Monday, May 3, 2010

Who Says Nebraska is Boring??????

Well, let me tell you. Things here are just a hoppin! Our rig is parked at Nan's nephew's farmette about 12 miles from town. We go about 1 or 2x a week to pet her and let her know she isn't being abandoned. She did show a bit of ire a few times. We couldn't get the generator to run. Then we found that the refrigerator wasn't working. I finally got the generator running by plugging her in to the garage about
50' away. The refrigerator was just a bit of ornriness cause when I turned it off and then back on, she is working fine. She just doesn't like to be left too long alone. We also go to Nebraska City 1 or 2x a week. It is 20 miles north of town. An exciting time shopping in the big city! Another really exciting time was watching a moma cardinal have her babies. 3 of them. I was surprised when she took them to the next yard about 50' from her current nest. The little one's were a trip to watch jumping out of the nest and follow her across the yard. They didn't even have feathers on their wings yet! They beat their little wings and hopped along in the grass, which was no easy task since the grass was taller than they were! One of them came across a large bush and didn't know what to do. Momma kept trying to get him to go around, but he was so confused, he decided to go thru the middle of it. Momma had a hard time trying to get him out and go the rest of the way, but after a few hours, he finally decided to follow momma. It was quite interesting. Took him all day to get to his destination. Now we have a momma robin on the front porch with 3 eggs. We check on them every day to find out when they hatch. So far, nothing. But we are expecting little ones soon. Next week, we go to Lincoln. It's a large town in the middle of Nebraska. Said to be quite exotic! Nan is going to the dermatologist to have the skin tags removed from her eyelids. She is somewhat nervous about it, but being able to go to Lincoln makes up for the apprehension. Her mom is doing great, being the big winner in our continuing competition of Skip-Bo. So far, we are doing just fine. Her sister and brother-in-law will be back on the 12th and we will be excited to get back to our Thelma. We'll stay a few days then head to Michigan. I have registered to play in a pickleball tournament in Kalamazoo. It is only a one day tournament, but am looking forward to some activity!!! We'll visit a college friend of mine and then go to my sisters place in Pinckney for the rest of the summer. There are a number of places to play in the area, so i'm looking forward to playing a lot of pickleball. I'm also excited to play in the Michigan Senior Olympics with my brother! That should be a really fun time. He is, after all, perfect!! And a pretty awesome athlete!!
Sooo, have to go and do something. I just don't know what yet! I guess watching grass grow could be a local activity. I'll have to check to see if there is a club for that here!
Hope you all are doing well. Have a fantastic summer. We'll be back!!

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