And this dog is cut to look like a BUFFALO!

All I can say is, dang.

Anyways, I have to "SLIP" (Slipper) away for a while!

Will have no access to a computer, so see you all in about 2 weeks! Bye for now!

oooooo, we have a big thunderboomer on the way! Lighting, wind, the whole shabang!

Just put ant killer on my lawn. Good timing as it should rain right after. Now watch, it'll all miss me.

Did you get any damage, Jerry? I hope not.

Actually no! 90 % of it missed me. Mostly it went south of Grand Rapids, that is, on the south end of town. Places like Holland Michigan (about 35 miles west of here) received over 7" of rain and have terrible flooding problems. The south end of GR also received a lot of rain and has some flooding issues.

We wound up with some lightening, thunder, and some rain but, nothing severe at all. We lucked out this time.

South of GR had tornado watches too.

I saw the stuff about that flooding one the news. There was a huge sinkhole too. Glad you guys escaped the worst of it.

Get this: We just ended a 29 day dry spell!! Really breaks the Pacific Northwest stereotype. I can't believe I'm actually glad to see a little rain. The humidity jumped from the low 40's to the mid-50's this past week. I'm thinking about all the pianos I tuned last month...

I heard about that. Now you get to tune all of 'em again.

Thanks Howowitzian!

Holy cow Ryan. 29 days? Wow.

Here, it goes from cold to humid in a matter of hours and can reverse in minutes when a storm rolls in. Sometimes, it'll rain for a whole month on and off and can be very cloudy at times. Other times, it's beautiful. Hope that doesn't scare you people off! Michigan really is a pretty state. Take some extra time to travel up and over the Mackinaw Bridge if you can!

So did you get any rain Ryan?

It's been hitting near 100 degree's here lately. Love n it! Beats winter to me any day of the week!

Agreed 100%!!!!!!!

Still in the upper 90's this week. Summer is short here in Michigan so we enjoy the weather while we can get it!

You bet! You going to go out to the cottages soon for boating n stuff?

You bet we are. Have to get time away before the convention for sure. Was out washing the boat this afternoon for a bit. Got hot and here I came.

Great! Have fun.

We did finally get a little rain, but its still been pretty dry. 70 degrees and sunny right now! Looks like we may have a record cherry crop!

I'm back!

The summer started out with abnornal amounts of wind and rain! Got lots of use out of my . . .




Umbrella!

I've been peeling around in my cute yellow sports car!

Driving in all this rain can be hazardous! As slippery as driving on a BANANA PEEL!

And NO JERRY, wasn't me driving this truck and boat!

Howdeeee there Diane! We was just wonderin' where you'd got off to.

Hey Horowitzian,

Nice of you to notice that I've been away!

Anyways, summers has arrived, so it's time to get outdoors and try some water skiing!

Bet it twas you!!! :-)))

Here is the graduate (Joe 19 this past May) with his older brother Jer Jr. 22 this past May.



Here is what a boat is supposed to look like. Looks dinky in the picture, it's 18.5' but, I put the wife to work cleaning it. After all Diane, isn't that woman's work anyway? (no that's not my house, it's the neighbor's house) Wish they'd paint it!



Here's another of her working on MY boat. if she wants a ride, she has to clean it.



We're a cockeyed bunch anyway...

Thanks for the pics, Jerry! Congrats once again for the graduation. Your boat looks great. Must be nice to not have to clean it...

I loves me summertime!

As to the judgement of the guys in that pic, don't ask.

Thanks! I can hardly wait to see what Diane has to say about "woman's work!!!" hehehe!

Looks like your wife's not the only on that works Jerry!

Here's a picture of Jerry at work!

My piano tuner just came over the other day and WOW! I played the piano at a venue and asked who tuned the piano! So I got his name and WOW! He's a GENIUS! What would we do without them! I'll say it again! WHAT WOULD WE DO WITHOUT THEM!

And . . . Here's Horowitzian at WORK!