The Harvester Golf Outing

Yesterday Mark, Cyndy and I drove to The Harvester Golf course for an 11:20 tee time. The course is absolutely beautiful! It is a difficult course and presented many challenges but its beauty was breathtaking. This was a result of a retirement gift from all my co-workers. We received a gift card for two green fees and $50 to spend at the course bar and grill. We spent every penny of it. :-) Also, the course photography asked if he could follow us a few holes and take pictures which would be worth a $20 gift card. We said YES and we used all of that gift card also. What a super fun and super free day of golf in all its glory. The weather was fantastic and perfect for golf. The pics are of the course and a pic of Mark and Cyndy with the Harvester Lake behind them. Fore!!!!!

yup....she's gonna have a baby!!!

waiting for a name........

Our first grandchild will be entering this world around the end of January. Until they officially name him, I am calling him Buck. :-) Matt thinks that is a good "football player" name but I don't think Megan and Andy agree with this choice! We will have to wait and see what he will be named. They found out on September 12th they were haveing a son and called us while on our way to the Clay County Fair with Rick and Maureen.

Our first cruise

Over spring break 2006 Mark and I took our very first cruise. It WILL NOT be our last, however. It was just awesome. We went with my sister Sharon and brother-in-law Arne.
We departed from Ft. Lauderdale and visited Key West, Grand Cayman, Jamaica and Cozumel. I have included some photo highlights!

ahh....retirement!!!

Cyndy and I got sick of the computer work for awhile and decided to head to Dayton Golf and Country Club for a bit of----golf! It was absolutely gorgeous out there. No breeze, sunny, cool but not cold. It was actually the best golfing weather that I recall. Not that my game knew that, but we had a great time anyway. Cyndy easily broke 90 and I BARELY broke 100 but it was great fun none the less!! If I could wish one thing for myself it would be a better golf game, but like I said, great fun none the less. We are planning a tee time at Harvester Golf Course for next Tuesday, thanks to my great co-workers at Ogden. Cyndy is going to join us. Should be a great time, weather permitting at this time of the year. FORE!!!!!!!!!!

Cool and windy

My good friend Cyndy came today to pick up her brand new iMac and I showed her some basics of how to use it, etc. It will take her some time to get used to it but we all know how user friendly our Macs are!! We had hoped to go golfing but it was only in the 50's with a stiff wind bending the flag poles too far for us to really enjoy an outing. Instead we played with our Mac computers.

Mark found someone today to take ALL our cats off our hands. This was a blessing....for the cats! We are going to be gone too much to care for them so a new home was in order. Our apologies to all the Kalkwarf great grandchildren that seemed to enjoy these felines more than I did!

Here's a picture of me and my siblings after mom's funeral on September 5th. I think it is a really good picture of us all.

Hawks beat the Clones!

My beloved Iowa Hawkeyes took it to ISU during the second half yesterday and won 27-17. The Hawks have not fared well at the hands of ISU the past several years so it was good to finally get a win against the Cyclones. I predict both teams to have very good seasons but both also face some very tough conference opponents in the Big Ten and The Big Twelve. Good luck to both teams the rest of the season!!

July Family Reunion

Last week of July will be remembered by everyone in our family. Every member, and I mean EVERY member of our extended family made it to the farm for a very fun time. It was sweltering but we all managed to keep our cool. We rented two porta potties as the farm septic tank cannot handle this huge crowd. We even went so far as to ducktape the toilet seats shut from the hours of 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. :-) All got in to see mom at the care center. That is good because mom passed away on September 1, 2006. She will be greatly missed....