After surviving the birthday bash, we slicked up the house and then took our picnic supper down to the lakefront of lake Michigan and set up camp. About 20 other of our friends came and we visited and watched the fireworks. A fun, and very, very cold evening. Friday, we all packed up including the dog and went out to a state park 15 minutes SW of here and joined the other field in a potluck and day at the park. Yummy eats, good visits, and a hot softball game that I didn't even join in because the talking was so good (thanks Dawn!). We stayed for supper and that was quickly interrupted with the dreaded yell from the road, 'Mira fell off her bike and she's really hurt bad'. Duane dropped everything and ran to where she was (my folks camper by that time). He consoled her a bit and then brought her back to the main campsite. I took one look at her and said, 'we got to go home'. She had a huge bump on the forehead, a big scrape from the ear all the way to under the nose and her back and arm and more big scrapes. I held her going home and she fell asleep. Got the kiddies all showered up from their dirty day. Mira started to get her chipper self after the Motrin kicked in. Then the call came to go see more fireworks, so off we went since Mira was doing ok. Those were closer and almost more fun than the Milwaukee deal. And of course, more good visits! :-) Can you tell I love people and like to visit? Anyway, another late night (three in a row so far). Yesterday, I got the house slicked up again and did a ton of laundry and then off to on of our friends' pool (they were at convention, but the 'squatter-dog sitter' offered us to come. Another nice time there too! But after getting home tired and ready to crash, the message on the machine said, 'we'd like to show your house tomorrow at 1:30). Oh boy. So we forgot our fatigue and got moving. Fast. It wasn't too bad, but wanted it good and ready.
Then today started with a bang! I got up early to have some quiet time, dog walk, and slicked up a bit more and off we left for meeting. We needed to do a detour as we offered to pick up one of our older resting brother workers to go with us. Well, Duane kept saying we were running behind and then I yelled 'cop' and he immediately pulled over when the cop did a U-turn. He said, 'I don't think I'll get out of this one'. Duane explained the rush, offered up the license, and we drove away a minute + later with a warning after getting caught doing 19 over since we have a CLEAN RECORD! Score!!! Clean record saves the day not once, not twice, but THREE times!!! Whoo-eee! That and maybe the scared look in the kids' eyes. (If this isn't accurate, I have a hunch the "Chairman" may get involved.)
So! The showing went well. Another coming tomorrow. We might sell the house this year!!! Or maybe not. Depends.
This is long. I'll post a picture of Mira and maybe another. I can't remember what's on the camera. I forgot to take pictures of anything else. Just imagine how much fun it all was and how cute everyone looked!
Ouch! Our sympathies to Mira, road burn hurts pretty bad, but she looks like she's braving it well. Happy belated 4th! Can you rub some of that good with the cops luck on us?
ReplyDeleteNasty road rash but she looks like she's doing okay. My sons need your luck with cops. They get tickets for not having and insurance card, following too close,(mind there was no accident)and not having a front license plate. I swear out of state cops see them as a way to get money in their state coffers.
ReplyDeleteOuchie!! Glad it wasn't worse & hope she's mending well.
ReplyDeletelucky you with the cops...I haven't been stopped for years, (NOT because there hasn't been a reason...) I'm sure my luck is going to run out one of these days soon! Maybe they have been concentrating on my boys too tho!
Too bad she wiped out - it could have been much worse so glad it wasn't. Brett sure had a fun time with your kids. He wished he had his bike along! Overall it was a fun time. Glad you were all there too.
ReplyDeletePoor baby girl! Ouch! When Connor was about 3 we were in hunting camp (way up in the mountains 90 miles to the closest hospital) and he fell face first on a big boulder by the river...and then Doug fell on top of him. HUGE goose egg on his forehead, plus the whole left side of his face was swollen and puffy. No concussion, no broken anything, no lost teeth even, but the scariest 90 miles I've ever driven in my life! Been there, done that, and don't wanna do it ever again!
ReplyDeleteYes, cops seems to target young men. My sons have been stopped over and over for things besides not speeding. The tickets have been, not having an insurance card, failure to stop (when he and his passenger both refuted the charge),and not having a front license plate. I truly feel it is just another way to funnel more money to the government.
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