Last Hurrah of Summer

The plants outside can sense winter is coming and are putting all their effort into one last hurrah for the summer.

This Peace Rose was given to me by Annette in rememberance of my dad.
I think he would be pleased.


And the dwarf zinneas are shining.


I'm in the process of bringing in all the house plants for winter. It's a job!

Our first visit to see John @ IU

John is alive and well at IU. We went down last Sunday to see him. We brought down some supplies for him and went to a Turkish resturant for lunch. John also showed us the art museum at IU which looked very good and only the first floor was open that day. We'll be back to see more later.

On first arival we all checked out John's room.




Here is the turkish resturant we had lunch at.




John & Jenny meeting Mr. Wells


A few sights from the art museum.




Big as it is, the IU campus has lots of trees and green space. It's very inviting to squirrels.


And yes, John showed us around the music school.
Here is the music library.

And a little light reading in the library.

This round building is the music practice building. It's full of individual practice rooms and studios for the professors.


And for those who have test & quizes coming up, a praying mantas is nearby to assist.


John took us to a lounge in Read Hall and played for us a quiz he was working on for piano class.


John The Entertainer

John practicing for his quiz in piano class.



Jenny liked the IU campus a lot and made herself at home.
Here she is talking to Jody on the phone.


It was very good to see John again.

The Girls Sing @ Saturday Mass

Jenny & Jody sang at the Saturday night Mass.


Jenny & Jody Singing @ Mass 9/16/06

Dog Walk

This morning we walked with fellow "dog people", (people who love dogs and have taken a class with Judy) at the reservoir. It was very foggy and I'm amazed at some of the pictures Bob was able to get. Remember, you can "click" on a picture to make it bigger to view.

Joey & Hank


Kip



Milk Weed (a good one to click on to enlarge)


Look at how much life is here!



The group



Here I'm greeting Joey with open arms.


Boomer and Kip play bowing.


Towards the end of the walk we met another dog named Ralph. He's a labordoodle! The dogs were so excited to add a new dog to the pack and everyone wanted to run & swim with him.








Bear


The following is the last mad dash the dogs did before we leashed them up to take them to the parking lot. Bob squatted down to take this sequence which was a brave move as the dogs were bearing straight down on him. It was unnerving enough for me that I stood behind him so it the dogs hit us, Bob would be my protector.











At home both Joey & Boomer got baths and are now snoozing in the screened in porch, no doubt dreaming about their fun morning at the reservoir.

Not your typical Fort Wayne sunrise

On Monday morning I had dropped Jenny off at school and was driving back home going east down St. Joe Center and saw the neatest sunrise I have ever seen in Fort Wayne. The sun was already up, but it was a cloudy day except where the sun had poked through. I got on the phone and called Bob who was still at home and told him to grab the camera and run outside and see if he could take a picture of it. Within about 3-4 minutes the sun was completely covered up with clouds again, but here is a picture Bob got on the fly.

BD Homecoming

Jenny and her good friend Bree came over to the house yesterday to prepare for the football game.

Here's a look at the back of the spirit shirt.


Here's the front side of the girls.




Jenny


Bree

The Paper Chase

It has been said we are moving towards a "paper-less" society, but that's hard to fanthom at our house. The last week I've embarked on an ambious project of sorting through old boxes of reciepts, statements, & tax returns trying to reduce the paper load at the house. So far I've gotten our tax returns gathered together, and many of our old statments, but have a huge amount of shredding to do before I can return the new lighten load of paper to storage.
Here is the paper invasion at the house:










And we must take time to celebrate our small victories. Here is a cleaned off kitchen table!