Thanksgiving

We had a lovely Thanksgiving week-end with dinner at Cindy and Pete's and Friday supper here that included our dear granddaughter Anna and her delightful beloved Bryan who posed for this photo as we finished lunch on Sunday and bid them goodbye. They headed back to St. Paul and we will be off to Texas on Wed. Our kids sure produced beautiful grandkids for us, didn't they? We will add to this site when we get to Texas and get all the computer set up going so it may be awhile. Cheers from Minnesota

visitor

The pileated woodpecker came right on our deck railing. What a sight he is. Woodywoodpecker in person and so big. I hope he has saved a few bugs and treats in holes in the trees because when we leave for Texas next week it will be the end of the suet feeders that he loves.
We will be seeing a lot of other birds down there but we will miss some of our Minnesota bird friends and hope their winter isn't too harsh.

Here are two special photos from our week-end trip to Wisconsin. My sister Hope and her husband met us in Madison for dinner and we had a good visit after almost 2 years of not being able to get together. The other picture is of our daughter's two grandchildren our great granddaughter Emma, 4 and great grandson Tanner, 1 We had a wonderful time with the family and got to see Kirstin and Damian and Emma and Tanner's house in Beaver Dam. It is so great to have them all in one town and Carmen came up from Racine for the week-end. She will graduate in Dec. and then do her student teaching. We had miserable weather for our drive down on Friday,. saw multiple cars in the ditch and waited over an hour for a tie up caused by an accident. The first snow always catches some drivers having lost their winter driving skills. Had an easy trip home today half of it in bright sunshine. Now we will get serious about preparing to leave for Texas in a little over 2 weeks.

Halloween

Emma & Tanner had fun Trick or Treating. Beaver Dam has a good custom. They do the Halloween celebration on the Sunday afternoon before the holiday. That way the kids are out in daylight and it usually isn't as cold. Tanner walked a mile or more and insisted on carrying his own pumpkin filling with candy.
Josh and Holly and the kids left for Portland today(Thursday) and hope to make the trip in 4 days. Josh hopes to have a chance to update his blog along the way.
We are getting our appts. done so we can get off to Texas. I saw the retinologist today and everything is much the same and I will see him again in 6 months. Wag's tests all came out quite well and they will give him a new generator for his pacemaker on the 16th so we won't have to worry about that after we leave. It is just an in and out procedure. We plan to visit the Wisconsin family next week-end. Hope you had a fun "Boo" Day!