Wednesday, May 31, 2017: One of my favorite road trips is the first drive to Gerten's in Inver Grove Heights to stock up on plants for our gardens. Best nursery in Minnesota!
Wednesday, May 31, 2017
John Deere Green!
Tuesday, May 30, 2017: The picture pretty much says it all...the boy has his toy!!
Monday, May 29, 2017
Brrrr...
Monday, May 29, 2017: The high this afternoon got all the way up 58 degrees!! The first below average month in the last 20 months.
Good to be Home...
Saturday, May 27 2017: Bentley is glad to be on home turf with his "pack" complete once again.
Toy Truck!
Friday, May 26, 2017: On the last leg of the trip, we look like a toy beside the big boys at a truck stop in Wisconsin.
Dusky Lake View
Wednesday, May 24, 2017: One last exploration took us to Strahle Lake as darkness was quickly descending.
Indiana University Revisited
Sunday, May 21, 2017: Showalter Fountain and the IU Auditorium on a beautiful late spring day.
Real Men Do Laundry
Saturday, May 21, 2017: A small accident with the French Press called for emergency action!
The Shapiro Thompson Rendezvous
Friday, May 19, 2017: The official Shapiro Thompson Rendezvous begins!! Our dualing campsites in a nearly deserted campground.
Thursday, May 18, 2017
And we are off..
Thursday, May 18, 2017: Off on our first retirement road trip to rendezvous with David and Kay Shapiro in Brown County State Park near Bloomington, IN. We made it 11 miles to Clearwater before breaking out the gorp!
Ready for the Road
Wednesday, May 17, 2017: Travel trailer is filled with food and the bikes are loaded, ready for a road trip!
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Thinking Tomatoes!
Tuesday, May 16, 2017: Could not resist picking up these spindly cherry tomato plants at Fleet Farm today. Hope that once they are in the ground, they will fill out and then produce hundreds of supersweet tomatoes by late July.
Monday, May 15, 2017
"The scent of possibility..."
Monday, May 15, 2017: Some of my Mother's Day gifts that I can't wait to get lost in. Each time I receive a new book or check one out from the library, I am reminded of the character Grace in Kate Morton's book The House at Riverton. Grace saves her wages for months to buy a book, her first book to actually own, and she talks of the smell of new books and the "scent of possiblity" that a new book represents.
A happy Mother's Day...
Sunday, May 14, 2017: Ringing handbells in church, lunch with Merton, Melanie and Brian, Facetime with Melissa and Phil, and a walk in Munsinger Garden to enjoy some spring beauty made for a perfect day!
Saturday, May 13, 2017
The Annual Medina Reunion
Saturday, May 13, 2017: Our annual luncheon at the Medina Ballroom with Melanie & Brian, Brent & Kathy.
School is out forever!
Friday, May 12, 2016: Merton's last day of work. He chose his tie carefully from the collection of almost 400.
The first lilacs
Thursday, May 11, 2017: These spring beauties were spotted in an alley just off 8th Street, near SCSU.
And so it begins...
...the long awaited retirement, Day 1. My goal is to post one picture each day of my retirement. That picture will represent something that is significant to me about that day as I journey through this new phase of my life.
Wednesday, May 10, 2017: A view of St. Cloud State University from my new vantage point "across the Mississippi River."
Wednesday, May 10, 2017: A view of St. Cloud State University from my new vantage point "across the Mississippi River."
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