Pickleball in am.

Took Michelle in with me to Doses. Then I went to play PB. She watched while we played, but she did play twice. At home I made mint lemonaide. Marsha and Chiristina came about 1. Super fun visit. At night Missy called I love to catch up her life. I was really pumped about the day.

Study at my home

Up, cleaned out drawers and spice cabinient. Work in garden. Tilled and planted sedum. Christina comes tomorrow. Bible Study with Tereas, Sharon, Melissa, Michelle, Mary Kay. I hauled all the stuff out of the cupboard and tried to clean the CSA. Denny fixed enchaladas and broccoli and brought to CSA barn. SO good.

Cherokee fun

I got to Cherokee about 7:30. I texted Jan who was at the Wellness Center, so about 8:30 I went to play pickleball. Jan walked around theh track with Tyler. After playing with kicking the ball around the track we got a donut at Caseys. Jan invited us to coffee at Mud on Main. When we got home Tyler went down right away for a nap. I took some of Mandy's seasoned meat and made 2 pans of Enchladas. I had to wake up Tyler to go and get Jack. I gave Jack a choice park of G'ma Jands. No hesitation, we went to Jans. The boys played so nicely. Mandy came home from and I had enough time to stop Christina's flowers area and I left her some flowers. I also took the time to drop off a donation at New Leaf. It was fun to lead Awana Games. There were 20 clubbers there last week and this week there were about 24.

OGT Home again

I stopped at the hospital to hear that Dr. Veltri would sent Denny home today. I went to OGT until I got the phone call that Denny was ready to leave. We got some meds at the Pharmacy. Uffda on Eloquist!! At home we did very little. T'is good to have Denny home. I fixed him a great bacon and eggs breakfast.

Carpal plus complications

We headed into Horn around 7:30 for Denny's surgery on his left hand for carpal tunnel. I was with him until 8:30 when he was about to go into surgery. Then I went to the city park to play pickleball. About 10:30 Dr. Bissel called me saying the left hand surgery went very well. He also said Denny's heart had AFib before and after the surgery and so they were monitoring it, perhaps taking him to ER. I got to the hospital right before they wheeled him down to ER. He ended up staying in the hospital overnight as they monitored his heart. I came home at 7 pm.

Church , lunch at Bob and Teresa's. SS@Beth's

I was up too early. But life goes on. I put went out to get the flowers for church. We went a little early so Denny could learn about running the power point in case Pat has to be gone while Katy has a baby. I had a fun visit with Renae in the SS nursery. Good information from Claire and David. Paulsruds invited us over for lunch with John R. Wonderful food, Fun to see the dirt work done for the new attached garage and the makings of Jordan tiny house from a garage that used to be at our farm. After we got home Denny washed the pickup and I napped. At 5 I headed to Beth's for a SS get together. Nice day!

Check the '72

It was a slow morning. Denny texted Oscar and when we hadn't heard from him I drove to Anthon. It was so amzing. There were alot of cars/ people/ booths. I didn't buy anything, but had lots of fun looking. We saw lots of people from OABC IG area. Oscar texted that he was working and we headed to Storm Lake. Denny took the new trunk rubber tubing and another part he ordered on line and gave them to Oscar.  We got home and Denny ordered truck parts; I listened to Kristina's  Sunshine and Flora you tubes.

Al's fumeral At home for the night

I went in to play PB. While I ws playing I met a hard hit ball with my eye!! Guess I won't need eye shadow. :) Ii left the rec center about 9 and made it to Kiron by 10:45 including time for a shampoo, shower and kiss from Denny as he worked on getting our first booking of The Home Place. He finished washing windows in the garage, I re organized some drawers in kitchen. Once again supper of BLT and poppers. Our first reservation for The Home Place was made today. Hence the straightening of drawers:)

Study at my home

Slow arising. Denny washed the windows, I worked in the flower bed; I cut off all the sunflowers. Michelle, Sharon, Teresa, and I were here for study. I pickd leaves for pesto. Denny got chick peas for hummus. Mexican corn, poppers and BLT's for supper. YUM!!!

Cherokee Boys

Up and left house by 6:30. Denny was up and awake. He started to change the light fixtures under the kitchen bar. Tyler and I went to the Wellness center. He played so nicely as I played pickleball. I checked my phone to see if Denny was still at the Cooks's place. We watched the bob cat that was working on the parking lot before we went home. By the time we got there Denny had left for home. I should have texted him and told him we were on the way home. Tyler was so sad Denny wasn't there. AFter lunch I lay down with Tyler and got him up so we could get Jack at 2. We went to Spring lake park. SO fun to sit and watch them. At home I browned some hamburger, put clean bedding on the bed that Denny slept in. Trimmed the flowering almond bush. cut onions and tomatoes for tacos, made mac and cheese. I stopped and got some bubble gum for Awana games and then headed to church. It was a fun night leading games.

OGT

I headed to IG with Michelle. We got home about 11:15. Denny is helping up in Cherokee switching light switchplates. It was more work than he expected. He spent the night there. I stayed up too late just watching tv. Uffda!!!

