<yawn> So, what have I missed?
The NFC B-Day Chat Thread
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Where have you been ? We were worried. 
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Now, why is it that you all panic so easily? You knew it was going to be this way for awhile! 
BYC is just too hard for me to manipulate on the small phone screen or the mini i-Pad. But guess what? Ken bought me a new full sized iPad this weekend and is getting it all set up. I can SEE what's on the screen and I can use a keyboard instead of the touch screen. Oh, I have great hopes that my days of not being able to keep up are over! I've been pretty active over on FB, but that site is easier to handle on the smaller devices.
We just got home from 3 days in Sheridan, unpacked, repacked, and are heading up for a 3 day stay Billings later this morning. Ken has been a little under the weather, and has ballooned to 210 pounds, it almost seems like overnight. He's always been pudgy with a pot belly, but this is crazy! The tux that fit him when we were in Rapid City last month wouldn't even button on Saturday, but it was noticeable even before that little debacle. We saw our GP about two weeks ago during a 2 day break, who referred him to a Gastro, and the gastro has him set up for a colonoscopy, a gastroscopy, and a ton of labs and other stuff. So we'll go up today, spend the night, walk over to the surgical center (it's right across the parking lot from the hotel) he'll have his procedures on Tuesday, and the doctor said he wanted us to spend that night close by in case there's any more bleeding. Should be home Wednesday, then it's back to Casper for a day, on to Sheridan again for 2 days and rinse, lather, repeat. But we only have 4 more lodges in the state to visit....the rest of this stuff coming up is mostly long distance at this point.
Wyoming has been restoring the Capitol building in Cheyenne. So in July Ken will be immortalized on a cornerstone of the building. Big Masonic cornerstone ceremony, with placement of the new time capsule behind the stone, which will give the name of the building, the date, the Square and Compass, and his name as Grand Master, sort of like this one that was done last year in Sheridan at the restoration of the theater:
Kids are all fine. Bit of a shocker last week - Kendra's teacher was trying to make her ask for the scissors to finish her school project, and Kendra kept just reaching for them. Keisha kept reminding her to use her words. Finally Kendra looked right at her and said, clear as day, "I don't want to right now." WHAT???
Katie performed a solo and in two duets at the Showalter competition held annually at the Powell College. She scored an "excellent" for her solo and has been offered a $200.00 music scholarship at Music camp this year. (What autism?) She turned it down. She'd rather go with us back for our annual trip to South Dakota Grand Lodge and see family back there. Cool this year, since Grand Lodge is being held right in Sioux Falls. We're going to stay with my sister Lori instead of the hotel.
We are over halfway done with this year. It can't come soon enough! Boarding bills for Fee are getting crazy, and we're both exhausted. Getting a new car later this week. Man, I don't want to give up my Rav - I love that car - but they've updated Kendra's wheelchair and it doesn't fit anymore. Um, neither does Fiona. So we're going back to the good old Sienna mini van. Old people aren't supposed to have mini-vans!
Okay, guess that's about it. Oh, and Madelyn Grace just turned 4 yesterday, and big brother Landyn is turning 6 in a couple of weeks. Man, I AM getting old! Jamie and Rachel are, unfortunately, splitting up and it hasn't been amicable. I love him dearly but I'm so over all the phone calls at all hours. Last time I told him that my sympathy kettle was about empty and I can't do anything about it anyway. "So if you're going to do this, just do it and get it over with already." I know, I'm a bad gramma, but there's always 3 sides to anything...his side, her side, and the truth in the middle somewhere.
BYC is just too hard for me to manipulate on the small phone screen or the mini i-Pad. But guess what? Ken bought me a new full sized iPad this weekend and is getting it all set up. I can SEE what's on the screen and I can use a keyboard instead of the touch screen. Oh, I have great hopes that my days of not being able to keep up are over! I've been pretty active over on FB, but that site is easier to handle on the smaller devices.
