Day 195

Spending the day in my hometown of Newman Grove, getting a wonderful pedicure and my first Manicure in forever for Alicia's wedding. My wonderful mother made me homemade Chicken and Dumplings which is my favorite. I had to drive to Saint Ed. to pick up my Cheerio boy and on the way back to Duncan we encountered this....................once we turned the corner, it was pouring!

Day 194

The first step in the weeks preparation for Alicia's wedding....a Nice Haircut!

IT simply amazes me.....

This morning I have decided to spend a couple of hours catching up online. Particularly with the news and happenings of the weekend around the world, our great country and our fine state. I have NO idea why I bother. I ran across several things that frustrate me. First and foremost, the continual posting of negative Facebook status updates. I know Facebook is a SOCIAL networking tool, and life isn't always sunshine and roses, but it seems that there is just too many negative nellie's on board. I have decided to take a break from Facebook cause it brings me down.

Second, why would anyone post a negative comment on a article about a teenager's death! I swear if I owned a newspapers I would NOT allowing comments on obituaries or articles of accidents. Some people are just so incensitive to the feelings of others it is simply unbelievable.

Third,

IT simply amazes me.....

This morning I have decided to spend a couple of hours catching up online. Particularly with the news and happenings of the weekend around the world, our great country and our fine state. I have NO idea why I bother. I ran across several things that frustrate me.

First and foremost, the continual posting of negative Facebook status updates. I know Facebook is a SOCIAL networking tool, and life isn't always sunshine and roses, but it seems that there is just too many negative nellie's on board. I have decided to take a break from Facebook cause it brings me down.

Second, why would anyone post a negative comment on a article about a teenager's death! I swear if I owned a newspapers I would NOT allowing comments on obituaries or articles of accidents. Some people are just so incensitive to the feelings of others it is simply unbelievable. Some people just post comments without engaging their brains.

Third, I realize we had a nice long holiday weekend here in the States and many are frustrated that today is actually a "Monday" but we have to start the work week sometime. I actually read a post online that went on for two pages about extending the holiday weekend to five days. Well then Tuesday would be Monday or Wednesday would be Monday or well.....you get the picture. I look at it this way....we are already on Tuesday!!!

So on to my day..........they way I look at today. I am just one more day closer to my new carpet :) So I am off to clean up the Fourth of July aftermath and pack my goodies away till next year.

Fourth of July

was a nice quite day that ended up with us on the Neighbors giant floating device :)

Of course we first had to go on a boat ride. Captain Ron made sure we navigated safely. With Co-Captain Cheerio assisting.

Then somehow we got lured over to the neighbors house for an late afternoon/evening of soaking up some serious sun. Gotta love the good old Carribean Island. 

A tribute to Dave....

this past week we lost a dear member of our extended family. Cousin Michelle Pfeifer's husband Dave was taken from us way to early at the young age of 43. Like the priest mentioned at Dave's services today "God doesn't have age specifications" but 43 just seems way to young to leave behind a wonderful wife and four lovely children; Lakin, Colton, Allison & Dillon. (I hope it is ok if I borrowed the following photos off facebook). Sometimes blogging helps me to feel better......

Dave was so full of life. He had this sparkle about him that I personally enjoyed. I loved that we shared a common interest in wrestling. Dave was so proud of his work he had done on the lake property and I enjoyed every minute of visting with him about it.

It was such a shock to hear about Dave passing because all I could think about was him playing in the water and just enjoying life.  This was one of the photos that was used at his visitation and funeral. It is my favorite. I hardly ever remember seeing Michelle without Dave or Dave without Michelle. Two peas in a pod........

I am blessed to have known Dave we will miss him. I truly hope his beautiful Children will always love, remember and appreciate their father because he was a wonderful man.

Ron wanted to help me with this cause he was very fond of Dave. So from Ron: Ron enjoyed visiting with Dave about so many things, they had alot of interests that were the same. He would ask Ron about tractors, they would talk about Auctions, construction equipment would come up and they would even chat about lake life.  Ron said that Dave was a man's man. He loves hunting, fishing and being outside. He was truly a lover of life.

I am so grateful for our wonderful summer day we all spent splashing in the lake last summer and just enjoying our extended family. RIP Dave. We will miss you and we love you.

 My only regret is that we didn't just take one more day and spend it with Dave and Michelle...........

Flooding continues.....

......this time downstream in Norfolk, Nebraska. I spent most of my childhood going to Norfolk and still love to take a day and drive to the ole Norfolk and doing a little shoppin. However, the last few days have been very difficult on Norfolk. Flooding. We have seen so much flooding in Northeast Nebraska the last five days, this is the cumulation of the Elkhorn River Flooding that start upstream near Oneill and reached Norfolk and within 2 inches of going over the dike the protected the majority of the community.

The old Riverside where Ron and I use to go and Dance when we were very very first married. Now it is surrounded by water. Oh the good ole days. I use to always want to go there and it took Ron to get me there........

Sure wish I would have bought my bedroom set a year ago I wanted plus my couch I loved.......CRAP. Maybe I can get it all on a water sale deal!!!!!!

And finally a Norfolk landmark....Tahazouka Park. Totally underwater....so sad........