May 1st: A 6:00 a.m. flight from Washington, D.C., took us
back to Minneapolis. We drove home to the farm that day.
In Texas, we had learned that North Dakota soldiers
were sent to serve in Mercedes, Texas, in 1916,
and we found their flag in the museum.
which traveled back and forth between UND (Sioux
head is on the back side) and NDSU (Bison)--whoever
won the annual football game.
We arrived at Jimmy and Kelly's on the 4th
in time for Grace's band concert at the school.
his birthday with a DQ ice cream cake.
He's up to the 6 foot line on the wall
and is playing high school golf.
On Friday, the four older kids were in school,
Bob was out helping Jimmy farm and fix,
and Mary Kate and George entertained me!
George is 10 months old!
for her 3rd place win in the
North Dakota State Spelling Bee.
She is a three-year-old "energizer bunny"!
Matthew has grown five inches
and is now taller than gramma!
He is playing on the middle school
golf team this year.
He loves to tease his younger siblings!
George preferred eating the wrapping paper!
We headed back home on Sunday,
hopefully to stay for a while!
to get leaves on May 20th. I planted some flowers anyway.
her kids were going to reveal the gender
of their baby.....
at the Ritterman land we own. Since he had
some tin left over, he fixed the garden house, too!
but our crabapple trees are blooming, finally!
Have to take pics quickly because when the wind
comes up, the blooms go down!
May 31st, Bob has been busy loading up scrap iron
to take to the recycling plant in Minot. This is
a giant magnet with grippers that unloads the iron.
I thought it was pretty fascinating, so here's "the scoop." :-)