We just got home from 3 days in Sheridan, unpacked, repacked, and are heading up for a 3 day stay Billings later this morning. Ken has been a little under the weather, and has ballooned to 210 pounds, it almost seems like overnight. He's always been pudgy with a pot belly, but this is crazy! The tux that fit him when we were in Rapid City last month wouldn't even button on Saturday, but it was noticeable even before that little debacle. We saw our GP about two weeks ago during a 2 day break, who referred him to a Gastro, and the gastro has him set up for a colonoscopy, a gastroscopy, and a ton of labs and other stuff. So we'll go up today, spend the night, walk over to the surgical center (it's right across the parking lot from the hotel) he'll have his procedures on Tuesday, and the doctor said he wanted us to spend that night close by in case there's any more bleeding. Should be home Wednesday, then it's back to Casper for a day, on to Sheridan again for 2 days and rinse, lather, repeat. But we only have 4 more lodges in the state to visit....the rest of this stuff coming up is mostly long distance at this point.
Wyoming has been restoring the Capitol building in Cheyenne. So in July Ken will be immortalized on a cornerstone of the building. Big Masonic cornerstone ceremony, with placement of the new time capsule behind the stone, which will give the name of the building, the date, the Square and Compass, and his name as Grand Master, sort of like this one that was done last year in Sheridan at the restoration of the theater:
Kids are all fine. Bit of a shocker last week - Kendra's teacher was trying to make her ask for the scissors to finish her school project, and Kendra kept just reaching for them. Keisha kept reminding her to use her words. Finally Kendra looked right at her and said, clear as day, "I don't want to right now." WHAT???
Katie performed a solo and in two duets at the Showalter competition held annually at the Powell College. She scored an "excellent" for her solo and has been offered a $200.00 music scholarship at Music camp this year. (What autism?) She turned it down. She'd rather go with us back for our annual trip to South Dakota Grand Lodge and see family back there. Cool this year, since Grand Lodge is being held right in Sioux Falls. We're going to stay with my sister Lori instead of the hotel.
We are over halfway done with this year. It can't come soon enough! Boarding bills for Fee are getting crazy, and we're both exhausted. Getting a new car later this week. Man, I don't want to give up my Rav - I love that car - but they've updated Kendra's wheelchair and it doesn't fit anymore. Um, neither does Fiona. So we're going back to the good old Sienna mini van. Old people aren't supposed to have mini-vans!
Okay, guess that's about it. Oh, and Madelyn Grace just turned 4 yesterday, and big brother Landyn is turning 6 in a couple of weeks. Man, I AM getting old! Jamie and Rachel are, unfortunately, splitting up and it hasn't been amicable. I love him dearly but I'm so over all the phone calls at all hours. Last time I told him that my sympathy kettle was about empty and I can't do anything about it anyway. "So if you're going to do this, just do it and get it over with already." I know, I'm a bad gramma, but there's always 3 sides to anything...his side, her side, and the truth in the middle somewhere.
@Blooie it's so good to hear from you, you know how we worry!
Sorry Ken is having medical issues, hope they get to the root of that super fast and he's better soon.
It's OK to have a mini van, you have some fair sized loads to haul there!
That's too bad about Jamie & Rachel, but you're right about there always being 3 sides to every situation.
Hugs to you and yours my friend
Sorry Ken is having medical issues, hope they get to the root of that super fast and he's better soon.
It's OK to have a mini van, you have some fair sized loads to haul there!
That's too bad about Jamie & Rachel, but you're right about there always being 3 sides to every situation.
Hugs to you and yours my friend
@rjohns39 and @007Sean thought you might get a kick out of seeing this coop build article (and maybe the rest of you as well).
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I've read over 900 coop build articles for rating purposes and this one is unique!
chicken-guard-shack-hill-country-texas.74787
I've read over 900 coop build articles for rating purposes and this one is unique!
@Blooie it's so good to hear from you, you know how we worry!
Sorry Ken is having medical issues, hope they get to the root of that super fast and he's better soon.
It's OK to have a mini van, you have some fair sized loads to haul there!
That's too bad about Jamie & Rachel, but you're right about there always being 3 sides to every situation.
Hugs to you and yours my friend
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Definitely an interesting read.
Ahem....so, er....ah...blush blush...did anyone notice anything different about my profile pic? 
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