Is the cooler coming?

6/19/06, 5:12 am.
68º F, Clear, SW wind 6 mph.

Good morning,

An old Norwegian checking out a Norwegian Stabbur (store house) at Little Norway last week. The building is rather recently built by one of the restoration folks as a gift to the museum a few years ago. The stabbur is built to make it more difficult for little critters to the at the food and other supplies kept within. Not too sure how successful their efforts were, but at least they tried. The foundation posts has cut flat rocks on top of them, extending out, between the logs of the building to "prevent" the critters from climbing in. The steps to the building have a gap to the building, to prevent the same thing. The upper floor extending out over the lower one, to provide some shelter for things under it as well as weather protection for the logs. A permanent ladder from the "porch" to the second floor byway of a trapdoor in the floor. It is an interesting building and design. It was not open to go into, but would have liked to.

The valley Little Norway is located in was named Nissedahle, or Valley of the Elves, buy the early Norwegian settlers. The folks running the museum have place carved trolls everywhere. Some small, some large, some in the wood pile, some carved from dead trees. There are also some carved in the original members of some of the older buildings. Most are so ugly they are cute and all have tails!

Yesterday was pretty much a wasted day as far a accomplishing much. Margriet woke up yesterday under the weather (maybe the weather got to her) and feeling very puny. We didn’t go to church and hardly did anything. She took a couple of naps during the day and other than reading a lot, not too much else. I managed to stay close by and in the process managed to watch a couple of pretty good car races. NASCAR was rain shortened and a champ car grand prix race. All in all, a pretty lazy father’s day for me. Nothing exciting at all and I like it that way.

Our weather yesterday was very wet. It rained off and I all day and very humid. We had a couple of very hot, humid days. Yesterday was some cooler, but Saturday really got to me. I did make a few rounds with the mower and worked on some other things, but only in short bursts. Not what I want to do. The 2-DO list seems to keep getting longer every day. Our part-time neighbors came up on Saturday, but left early in the afternoon yesterday. Probably because of the weather. Late yesterday afternoon we did have some severe storm warning up, but nothing really happened here. There was a couple of tornados which did some damage closer to Milwaukee. I watched the storms on radar, but seemed the really bad stuff disappeared as it came here. Like that too. The weatherman predicted the rain would end yesterday morning about 10:00 A.M., but think he should have said 10:00 P.M. instead.

We did have some unhappy news late last week. My second cousin in Georgia broke her hip and was transported to a hospital some 50 miles away. Lib is in her 90's and in frail health and the doctors were concerned about preforming surgery because of it. They did do the surgery, but she has not awaken yet. The last report we had was Saturday so don’t know what has happened since. Karl is at the hospital, so doesn’t have access to email. We are spending some extra knee-time and hope you do too.

It appears the day will be pretty good weather. Tomorrow too. Hope it drys up some rather quickly this morning so things can get done around here. Time to get the day a-going.
In Christ My Saviour,

Chris <><