting from Chicago. Fortunately one of her former "kids', now a senior in high school was there to help.

Miss Ella age 4

And Lucas age 10

We met up with the guys after golf and enjoyed supper at the Aztec, a new Mexican restaurant in Atlantic. It was new to us anyway. I understand it has been there for 3 years.
We returned home at about 9:00 pm and hit the bed not long after. Busy day but a fun-filled one.

Kay can can...

... and cook and bake and it certainly looks like she is hard at it.
Kay Voss says."I picked a total of 109 pounds ! All the rain helped;  froze many bags and gave away at least half."

20 pints of cherry pie filling

" We have finished butchering our chickens....I canned pieces of meat from the backs/ribs.  7 pints of meat for soups and 5 pints of broth for various recipes"

"So yummy!   10 jelly jars of cherry jam"

"Our reds are starting.  The yellows are producing too.  The yellows rarely make it to the house,  they are honey sweet!"

"Today I am taking it easy....this is all I have baked today.   Later I do plan on making chocolate cake, topped with canned cream cheese and canned cherry pie filling on top of that.  Jim is finally starting to feel like eating again, so I am trying to fatten him up a bit.  He is very thin.....what a problem to have!"