Cooler weather, for a bit in Iowa

 78º with clear skies in Clarinda at 10:30 am Wednesday -- predicted high of 90º.

Spent time last Saturday at Joyce and Loren Tornholm's place east of New Market, IA.  Phyllis' cousin Joyce had her 75th birthday earlier in the week and she had invited family members to gather for a lunch Saturday.

At right are Sue Sandahl, Paul and Eddie Taylor.  Sue is Joyce's daughter and they live in Johnston, IA.  Sue is an outpatient occupational therapist with On With Life in Ankeny, IA.

At right are Steve & Beth Gregory standing.  Beth is Phyllis' sister; they live in Clarinda.

At left is Judy Guthrie, Phyllis' cousin who lives in Clarinda.  Her granddaughter Kora (Scotties daughter) and Phyllis.

Lori Sleep, Phyllis' second cousin, and Judy Heuer's daughter, is in photo at right.

Lori Sleep, Kora Heuer, and Renessa, friend of Colton Sleep.

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At left is Jerry Sleep (Lori's husband) with their son Colton and his friend.  The Sleeps live near Gravity, IA and Colton & friend live in Hamburg, IA.

Yesterday I

washed the

roof of our

travel trailer.

Still need to put some

sealer caulking on

a few places that have

dried out.

Monday we went to Omaha for 2-week Post-Op checkup with Orthopedic Surgeon following knee replacement surgery for Phyllis.  Got a real good report.  Have been doing the therapy over at the hospital 3 times a week and continuing to do therapy here at home.

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Well, this seems interesting---- The European Union commissioners have announced that an agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, the British government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for short).  In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c". Sertainly, sivil servants will reseive this news with joy.  Also, the hard "c" will be replaced with "k". Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter.  There will be growing public enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replased by "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20 persent shorter.  In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent "e"s in the language is disgrasful, and they would go.  By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" by "z" and "w" by "v".  During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou", and similar changes vud, of kors, be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.  Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German lik zey vunted in ze forst plas.

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A man ran home from work, pulled his wife into the bedroom, threw her on the bed, and pulled the blankets over them. She was shocked because he hadn’t been like this for 20 years. Then her husband said, “Look! My new watch glows in the dark!” 

-Until another time, Lynn  st