The St. Joe's Fun Fest ended this evening and we came home shortly after 6 when we concluded a 4 hour stint collecting money bags from the booth/activity workers and returning to the rectory office (with A/C) to count the money!
We did this for 3 hours Friday night, as well,
and sang at the outdoor mass this morning as
"retired" choir member invitees. This involved
the attendance at some special choir practices and listening to a CD with the unfamiliar quite "up beat" hymns we didn't know.
Not many entries since our last effort so we know everyone has been busy. Guess we haven't signed in since about the time Mark was sending the first pictures from Ireland--a month ago.
All of you knew of Aunt Geraldine's death. Last Sunday we drove to DBQ and stayed overnight with C & B, and then drove to Jesup with them for the Mass of Resurrection at her long time parish church and where she taught many years in the parish school. Her two surviving children, Mary Pat Mosier, whom some of you will remember (lived many years in Racine) and her brother
Jack (another John O'C) the wife of a deceased brother Bill. Mary Pat and Jack lived near Gerry in the Phoenix area so we usually saw them when we there in the winter. Jesup is about 15 miles from Waterloo, so we were very close with this family when we were growing up. Their father, Vic was about 6 years younger than your grandfather. They, too, retired to AZ after your grandparents, but in the Phoenix area, but they saw lot of each other during those years.
Our other cousin, A. John O'Connell, drove out from Connecticut for the mass, too. So we were glad to see him.
Many of Gerry's grand and great grandchildren were there so it was quite a gathering of cousins, so there was a good deal of visiting at the church hall after the mass. Really a joyous ocassion.
We came back home on Monday evening.
Our gardens are doing pretty well, but we've had to do a lot of watering. Had our first Roma tomato on 7/28 and have had enought great green beans for a number of meals since about earlier that week. Flower gardens did well despite the heat--but were watered often. Weeds continue to do well.
Enjoyed an afternoon in Sheboygan on 7/24. Finn, Ellis and Charlie joined their parents to take the harbor area cruise which Mom won at the Kohler Art Fair last year. The weather was ideal and it continued during the early evening when we had a pizza dinner on the RO'C's deck.
We drove up early enough to visit Kohler-Andre
SP for some beach walking and a picnic lunch.
Returned home that evening.
Yesterday, Ann, Ed, Pat, Dennis and Barb Doll came here for lunch and review of some matters related to the ND oil/grazing property. Mom currently is the
coordinator and there seemed to be a need to discuss
some details. This was done and we had a good visit. Susan, Jay, Colin and Bridget stopped to say 'hello' and some of them had some of Mom's shrimp pasta salad main dish.
On Wednesday, 8/1, we went to Ft. Atkinson to pick up the children at Beth's and then spent the night with them while Mark was in SFO for a meeting which had him on two 'red eye' flights and we came back to BB after he came home on Thursday AM. We heard a good bit about the Ireland adventure and enjoyed knowing that they had such a good time.
Guess we were the only ones on the e-mail from David about a Kohler-Andre camping trip he made with Finn and Ellis where their well erected tent and fly kept them dry when it rained in the night and of the up-
coming trip he will make with Cooper to look at a
Luthiery school in Vancouver. He talked with Mom on the phone this morning. David, don't forget your passports!!
Glad for both Michele and Susan's blog recent entries.
Hope we find a good September weekend for a reunion. Charleen and Bob think they should be free around that time.
We didn't see more Ireland pictures in Ft., but really appreciated those Mark put on the web. Mom talked to him tonight to make sure we can get to see Domino before they head east on 8/24 to begin her big adventure.
Our trip to Boise begins Sunday, 8/26. We are using the new Midwest non-stop service to Seattle and will rent a car there for the rest of the trip. Seattle isn't much farther than Portland where we rented a car 2 years ago when we went out on AMTRAK, so we will hope to reach Boise by Monday evening, 8/27. Our return flight is on 9/6, and we will hope to do a little
exploring after we leave Boise before we must catch the plane.
Last Wednesday, we attended the annual Citizen's Bank indoor picnic at a restaurant in Waterford for their 'senior' customers who belong to their "Good
Life" club. Nice lunch with music for some to dance after a party mixer game to get people talking to one another. It is well attended--in fact, they have 2 dates to take care of all those interested. Most of our Big Bend senior group belongs so we don't need the mixer games to get to know them!!
This week we have a picnic with the Retired Officer group at the South Milwaukee Yacht Cluf, the 4 day
national reunion for members of the USS LSM/LSMR
WWII & Korea sailors who served on these ships, Irish Fest. As amember of the WI LSM/LSMR group, I ahve been helping with some local arrangements and publicity. We will be going to the main banquet on next Saturday night, so must miss that time at Irish Fest.
Mom talked to Kevin this week when we heard of the heavy rain and bad weather in Brooklyn. Nothing
unusual happened in South Orange. He said that we could send an e-mail to Magdalena in South Africa using her Mount Holyoke edress. She also had a phone visit with Tim and then Maura about a week before that and they continue to be very busy--and in need of rain, like the rest of us in WI. Lots of stories these days about very low lake levels. This is certainly true about Lake Michigan--broadest beaches we've
ever seen at Kohler-Andre.
Past time for bed. Goodnight. Love and prayers,
Mom and Dad
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