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Keith Crook, son of Paul Crook (who is Aunt Dee’s husband), died yesterday morning. He’d been suffering from various health issues for many years and had spent this past year in and out and in and out of the hospital.  He had a heart attack while he was in the hospital and died. If you want to send Paul and Dee a card, the address is 1247 Seitz Drive, Waukesha, WI  53186.

Another week almost finished. It has been a normal, but fun, week. Most everyone had their lesson – I even started a new student this week. My exercise classes are filling up to the point where it is actually worth my time to do them (aside from the great exercise I get!)  They had lasagna one day at the senior center, so I took two to go (we can do that for $3.50 a meal, now that we are 60!) and we had delicious lasagna for supper. I bought another meal for Thursday when I have to quick heat something in the microwave at church and gobble it down between my last lesson there and my lesson and choir at the college. That day it was beef stew on a biscuit.

Today was the first of three sign language classes being offered for free at the senior center. There were 11 in the class and it was lots of fun.

Nothing planned for tonight. We do find out what the person interested in buying the youth center is offering. Steve Vork and Lynda Rogers met with him today and are going to email the rest of us the offer, then we’ll decide on Tuesday what to do.

Work on the rentals planned for the weekend, plus Dad doing some work with Gary Mohr, I think. I’ll probably just be freezing more squash and cabbage and playing with the dogs.

Taking in the sun. She isn’t supposed to be on the table, but what can I do if I’m inside? Plus, I’ve got to admit it is a great place to sunbathe.

And a nice view of the front of the building with Dad’s decorations from our garden.

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Snow tonight? It is only October 3rd, for crying out loud, but they are predicting snow beginning around 8 this evening and continuing through the night. I’ll let you know how right or wrong they were!

Yea, it is a lot cleaner, now.

Here are some other pictures, while I’m at it.

21. The way the bookcase hides the door

 

 

 

 

 

20. Comfortable, shady seating

 

 

 

 

 

19. Enough storage (this is an old picture – it is cleaned out now!)

 

 

 

 

 

18. Toaster oven fits in the real oven.

 

 

 

 

 

17.Place for drinking glasses/coffee cups

 

 

 

 

 

16. and 15.  Bookcase behind couch and basket hanging on basement door to hold purses and camera.

 

 

 

 

14. Hardwood-look floor in kitchen

 

 

 

 

 

13. Island top from 610 house

 

 

 

 

 

12. A desk to write on AND a desk for the computer.

 

 

 

 

 

11. And another cute, old desk in the dining room.

 

 

 

 

10. My cute backyard.

 

 

 

 

9. Two dressers of my own

 

 

 

 

8. Lots of outlets in kitchen (8 right in this corner!)

 

 

 

 

7. Shiny laminate counter – looks expensive and cleans up really well.

 

 

 

 

6. Large divided drawer for large utensils

 

 

 

 

5. Hook on back door for my keys

 

 

 

 

4. Really cool old stove

 

 

 

 

3. Lots of counter space in the bathroom

 

 

 

 

2. How my piano sounds in the new, less “live” space.

 

 

 

 

1. And maybe most importantly – My incredible shower!

I know it has been a long time since I posted. We certainly have not been sitting around doing nothing, but it didn’t seem anything was interesting enough to post about.

This past Friday and Saturday we went to Waukesha to get the last of the things out of Mama’s house and basically say goodbye to the place. It was hard. In more ways that one, actually. Emotionally, of course, but also hard work. One of the brothers called and asked Dad if he could get the furnace out, because it was going to cost $750 to have it removed. So we had to do that, then haul it away. We hauled everything in to Grandma Fritz’s garage, to be gradually brought up to Chetek. We’d said we’d take a push mower and ended up being given all 6, so we have them all awaiting transport to our various rentals. We also got the rather new riding lawn mower, which I used to mow Grandma Fritz’s yard as soon as we’d hauled it there. We also got the double seated go-cart, which needs a new pull rope before it can be used. It will be fun for riding around our property, though, once it is fixed. Then there was the wood stove from the rec room. We put it on a 4-wheeled dolly and were using two wide tie down straps to gradually winch it up the planks into the trailer when Uncle Doak volunteered to help. With he and Dad pushing and me winching, we got it loaded. It unloaded much easier! We are not sure we have use for it, but it is ours now. We also have a chest freezer that will go in our basement here, once we get the pile of dirt moved and new stairs put in. And, finally, we got the washer and dryer. Dad hooked up the dryer yesterday and I used it for the laundry. Nice. No more trips to the laundromat!

I had two new people in my aerobics class this a.m. And I have one personal training client signed up! Patience, patience…. Piano students are up to 15.

Meet Pippi, Sherlock’s new housemate. Now we have a matched set, more or less!