Round Robin – Barbara October 12, 2008
Posted by Diane Bird in : All Posts , trackbackAugust 19,2008
Greetings Family:
This will be fun to try the RR online — thank Pam P. as she is the one to get this started again! You know, I’m a little dense and and it takes a little while to get it all clear in my mind. The way I understand it is that I write this E-Mail and send it to everyone and then also send a copy plus Pam’s letter by U.S. Mail to the next person on the list. That person will send their letter by E-Mail to everyone on the list plus they will make a copy and include it with Pam’s and my letters and send it to the next person on the list etc., etc. I would suggest, however, that if you don’t have time to write a letter to just put a note in the envelope and send it on. That way, we should all get more timely news.
This has been a strange year weatherwise – alot of rain, about 3 days of 100 degree weather and already summer is winding down with mornings that seem real fallish. We have a different water problem than Teresa though. She has had water coming in from the top, I think, and ours came up from the bottom! After 7 years of drouth, we have had water in the basement again. In the year 2000, we put in the Beaver system and this is the first year to put it to the test. It did just what it was supposed to the first couple months and then we had this 6″ rain and first thing you know the water started coming up through the floor cracks. In the beginning, we had 2 pumps running and we ended up with 4. But that’s what you get when you live in the Platte River Valley – no one should have basements!
I think you all probably know by now that Loren has been in Tiffany Square nursing home in G.I. since the last of April. He suffers from Dementia and I never know how I will find him when I go to visit as he has his good days and bad days. However, the Dr. has adjusted his medication — taken away some of the pills and added another and so far things seem to be going better. The home has to call me everytime certain things happen, so he’s fallen out of bed 3 times and even out of his wheel chair. It used to bother me terribly to get all this bad news until I realized the girls have to let me know everything that happens. Probably, it is to cover them in case I might want to sue? I don’t know for sure.
They have a beauty shop where he could get his hair cut, but he would rather have me do it as I always have. The beauty shop is closed Saturdays and Sundays, so we could use it then. Rich & Pam went with me and then Lora and her family came too, so it was a nice big place to have us altogether. It worked out fine except that whenever anybody spoke, he turned his head, and he’s lucky I didn’t take a big nick out of his hair each time! Pam was afraid it was too much for him, but I think he enjoyed seeing everyone altogether. Of course, he loved the 3 little girls to hug and kiss him goodbye!
I hadn’t been to the Merrick County Fair for years, but this year, Pam had to spend some time in the Merrick Foundation booth as she is a member, so it was a good opportunity for me to go too. Rich, Lora and the girls went too. It used to be when the County had 12 or more Extension Clubs that we were urged to support the Fair and enter in the competition but there are no more clubs so there isn’t the competitive spirit. As a result the “open class” building was a quarter of what it used to be and the 4 H part of it is way down too. There was a Junior Rodeo the night we went so we sat on the bleachers and watched the kids ride the sheep. Lora’s eldest, Ellie, wanted to ride the sheep too in the competition so Lora took her down but found out they had to sign up ahead of time. But I bet Ellie won’t let her Mom forget it next year!
I read Steph and Teresa’s contributions to the Blog and they were good ones — and I want to say, Teresa, that I am so happy you are feeling so much better. Now, I hope you can get a little more padding on your bones so you’ll look like the old Teresa. Steph mentioned that Kevin and Riley were checking out colleges — I suppose for the next year. Do you think he wants to go to the same one in California where his cousin,Jay, will be going this fall?
Merrick County is celebrating their Sesquicentennial (150 years) this summer. Rich, Pam and I went to the one at Worms earlier in the summer – - Clarks had theirs a month ago — Archers was last week-end – Central Citys will be in September and Chapmans in October. They are all different but lots of fun with Cemetery Tours, Outhouse Races, old time Outdoor Movies, old car shows, Quilt shows, Gun show, — you name it., and I’m sure they had it. Our church women put out a county-wide Cook Book and we’ve sold around 400 so far.
You all should stop by and see Pam’s flower garden before frost. It has done so well and is just gorgeous! She and Rich are in the process now of putting up an Arbor. When I was over there the other morning, Pam was manning the post hole digger and Rich was mixing cement to put around the posts to anchor the thing down so it won’t sail out over Chapman with the first big breeze that comes along!
We had an unexpected visit a week ago, when our cousin (and yours), Tim Caruthers and his son, Brandon, stopped by on their way to South Bend, Indiana. Brandon will be studying for his Masters in Business at Notre Dame. He was to move into married student housing the next day and start classes on Monday. So they were in a hurry and didn’t stay overnite as they wanted to get to Omaha that night. We had a good visit over supper though, and even had time to make a fast trip out to the old Magnuson farm. Brandon is 28, married to a Japanese girl he met in Idaho. and they have 2 children. They had lived the last 4 years in Japan and she wasn’t able to travel with him home because their new baby was just 2 weeks old. Her Mother from Japan, will accompany her home to help with the children. Tim was to fly back to his home in Seattle area, Auburn, I think.
Matt & Emily were married in May — I wrote about it for the Blog but for some reason, it didn’t log on — then I wrote another and that didn’t work either. Then I figured out you had to have a password, which they sent me by E-Mail and 3 days later, a corrected one and neither one work. Someday we’ll get it figured out and we’ll get it on with some wedding pictures too, I hope.
Pam, Jackie and I are getting together in another week or so to talk about planning the next Magnuson Family Reunion to be held in Omaha, the summer of 2010. We would appreciate comments and input from you all so don’t be bashful. Sorry this letter got so long, and I promise the next time, I won’t have so much to say. By the way, Pam P., your carousel horse is just beautiful! Love to you all,
Barbara
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