Our 40th

Our 40th wedding anniversary was on Sunday (June 7). For the most part it was like most of our other anniversaries, filled with activities that have to do with the time of year rather than our anniversary. The first part of June is always full of graduation open houses, weddings, festivals, parties etc. As a result our anniversary is normally punctuated with going and doing, usually too much going and doing. Now that I think about it we are going and doing kind of people and therefore should expect nothing less.

Saturday we went to an art festival at Winona Lake with some friends from Church. We have always enjoyed art and often include going to galleries and art shops when we travel. We usually jointly agree that the new ceramic bowl or the little print is just right as an anniversary gift to each other. It is actually a nice way to commemorate the day. The art festival was nice the weather was perfect, we had a good time and ended the day with a cook out at our place. We did pizzas on the grill, one of our new tricks.

Karen has been planting flowers all spring. Most of them are really looking nice already.

On Sunday after Church, since the afternoon was going to involve going to a graduation open for one of the young ladies from our Church, we hurried home had hotdogs on the grill (typical intimate celebration for us). In the evening we went up to Karen’s mom’s place for cake and ice cream. Blake, Apryl and the boys were there for a while and we had a nice visit with them.

Baseball 6-4-09

I got access to 18 suite tickets to a baseball game, Thursday night, in the new baseball stadium in Fort Wayne. A local Architectural firm offered them to me to get our Project Management group and families together for a fun evening. Originally Blake, Apryl, Skyler and Trae were going to join us, but Trae had his own Baseball tournament to play that night. At the last minute Adelphia and Ethan were able to join us.
































It was a really nice evening, good food, comfortable accommodations. Everyone seemed to enjoy the evening. Skyler kept saying "this is so awesome!" I guess it was.

















The suites have both indoor and outdoor seating. The picture with the lady on the phone and there three teenagers are the family of another of my Project Managers. He had is other two younger daughter out on a hunt for ice cream.

















The fellow in the White shirt is the Vice Chancellor for Financial Affairs (my boss). He and his two children seated at the counter were able to join our group as well.











Ethan and Skyler getting to run the bases after the game. The three young men together are students, or fresh graduates that work in our Project Managment area.

Ouch!

I played softball last night and encountered 2nd base with the ring finger of my left hand. when I got up off the ground I noticed that the finger at the knuckle was bent toward the pinky at a 45 degree angle. One of the players on the team is a policeman and was willing to pull it out and straightened it out for me. Today it is pretty swollen. I know, I'm old enough to know better. By the way the ring has been on my finger for right at 40 years so no I am not planning to have it cut off. I like that finger.

Almost Ready for Summer

Over the past two weekends we have started getting ready for summer. We got out table, chairs and umbrella out on the deck and already had several meal out there. Karen has all of the planters and flower pots loaded with herbs and flowers. Along with some of our neighbors and friends we have gotten the piers and shorestations in. On Saturday we got our ski boat in and Sunday we put the kayaks in and let a couple of College student form Church take them out for the first cruise of the season. We are beginning to see lots of ducks and geese with little ones paddling about the channel and shallows. It won't be long and the lake will be crowded with boaters and swimmers.

Hopefully there will be more to come