"The Chicken is "Out" of the Coop"

6/28/2011
Ma and Pa,
Checking in to see how Dad is doing??? Were you able to make it to work yesterday. I know you have the best nurse EVER so that makes me hopeful a nice speedy recovery!:) Please update me if you guys have time.
Josh and I have been thinking and praying for you!:)
Love ya,
           MEE

 6/28/2011
Ma and Pa,
THANK YOU FOR THE CALL!!! I could hear you perfectly and so I just wanted to let you know that I REALLY appreciated hearing from you guys. I have been worried and have decided it is best that I never have children because I care a little too much sometimes:) Hope you guys have a GREAT day today! Love you both lots!
Love,
         MEEE:) 

Meg's wanted me to eMail everyone when all was well with the code word, "The Chicken is Back In The COOP."   All is fine here except for our attendance at evening baseball games. I am eager to report mYmAN is almost 75%. 
As a picture is worth a thousand words...This was Friday. . .

AND THIS WILL BE THIS July 1st 2011...NEXT FRIDAY

Now as to the point of the grandchildren (as Gretchen alluded to above)...
                                           
                                               There is a lot of spare room on this boat. 

Many years ago I took a picture of ten grandchildren (cousins at the cabin) on a dock in Round Lake, Minnesota and cut out all of us and pasted us on a pontoon boat ad and gave this to Regis and Darby as a gentle hint of "What Could Be." 
They got so mad I went without dinner..
"Darby, She ruined a perfectly good picture! I never did like her cuz she's so Bossy! Get my pretzel hat and wedges...she's goin to church in Big Fork."  (another boring and abusive story)
                                                                    
So I got the pontoon boat. . an empty boat. . . I even have infant life jackets.  I'm Ready.
As for my grandparents. . .They never got it.  They had favorites.  They loved Jimmy and Mary Ellen.  They hated Georgie.
Grandma let us tie George to the telephone post and stuff grass in his mouth.  George never went to the cabin overnight again.  As punishment the rest of us spent all our summers at the lake in bed at 6pm. Grandpa had the curcuit breaker box in the main cabin and he turn the lights out.
Only once did grandma get overwhelmed and grandpa drove to the phone on the other side of the lake at Round Lake Resort and Cabins, and my dad came up and took us all home including Peggy and Jeanne.

Gretchen your great grandparents on your mother's side were the parents of Grandma Mary and Betty. They were quite mean & didn't love equally and I am proud to say, "Your grandparents broke the mold!"

Never fear you can care too much cuz the "Care Bucket" is bottomless