Weather people

Gripe alert. It's not their fault that we're having lousy weather. But I'm tired of the endless days ahead forecasting of bad weather. Late last week they started saying ominously that today and tomorrow would be "even worse than last week!"

Crimonently. Stop already.
Huge storm coming
Coldest ever
Terrible
Awful storm...

and one of the worst storms we've had a couple Thursdays ago in Des Moines, they f'ing missed totally! Sigh. Bring back Connie McBurney (former TV 8 Weather lady).

Connie is behind the typewriter in the light top

We had a fun day Saturday. After straying to Perkins a couple weekends ago for breakfast, we went back to the Waveland Café that a.m. It was nice to hear the patter of the usual staff talking about the stuff they do. Real people. And decent food.

The men inside the window wondered what the heck I was doing...

Glad we got to see the Cyclones get back on the winning track that afternoon against Kansas State. Later we attended Mass at St. Francis and ate pancakes at home. Yep - breakfast twice in one day! We finished chewing just in time to head south to Creston to the Lobby for Dean Leith's surprise birthday party.

It was a nice chance to see our pals. Of course the weather geeks had predicted crappy weather coming around 10 p.m. so we didn't want to stay too long. (It didn't ever really materialize - jerks!) Oh well...it kept us clean and sober. McKims, McFees, Crittendens, Deb - sans Larry who was writing up stuff about the wrestling meet that day, Susan and Brian, Piels and of course Patti and the birthday boy.

I got to dance to Love Shack before we left. Patti made sure the girls danced - she wanted her grand daughters got to boogie with her friends. Evelyn is 4ish is Caleb's daughter. Dean's granddaughter - Kayanna? who is around 8. She is Dean's daughter Ashley's child. Amy played softball with Ashley for a year or so. They now live in our first house in Creston. I enjoyed talking to Kayanna about her room. She said she loved the house but mentioned something about rats. Huh?

The only problem when we lived there was the guy that gave his "snake" an outing while he was supposed to be servicing the hot tub. And that was technically after we had moved out and were awaiting the closing with our buyers who were renting the place. The new Mrs. wasn't impressed with the technician's "tool".

We also danced a line dance "Electric Slide". Yay for Sheriff Rick Piel for shakin' it with us. The rest of the men (and Rick's wife Jeanne) were wimps. I stood by Diana so I could follow her steps. I'm slow that way.

I enjoyed sitting by Deb and catching up a bit - though I really didn't get to talk to anyone too long. And I had some great birthday cake. We headed home before 10 p.m. before things got too crazy. It was nice to wake up with no hangover.

Paul's sis Carol stopped by Sunday. She was in town to see her granddaughter Mandy perform in Dowling Catholic's Show Choir. Carol has offered to make us a quilt for our quilt hanger - so we discussed patterns and colors. I know what I like - but not the lingo. It's going to be beautiful! Whenever I figure it out.