We arrived home from Rapid City, SD, about 2:45 today, after a very successful week where we cleaned out everything that was in Dad's house, held a huge moving/rummage sale, and took care of whatever business Dad could think of before moving in with us. We. also, managed to have some great fun playing chickenfoot dominoes and Up and Down River, a card game. Lots of memories were made and many old ones were revisited. Many sore muscles and lots of long work hours but what a good family time. Sure missed sharing the time with Kyle, but he is still active duty Navy and was out to sea.
We sold 2 of the beds on Saturday, so Kirk, Kevin and I had air mattresses for the remainder of the visit. Kirk related feeling like a burrito when his deflated on Sat. night. On Tuesday our mattress completely deflated a couple of times, so we snuck out to the truck at 2:00 am to sleep reclined for a couple of hours. (Did not want Dad to feel bad about it.) Found out Kirk lost his air about 2:15 but was able to pump it up one more time. It was not so funny at the time, but then again it seemed like we were in high school or something.
Kevin and I have NO plans to travel further than Del Rapids and Sioux Falls the rest of the week. All of the parcels and boxes are unloaded and many are even unpacked. The rest of the evening we are just going to unwind.
Dad is headed to Webster for his 60th high school reunion. I have never attended any of my own but he goes at least every 5 years and went on off years because Mom graduated from the same high school a couple years later. He is very excited about it, so we are glad that we finished everything so he could be completely moved out of his house and not have that hanging over his head.
Tomorrow we will spend the morning doing things to help Dad get more settled, then the rest of the weekend will be for time in the woodshop and quilt studio. Plan to work on a schedule for blogging as well.
Life is GOOD!
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