On May 15th we moved to Mystic lake Campground to visit with friends who were there for the weekend. The campground was having a open house. So on Saturday they had a free picnic for all the campers and gifts for all. Other then being cool and very windy we all had a good time. Here are a couple of pictures from supper in the restaurant overlooking the golf course.
Pictured are Marlene, Ashlyn, Dale, Kayla, Mary, Drew and Randy. This was grandparents weekend to spend some quality time with their grandchildren. Kayla is Dale and Mary's granddaughter, Drew and Ashlyn are Randy and Marlene's grandchildren.
Here are Jane, Judy, Wally, Zach, Paul, Ron and Sandy.
On Monday we went to Aberdeen, SD to visit with Sandy's parents and her sister and brother-in-law.
The ground was too soft to camp out at the house so we camped at the Wyile Park Campground in town. One morning when Sandy went out to pull the window awnings down, she could hear all this chirping. It turned out a couple of young ducks were following her around the coach. With that outfit and hairdo you would have thought they would have been scared away.
Here is Erwin tilling the flower beds.
The following few pictures are the fruits of his labor. The tulips were at the end of their bloom, but a few pretty ones were still worth a picture.
Some apple tree blossoms.
Iris.
Lilacs.
Erwin’s buddy, Buffy.
We left Aberdeen on Saturday the 23rd and drove to Staples to visit my family there. One evening some of us went out for supper at Tower Pizza.
Cydney, Becky, Dana, Derek, Glen, Sandy, Joe and Barb.
On Monday the 25th we drove back to Mystic Lake where we will spend most of the June.
On the 31st we drove to Staples for Cydney’s graduation party. She’s the last one out of the nest. We stopped at Joe and Barb’s to pick up our mail. I’m sure Joe is happy that we bought a house so he won’t have to be our mail address anymore. While there, some Bluebirds showed up at their Hummingbird feeders. Here are a pair of Bluebirds. The hummingbirds were a little too quick to catch a photo of them.
On June 3rd I went to watch our niece Cydney play in her last State Girls High School Golf Tournament. This is a two day event. The first day Cydney shot a one over par 73 to take a one stroke lead. There are no pictures of day one as I forgot my camera.
The next day Sandy and I went to watch Cydney play. Here she is teeing off on a par three.
Here is Cydney putting while two of her foursome watch.
This picture is of the top four finishers. Cydney finished third place with a 36 hole score of 150. The first place girl had a 146, the second place girl had a 148 and the fourth place girl had a 151. The three girls with Cydney are all on the same team, Minnewaska, which also won the state team championship.
Staples had three girls and one boy in the state finals. The “old guy” in the middle is the head coach and my middle brother, Glen. Congratulations to them all.
I think I have the girls on the ends names right.
Hailey (tied for 20th), Nick (tied for 25th in the boys division), Glen, Cydney (3rd) and Julia (tied for 12).
It was an early day for me on the 5th as I got up at 5:00 AM and rode the motorcycle to Staples to get our mail at Joe’s house. What one won’t use for an excuse to ride 160 miles one way. Joe rode back with me as far as our cousin John’s house, which is about 120 miles from Staples. No one was home so we left them a note and split up for our rides home. I ended up putting 360 miles on for the day. Then in the evening our Friday night supper couples went to supper at TGIF's. After supper we played cards at Pat and John’s house. I'm getting too old for this much activity in one day.
It is getting awfully dry here so it was with mixed feelings when there was a light rain all day on Saturday. But we ended up with .98 inches of much needed moisture. In the morning I went over to the garage to start working on a 1975 BMW R90/6 motorcycle that I bought a long time ago and had never started it. So the first thing was to pull the carbs and do an overhaul on them and clean out the tank. Then I can try to start it and see if anything needs to be done on the engine.
This coming Friday, June the 12th we will be closing on our new house, so the next few months will be busy.
Till next time,
Dave and Sandy
