As most everyone knows, we got home the beginning of March, and thankfuly, the weather started improving. The snow disappeared quite fast and April came and went without so much as a flurry.

I went back to work and we hired a nephew, who is a contractor, to paint the whole inside of the house :-), the results of which you can see in the photos. You must understand that when we moved in here, EVERYTHING had REALLY ugly wallpaper so when we took that off, the best thing to do was paint the whole place beige/off white, or a variation on beige/off white!

What came of this latest change is thanks to nephew Petes ability with a paintbrush and Daughter Anns ability to see what something will look like finished, from a couple of paint chips...what a family we have! The only things left to do are some art work over the fireplace and the large couch in the living room.

In this process Paul decided that we needed to get rid of the shelves in the laundry room and he discovered IKEA, he thinks they rock. He got all the cabinets in the laundry room and installed them with just a little help from me. He has decided that IKEA is the genius of cabinets! Go figure, most newly weds had that figured out awhile back.

In between getting home, Joan going nuts with pain colors etc, Paul came down with an intestinal virus that none of the Drs could find, never got more than one room away from a bathroom and lost 21 pounds before it fixed itself. The specialists think he picked up a wierd virus somewhere and it worked itself through his system. We have no idea what, where or why. We only know he was sick, lost weight and now he is better!







I am back to work at the Y, Paul does a little bit of sales work in the building field, we see the Grand boys almost daily and we have decided that we are not going back to the panhandle of FL again in the near future (of course, with the big oil spill, that may be a very good move). We have not decided what, if anything, we will do during the winters. I guess we will play it by ear and see what happens.

In the meantime we will enjoy the MN summer, if it ever gets here, and just not worry about the winter till it gets here :-)