Boy am I Bad!

I'm really bad about blogging. We had a great weekend with our reunion. Lots of people couldn't make it this year but hopefully we will see them next year. The Jackson kids and Uncle Lon's kids were missing this year. I'm so worried about the Jackson's girl down there in the middle of a freakin hurricane. I want to take Keri a generator so she will have some kind of power. It will be 4 weeks till they get electricity. That sucks! I know when we were without electricity 4 or 5 days in the ice storm, we still had hot water. All the kids came and took showers here which was a Godsend. Lisa and Jeff send their Kerosene Heater over so it wasn't too bad. Toots basement got flooded. Buck burn up a generator I think. So we are pretty lucky here. Just Tornadoes and Floods. Back to the reunion--- I will post some pictures.

Knee Surgery

Well, It has been 6 weeks today that I had my knee repaired. I have one more week of therapy and they will turn me loose. Waaa Hooo. I woke up while I was in surgery and they were hammering the new knee in to place. I didn"t feel anything because they did a epidural. I told Dr Di that When I get hot and I kick the covers off my legs, I cool off. I couldn't kick nothing. So they turned a fan on me and we talked till they finished and took me to Recovery Room. I was up walking the next day. I used the walker not quite a week and a cane about 2 weeks. I'm truckin pretty good. The secret is do those exercises more than they say. I hope I don't have to have the other knee done. But my knee sure feels better.

Knee Surgery

Grandma Retta and Sid

Grandparents Day with Sid

Tuesday was grandparents day at Sids school. He invited Omi, Grandpa Carroll and me to lunch. He was waiting at the door for us and took us down to the lunch line. Gosh, I had forgotten what that was like. Sid told us what to do, where to get out milk and dessert. We sat with his friend and his mom. We had chicken and noodles, green beans, jello, bread and butter and milk of your choice. I said the noodle were very good. Sid let me know they weren't as good as mine. Bless that boy. His friend wanted to know which was his mom's mom and which one was his dad's mom.Then he kinda stumbled to explain Grandpa Carroll. That was cute. Sid said he usually takes his lunch. He doesn't like what they have. I said I aways like school lunches. Besides my mom worked at Hewitt school lunch room and so did Omi. Omi was going to give a talk about living in Germany as a child durning the war. I would have like to hear her story. Well, thank you Sid for lunch, Granps and I enjoyed it.

Pictures of our party

The kids had a great party for us at the GlennEarl Wine Cellars in Owaneco. Eighty nine of our friends and family came out to help us celebrate. Buck cooked up some BBQ, cheesy potatoes and cowboy beans. Kenny Eggiman from Fisher's Meat brought in a wonderful cheese tray. Tim, Art and Jill Bolhen are to be thanked for their fine hospitality. My cousin Sue Lehr bake a beautiful Anniversary Cake using the same colors as my wedding cake she made 25 years ago. Carroll and I have had a grand adventure these 25 years combining two families and raising 5 teenagers. No one said it would be easy. We have 10 wonderful grandchildren and 1 great grand daughter. Tatum asked me what I thought about being a great grand mother. I knew I would be a grand mother but it never entered my mine about great grand children. Here are a few things most don't know about us. Carroll ask me 3 times to marry him. His first wife and I were homeroom mothers for Teresa and David. I have a picture of Terry chasing Lisa around the Christmas tree at Memorial School with her Halo on. She died in December of 1980 and I got divorced in May of 1980. Carroll and Connie got married June 27, 1965 the same day that Terry and I did. Terry and I got married at 2:00 P.M. and Carroll and Connie got married at 4:00 P.M.. We lived in apartments across the alley from each other. But we didn't know each other. Carroll worked with my Dad at the paper mill. Carroll asked me out with Duane prodding him on Christmas eve. Our first date was on New Years eve and I had to work at the Lake Club and he didn't care. I gave him my dad's address and Carroll swears I told him East Franklin instead of West. I didn't want him to know where I lived yet. Teresa got her driver license the day we got married. Buck was in a literacy contest in Strasbourg and won the completion. Who ever thought this would work! What a adventure!

Grandpa and Grandma with kids and Grandkids