Golf Soccer

I left to go to IG about 7:30 for pickleball. At 9 I headed to Alta for golf. I played with Twila W. Ellen F and Jeannie K were the other 2 in our group. We shot a 41. My first 2 holes were awful, but it got better. From there I went to Storm Lake, then to Alta, then to Cherokee to watch Jack's soccer game. We ate supper there. I got home about 8:30. Nice day

Wonderful brunch before heading south

I stayed in bed until 7:30 and then at 8 headed out the door. Matt and Kane are a church 1 week a month to serve coffee to both services. Nice church service. Becky had ingredients for Blackstone omlets. YUM!!! Haley and Wyatt came home from camping in Wisconsin in time for Brunch. We left for home about 1:30. To know men who set aside their hobbies, extra sleep, work or just relaxing to get up and get their families to church is an honor. God is pleased, so pleased, with the man who doesn't take his responsibility of caring for his and his family's souls lightly. To know those men is an honor. To worship alongside them is a gift. To be married and love a man like this is an indescribable privilege. Keep fighting the good fight men, not for tradition or status, but because it's a fight worthy of this life and one that matters in eternity. Shawna Leonard

Kane's football

We woke up to rain. Lovely rain, but will it affect the day's schedule??? Matt and Becky had differing viewpoints on that question. They were right. I only rained alittle during the first 7 minutes of the game, them it was wonderful weather. Kanes' team won 13 to 6. The parents, family made a tunnel for the team after they game. We got home to make fried avocado pizza bites on the Blackstone. Denny helped supervise anchoring the new Starlink router on the barn to improve reception thru out the house. Supper was great!!! Stirfried rice, Grilled shrimp, beef and brocolli, and noodles with sauce. ALL of the food was YUMMY!!!! Between meals I sat by the lake for a while on a beautiful Saturday afternoon. It seems like we all went to bed pretty early. 8 is early for me. Lovely day.

Off to Zimmerman

I didn't think Doses was open, so I stayed home and we left about 9 for Zimmerman. Denny drove by way of interstate 35 N. We got to Matt's about 2:45. Ha'ey was leaving for camping. TJ suited for a varsity football game at 6. The score was 42 to 0 at halftime, so TJ played most of the second half. It was great to watch, he played both defensive and offence. He made one successful carry and one tackle, plus being "in" the game all the time. Fun to watch!!! He went to an after game suspper at one of the player's homes. The team does that after every home game. PLus they have fireworks after every touchdone and completed extra point Kick, so we saw a lot of fireworks. SO FUN!! Nice visit with Matt and bEcky before going to bed.

Travel home by way of Miss Effies and Barn Happy

Jan and I left about 8:30. Before we headed to Miss Effies we backtracked alittle to get gas. Everyone is just more comfortable with a full tank. Jan was alergic to Miss Effies many cats, so we did a quick walk around. As long as we were making side trips Jan suggested we stop at the Barn Happy. It worked out great for a late lunch. It was really a cute place and I loved the food, even though they kept trying to take away my plate that had just a smidgen of wonderful Crab salad. I guess I really didn't need to finish off my raspberry lemonaide and that last delicious bite of crab salad that I was trying to save. We got to Holstein about 4:45. T'was nice to visit friends and nice to be home.

Travel to Bentendorf

I left for the Holstein meeting place, about 7:30 and got there at 8ish. Jan and I were on the road to see sorority sisters. It was a beautiful day to be traveling. We got to Sue's about 1. Diane found here way there thru early out at the middle school which is between their homes. She drove to where we ate lunch along the river. A nice glassed indoor ding room. Fom there we dropped Sue and Jan off at Sue's home and I rode with Diane to visit with Rick at their home. 6 pm was the book study. Not myy favorite book, so I didn't share much. T'was good just to spend time together. Lary and Sue have a beautiful home on a grassy large lot. I slept well.

OGT with Michelle

OGT was good. Michelle went with me. In the afternoon Denny and I took Michelle and Zach to the Clay couonty fair. it was a fun afternoon. We saw Heartsong singers. We visited with Mike and Brenda for a while After we got homeI went out to the CSA and put together some flowers for Sue and Diane in Bentondorf. I also did some cleaning/organizing in CSA barn. I'm packed and ready to head to the quad cities.

Denny and Carpal Tunnel surgery

We were driving into town at 7:45. Denny had blood drawn before Dr. Bissel did surgery. I waited in the hospital and went to sit with Denny for a while before he went in to surgery. Then I went to play pickle ball. There were 8 of us there, so we did a lot of good playing. They gave me a call from the hospital and I went back to be with Denny as he came out of recovery. Dr. Bissel had called to say the surgery went well. We came home I and fixed Denny breakfast, then we rested and napped, BUT THOSE PESTY FLIES WERE BRUTAL!!! Oh, ya, .... As I ws listeneing to DAB in the sunroom I spilled my coffee on the bright clean carpet. UFFDA!!! Now that just saddened me. My life. Sometimes it is a spilled dirty disaster. UFFDA!!! The night at home was uneventful.

Happy birthday, Diane

We were up and heading to churcv. Zach and Michelle joined us. Zion went to 2 year old SS. Michelle came to my class. After Church was the quarterly board meeting. It was really a great morning. We started to take picktures in preparation to airbnb our home. Lots of fun staging, setting the tables, moving the furniture. About 3 I went to Old Town and picked grapes until 6. I gave Diane a call. Twas good to talk to her. At home I took a gew house pictures and started to edit and delete pictures. We watched a Hallmark TV show. I made an album of Our Home pictures.