Monday (4/21/2014)

Monday.  Well, the party is over, time to do the clean-up.  I think Lucille ended up with about 60 birthday cards, and 2 more arrived today.  We weren't very successful at getting our party attendees to sign the guest book, so we don't have a count for yesterday, but suffice it to say, a good time was had by all.  It was a beautiful Easter Sunday, and the privilege of getting to spend it with family celebrating our matriarch's 98th birthday really made it a memorable day.

Jim headed back to Ft. Wayne this morning, and we started putting away the party stuff.  Of course, one thing always leads to another, and to put something in a drawer, Dixie always thinks we have to clean out the drawer first.  So she gets sidetracked frequently.

































 Joe and Cathy took off for town, for the soda run and whatever other roads Joe sees his name on.  Upon their return, we did learn that the Cannonball Bridge was closed, due to construction-not high water.  The next thing on the agenda was my annual trip to Princeton to put some flowers on my families' graves.  So we loaded up Lucille, the dog, and the 5 of us, and off we went, checking out the farming, the river, the road to the mine where Mike F. works, and anything else of interest.  After the cemetery, we had lunch at Taco Tierra (don't have to go back there), made a stop at the Donut Bank of all things, for tomorrow's breakfast, then browsed through Finder's Keepers, an antique/swap meet in Princeton.  Finally, we headed home with just one side trip and started preparations for dinner.  Judy was bringing out some country ribs she had been cooking in the crockpot all day, so we added some baked potatoes and baked beans and had another fine meal.  After clean-up, we played one game of 6-handed euchre that lasted about 3 hours, so we had a good end to our day.

We did have a brief shower about 5:00 p.m., but then the sun popped out briefly and I captured a picture of an Indiana sunset.