Car and tractor repair

Up for pickle ball with Sue.  I had an appointment to get the Prius wheel well repaired.  Denny left about 3 to ride with Brian S. to get the 4020 which has been fixed by Pat Irlbeck  $6.1 K plus trucking.  We filled out our passport renewal papers.   Baby Lincoln is growing.  He and Rose like riding in Karen's new minivan.  (ie. double stroller).

Finally broke 50 .... 47 :)

Up for AM mix.  I had devos and headed to OGT.  At 11 Kay wanted some dill so she followed me home and got some dill from my garden.  Denny has started to get his passport ready to renewal.  I went to play golf with Julie at 1:45.  Hurrah!! Finally I broke 50.  It has been a long time coming.   We stopped at her place and sat on the porch and rocked and visited.  So good.  When I got home Denny headed to Arthur for an Awana meeting.  I picked flowers and put them in the cooler.  Beautiful night.

Julie, good friend

Sad news from 

Brownsville friends

At home chilling

Coffee on patio.  I slept until 8.  Un heard of!!  The day turned chilly and gray so I got out Christmas cards and sorted them, put on paper and in 3 sided plastic pages and in a 3 ring binder.  Uffta!!! A lot of paper, should I keep the pictures???? Will I or anyone care.... probably not, but I did go thru some really nice pictures and letters from my really nice family and friends.  Uffta!! What to do?????  I picked some zinnias and put them in the cooler.  I am thinking about Cherokee farmer's market on Thursday 4-6.  Lord, guide me on decisions.

Sunday July 28

Coffee on patio.  SO nice.  We decided to leave a coffee pot out there.  I went in early to church with flowers.  Denny came later.  After church I went to prairie Pedlar.  I had left a few flower things there.  Then I went to Art on the Hill at Old Town.  At home I napped.  We went in to yoga at 5.  Nice day.

Gretchen S. and Jacob S. wedding at Prairie Pedlar

It turned out beautiful!!!  I think the cascading bridal bouquet is the prettiest thing I have ever made.  

I can't really remember what I did Sat am.  It is now Wednesday and I know it was a relaxing morning.  I took the bouquets/corsages/boutonnieres to PP at 11 for pictures.   Come to find out I left the groom's and some of the guy's flowers in the cooler.   Denny being the sweet guy he is ... brought them to PP.   We left the pickup there so Denny could go home earlier tonight is he wanted.   The wedding was at 5.  It was beautiful.  

Takes a licking and still keeps ticking

OR in cascade bouquet terms 

HURRAH THE BOUQUET STAYED TOGETHER THRU OUT THE WEDDING

Rehearsal supper at Prairie Pedlar

Up for water exercise class.  I had coffee and devo at rec center and then headed to Dose's.  I stopped by Henderson's and Alan and I played a round of golf.  Beautiful morning, shot a 56.  Oh, well, still really fun!  At home Denny was mowing.  I went to take a nap.   We went to the rehearsal supper at 6 pm.   Denny was ready to come home before I was.

Thursday July 25 So thankful .... 95% of rose flower arrangements are down!!!

Slept until 6.  No am Mix, because I started making corsages.  About 8 am Molly S. and Maren S. came to help.  I am so thankful we got most of them done.  27 corsages/ boutonnières, 14 table bouquets,  6 bridesmaid bouquets, one cascading bridal bouquets.  I have never done a cascading before.  It looked ok, just have to pray now that flowers don't fall out of it.  Uffta!!  I wrapped succulents with wire and floral tape and used them in the bouquets.  Hope they hold up.  We also put succulents in 14 small white containers for table centerpieces.   I was SO happy to be done, because I knew there would be a lot to do, but it worked out great with Molly and Maren there.  Plus I called Laura and Denny brought her out to the farm to visit with us while we worked.  She and I went back to IG and to study at Ginny's a  little late, but all the flowers were done.  I stopped at Doses and the farmer's market for sweet corn.  At 5 Nicole and Rose T. came for supper.  It was so good to talk to them,  They have a area in back yard that they wanted to plant flowers, so I showed them some choices of plants that I have.  Denny fixed pork chops, corn on cob, asparagus, asian salad, pesto, cilantro dressing, and they brought fruit salad for dessert.  So Fun to hear about their lives.  Lov'em!!!

Everything is coming up roses

NOTE TO SELF ... Do not drink coffee at 4 o'clock in the afternoon.  I could NOT get to sleep last night.  It was crazy!!! 2:15 and I was pretty much wide awake.  Uffta!!!  I went to play pickle ball with Sue at 5:15.  I stopped to get Laura so we could wash the bedding at Cherry Creek.  When we were done, I took her back into town and noticed OGT was loading out a shipment of 1600 boxes of clothing and mattresses, medical supplies to the country of Moldavia.  The boxes of flowers for Gretchen's wedding came about 1:30.  We processed the flowers in cool water in the salad bath tubs in the CSA barn and put them in the cool bot.  Wow!! the flowers look gorgeous!!! I love the lovely  pink color.  Just praying that I can do justice to the beautiful flowers!!!  Lord, help me.  Maren and Molly came back about 9 pm to pick some more flowers and put in the cooler so they would be ready tomorrow to make into arrangements.

