We're Still in Jamestown, ND...Family and Friends to see...

Tom's cousin, David Chadduck and his wife Linda took us to the Depot for lunch on Thursday.  There was no lack for conversation and we had lots of catching up to do after four years of not seeing them.

Thursday evening found us at Grizzlee's Restaurant with Myron and Nancy Vigesaa and really had a super evening with them as well.  It was fun catching up too.  They had boy/girl twins just months after we did and so it was always fun having the "twin" connection and understanding with one another, and NOW our "babies" are grown and moving on.

Lisa works at "Country Clipper" one day a week, so she cut Tom's hair yesterday.  It was worthy of pictures, first, because Lisa is cutting his hair, and secondly, I always cut Tom's hair, so it was fun to watch someone else cutting his hair.  Since Tom will be doing the wheat harvest in two or three weeks he needed to have a haircut that will last for a good long while!  So, Lisa hasn't even started here on Tom's hair! 

The Country Clipper!

Randy, Lisa's husband, standing by one of their three grain trucks!  Tom and Randy were good friends when he lived back in North Dakota.  Tom and I married one week before Randy and Lisa 27 years ago.  Tom stood up as one of the guys with Randy, (we flew back to ND on our honeymoon) and attended their wedding, then the four of us drove out to Seattle all of us on our honeymoons together through Glacier Park to Seattle!

Randy and Lisa share this four bedroom "cabin" with another couple on the lake five miles from their home.  Its really pretty.  They took us through it.

This is plans of their new home to be built on one level.  Should be finished by December of this year. 

Found these cute toadstools today at the Buchanan cemetary.

I don't normally take pictures of headstones of people I don't know but it really stuck me on so many of these headstones of so many children from long ago, that children did not live very long.  I think we are very fortunate to live in the day and age that we do and with the modern medicine that we have.  This little 3 1/2 year old boy's headstone said on it:  "There was an angelband in Heaven that was not quite complete, so the Lord took our darling Jessie to fill the vacant seat"...

These 4 old matching headstones are of 4 brothers and sisters from the early 1900's.  None of them lived more than 2 years old.  Can you imagine losing all your children!  It would just break your heart!  Those poor parents...I tried to imagine.  But, had they lived with today's medicine it may have been a whole 'nother story.