Sister Love

My sister and I had a fun week together here at the Pines after her family went back to Chicago.  We shopped at our favorite places...the Parsley Pot...Grandpa's Cheesebarn..(I wanted to buy a T-shirt that said: I CUT THE CHEESE AT GRANDPA'S CHEESEBARN...But I didn't.) We had lunch at Village Pointe and found some cute things to buy there. There's a little shop downtown called: The Fig and Oak. We didn't find anything there but I had to take this photo of Midge.  

An angel? Well, maybe with a little devil mixed in! We found a little shop across the street called: Bagnabit and it took me back to the 60's with it's mix of incense, art, and other goodies.  We found a few things to add to our shopping day and had fun to boot!  We even hit the Dollar Store so we could put together a gift basket for the Dialysis unit where Midge was able to get her dialysis done here. The staff  was so nice and she wanted to say thanks. The way to a healthcare worker's heart is through the stomach so I made chocolate chip cookies and we got candy and some other things for them to enjoy. They loved it! One night we decided to head over to our little airport here in Ashland to see the sky divers.  

We have a sweet small plane airport that has skydiving classes.  Neither Midge nor I ever want to jump out of a plane but it was fun to see others do it!

Then we had this guy flying over:

He was zipping all around us.  Again, looks like fun but not my kind! On Sunday I drove Midge back to Chicago and spent the rest of the week with her to help her do a few projects.  We watched old family videos and labeled the keepers and threw out the rest. We cleaned out the garage and took lots of stuff the the Salvation Army drop off.  On Monday we even survived a tornado...I should say 2 tornadoes!  That storm took out power all over the suburbs but we were lucky that we only lost power for about 5 minutes.  The other towns near us weren't so lucky and there were tons of trees downed and the Chapel at Wheaton College lost it's steeple.  So my niece and I cleaned up the yard and deck and thankfully we had no other damage.  The only bad thing that happened was with Arnold.  I decided to take him with me so Jack wouldn't have to worry about getting home from work to get him out and Arnie loves to be in the car so it seemed like a good idea.  He was with my sister and I in her car when he slipped off the seat and somehow tore his ACL in his left back leg.  I couldn't get into a vet there so I made an appointment with our Vet on Saturday. He's scheduled for surgery on Tuesday to get it repaired.  He's not in any pain but of course he can't use that back leg.  So for now he has to take it easy and carrying him up and down the deck stairs to go out is not always fun! But he's a good guy and we'll get him better soon.  I realized I never took any photos of the storm or anything else out there. I must be slipping!  Tomorrow will be my first Monday that I don't have anything planned like family visits or trips anywhere.  It will seem weird tonight to not be thinking about the surgery schedule tomorrow, call schedule for the week, or making my lunch to take to work!  I have many projects of my own to get started on so I'm not worried about being bored.  Have a good week everyone!