back to normal

hello everyone--that video is blackmail material. the conversations and laughter behind her little voice are also pretty funny. what a great laugh!
as dad reported, we got home monday at about 10. we had a hotel adventure in north platte NE. stopped at one place that allowed dogs--it was in the coupon book, susan. it was mom and pop. we opened our room door and it smelled like a convention of cats had been there. so, i argued with the clerk who didn't believe me and sent his wife for a "smell". she called back, and said yes there is a slight odor. when the dogs walk out of the motel room, we know something is wrong.
then we went to the other newer one, 11 at night. david pulls into the front door. the hotel van comes up behind him honking its horn, and yelling at david to move his car. the guy continued to honk, david moved, and then came and got me and said no way. so we left. the last words we heard from the driver were "go back to colorado where you came from." by then , we were so rattled we kept going. by ogollala we were ready to take on another nebraska motel owner! so, we stayed there with no incident. got up and had a 3 hr drive monday. stopped and got david's computer at work, had breakfast at the nearby village inn, and went home. we may never stay in nebraska again.
anyway, i took tuesday off and worked around the house, and then went back to work on wednesday. david started work on monday morning, as soon as we were back in cell phone range.
this weekend, david took the camper and dirtbike over to taylor park, north of gunnison, to ride. so i'm enjoying cool denver.--walkiing the dogs and doing chores. next weekend we are meeting david's brother norman and wife in sante fe for labor day weekend. that will be fun. norman's multiple myloma has pulled him out of remission, and he starts some more chemo after we have our long weekend.
we had such a good time in WI, and want to thank everyone for their hospitality, generosity, tolerance of 2 goofy dogs, and 2 goofy adults for that matter! we always have so much fun with you all--so many great stories and get togethers. this was particularly fun cuz we got to lie to mom so much! i loved that!
thanks to bridget for her bed, scout for her backyward, david for his great song, mark for finding the words for freyas hit, all you wisconsinites for organizning the logistics of all this, and to dad -- for having everything that david needed to put in three toilets! i do believe you guys set a record for the least number of trips to home depot! but you did have 2 tools that he doesn't have, which soon will be findng a place on his tool bench. so thanks for that too.
we love you guys, and thank god that we have such a wonderful family.

i had my last kringle yesterday morning.....

take care everyone--love M, D, L, and R