Visitor

The pileated woodpeckers visited our porch again and we love that, but lately we have a daily visit from this crass woodchuck who comes and cleans up the seeds that have dropped on the deck floor from the feeders. That's OK, but I wonder where he is digging his hole for a cozy home. Hasn't chucked any wood yet that I can see.

Teachers

I am working on a column about teachers and I have looked at a picture of someone who was a fabulous teacher, my Aunt Mary. As I look at this, I can see that I have grown to look a lot like her. She lived to be 92 and she was older than I am now when this picture was taken.
I have had a lot of comment about the column I did about pictures that included the one of us at 22. People got a big kick out of that. The weather is wonderful right now. I am driving for Meals on Wheels a couple of days this week and helping sign people up for a blood drive at our church. Sunday I am directing the choir in the last of our monthly summertime choir Sundays. Linda is often gone so I have been the designated summer director which suits me fine. I enjoy it. We saw good productions of Gondoliers and of Guys and Dolls in this past month. I was announcer for 3 summer band concerts so we have had a busy season.

Two speed Miles

Miles looks like Wag and like Wag he has two speeds, full speed ahead and dead stop.During our day with them yesterday we caught him in both. Once running to get another turn on the slide at McDonalds and one being "Oma's boy" reading a story.

another past view

I got the new scanner today and by a mistake it included a very sophisticated printer, and since I had not wanted or needed a printer they sold me this great new piece of equipment for the price of kust the scanner. The shop is owned and run by an old high school friend of grandson Judah's and he still thinks of me as Judah's Gramma so I think he treats me especially well. As he was showing me the workings of the new equipment I want to be sure I was clear on the process of putting photos on the blog. So of course, we picked from the old slides a shot of Judah as about a sophomore in high school which gave him a good laugh. Now I will have the equipment to scan and print 35 mil slides myself instead of having the photo shop do it for a rather high price. I promise not to put to many on the blog.
We saw Gilbert and Sullivan's Gondoliers last week and tomorrow we are going to Guys and Dolls at the Paul Bunyan Playhouse. There is more culture than you might expect here in northern MN.

cousins yesterday & today

Working with some old slides I found this shot of Josh and Kirstin when they were about 4 or 5.
They were good friends then and still are. The other picture shows them with Josh's 3 and Kirstin's 2 kids plus Kirstin's sister Carmen. I am really having fun looking at those slides from so long ago. There are some darling ones of our two kids, John and Mary as babies. John's kids say they don't remember seeing baby pictures of their Dad so they will enjoy them. We are having lovely weather but we need rain. I have become the announcer for the Bemidji Community Band concerts so I hope it doesn't decided to rain tonight for our final concert in the park. Josh is at work in Portland now and loving it if he could only get his house sold and the family out there with him. Use the link to his blog on this site to see some neat pictures not only of family, but one of Mt. Hood.

cousins 2

cousins

Long ago

I have been digging out old colored slides and getting some of them printed. Here's a quiz: do you recognize this couple? Here's a hint: the picture was taken in 1946.