Busy Retirees

Happy Mothers Day to all Moms reading this.

We spent much of this weekend with Paige’s Mom in Duluth; she is doing well.  She is busy with all her activities and is walking much better than the last time we saw her at Christmas. 

 

During the past week or so we have been quite busy.  Every weekday we have helped to see the grand-daughters off to school and to greet them upon their return in the afternoon.

                                                        What a day we've had!

In addition to these every-day activities we have also been involved with a funeral, a birthday party, our anniversary, a couple of medical appointments, buying a new (to us) vehicle, selling our Saturn, and meeting friends for lunch.  We get tired just listing all the things we’ve done. 

 

We went to the Screwtape Letters production at the renovated Pantages Theater in Minneapolis for our 43rd anniversary celebration on Friday night.  While just getting seated, we saw Bob's brother and sister-in-law, Denny and Diane, at the play.  It was so surprising and fun to see them!!  They were celebrating their May anniversary as well.  It was a very interesting performance of this C.S. Lewis book and a beautiful old theatre.

 

The bigger news is the lack of springtime, even yet.  The 2^nd weekend of May is Minnesota’s Opening Day for fishing.  Many of the lakes in the northern part of the state are still ice-covered.  As we drove to Duluth yesterday morning we noticed the lack of leaves (they are still budding, but not yet out).  We took Paige’s mother, Joyce, north to the family cabin to see how it survived the winter.  There is still some snow on the ground in sheltered areas and way too much in the air during our drive.  We thought of fellow Nomad, Janet in Florida, who has never seen snow in the process of falling.  We have seen way too much, and May is way too late in the year for this.

 

 

Both Island Lake and Whiteface Reservoir are still iced over, but it shouldn’t last for long (we hope).  As soon as we get the baseplate and braking package added to our truck we will be relocating from Brett's place in Elk River to the lake.  We'll trade this nice view out their family room window for the view of the Whiteface.