Hello.   What a good day was this again.    I spent the morning making pasta salad, putting things away and just getting ready for the gathering in Bart, Barb and Bret's honor.   


It was just great.   Bret did the barbecuing for me.   Poor guy.  He just got to going and the clouds opened, just long enough for him to finish cooking.   He was drenched, but the warm sun afterwards dried him off very quickly and it was a nice warm rain.  He cooked up hamburgers, venison steaks and brats and I cooked four mushroom burgers for the vegetarians and those of us that just wanted the burgers.  (Mushroom burgers were really good.  I will make them again.)

All the aunts and uncles,  Jeff and Kathy, Randy and Donna, Dolores and Ken and Eileen and Fred were here.  Mary Margaret and her family and Shane and Georgina came too.  Then Bobbie and Bill and Richard and Brenda so we had a full house and a happy house.  We ate like royalty and visited like family.   We hope that the distance between these gatherings will never be as long as this one was.

One bit of fun.   A little green tree frog climbed up the corner of the front of the house and settled just above the carriage light.   He was very amusing and we got to see him eat a bug.  I will put a picture on tomorrow and a couple of others.   The frog picture is not to good but it is fun.

What a day and what a weekend.   Barbara went up to Green Bay and attended service at the church she went to when they lived here.  They were so very glad to see her.

Tomorrow we are going to the Wade House, out for dinner and to see Grandma then on Tuesday they leave.   Never enough time but we are so grateful for what we get.

God love you

Pictures tomorrow

Mary