Sunday in the store

New inventory - vintage jewelry belt buckles

New customer and friend, Kyle, and John

Friday's Art Crawl was a great success

Eleanor (the pup), Mallory and Cindy

I needed to go to Denison, Texas to pick up some inventory and my friend, Cindy, wanted to visit her daughter in Dallas, So......road trip! We had a blast - Cindy's daughter, Mallory, was a delight and we got to meet Eleanor (yes - she is a pure bred pit bull). We bought the most beautiful pottery pieces from Joni Beamish in Denison and got home last night.

Minnesota connections

Friday evening was our second "Art Crawl" event. We have teamed up with 3 other galleries in town to stay open late on Fridays in July from 5-8:30 with wine and cheese. Our first drop-ins were John's friends, Cully and Karen from Minnetonka accompanied by Karen's son, Stefan. They were in town for the week-end checking on their place in Horseshoe Bay. Stefan has been offered a job as Assistant Chef at the Horseshoe Bay Marriott and may stay with us for awhile. We also met the Striblings (formerly from Edina)at the Art Crawl....small world!

Our new lawn service.......

Short but sweet visit

After the wedding, Rich, Linda, Raymond, Mike and Patty came back to our house for a short stay. We wish they would come more often and stay longer!

At the waterfall on the Colorado River

Raymond Stange on the Seadoo

Patty Stange

Linda Stange

Mike and Rich Stange

Kaitlin Stange is now Kaitlin Kinsolving!

Mom and Dad Stange with Billy Bluegill

I just got this picture from Gerri and a note about their Fourth of July at the cabin in Birchwood, Wisconsin. We were so sad that we couldn't make it back to the cabin to share it with them this year. However, with cell phone updates, we vicariously enjoyed the bird watching, boating, blueberry pancakes and the infamous pontoon parade.

Chuck: What's Up? Call Soon!

One week to the wedding day!

Upcoming

John's brother, Mike, is taking his parents to Birchwood this week-end - wish we could be there too! Last summer, John and I were there when Bob came to the cabin, but this will be Gerri's first visit. Hopefully, Mike will remember to take the obligatory photo next to Billy Bluegill for our collection.

We have been waxing nostalgic about Birchwood pretty much every day...we miss Joe and Donna, our hottub, blueberry pancakes, and cruising the lake in the pontoon.

Monica and Bruce are also in Birchwood over the 4th. Now that they live in Florida and we live in Texas, we had hoped to meet up with them in Birchwood every summer. It doesn't look like we are going to get there this year. Oh well. That just means Monica and Bruce will just have to come to Tow for some striper fishing soon.

We replaced the mangled prop (thanks Sean!) and have been getting out on the lake at night after work. We also have one Seadoo in the lake and will launch the other one when brothers Rich and Mike come next week for Kaitlin's wedding. She gets married a week from this Saturday. Their engagement picture was absolutely gorgeous - if I can figure out how to scan and post it, I will.