Just Brutal...

Come kick off your shoes, and sit a spell!!



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Good Afternoon!
Anyone else having problems with Multiply today?
If I have been to your blogs and haven't commented, please ask Multiply for an apology.
(Or shall I just blame my computersaurus)?
Hopefully I can get my new modem this weekend...


Casey brought me in yesterday for my migraine, it's been 3 days of that bad. Still is kinda nasty, but oh!, so much better than yesterday.
I was going to cut lawn today, but don't want to make my head come back full force either. Like Casey says, "The lawns will keep."

After my shot, and as we came out of the clinic, we smelled smoke. (I made some silly wisecrack about Punk probably starting a fire somewhere).

As we walked out past the building, to the car, we saw smoke, and lots of it.
And from far away, to hear the sirens and horns from the fire engines-




I waited 'til they got a little closer to take this picture though...  hehehe

Seems as someone(s) tried to get an old Cadillac started. The car had a leaky gas tank...  Instead of cleaning it up, (and maybe pushing the out of the way, and away from buldings?), they decided to get it started anyway.
It doesn't work that way...
CLICK for the story. 
Can you say DARWIN AWARD?


No infusion for her this week, so Casey and I took a walk on Tuesday...




Sputty didn't even have to give her a quarter for that ride.



And once again, Punk did some work for us---


She HAD to get that fallen timber out of our way.



The fields are slowly getting planted...


Looking north across what once was a grand pasture for our Grade A herd.

And about 1/10th of the westward view too-






When we don't have anything to look at here, we go over to Kelli and Tim's...



Taken last week.



Mary's side too-  Also taken last week.




This one, when their windows and doors arrived.


And what a lot of progress they have made since then!

The planks are laid, the tarpaper is too-
(I am willing to bet when I go back today that the roof'll be looking real good)!


All the shingles on the top of the roof just waiting to get laid.
(Hey! Oh never mind...)!  



This is the length of the building- Both sides-




The entrance in the attached garage to the mud room has a door!
(Good thing too- as Mr. Miller has already gotten stuck in the 2x4's).



Kelli. So proud of her door!





And even more happy with her 9' living room windows!


Now, what good are windows if you can't look out of them?!?




 
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Those two girls were just peeking out from all over...



(Yup. There they are again)!



Kelli and her kids, as we leave!

I hope you are all having a 'wunnaful' Thursday!
I have some turkey beeping in the microwave for me to eat a bit of lunch.
A bit of an avocado too...  Then I plan on taking a nice long nap.

Casey is asleep upstairs so the phone is getting unplugged! She didn't sleep at all last night, and drove out here about 6:30 this morning.
She finally went upstairs about an hour ago...

Love to all!

XOXO
Me

Riah's Rainbow delivers 'Smiles for Miles'

http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/article/20100617/GPG0101/6170611/1207&located=rss


Girl's death inspiration for organization to bring joy to sick children.

By Ilissa Gilmore
gilmore@greenbaypressgazette.com
June 17, 2010

SUAMICO —
Micki and Michael Klein's daughter died from an inoperable brain tumor two years ago, but Mariah lives on through an organization that offers activities to hospitalized children.

In the kitchen of the Klein home, pages of their daughter's medical information line the walls, and her bedroom has been lovingly preserved. A Disney calendar on the wall shows August 2008.

"That's when time changed," Micki said.

Mariah's parents started Riah's Rainbow, a nonprofit organization that provides children in the hospital with materials such as crayons, markers and puzzles.

Mariah was diagnosed in 2007 with Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma, a pediatric brain tumor that affects 150 to 200 children each year. In and out of hospitals, Mariah would distract herself with coloring and drawing. Every item provided by Riah's Rainbow has a sticker with Mariah's face, her story and the organization's information.

"We want children and others to know about her and who she is," Micki said.

The Kleins have sent 100 to 200 materials each month since January 2009 to hospitals in Green Bay, Chicago, New York, Minnesota and Michigan.

Each hospital that receives materials either provided care to Mariah or her family knows a child who spent time there, Micki said.

Mariah's family eventually wants to get supplies to hospitals across the country.

The organization also receives money from grants and donations through fundraisers. Their Smiles for Miles fundraiser raised more than $4,000 — half of which will help buy gifts for hospitals and the rest will go toward supporting clinical trials by The Cure Starts Now Foundation, a nonprofit researching cures for the disease that killed Mariah.

Micki said the organization is growing and "gets better every year and reaches more kids."

"We need to get over our grief and it's a good way to do it — to see other kids happy," she said.

CLICK for Baby Mariah's Caring Bridge entries...
Or click here for my own entries on Multiply about this wonderful family.

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Click for Riah's Rainbow Website:

"Our mission is to be able to give local hospitals new coloring books, crayons, markers, colored pencils, craft items, etc. to pediatric patients. Each time they visit they will receive a new coloring book & box of crayons to take home with them. We will also offer alternatives such as puzzles, project bags, or paints. Often times, cancer patients are offered "community" craft items. With comprised immune systems, the threat is always there that the child may develop an illness. Riah's Rainbow eliminates that fear for parents.

To provide further assistance, it is our hope that in the future we will be able to provide parents with the resources to take their children out for a day adventure...maybe to the zoo, or dinner and a movie for the whole family."



XOXO
Me

Photo from above article.
Caption reads: "Micki Klein of Suamico and her daughter, Morgan, 8, sit in the bedroom of Mariah, Micki's daughter who died Aug. 31, 2008, of a rare and inoperable brain tumor. Since Mariah's death, the Klein family has started Riah's Rainbow, a program that gives art supplies to pediatric hospital patients."(M.P. King/Press-Gazette)