OK,  so there are good signs in Wisconsin.  The sun is moving north, and the first nice sunset of the spring.  Low winds and some warmer weather.  And nights above freezing.  Maybe Spring is arriving.  It was a nice Easter day and the 40 days are over.  Now I am hoping we will have warmth, and sun, and and new growth.  I had a nice night last night with Al Miller, sharing some great beers at the Sugar Maple in Milwaukee.  And today a great brunch at Mom’s with Skip, Claire and Denise.  And I ate way too much.  But it sure was good.   Now I have to eat light several days!

And good news, Chris and Marie have booked flights to come home.  May 5th they will be flying home, drinking tequilla on Cinco de Mayo.  So I will be happy to have them back to Oshkosh.

So I hope you all had a great Easter Sunday.  God Bless.

So Craig does the Lake still look good?

And this is just the start.   They are saying 9″- 11″ now.  Very wet and heavy.  And we have had a couple of hours of thunder and lightening.   Our cat who always hates storms and wants outside for some unknown reason,  ran out when I pulled in the garage and stayed out for a couple of hours.  But even she got tired of the snow, even though it was still thundering, and came in.   This sucks.  And my wife and my daughter are in beautiful weather.   I may just skip work tomorrow rather than deal with it!  There is probably a couple of more inches after these pictures.  The flowers will be buried by morning,  and I am guessing will not bloom after this.  The daffodils can come through a light snow OK,  but not this heavy cover and cold!

I accomplished a lot on Sunday when the sun came out.  See the uncovered pontoon boat?  And I moved it around to get Enders’ trailer out and set for them.  See them in the snow?   A couple of new tires on the pontoon trailer so it is ready to roll.   The winds Sunday were out of the north at 30 mph so no chance to start putting the dock in.  Now the lake may freeze.  But it is blowing pretty good again tonight so it will be hard to form ice other than along the shore.    No wonder my wife won’t come home.

Saturday I did make it to the crawfish boil.  They did a nice job.  With some corn, rice, hush puppies and potatoes.  Nice and Spicy.  Craig the heads are runny so you can just suck them out!

OK,  I just needed to complain.

Made it to another Saturday.  Although a grey and wet one.  And yes,  those are snow flakes blowing past the camera.   So there won’t be a lot of outdoor activity today.  But I have plenty of projects to work on.  Have to change a tail light on the car, and will put the hitch back in the truck.   This weather reminds me Enders will be coming home soon,  this is usually what the weather is to welcome  them home to Wisconsin!  Time to move their trailer and charge up the batteries.  Good news,  no mice this year in either trailer.    And I will have to make a run to the dump to take in our recyclables in.  It has been several weeks, and even without Chris here the bottles keep adding up.  The neighbors must bring them over.

It sounds like Marie continues to improve.  Still a lot of pain when she over does it some days,  but she is trying hard as she said on the last post.   She is doing great and looking great.   She just has to keep her patience and stay with it, and she will.  It will be good to get them both back to Oshkosh,  but neither want to come home to this weather!

Work has been interesting,  our plant remains the busiest in our division.  And just found out one of my co-workers is taking a month medical leave.   So it will remain interesting.   I will have some opportunities to put some extra hours in,  but it looks good on the resume!

Tonight a local establishment, O’Marro’s, is having a crawfish boil.  I missed it last year but will partake tonight.  And Chris is going to be sorry she will miss this!   Some Irish music their tonight also, or another local band at Kodiak’s I may stop at with a friend.

And looking forward to Sunday,  when we are supposed to see some sun.   Temperatures still won’t get back to normal,  but things will continue to green up after the rain.  Have your self a great weekend!

Looks more like a scene from Titanic?    But this is Wisconsin.   So believe it or not last night we had thunderstorms and the lake level has risen.   The ice from the shorelines have risen and are drifting out in the gusty winds.  And the temperature is in the 70’s.   It won’t last long, but the windows are opened after a too long winter, and the fresh air blowing through.  But don’t worry I have some  firewood in the breeze way, because I am sure I will have more fires yet this spring.

But it does feel wonderful.   Yesterday when I made it home from Mom’s I spent the rest of the day in the yard.  Cleaning up our gravel driveway, working in some of the gardens.  It is good to see new growth the sign of good things to come.  So perfect for the coming Easter, new life rising, new hopes.      Would I miss this if I didn’t live in Wisconsin year round?  Well not really,  I could come back when the weather really gets nice.  But for the moment I will revel in it.

Marie and Chris have a doctor appointment tomorrow, and hopefully more good news.   Enjoy!

New life

Another week going by quickly,  well maybe because I started out on vacation.  And I have not gotten caught up at work yet.  But the good news it has gone by quickly!   Now if I can slow it down for the weekend.    Flights home were good and uneventful.   For a change!  I brought brother in law John home with me.  So he and I are batch’ing it.  The girls are in New Mexico.   Marie still gets discouraged she is not healed already, and I remind her she just had major surgery.   I think she is still doing great.  They have been out and about, and she pays for some of that the next day.  She is healing and stretching.  They did not take the staples out this week and wanted to wait until Monday,  so they go back to the doctors office then.   Otherwise things are working well!

Unfortunately it has been dry in New Mexico for several years now, and they have some fires already this spring.  So we hope they can get some rain.   There is a couple of pictures from Rio Rancho looking at the Sandia mountains.   Rio Rancho is up on a mesa,  and Albuquerque is in a bowl between the mesa and the mountains.   So from either side you can look down on the lights of the city.  Very pretty country.   And see if you can tell which picture is from home?  Actually there was someone out fishing Tuesday afternoon when I got home.  but by today there is a lot of water out there and the ice is very black.  So with some rain this weekend that should be the end of it.  There has not been much wind, and that is OK.  We don’t need it crashing into shore.

So down to Milwaukee Friday night.   Stay with Mom and do some shopping for her.   She likes that.  And then get home and try to clean up in the yard Saturday afternoon.   It should be nice and warm here.  but lots of rain on Sunday.   Enjoy your weekend.

We are in wonderful New Mexico.  The weather has been fantastic.   I am hoping the top of my head does not start peeling from the sun burn.  Very windy today but still warm.  Unfortunately some fires in New Mexico, as they have been badly in need of rain.  And the winds are fanning the fires.

The great news is Marie is home.  A little longer than we would have liked, a lot more pain than Marie would have liked.  But she has been through a lot of cutting, and has a lot of healing to do.   She is doing great.  Today was much better than yesterday.    The body is working well, and the healing is taking place.   It will take some time.  She commented this on my last post.

mtdroz says:Hi all   Finally got home from the hospital Sat. afternoon.  This surgery may have been the easiest for the surgeon but definitely not for me. It was the most painful. And what can I attribute it all to, not so much to the surgery as to dreaded GAS GAS AND MORE GAS. At least that’s what the people in the know told me. I still have a lot of incision pain. I thank you for all of your prayers all along the process. I hope this is the end of this journey for me. Hoping I can travel soon. Talk to you again soon Marie

My bad news is I head back to Wisconsin on Monday.  Looks like it had been raining and flood warnings at home.  Hope everyone is doing well and staying dry.  And I don’t have to clean any snow off the car.