Breakfast at Aunt Martha’s with Jacqi and Rik

After they had enjoyed a lie-in we took Jacqi and Rik for the obligatory breakfast at Aunt Martha’s.
Quite how Jacqi and Rik managed a lie-in, which involved sleeping through the noise of a herd of hefalumps preparing for school evades me. Though to give the kids their due they were trying to be quite [...]

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Visitors

We’ve known Jacqi via Flickr for quite some time. When Ginger came to the UK in 2008 we met at Bletchley Park and had a great afternoon chatting and wandering around.
Rik and Jacqi are driving across the US as part of their journey to their new home in New Zealand. We were very pleased that [...]

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Glade Top Trail

We’ve been planning to ‘do’ the Glade Top Trail for most of the summer. It is supposed to be especially good once the fall color has started. The weather’s not been co-operating recently, and it looked like this would be our last chance to see the trail before the leaves dropped. Also the trail is [...]

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High School Orchestra Concert

The High School Freshmen Orchestra
What with Lanie’s PTA and Musical on Tuesday, Choir, youth group and KFC (Kids for Christ) on Wednesday, Thursday saw us at the High School. So it’s been quite a week. We were watching Katie in  a Concert by the Freshmen followed by the main School orchestra. It was very good, [...]

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PTA & Musical

Lanie, appropriately, played an Actress
in a musical about careers

This evening was Lanie’s school PTA meeting, which was mercifully short, followed by a fun musical about careers by the kids. It was well organised and performed, and also mercifully short. I’m told previous years’ events have been a bit drawn out and excessive. Not so this [...]

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Council of the Churches of the Ozarks fortieth anniversary celebrations

Arriving at Drury University
After breakfast with Jim we had a brief wait at the Church before taking the girls to Drury University, where the Church Choir was joining forces with other childrens’ choirs to sign at the Council of the Churches of the Ozarks fortieth anniversary celebrations. The combined choir had never sung together so [...]

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Breakfast Flickr Meet

Our Flickr and Facebook friend Jim detoured down to Springfield to say hello on his way home from a wedding shoot. We left the girls to do their choir duty and set Jim up for the drive home with a hearty Ozark breakfast at Aunt Martha’s.
Ginger has known Jim online for over three years, and [...]

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A Saturday afternoon outing

Lanie had a birthday party to go to this afternoon, so we took her to the party and then ‘did’ a couple of Flea Markets to pass the time while she was off enjoying herself.
We arrived back at the party a few minutes early so Ginger got out her knitting, and I listened to a [...]

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Green Card

Today in the post I received my bright shiny new Green Card and a letter welcoming me into the US.
The process we started on 19 March 2008 is finally over. I can now work in the US and travel freely.

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