Cool!
5/22/06 5:11 am.
33 º F, Cool , NNW wind 1 mph.
Good morning,
A bit cool this morning. Expect we will have frost on the pumpkin before too long. Hope the pea, which are up close to the house, will not be harmed too much. The weatherman is talking of 80's before the end of the week, but I will not hold my breath for that to happen. The past couple of days were really nice, but with a few showers on Saturday - about the time I wanted to fire up the lawnmower.
Saturday was a bit frustrating for me. For some reason this machine didn’t want to stay on line and would drop off every 10 minutes during the early morning. As the morning went on, the time on became shorter and shorter, until I could not get on line at all at noon. Of course I thought it was this machine’s fault somehow, yet there was the little voice in my head telling me it was not. Should have listened to the little voice! After checking and re-checking everything I knew of several time, finding nothing, I finally gave up. When I woke up yesterday morning, everything worked like normal again. I thing either the phone company (probably) or itol had some problems. Tried to call itol, but being Saturday they, were not open for business.
During the evening yesterday, I tried to organize some of the multitude of pictures we have. I think I have all of them on one flash drive, collecting them from several different places we had them. Even found some on Margriet’s camera that were a couple years old. At present I want to get the bunched in folders according to year. While I am moving them around, I have made some sub-folders containing particular events which have a lot of picture of. Eventually I will organize them a bit better, edit them, and hopefully put them into some form of slide show format. Kind of like making a scrap book without the lick ‘em and stick ‘em corners to hold the pictures. Tongue is in much better shape this way! As I was going through them, we have acquired a lot of memories in the past couple of years! It is kind of fun. Good thing Margriet is here so I can have my memory refreshed as to what and where though. What is really neat, is being able to get pictures from other parts of the world, very fast and very useable. This Oma and Opa really appreciate the pictures of the "little" squirts in the Netherlands.
I had a chance to chat with one of our church members, who is an engineer at our local nuclear plant in Two Rivers. The plant has been bought from our power company, Wisconsin Public Service, and there have been some operational problems since. Nothing dangerous has occurred, but the events should not have occurred. Apparently there has been a new management team brought in and either they are not that familiar with the plant (hard to believe, given the government oversight) or they are taking shortcuts. Rick apparently looked at the computer readouts and said this problem was evident a couple of days before the event happened - "Even I could see it." was his remark. He also said the vice-president in charge is no longer with the company. From the sound of it, a couple other events were also during his watch.
Rick and his wife, Rose, are also Nelson’s. They were the only other folks sitting with us in one pew row during the church service yesterday. We decided that we should name the row only for Nelson’s, as folks used to in the "good-old-days." The are an interesting couple. They met in high school, dating for a time. After high school the each went to different colleges. Rose married and her husband died of cancer after they had two boys. Somehow, Rick and she reconnected and the spark came back again, leading this time to marriage. As big as Rick is, Rose is small. A neat couple. Rose works in the local school system and both of the boys are now in college.
We are thinking of heading to Chetek during the first week of June. My little brother and his wife are making their annual trip to Wisconsin during that time. They plan to be in Chetek at the same time. It will be a good chance to catch up with that part of my family a bit at the same time. We have not been there since my cousin Orville died. Also plan to have some good food at a couple of restaurants in the area - one Norwegian. At present it looks like we will leave here on Sunday morning, returning probably Tuesday evening. That could change as the mood strikes us though. Might also be forced to stop at the Amish store in Shawano while traveling in one direction or the other.
Time to get the day a-going
In Christ My Saviour,
Chris <><
33 º F, Cool , NNW wind 1 mph.
Good morning,
A bit cool this morning. Expect we will have frost on the pumpkin before too long. Hope the pea, which are up close to the house, will not be harmed too much. The weatherman is talking of 80's before the end of the week, but I will not hold my breath for that to happen. The past couple of days were really nice, but with a few showers on Saturday - about the time I wanted to fire up the lawnmower.
Saturday was a bit frustrating for me. For some reason this machine didn’t want to stay on line and would drop off every 10 minutes during the early morning. As the morning went on, the time on became shorter and shorter, until I could not get on line at all at noon. Of course I thought it was this machine’s fault somehow, yet there was the little voice in my head telling me it was not. Should have listened to the little voice! After checking and re-checking everything I knew of several time, finding nothing, I finally gave up. When I woke up yesterday morning, everything worked like normal again. I thing either the phone company (probably) or itol had some problems. Tried to call itol, but being Saturday they, were not open for business.
During the evening yesterday, I tried to organize some of the multitude of pictures we have. I think I have all of them on one flash drive, collecting them from several different places we had them. Even found some on Margriet’s camera that were a couple years old. At present I want to get the bunched in folders according to year. While I am moving them around, I have made some sub-folders containing particular events which have a lot of picture of. Eventually I will organize them a bit better, edit them, and hopefully put them into some form of slide show format. Kind of like making a scrap book without the lick ‘em and stick ‘em corners to hold the pictures. Tongue is in much better shape this way! As I was going through them, we have acquired a lot of memories in the past couple of years! It is kind of fun. Good thing Margriet is here so I can have my memory refreshed as to what and where though. What is really neat, is being able to get pictures from other parts of the world, very fast and very useable. This Oma and Opa really appreciate the pictures of the "little" squirts in the Netherlands.
I had a chance to chat with one of our church members, who is an engineer at our local nuclear plant in Two Rivers. The plant has been bought from our power company, Wisconsin Public Service, and there have been some operational problems since. Nothing dangerous has occurred, but the events should not have occurred. Apparently there has been a new management team brought in and either they are not that familiar with the plant (hard to believe, given the government oversight) or they are taking shortcuts. Rick apparently looked at the computer readouts and said this problem was evident a couple of days before the event happened - "Even I could see it." was his remark. He also said the vice-president in charge is no longer with the company. From the sound of it, a couple other events were also during his watch.
Rick and his wife, Rose, are also Nelson’s. They were the only other folks sitting with us in one pew row during the church service yesterday. We decided that we should name the row only for Nelson’s, as folks used to in the "good-old-days." The are an interesting couple. They met in high school, dating for a time. After high school the each went to different colleges. Rose married and her husband died of cancer after they had two boys. Somehow, Rick and she reconnected and the spark came back again, leading this time to marriage. As big as Rick is, Rose is small. A neat couple. Rose works in the local school system and both of the boys are now in college.
We are thinking of heading to Chetek during the first week of June. My little brother and his wife are making their annual trip to Wisconsin during that time. They plan to be in Chetek at the same time. It will be a good chance to catch up with that part of my family a bit at the same time. We have not been there since my cousin Orville died. Also plan to have some good food at a couple of restaurants in the area - one Norwegian. At present it looks like we will leave here on Sunday morning, returning probably Tuesday evening. That could change as the mood strikes us though. Might also be forced to stop at the Amish store in Shawano while traveling in one direction or the other.
Time to get the day a-going
In Christ My Saviour,
Chris <><
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