Can It Get Any Better?: Our Window...and good-bye July

This is our beautiful entry door window created by good friend Ted Lougee from a design by me. We traded a wooden carved sign for them for it. We love it, and have had many great compliments.

Well, another month rolls by....and not many entries here. Catch up time again.

We had a nice time in Minnesota, and headed for Fort Dodge to park at Alec and Charlton Pendry's We arrived on July 20, set up visited a little with our hosts, took a quick nap, and then headed for the Civic Center in Des Moines.

Des Moines, Jersey Boys

We were treated to a great performance of Jersey Boys, a great musical chronicle of the Four Seasons. Jam packed with so many of their hits, the story itself was pretty good, with the tension, struggles, and lives of Frankie Valli and the group. Especially interesting was how big a deal Bob Gaudio was to the group. His songwriting brought them their first successful songs. Before the show, we ate at The Latin King...great food, horrible waitress.

Stuff in FD

We have since caught up with our Fort Dodge friends, daughter Erin's family, gotten some medical stuff taken care (I still have the temporary crown on #18 molar....).

B.U.T.T.

Last night we went to Blues Under the Trees, by the Mineral City Speedway, just south of Fort Dodge. Put on by the Lizard Creek Blues Society, the program had 5 blues groups, and it was a great time!!! We shared the night with Herman and Dawn Provin, Mike Zahm and Marsha Storbakken. Wow, some really great music... We got to see and hear Peaches and Diesel, a local band led by Sean Minikis, featuring his wife Andrea on keyboards, drummer Kyle VerSteeg, and others I do not know. This was the first B.U.T.T. I've been to, but if we are here next July-Aug, I will be back!