I took mom to one of her MRI appointments at Summit. I wouldn’t normally post about something like this but while sitting in the waiting room I decided to take a picture to send to some friends and family. I thought the picture of mom turned out really good so here it is.

Mom really likes this butterfly that she ironed on her purple sweater. She wanted me to take a picture of it not really sure why but anyway hehe I did take the pix of it for here so I thought I would share it with all of you.

On our way home mom and I decided to give Mel a call to see if she wanted to meet us uptown for lunch. So we met and took a few more pix. It was a good time and a nice lunch. Taylor was sure full of smiles she was happy she got to sit next to her Grandma. I think we should try to do lunches like this more often.

Since I have been boating I have wanted a trolling motor. For convenience and for safety. My grandma had mentioned that she had an old one in her basment that I was welcome to check out and see if it still worked.  All it needed was a 12 volt battery and it was alive.

I was very surprised with how the little trolling motor was able to move the boat. It actually cruised around without any trouble as long as i wasn’t trying to use it in the river and fight the current. I played with it for several hours the first day i had it in the water.

What I like most about trolling is being able to stand on the front of the boat and slowly jig and cast and be able to cover more water. I have found that it is very useful when the fish are not biting in the area I start to fish. Before having the trolling motor i would have to pull up anchor and try to start the gas motor. Now i almost never use an anchor i just float around and when I get in a shallow area or too close to shore or a tree I can just slowly move out of the way.

Trolling disturbs the water a lot less and I think it greatly increases the chances of not scaring away the fish.

As most of the loyal readers know Minnie was hit by a car. You can read grandmas update on Minnie here. Minnie Rose. Grandma and I took Mini back to the Madison emergency animal hospital for her check up to see how she was healing after all the surgery. Everything checked out well and Minnie is recovering to the best that could be expected.

While waiting for Minnie to have her exam at the animal hospital Grandma and I found a place to park and look at the lake in Madison. As you can see in the picture above it started to sleet. This was the first time of this winter season that we had sleet.

When I was a child I remember Grandma and Grandpa taking me to a restaurant in Janesville WI called Shakeys. Grandma and I were going to see if they were open and we sadly found that they had gone out of business. So we were forced to find another place to eat on out way home.

Grandma and I found a place in Janesville called Milwaukee Grille it wasn’t busy so we decided to go in and check it out. We both ordered their special Chicken thingy and onion fries. Lunch was very good and more food then either of us could finish.

I snapped this pic of mom getting ready to go out. She had some Dr appointments this day. I thought it was kinda unique because of the way i took the picture of the mirror so it also caught my cellphone taking a picture of itself.  might sound goofy to you reading it. but o-well. I can be goofy when I want to.

After her appointments and a little shopping we went out for lunch at Old Chicago. We took these pictures to intentionally tease Doug and Grandma. When mom and I go out for lunch we like to take pix and send them to a few people. Its a lot of fun sometimes to see their replies.

Doug responded to the pix I sent to him with a picture of his lunch an apple. It was pretty silly and gave both mom and I a smile when I received the image from him.

This is a pix of my Grandma at a family gathering preparing to ride a 4 wheeler. Once she started riding it I could tell she had an itch in her to do it again and again. There was a couple of nice short trails setup for people to ride on. Actually a pretty awesome setup. I like this picture because of the look on Grandmas face and the fact that she is wearing a Mickey Mouse t-shirt.

The beginning of the puzzle

The finished product

Hello Jim, Patsy & all the rest of you that come visit this site. I thought this would be kind of interesting. Serenity is one of my great granddaughters. She will be 6 years old Nov 15^th. She loves to work puzzles when she spends the night or comes here after school. I think her working this and completing it by herself is out standing. (of  course I think that, I’m her grandma )