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Who knew?

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What could it be?

Guess what this little building in Lincoln is?  A library?  A school?  A house with a really big address plaque?  No, sillies, it’s the …

Wowsers!

Ha!  In little ol’ Lincoln Nebraska!  I drive by it when I drop off Lloyd at choir practice on Sundays.  Someday I’ll actually go inside – it’s on my list of ‘Things to do when I can’t possibly think of something else to do’.   I don’t think they’ll welcome me, though.  One look at my ankles and they’ll know I’m an imposter.  “You can’t skate!  Get out of here!” 

Kristi’s no liar

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If you checked Brad’s site on March 21, he talked about balancing an egg and how it can be done any day of the year. Our good friend Kristi did it!  Here’s proof:

Egg-cellent!

Dang it, Kristi!  After I posted your picture I had to try it myself.  THIS is why I’m not getting stuff done – I’m too easily distracted!!!

To be fair, I tried the most flat-bottomed egg I had.

 

Gala-rific

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 First of all, I must say – Happy Birthday, Keren!!!!!  Woo-hoo!!

Before the crush

Lloyd’s school had it’s Gala on Saturday, and we went to help (plus mooch a free, delicious meal).  We got to check in the spiffily-dressed folks.  They have a dinner, silent auction, then live auction.  I’m sure they made a lot of money, but I was outbid on the one thing I thought was cool – a bag full of books.  C’est la vie.

Goodies galore

Can I get a hundredhundredhundredhundred, now a hundredfittyhundredfittyhundredfitty...

I’d write more but I’m beat.  Somehow I keep running out of time.  My battle cry is, “Survive March!”

 

From Annette to Brad

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Note the extreme wear and tear

I feel like I’m passing notes.

Dear Brad, Annette wanted me to show you what happened to her handles.  The lower ones are where she keeps the delicious snacks and cereal, the upper ones are where she keeps the vegetables and fiber-rich foods.

Weird and sad

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Kathryn, if you’re reading this – I’m sorry.

Kathryn and I were roommates in college, and she has a very nice little plant that she called Sylvester.  (It was some kind of evergreen-fern thing.  Brad will know.)  Somehow, when school was done I got custody of Sylvester and he traveled many places with us – Minnesota, Maryland, and then back to Seward.  Not being a plant person, I have hated Sylvester for many years now.  He just kept growing taller, skinnier and sad-looking.  He’d drop branches like there was no tomorrow, so it looked like a sickly palm tree.  Lloyd and I have argued about euthanizing him, and this summer Brad said, “Put it outside in the winter. It will die a painless, natural death.”

So we did.

Mission accomplished!  Plant’s dead!  On Lloyd’s second day of yard work we were disposing of the corpse and found this!

A miracle it survived at all

Whaaaa?  Still in tiny pots?  No wonder!  The hilarious thing is that I think Lloyd and Brad repotted this from it’s earlier container, but they just put all the dirt in from the small pot.

This was also found in the dirt.  Kathryn, I think it’s your sleeve.

so pretty!

Our Very Special Guest Star…

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Remember this boy?

What??

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, that is Josh!  For those of you who don’t know, Josh is Lloyd’s cousin who came to Seward with Lloyd’s brothers several years ago to detassel.  They were teenagers when they were here, and now Josh is all grown up.  He’s headed to Alaska to cut down all the trees.  (Josh hates trees.)  Oh, wait, actually he’s doing tree service – bringing them fresh towels and freshening their drinks.  No, wait – trimming the trees.  Got it.  (I should have paid attention when the boys were talking.)

Good luck, Josh!  Have a great adventure!!!

Here are Lloyd’s two favorite Josh quotes from when he was 14 and spent the summer with us…

Josh talking with his Grandma: “Yeah, they [Lloyd and Lauren] have to buy all of their food from the store, ’cause they don’t got the woods”

A few weeks before the 4th of July, Josh wanted to buy some fireworks.  He asked Lloyd where the closest fire works stand was from our house.  Lloyd told him that there was one right up the street about 5 blocks.  Josh left to go shopping, but came back in about 30 seconds later: “Hey Lloyd, what’s a block?”