First hair cut.

Herbie had a couple of terrible days. First he decided to eat a leaf off of a Peace Lily plant, on Wednesday. We went to visit dad's grave that night, and I was rolling around in the grass. Mom thought I'd found something that smelled good, and was enjoying it. Little did she know the plant was brothering my throat. On Thursday mom caught me trying to finish off the leaf. Wasn't feeling to good, I threw up on the living room carpet. I had a bad case of diarrhea,and a sore bottom. Mom got real worried so she called a vet hospital. So off we went to the hospital, an hour later and $135.81 they sent me home. On Friday she took me to get my rabies shot, the doctor wouldn't give it to me, he was afraid I'd have a reaction to it and end back at the hospital. So we went and had me groomed. She even bought me a tag with my name, address & phone # on it. I feel important now. Hopefully mom has learned a lesson, and will keep the house plants out of my reach. Mom's friend Margie, said that I'm still not myself. Oh well it will take some time for me to get back to normal.

Sorry

This is only my third post and I forgot how to add pictures. So I'll try again.

Rainy Days & Mondays

I'm so tired of the rain. It has rained every day this week. It's so bad that I have mushroom growing in my grass. The grass is so long I'm afraid the city is going to give me a warning. Oh well what can a person do when the sun doesn't shine long enough to dry the grass, so it can be mowed. On the 10th & 11th I went to Sandy UT, for our state convention. Then on the 28th I leave for Las Vegas for our national convention. This is all job related, of course you all know what I do for a living. Only 5 more years and I can retire, then I hope to do a lot of traveling. In August my girlfriend Margie and I are headed for Wisconsin. We will be spending 2 weeks there, and going to family reunions. In the 32 years I was married to Herbert, we never made it to any of his family reunions. So I'm quite excited about going, and getting to know his relatives. While I'm there in WI I hope to be able to visit with my girlfriend Debby Hack. We meet her and her husband Rick when he was stationed at Hill AFB. We've been friends since before Kimberly was born, and she'll be 33 this September. ( sorry Kimberly) There is a new someone in my life. I will put a picture of him. Bye for now.

South Dakota Trip

On May 30th I took a trip to South Dakota, along with my friend Margie Holbrook and my granddaughter Helen. We went to visit my daughter Kimberly and her husband Patrick. We had such a good time that we really didn't want to leave to come home. Unfortunately there is this thing called work and a thing called bills. You know what I mean, you have to work so you can live. Kimberly and Patrick, had the whole week planned with fun things to do. On Monday Patrick took the day off work; we headed for the Badlands and Wall Drug. You'd never believe the Badlands were even there. On Tuesday morning the 3 girls went to breakfast at Perkins. After breakfast we headed for Storybook Island. It a theme park made up with storybook characters. That evening we all went to Watiki water park for a ride down the lazy river on tubes. Of course I can't forget the water slides, oh my heck, what a thrill. Both times down the slides I had Helen go over my head and the next time it was Patrick. I thought I was going to drown. Afterwards we went to Arnold's Diner for something to eat. It's a 50's style diner, Patrick even danced with his niece Helen. Wednesday morning Patrick took us on a tour of a B1; we even got to go up into the cockpit. That was real neat, but a little cramped for my liking. Kimberly, Margie & I went to Deadwood for the evening. Patrick took Helen to Chuck E. Cheese for an evening of fun. Thursday morning the 4 of us girls got up and went to Cosmos. When that was done we drove to Hill City and had lunch at the Alpine Inn Restaurant; talk about good German food, and the dessert was fabulous. From there we drove to Keystone, and looked for souvenir's for the rest of my grandchildren in UT. That evening we went to Bandit Lanes for burgers and fries and $1.00 night bowling. Friday morning the girls went to Golden Corral for breakfast, then we went shopping at Wal-Mart and Kimberly's favorite department store, Kohl's. I must say I did get a few things for myself. That night we went to Putz n Glo, to play miniature golf. We actually ate at home, we had burgers on the grill. After dinner Kimberly's friend Kris came over to visit with us for a little while. In to bed early, because we had an early morning on Saturday. The dreaded 12 hour drive back to UT. We really had a fun time, I'm thinking of taking one of my other granddaughters, Natasha, next time.