Another Day at the Lake

Brandon, Julie, Casey, Duane and I headed to the lake early this morning. We had a Beautiful day again. We thought we might end up quitting by dinnertime because the forcast said we were suppose to get rain, but it never even sprinkled until late in the afternoon. As you can see by the photos the water was nice and calm. Brandon, Julie and Casey went tubing today for the first time.


This picture was taken while we were eating dinner on the beach. One really neat thing about this boat is that we can dock it just about anywhere.



Brandon, Casey, and Julie. Not sure who is getting on the tube and who is in the boat.



Brandon, Casey and Julie.




Brandon, Casey, and Julie is on the tube behind.



As you can tell all of these pictures were taken when we first got to the lake and Duane and I were on the beach. After that I guess I quit taking pictures. There was one point where I wished I had the camera out again. Most of these were taken from quite a distance. When Julie and I were on the beach later I could have got some good closeups but I figured by the time I got to the pickup to get the camera and back again they would be back out in the distance.

Fun Boating !

Duane,Ryan, Brandon Alex, Casey and I took the boat out for the first time Monday night. We went on the River by Bismarck,It was awesome!! Beautiful day for it, we had a blast.

Brandon and Joe did some work on it last night, and he brought it home this afternoon. Duane, Brandon and Casey took it out. I was going to go out too, but decided to just wait on the beach because we had forgotten to grab the fourth life jacket. I didn't realize how much I missed just sitting by the water. It was so relaxing to just sit and watch the waves, and the boat go by,(yes Carol I can relax now watching them LOL). When I watched them from the beach last time (we took turns riding) I was a nervous wreck because I wasn't use to the boat and the cement pillars looked so close to the boat when they went between them.

I wish I would have remembered the camera tonight I would have gotten some awesome photos. They went around right past me by the shore and turned a few times as they were going into the distance and they left a trail just as still. I could hardly see them in the distance anymore and the trail was still there, then with the sun shining on it it was really pretty.

Real or Fake? You decide

Wow, it's been a long time again! We went for a nice drive today. After Church we came home and ate quick and then went to visit Mom. She seemed really glad to see us. She said she hadn't seen anyone from the family for a long time. When we got home Duane was reading my facebook and read that Warren had taken her to Mobridge for the day yesterday. I was telling Duane we need to go visit more she seemed lonesome. But now I know she just didn't remember going out yesterday, makes me feel better, here I was feeling bad thinking nobody was visiting for a long time.

After we vistied Mom we went for a drive to Mobridge. I got a few groceries, then we went home through Pollock. We took the scenic route out to Point of View, the boat dock and just checked out the river.

Brandon just called I told him we were checking out the river and he wondered if we were checking out boating places? He said if the boat they are looking at turns out to be as nice as they think it is we will be boating next weekend.

Just a little about what we have been up to the last month or so.

We helped Ryan and Sarah get moved from Linton to Bismarck. Brandon and Alex came down with one pickup, grandpa with his and us with ours. We got everything that they wanted to take along moved in one trip. Then they went and picked up some furniture that Ryan had ordered, and got that set up. So they had things situated as far as furniture arranged etc. I'm sure they spent alot of time after that unpacking everything but at least they had a bed they could sleep in and washer and dryer set up etc. Ask the boys next time you see them how much fun they had getting the washer and dryer in. Ha Ha Whoever remodeled that apartment made one of the bedrooms bigger which made it so there was only enough clearance in the wash room to get the washer and dryer in if you lifted it about 2 feet off the ground and then you could kind of cram it through. The furnace pipes and the wall were 27 inches apart in just a small area and the washer and dryer were about that wide. You could hear laughing and goofing around in there. At least when faced with a challenge like that they all have a good time and goof off through the process, along with getting a lot of work done. We have quite a crew. :)

Duane, Casey and I helped them go through stuff they didn't want, and clean the old house the next day.

You probably all know already but I'm not working anymore. Life is too short to do something you really really don't like. I miss the girls at work already but I really don't miss the job. I have had stressful jobs before, and you can convince yourself that you like them (I luv my job,I luv my job) I used to hear a lot of that at work when things would get stressful, but although my other job was stressful it was at least challenging, and rewarding. This job was just boring, it doesn't matter that my sales were really good I just hated the job, and felt it was a dead end! I won't go into the details of all of it but needless to say it just wasn't what I thought it would be.

So,I have been busy getting projects done around here. Never a lack of things to do!
Alex, Nicole and Brandon were all home last weekend and helped Duane work calves. Thanks Again boys. :)

Yesterday Doug and Milo helped Duane and Casey move the cows to the other farm. Thanks Doug! I did plan on helping them but Duane said they didn't need me because Doug had offered to help. Needless to say I was glad, not that it is such hard work but I never feel like I know what I'm doing. I guess I wasn't raised a farm girl and haven't had a lot of experience with cattle. I'm kind of scared of them. I got used to milk cows, and sheep, but haven't had much to do with the stock cows.

I told Duane he should teach me how to mow and I could help him, but he doesn't seem to eager to take me up on it. I think he's afraid I'll damage his tractor. LOL!

Well, I guess that's all for now. Hope you all had a great weekend.

Oh, one thing I forgot, we have 9 baby kittens, They are so cute! Wild as the dickens but they like to play on the deck and of course they come to eat but they won't let me pick them up yet. There are 6 white ones, one orange one and 2 orange and white. I have some pictures posted below.