July, 2019

My apologies to friends who follow my blog.   From Sioux City to the 4th of August we were in Minnesota and South Dakota visiting friends and relatives.   Unfortunately the wifi situation during that time was spotty - some campgrounds didn't have it, on others it appeared that people were busy streaming, and I could not get on.

Special thanks to our nephew Steve Klaseus and his wife Corine for having us over; Art and Char Schuch, Helen Kehoe, Frank Siegler, Ralph and Carol Schultz, Jan Raddatz, classmate Mary Jo Nordstrand, and nephew Michael Burkard and his wife Connie in Sioux Falls, SD
and niece Barb and husband Rollie Walter for allowing us to take over their backyard in Iroquois, SD.

July 17 we drove to Northfield, MN to see the Union Pacific Big Boy engine (4014) making a trip on Union Pacific rails in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Promitory Summit where the rails from east and west were joined.  

July is fair time in rural MN, so on our way home from Northfield we came across the Rice County Fair in Faribault, MN and later in the month we went to the Blue Earth County Fair in Garden City, MN.

July 21 My sister, Sr. Dominic, celebrated her 70th Jubilee as a School Sister of Notre Dame at the Mankato Motherhouse.   Joining her was my high school English teacher, Sr. Beth Haltiner, who was celebrating her 75th Jubilee.   It was a big day for both of these great ladies!

Left Mankato July 29 for Sioux Falls, SD to visit Mike and Connie Burkard and on July 31 - Aug 3
visited with Barb and Rollie Walter in Iroquois, SD.