Minnesota extends winter

At the May Day Parade

We’ve been in Minnesota since the end of April. We left Texas because it was getting hot. Needless to say we haven’t had that problem around here. I wear my same fleece lined flannel shirt every day. Folks around here are sick of me whining about the weather so I’ll have to write about something else.

We are homeless outside of Texas so my kind brother, Ludwig is providing us with a place

Mother's Day gardening

to live while we go about figuring out what kind of place we want here and where we want to live. We are exploring all of our options. We looked at one place where we could give them all of our money and they would take care of all of our needs including through dementia and death after which our heirs could get a fraction of our original investment. We will continue looking.

Folwell Grade School Concert... Edie center front

In the meantime, we found the Midtown YWCA where we can go work out. We are close to our son’s home so have been able to help them out picking Edie up from school and hanging out with her. That is all good. Two weeks ago, Peggy had to be out of town for a few days so I got to get up early and go get Edie up and to school for 3 days and then get her from her after school program until Greg got home from work. Edie has a lovely princess routine in the morning that includes breakfast in bed, a slow wake up and then getting dressed. We allow 15 minutes for brushing hair and need every minute of it. Finished with a slow walk to school that is 3 blocks away.

After school fun at the Mall of America

Bob, Dick, me, Elaine, Jean and Mark

We took a couple of days and went to Rochester at another brother’s house where we helped him install a new door on his house and painted a room. In exchange he fed us an excellent meal and we got to hang out with his daughter and her children. Last weekend, we went up to Brainerd with brother Dick for a day so that we could be involved in the Pine Tree Cemetery clean-up. It was pouring down rain with snow mixed in and the cemetery looked in pretty good shape. My cousin Jeannette was there, too so we stood around in the rain shivering and catching up on family news for 10 minutes or so and then went to another brother’s house where we checked out the bed. We then went to my sisters’ house where it was warmer and had a cup of tea and caught up on more family news. We all met out at my brother’s restaurant, Wings Airport Café for dinner with 5 of my brothers and sisters. We did not have a quorum so could not make any family decisions. Not that that made any difference. Even with a quorum, we can’t make decisions.

That pretty much sums up our Minnesota summer so far. Our winter tans are fading and we are beginning to fit right in around here.