                                     
                                     

Love my Minn. Grands

It was a fun, slow am with Rose waking up at 9 and the rest of us staying in bed until she got up.  We ate, walked to the park, took showers, had a photo op with Max, and headed to the hospital to see Lincoln and parents.  My heart is full with gratitude and praise to God.   Before we left to head home I got to hold an open eyed Lincoln who reminded me so much of his daddy as a newborn.  Blessed.
We left Minneapolis about 3 and got home about 7:45.  I worked on editing and deleting some of the 1000 or so pictures I took in the last 24 hours.  Then I worked on the last 5 days off my blogs.  Uffta!!  It's hard to remember all the fun things I've done this last week.

Lincoln Tyler Johnson is here!!!!!

July 22, 2019  Lincoln Tyler Johnson 

It was good just to stay home this am.  I kept busy just doing the next thing of putting away things I had gotten out for the wedding.  I moved all the white pots with sunflowers to the hydrant and watered them.  I put the rugs from the RR area to the cement to spray them off.  I took the little table away in the shed.  I planted morning glories by the lp tank and put the vines from the cupola in a basket.  I folded up tables and put them away.  I took out trash.  I moved chairs back to where they belong.  I washed the table clothes, napkins, dishes, and towels.  I picked some flowers to put into the cooler.  Denny vacuumed the airbnb and upstairs.  We showered, ate a lunch of leftover salads and headed north, even though we had not gotten a call.  We left about 1:30 and were about an hour south of Minneapolis when we got the picture telling us about Lincoln's arrival.  Now Denny hates to drive in traffic and so instead of going to Luke's apartment we went to the hospital and waited in the cafeteria until we could go up to see the baby.  Pete and Carol were watching Rose at the apartment.  

What a precious baby boy!  We spent almost two hours with the baby and family and Goldsmith's.  Rose was amazed as she looked around the room that there was one nana, a bumpa, a nana, and a bumpa.  After precious time with Lincoln we took Rose home and put her to bed, much later than her usual bed time.  Rose slept in her "special visiter bedroom", the closet in her parent's bedroom.   The vicious black cat was up to his regular attitude concerning me.  Snarling, hissing and one half a step away from attacking.  

Church in the tent at Prairie Whole Farm

Lovely overcast morning.  I had tried to figure out where I wanted to serve the coffee cake and beverages as I lay in bed, not sleeping.  SO I set up tables under the maple tree: one for food and one for drinks.  My problem was that I revealed my intent to Denny before he had his coffee and sufficiently woke up.  The use of the golf cart was not needed to put out the coffeecake.  Uffta!!!  Jaci served the food and Kathi kept the coffee/ juice ready.  Mandy, Jason, Jack, John, Jan,  and Laughlin's came from Cherokee for church.  Reed drove the van from church and gave people a ride from Arthur.  It was a good time of praise, worship, and fellowship.   After the service everyone helped put the chairs on a rack, take down tables and load on a trailer to take back to church.   Matt gave the kids  fun rides on the golf cart.  Frank, Jenny, Becky, and Haley came with the horse trailer after Jenny got done giving the message at the Kingsley church.  Gary and Kim came about 1.  Denny fried some of the bacon from Chicago and I put out leftovers for lunch: egg bake,  baked beans, cauliflower salad, potato salad, fruit salad, pasta salad, banana muffins, brownies, chips,  When everyone left about 4, I lay down and took a nap, Denny loaded the dishwasher, and left for yoga at 5.  I woke up at 5:30.  At night we chilled.  

Missy, Anabel, Kari and Hannah went on a one night trek before starting 6th grade. 

Saturday July 20,2019 Bethany Stangl and Jacob Henderson Wedding

It was a beautiful morning.  There were many things to keep busy with, but nothing that I had to accomplish before the ceremony.  Beth wanted a pennant from Julie L. put on her bridal bouquet.  Aarika started taking pictures about 7.  Around 6 am Amy, Beth, Laura and Caleb put clothes, wooden slabs and small flower vases on the tables.   During the service Sandy and Joe ran the sound system from the sun flowers.  Mark, Alan's brother did a great job on the ceremony.  It was about 80 degrees during  the service.  As the couple was dismissing and greeting rows the temp dropped and the sky in the north west became dark.  Beth and Jacob told the rest of the rows to go to the tent and they would talk to them under the tent.  No rain came.  The temp dropped.  It was very comfortable for the rest of the morning.   As everyone visited people explored our farm area the park, the flowers, the coop.  Children played on the trampolines, the swings, the zip lines, and carpet ball.   The brunch that Jacob's aunt Lori fixed was amazing.  Egg bake, French toast, cut up fruit salad, OJ and apple juice, and coffee.  Beth had made a 4 tier coffee cake wedding cake spread with cream cheese frosting that she and Jacob cut before everyone got their coffee/wedding cake.   It was a wonderful morning.  I have decided that If I ever played any type of team sport  and could choose my team mates ... I would always pick Susan H. to be on my team.  She is amazing!!! Anything that needs to be done or cleaned up ... she is there.  AND she was there when most had left the party ... cleaning up and doing anything that needed to be done. The place really looked great when everyone left, almost everything was put away and cleaned.  

                               

Mark left about 3 and we headed to a very important party.

Jack's birthday party in Cherokee!!!

Red, White, and TWO!!!

ALSO 

Red, white and DUE.  

Celebrating the upcoming arrival of Number 2.

Matt, Becky, Kane, and Haley were at Kingsley for the weekend riding horses and they came to Mandy's.  There were lots of family, friends, co workers, and food.  A friend had let Mandy use their jump houses.  It was fun to sit and visit.  We got home about 10.