2007 a big year

This is going to be a big year for our family. Besides looking forward to the birth of our sixth great grandchild to our older grandson Judah and his wife Adrienne we got word this week that we have a wedding coming up. Anna Collins our granddaughter and her dearly beloved Bryan Stach became an engaged couple on Valentine's Day which is also Bryan's birthday. They are planning a wedding for August 18th and we are hoping to get a lot of the family together for the occasion. I am frustrated that I can't seem to put pictures on this system but I can at least send you news and hope that when we get back to Bemidji I can figure out what the problem is.
We have been feeling for the people up north with their frigid temps. It has been up and down here. We actually had a freeze overnight here last night but it warmed to thje 50's today and should get close to 70 tomorrow.
Wag's birthday celebration a day late was great. We went for dinner at a favorite restaurant with some good friends and on to the Corpus Christy Symphony. It was a great concert and I especially enjoyed the soloist David Shiffrin who played the Copeland clarinet concerto and a Weber Concertino that I actually played(not nearly as well or as fast) in my youth,. The orchestra did a great job on the Bizet Symphonie Fantastique.
We are taking part in a 4 day bird count and this first day we saw a lot of neat birds here at our feeders and on a trip to the edge of Corpus Christi. We still especially love our green jays, but we did see one vermillion flycatcher in a park in Corpus and that is a big treat.
Keep warm wherever you are and we will keep adding to this news.

february fun

I still can't seem to get pictures to upload but figured it was time to update everyone on our doings. We have gone beyond the chilly rainy Jan. and have hit a warm sunny week just as we hear the news of the frigid cold up north.
We have some fun plans for the week-end to celebrate Wag's birthday. We have tickets for the symphony for Sat. night and our friends from SD are going with us again and we are going to go to our favorite restaurant in Corpus Christi called The Torch for dinner before hand.
One couple in our neighborhood who have been here for 2 months are leaving this weekend so there is a gathering on Thurs. afternoon to bid them farewell.
Our Methodist church here has just added the services of an assoc. minister who is a Hispanic gentleman and full of friendly enthusiasm. There is a considerable hispanic population in Mathis but not in our church so that may change in time, but he chuckled that some of his friends asked "What are you doing in that white church?"
Our exercise class was finally able to go back to outdoors for our class this morning after the weather kept us doing it in the central building for about 3 weeks. We have also been having a computer class that meets twice a week and i have learned a few things there, but some of it beyond my experience and too sophisticated for my equipment but still interesting.
We hope the weather up north moderates soon and we will be thinking of you.