pictures of moving stuff.

This is the truck Diane rented to move some of the stuff to Salvation Army, storage, and elsewhere.

Thomas needs to write about the vacation

I will not write this for him.

Wetting the flower bed

While many regions got nastily hit with flooding, there is some good in rain.

Northern Indiana was spared some.

watching little ones

Diane is watching neighbor dogs -- tiny to say the least.

Jessica driving

Jessica then drove to downtown and tried parallel parking.

Vacation photo?

Bethy called and all isn't fluid and roses there. Next I suppose that a wild steer will ram the cottage.

What I did Saturday

Germanfest 2008

hardly surprising, the music is "Roll Out the Barrel"

Graduation for Michael

drum roll ... way to go!

Happy Birthday to Lois

Thomas restored a doll for Lois. It is around 30" tall.

The doll as it appeared before Thomas had it restored.

Lois reads a profile of her doll, its make and what it might be worth.

The doll is over one hundred years old. The pastor who married Tom and Lois had this. His daughters weren't interested in dolls, so Lois was granted this neat doll, though it was apart and in pieces. Thomas got it repaired at no small cost.

In the pink

Soft, silky
c/o Foster Park, Fort Wayne, IN

notice of correction

Hold your horses!

OK! If you got an invitation for Tom and Lois' 50th anniversary, there will be a slight change in the time frame. This time notice will be mailed out shortly. The first printing of the invitations showed an "unworkable" time. So, it will run about 3.5 hours and the times will be listed on the mailed correction. Thank you for your patience.

pluggers do it ...

Well, it matters if you know the comic strip, anyway ...

Thomas and Lois noticed a gutter was clogged, second story of their house. Let's get Marcus! So, Marcus went up to unclog it. It was not easy. Thomas passed up the toilet snake and after many minutes of fighting with it, Marcus got most of it clear. He was also rained on by the backwash from the gutter. Yummy!

Tom and Lois also drove to Ohio today to see a reception. The couple married in a very small ceremony a couple of weeks ago.

Hunting?

Lois was looking for birds that she heard in the distance.

Her blood sugar got a little low and her hip was hurting, so she stopped for a spell.

What looks like a camera case is a purse.

No, Lois was carrying a chair on which she sat to rest.

simple fun for Memorial Day

Mom and Diane talking

Lilly comes to steal ice from ice cream maker

bad miten

Jessica talking about new puppies

bad mitten with help

First, thank you all vets for your great sacrifice for my and our safety.

Weekend update

Well, Diane, Bethy,and Marcus talked about plans. Diane and Marcus spent hours, making a few errors, trying to finish their work. At the end of the day with the work mostly done, they met up with Lois, Thomas, and Joe at Logan's for food. Well, with free peanuts, no one left without a bloated stomach.

Diane and Marcus returned to do more work and so ... around 10:30, they finished that step. Jim joined them and they watched National Treasure 2. Marcus will simply the movie: take Indiana Jones traps, mix with Carmen Sandiego theme of National Treasure, stir in complete unbelievability and you have it. Plot can be found on page 47, aka National Treasure 3. The player stopped just 4 minutes from the end, in the "epilogue" part of the movie. We had to dissemble the player to retrieve the disc. After many minutes, the ending wasn't worth the fight.

Thomas and Lois played cards with friends on Friday and the "boys" won the first game then were thoroughly spanked thereafter either by luck or skill. The girls won again. Lois only had one weekend day of hellish blood sugar levels.

Today, Thomas and Marcus took a short walk then returned to help Lois work on the flower beds. Wow! It is improved, but will take lots of effort to keep weeded and grass free.

During the week, Thomas got to golf in windy weather. It seems the wind conspires against the golfers as they have had windy Tuesdays and Wednesdays, much to their chagrin.

Marcus' walk

I know dandelions are weeds, but it has a certain beauty ... as well as an ant shouting, "To infinity and beyond" before using it to fly to find other bugs.

Maumee River

Maumee River Greenway

Maumee River Greenway

duck on mound, Maumee River

ducks near Lake Side Golf Course

woodchuck hoping I couldn't see it

long-dead raccoon

turtle sunning itself

small creek

shelf fungi

shelf fungi

deer print in mud
Today was something over ten miles.