A follow-up to MUDDERS' DAY

Hope all of you are having a great Saturday!

Grandma wishes to thank all of you for your MD cards, flowers, treats, telephone calls and dahlia bulb(s)--and the great video of Freya and the message which described MD 5/11 on Middle Fork.

It has been a busy week with Maura here while she attended a workshop/seminar at the Country Inn west of Waukesha. Very favorable weather meant we spent a lot of time outside with transplanting and planting.
We are behind Casey with our squares but did get some seeds into each one, but no plants yet--still some frost danger. Susan was here for a few minutes this morning to bring Gma a hanging plant and a short visit. We did see both she and Jay on Tuesday evening when they came and had some supper with us and to have a visit with Maura. Assume you got home safely, Maura, when Mom left the message for you last evening.

Monday began with preparations to go to the MARTA--Milwauikee Area Retired Teachers' Assn. Spring Luncheon a the the downtown Hilton. Had a visit with Aunt Nancy Richter and she had already learned that we had been at EXPO to enjoy Charilie's drumming. That evening was our next to last Bible Study evening. We will conclude until fall after the last date, 5/19. Doing all the reading about those guys who lived so long makes us feel 0lder, too, we guess!!

Mark left early on Thursday to drive to Poughkeepsie to pick up Domino. Gpa went to Ft. A to be an overnight guest of Calvin and Capri. This involves an after school pick-up and for this trip a drive to Cambridge to take Calvin to his guitar lesson and then getting him to the HS for Behind the Wheel Driver Ed at 7 AM Friday morning. After that Capri and I had some bfst before I took her to school and then drove back to Big Bend.

Casey and Matt, hope your Alaska preparations are going well and that you will have had a good visit with Michele and David before you see us 2 weeks from today when we fly:

UAL 7698 Lv MKE 6 AM Ar Denver 740 AM 5/31/08
UAL 6611 Lv Denver 825 AM Ar Boise 1028 AM

Our return flights are:

UAL 582 Lv Boise 320 PM Ar ORD 741 PM 6/7/08
UAL 7995 Lv ORD 9 PM Ar MKE 949 PM

By the time we begin this trip, we should know how we are to going to be involved with graduation for Bridget and Cooper and that will be the first order of business on 6/8/07.

Must commend Declan for his very succesful weekend in Pittsburgh when his Ultimate squad was the top winner in the tournament(?)/meet. That had to be a very unique Mom's day
present for Lyn. A very hoarse Kevin provided us with the
highlights as they made the 'midnight' ride back to SO on Sunday evening.

Don't know why the FONT changed mid-stream? Gremlins??
Gma is grateful to all of you who remember the LARGE PRINT.
Thanks.

Gma picked the first rhubarb of the season and got some extra from Lucille Snyder and is making, as I write, Mrs. McKenna's Crunch recipe. (The file card written by Mrs. McK is now so faint that I typed a large print copy for Gma this AM. Hope I didn't have any typos). She plans to take it to a Mother-Daughter lunch at St. Joe's tomorrow which Susan, Bridget and Maura were unable to attend. She assures me that she will leave a portion for me here at home.

It is a great outdoor work day and as soon as I have a little lunch I will be outside again. Where has the morning gone??

Love and prayers for all of you,

Grandma and Grandpa