good gravy, it's been years

On Saturday afternoon....
After Crispy's speech competition
we went to visit some very old friends....
The Meyer family. It has been several years since we were together.
They live way up on a hill,
no worries about flooding.


Dave and Juli went to college with tractor joe.
They just bought a new stove...the old one is sitting out on the front porch.
Juli will be so proud of me...I manuvered myself just right....you can't really see it in this picture.


Now what is Dave doing here???
They have recently installed this wood burning furnace to heat the house. So Dave does a lot of wood chopping these days. He is very proud of his wood pile. We got the full tour of it.

It take a lot of heat to warm this old house in the winter....so they don't worry about flooding, but do worry about nasty NW winds up there. As we stood there the wind was blowing out of the north.

They also have an exchange student living with them this year. He is from Serbia.

His name is pronounced "mirror-E", and that is the short version of his full name.

I never got the correct spelling....so that will be his name here....mirror-E !!

His father came to visit and gave Juli these paintings he had done.

The tile is of the city hall building in mirror-E's hometown.
While we talked in the kitchen...Mirror-E was playing the piano in the other room. It was beautiful. I didn't get a decent picture of him.

Our visit was really much to short. But there is talk.....

Strawberry Point has some kind of auction with tractors coming up in April. It sounds to me like tractor joe is thinking that would be a fun thing to do with Dave.