Glass Panes That Separate

We spent last week in Omaha (or thereabouts). We went to a KOA in Gretna, which was excellent. We tent-camped the first night, and then spent five nights in a Cabin. We were visited on Tuesday afternoon by Jen Courtney and her two daughters, and then went to their house for dinner that evening. We learned a new game called ‘Loser’, which was a hoot. On Thursday, Amanda’s parents came down from North Platte, and we spent the rest of the weekend in a motel with them. On Saturday we visited the Henry Doorly Zoo, which was phenomenal.

We arrived at around 9:00 A.M. and didn’t leave until after 6:00 P.M. Even still, we had to skip a whole section of the zoo because we were too wore out by then. On Sunday, we visited the Lauritzen Botanical Gardens, which were gorgeous.

We returned north on Sunday afternoon.

Last month (June) and the month before (May), we had a lot of rain. To escape the flood in our basement, we jumped aboard the ark. Well… maybe not. But we wished we could. Instead we moved stuff here and there to escape the water that was continually streaming into the basement. Then it stopped, and there was peace (except the wind). Then, out of nowhere, we had a storm that lasted about 15 minutes. It certainly didn’t do 15 minutes worth of damage. It took several large branches off two of our trees, and there were branches down all over town. I’m not sure if they even qualify as trees anymore, as they’ve both lost about two-thirds of their branches to date (the front tree lost another large branch while we were on vacation-more on that later). To prove it, I took pictures.

One more update before I hit the hay. No, it never did anything to me, but I’m going to hit it anyway. I also added some pics from Amanda’s birthday party (just the two of us) which featured lots of candles. See if you can count all of them. I certainly won’t tell you how old she is.

This is the first part of me catching up on my site. There will be several other updates to come. In April we adopted another guinea pig. She came from a rough home, and was taken in by a family here in Ellendale. They have lots of animals already, and couldn’t really afford to take care of another one, so they asked if we would like to adopt her. And so we did:

There’s a few more in the gallery under ‘Daisy’ and I’m sure there will be more to come in the future.