I never SAW it coming

Yes, it's true. There is no photoshop here; Jeff is cutting the circles for the spinner boards now using his new band saw! And yes it is true that it will pay for it's self in a short time with the savings of buying the pre-cut pieces; but...... I still get a funny feeling in my tummy.

Vickie holding Ridley. Josh and his Dad Steve Holland

Vickie and Josh hosted a Bar BQ at the Holland house on Saturday afternoon. Josh is a pretty good cook. Not only were we entertained by the adorable Ridley Dexter, there was also a little cutie, Laila. I think she liked having her picture taken. She is the daughter of Vickie's friend Steph.

Check out the Holland baby blog for some cute shots of Ridley standing and making baby sounds.

http://thehollandbaby.blogspot.com/

Sunday morning we met up with Ron and Patty Johnson and Kathy and Larry Carlson for about 150 mile ride around the country side. Of course we made a few stop. It was a very nice day for a ride. It's still sort of hard in my behind.

Have a safe Fourth of July

sorry I can't spell

Oops. Everyone knows how badly I suck at getting peoples names right, sorry to Karina and Carol for spelling your names wrong.

Fathers Day Weekend

Sorry it has taken me so long to document the great Fathers Day weekend we had in Eastern Wisconsin. Char drove out to Stillwater early Friday morning and joined us on the ride across the state. She had the back seat to herself, with motorcycle magazines and two pillows. (sweet dreams Char)

Karena Cutler
Our first stop was in the Oshkosh area where we delivered a piece of furniture (that once served in Bob and Jean's home), to Karena Cutler/Lake. She picked Rinn up from daycare so we could see her. We don't see Rinn often enough that she is real comfortable around us, but she liked Char. We believe it's because Char's an "Ope"; (some one who looks young and holds a child like appearance) and kid are drawn to kids.

Charlene Kuhl and Rinn Lake

It is always a surprise to see a child after a few months and see how fast they grow. It goes for Ridley also. The last time I saw Rinn I thought she looked like Mom, but this time there seemed to be a little more Dad in her eyes. She sure is a cutie.

We weren't able to stay too long before we had to dart off to the factory in Oshkosh that manufactures the lazy susan parts of the 'spinner boards' that Jeff makes. It saves quit a bit by buying direct and picking them up at the factory saved a lot on shipping. Gee I wonder if we can write off the gas as a business expense? And off to New Holstein....

Internet photo

Due to the diversion in our course we took a route we don't usually travel and saw a huge stand of wind mills spinning in the fields. I can't begin to guess how large of an area they covered or how many there were, but there were a lot of them all turning in the wind. I thought it was very interesting but I haven't found a project name or a story behind the crop of towering turbines. If any one has any information they can share I would like to hear about it.

We arrived safe and sound at Mothers pad where we crashed for the night. There's no place like home.

On Saturday we got our acts together at a reasonable time and headed off to Elkhart Lake Farmers Market. We weren't there to look at the produce, there were crafts and artsy stuff as well as some very cool looking vehicles. Oddly a lot like Stillwater.

We stopped at the cheese and wine shop sister Carlo work with, Kris's Cheese to Please in Plymouth and Char picked up some treats that she had discovered during our last visit. And I stopped at a scrapbook store and found a few clearance items and a little something to put together a page for our next adventure... Road America.

Thanks Doris for getting us ticket to go to the June Sprints. I feel like such a hypocrite because I, the person that states that auto racing is the biggest waist of fuel had a good time. It was exciting to watch the cars go through parts of the hilly and curvy 4 mile track. It is a pretty cool track and we went to corner 5 for old time sake. Insert "Flash back to the 70's here"

We agreed we would do that again or maybe watch the motorcycles race.
Jeff got much better pictures than I did because he has an uber cool Zoom lens that pulled in the cars right in front of him. I sure would like an uber cool zoom lens. Maybe when I learn how to use the camera better. There were a few race teams from the twin city area including Stillwater.

Not everyone stayed on the track. Two went off, one got back on. Everyone was alright.

Later in the afternoon we went to the Graduation party for Brad. There were so many familiar faces and it was nice to see some new ones. Kate and Paula were there with there guys and it was so good to see the kids. I wanted to get some pictures of Steph and her horse, and here they are.


I needed a family fix, some times I get a little home sick even at my age. Char had a good time hanging out with her cousins too.

We packed up the 20 pounds of string cheese that we acquired to fill the orders of our friends and left early enough that we got back in time for Jeff to see Vickie and Ridley as well as his Dad.
Ridley is now on the move....

And Goldie is unsure. Think she is going to work on staying out of Ridleys path.
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Happy Birthday to Dave P.

Happy Birthday Dave.
And notice the record album collection. The bird is pretty cool too.

Happy Fathers Day

I am going to step away from the computer for a few days to visit with my family in Eastern Wisconsin so I would like to take this time to wish all the Fathers, Grandfathers, Great Grandfathers, Brothers, brother in laws, uncles and every one who has a father a very wonderful weekend and a great Fathers Day.



Vickie and Jeff Cutler



Steph, Steve Steinert with Dennis Melger and Bradley Steinert



Erv and Carol Ramminger


Erv Ramminger with Kelly Melger and Kate Ramminger




Jeff and Ridley

David and Vickie Ramminger with Kate, Caleb and Paula

Josh and Ridley Holland

Bob Cutler and Rinn

Jack - Bill - Jeff and Dad Cutler

Lori Melger and Tony Ramminger

The Ramminger brothers and sister Alice, with Leander, Tony, Alphonse

standing: Ambrose, Ervin, Randy and Edvin

Thanks guys for all you do and have done.

AML

June 19th Happy Birthday Lori Steinert

HAPPY 39TH

Happy Birthday to my Favorite Lori. I am really looking forward to seeing you this weekend and celebrating all the June events like Birthdays, Graduations, and Fathers Day, summer, etc... That's a lot of HAPPY for one weekend, I can hardly wait.

AML

Congradulations Brad the Grad

Congradulations Bradley




We are so excited and really looking forward to celebrating with you this weekend.
We're all so proud of you.





Brad the Grad; bet you never heard that one before.....

AML