It's a lot of BLOG

Ranger: He is doing great since his surgery. The vet said he would start touching his foot down at about 3 weeks and he was touching down after less than a week. He still has that funny haircut. We got an Elizabethian collar for him so he wouldn't lick or chew his stitches (staples). However, I just couldn't put it on him and leave him home alone. I put it on Tyler instead.


Spring: Our flowering crab tree out front was beautiful this year. It helped that the winds were down and no hail or hard rains so it stayed full over a week. It looked like snow when the petals fell. Carrie brought me some lilacs from their yard, which makes me happy. I remember walking to school down Lilac Lane and picking them to smell all day in school.




Fires: We have had two fires in our back yard...in the fire ring of course. Perry came over one night along with Mike and Carrie, Tyler, Laura and Brody. It's so nice to gather around with guitars and fires.


Mushrooms: Mike brought us some beautiful morel mushrooms and even cooked them for us! They were so yummy!






Tornadoes: Where we live, it's hard to believe that the tornadoes even happened. We never even got any rain at our place but boy did they ever get hit in Parkersburg and Dunkerton area. I'm sure you've seen pictures of the houses and businesses that were just leveled. We were grilling steaks when the sirens went off. I hate to say it but we pretty much ignored the sirens because we could see the weather was north of us. After seeing Parkersburg though, we will go downstairs next time.


Memorial Day: What a gorgeous day! Dave and I got Thelma and went out for lunch and then to the cemetery. We told Big Davy stories. He sure is missed. I am including pictures of Travis Vaughn's site. He is in the same cemetery as Dave's dad. It was so hard to think of the young soldiers who were killed. There were 2 new graves of young soldiers this year, very close to Travis's grave. God Bless their families who miss them.