Monday, April 11, 2011

Happy Spring !

Well , yesterday was a treat hey ??? 80 degrees..YEAH !! bring it on…. My tulips are coming up nicely, I can’t wait to see them blooming.  It will bring back such wonderful memories of Amsterdam.  I can still remember buying them at the flower market.  John and I went up north last weekend to check on the place. We haven’t been up north since the beginning of February for the Ice fisheree. We’ve been so busy down here with the finalizing of the remodeling downstairs and then the moving furniture and stuff back again which has taken up most of the weekends. We still have stuff out in the garage, but most of it is either going up north, going to Sarah & Matt’s or going to Goodwill. There was Little Audra’s birth, our friend Jenny’s baby shower & my cousin Randy passing away. 
Here is a picture of the snow still on the ground up north in our backyard.  Disregard the date on these pictures, obviously I have to correct that LOL.















Here is little Audra, growing like a weed...2 months now !!



















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Friday:
John, I and Bailey got up north Friday night around 9:30 and the place is still standing. Unfortunately, there is still about a foot of snow on the ground. We unpacked the truck and got settled in.

Saturday:
John putzed around in the barn getting his new ATV battery installed and did some running around on it down to the lake and back. Dewey stopped by and chatted awhile. Once John came back in from outside, we worked as a team to reverse the doors around on the refrigerator to open up towards the kitchen. We’ve had the place for ten years now, and the refrigerator that was left there by the previous owners had the doors to open towards the living room. Well we did it ! They have been reversed and they now open the right way. I guess better late than never, huh?  John took off with Dewey to go to the Black Bear bar for a ATV meeting. During that time I gave Bailey a bath. Her coat feels so silky again and smells like baby powder. She likes her baths but she doesn’t like the drying off part. After I dry her off she takes off running around the house like a crazy dog, she’s so funny…John came home in the afternoon and then removed the plastic from the patio door. We should be ok now not getting any below zero temps any more. He then went downstairs and copied some of the pictures that are on the computer desktop to his portable hard drive. One file took 20 min. That took the rest of the afternoon to do. We then had supper and were done for the night.

Sunday:
We had our coffee and breakfast and then decided that we were going to pack up early to get down south in the early afternoon. Sean came down to our house and stayed overnight on Sat. I guess just to get away for awhile. He wanted us to get back early to show us how his Blue Ray player & movies looked on our TV. So we got on the road around 10AM and got down here around 2:30PM. Two $80 gas fills for the truck on the way down !!! unbelievable !!!! I guess we just missed the tornado's that touched down in Merrill (north of Wausau) too, WHEW !!!!  It was good to see Sean again and we had a nice visit. He left around 4:30PM and got home safely. Then he calls us not much later to tell us that there were very severe storms going through by him. Thank goodness he got home before all that happened. He is going to fly out to Huntington Beach California next Sunday to meet up with his friend Chris. Then the both of them will be driving back to WI in Chris’ car. Chris and Holly have moved back to WI. Holly is already here, but Chris had to finish up work there in California and had to get his car back here. So Sean is taking a vacation. They are going to make it like a road trip and not rush coming back and take some side trips along the way to see the country. Sean is still looking up touristy things to see along the way.
So, that's it for now, not sure what's ahead for this coming weekend,
Have a nice week.

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