Steve-July 27, 2019

We are so busy with all three girls that I am not finding time to take too many pictures. I do have a couple I took yesterday.

On Zoey's birthday in May, she asked us for a BIG penguin. When she said that she would stretch her arms as tall as she could stretch them. We finally found a plush penguin that was a little over 2 feet tall. She loved it. His name is Steve. I think it is from a movie, but don't quote me. So yesterday I was able to finally get some pictures of Steve. However, Steve was playing princess dress-up. The girls thought that was hilarious. I admit I had to help dress him.

Zoey and Steve. Steve is in Cinderella clothes.

The cat wearing the "pearls" is Hannah's grumpy cat.

 

Here is Steve as Belle. I was happy that the Beast

did not accompany Beauty!

 

By the time they left last night Steve was back to being Steve.

 

We try to roll with the punches when the girls are here. I doubt Jerry ever dreamed he would know how to dress a princess doll. But whatever it takes to help the girls have fun. We are trying to build memories.

Storm clouds-July 20, 2019

If you have followed this blog for any time you know I love clouds, rainbows and sunsets. The view we have of storm clouds here is so extraordinary that it is hard not to just stand and gawk at the beauty.

Same storm taken from two different locations.

This thunderstorm was actually located over Sydney, Nebraska.

 

 

We have talked about the fact that it is not possible to see thunderstorms far away in other parts of the country like we see them here. Part of it, we think, is just simply the lay of the land. And then there is the fact we have far fewer trees here than other areas especially the South. On Jerry's first trip to Alabama he almost had an attack of claustrophobia because of the dense trees. It really bothered him. He did eventually adjust and found all those trees provided nice shade. Still, I love looking at what is happening in other states.

 

This storm was in extreme eastern Colorado and western Kansas.

 

Storm over Cheyenne, WY.

 

 

I spend so much time looking up it is amazing I have not tripped over my own feet.  

 

 

 

Old Love-July 12, 2019

The following is an email I received today from our South Dakota State Representative, Dusty Johnson. He is a free spirit. I genuinely like him though we sometimes think differently. Obviously the picture was taken 20 years ago. I did not ask his permission to post this but I feel like he would not mind. I am giving him the credit! I love what this says.







July 12, 2019
Dear Cheryl,

I Prefer Old Love

By Rep. Dusty Johnson
July 12, 2019

Reflections as I begin my 20th year of marriage to Jacquelyn (Dice) Johnson: 

New love is fun. It‘s easy to enjoy the excitement, the rush, the sense of opportunity.

I prefer old love, though.

New love is perishable. It‘s easily distracted and fades quickly. Old love is abiding. It’s stubborn, willing to ride out the inevitable storms and maelstroms of marriage.

New love is picky, and can be run off by any manner of shortcoming. Old love knows its every wart. For some blessed reason, old love sticks around.

You don’t have to dress up for old love, but often you do, because you want to.

Old love doesn’t keep score, because there’s only one team. Old love laughs together, cries together, works together, disciplines children together.

New love is noisy. There are so many interesting stories to share and fun secrets to confide. Old love knows how to talk and advise and share and confide, but it has also learned how to be still. It is easy to use silence as a tool of anger or apathy, but old love knows silence can also mean comfort and happiness.

Old love comes from God, and you can feel him within it. New love brings more pleasure, but old love brings more joy.

Old love laughs at jokes no one else understands. Old love exchanges glances, tells stories with a single look, and reads minds.

Old love is a best friend, makes us better, and is a sincere blessing.

New love is fun, but I prefer old love.

Crazy Facebook-July 6, 2019

Anyone who knows me knows I do not like Facebook at all. I am on it to follow family. I generally do not comment often but I had something I wanted to share on the 4th of July.

It is a 4th of July tree made by my brother and sister-in-law.

I think it is so pretty and definitely appropriate for July 4th.

When I saved it to my hard drive I saved it as his MAGA tree,

not his July 4th tree. That was my big mistake.

 

When I posted it on Facebook, I could never find it. Then I received notification from Facebook that they had deleted it. It was allowed online for 6 hours. That was bad enough but they added insult to injury by locking me out of Facebook. It took me an hour of intense work to get Facebook to open again. So I am back on Facebook, but my settings have been drastically changed and it makes it very hard to maneuver. There's not a thing I can do about it. So I have learned my lesson. I changed the name on the picture to 4th of July tree.

 



 Enjoy the tree better late than never.

Hope you had a fun 4th!

Got milk?-July 1, 2019

Got milk?

 

Not milk. This is Daisy eating one of her favorite snacks,

Laughing Cow Dippers. I like this snack, too. We have no idea why

she chose to put the cream cheese on her upper lip but neither are we

surprised. This girl is full of energy and non stop thinking.