A Surprise Find

Well, here's a picture of the culprit that's giving me grief - it's called a Bakers Cyst (look under mayoclinic.com - diseases - baker's cyst). Can't see a thing, other than a knee that's maybe slightly swollen. But the doc says I should elevate it often and ice it often and take ibuprofen or Aleve. So I'm trying - today is a good day - yesterday was not but then I was on it a lot.

I woke up one morning this week and my "deck Morning Glory" was all decked out - it had at least 4 blooms on it. That's the most I've had. It was really pretty - this picture just doesn't do it justice at all. Chase says the plant down on the trellis has lots of flowers too but I haven't been down there. Bad thing is that they only last one day and then new ones come so I never know how many I'll have.

Here are pictures of the flooding around Brandon this past week. Dad took these when he and Chase were checking out the area on Saturday morning. Went out Friday night with Amy and there was a lot of water in the park and the golf course. By the time I took Grandma for a short ride on Saturday morning a lot of it had gone down already.

I had lots more pictures but they keep disappearing on me.
Sorry!!

This is my cutie pie.

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These two documents are the surprise find. When Uncle Rich left Flagstaff, he left behind an old suitcase that when Dad opened it was filled with bank statements and papers from Grandpa Haan's estaste. Dad didn't want some stranger buying this suitcase with all these papers inside so he brought it home with us. It's sat in the garage for the last year. Finally this week he opened it and started going through it. A lot of stuff he has been shredding but there is a whole pile that we need to take a second look at. Also in the suitcase was an old figurine from Grandpa's house, an old camera and several other small items. The first document is the Marriage Certificate/license for Grandpa and Grandma Haan - they were married in February 1934. Grandpa never talked about their wedding and Grandma only did once and it wasn't very positive. According to the certificate, they were married in the courthouse in Luverne. Uncle Auko and Grandma's sister, Anna were their witnesses.

This second find is Grandpa's Naturalization Papers from when he became a citizen. It's very interesting because he has signed his name as Jacob - this is the only place I have ever seen this. His legal name, we always thought, was Jake. It has some folds in it that I would like to be able to get out so I plan to call the Courthouse Museum and ask them what they would suggest to try to remove them. Then I may frame them - it's a shame to just put it in the strongbox where Grandma's papers have been for several years. Any suggestions as to what I might be able to do with them?

Well, that's about it for this week. Last Sunday we had guests from church for lunch but I forgot to take a picture. We had 7 people over and I thought we had a nice time. Had chili, chicken soup, homemade bread and apple pie & ice cream. I even made the pie myself - it was OK. I've made better but then I haven't made an apple pie for probably close to 10 years so I thought I was doing well.

Have a wonderful, wonderful week and hopefully I'll be able to post my blog from somewhere in Montana next week.

love to you both