Friends Report on June 10

We have finally gotten a good rain in mid Michigan, but the weather continues chilly. Daytime temps are about 10 degrees lower than normal and nighttime temps are usually in the 40's. No one's tomatoes are growing. Here under the Birches, we have about had it with the flock of grackles that have taken up cavorting in our yard. They drive off other birds, they make a terrible racket, and they throw all the seeds off the feeder where the rabbits and squirrels get it.
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BRENDA and STEVE - who moved into a new home in the woods in November, are now heavily into planting flowers and native plants and bushes for their gardens, and are planting many veggies in two new plots.

PAT W and  BUD - Their new deck: 

MIKE THE ADMINISTRATOR - has taken a new job giving away money for a charity. Up to now, he's been a school district Superintendent.  Same skills? 

PAT C - has reported that BOB T has come through the operation very well. (Maybe they will be back at coffee  club real soon.)  

GIGI - is almost overwhelmed by the intricacy of plans for getting the family together this summer.  A camping trip is in the works, but that isn't easy to coordinate.  

FELIX: His hand after he "had an accident" and got a clip imbedded in it.  Cost for the uninsured?  $1,500

IRISH MIKE - was out with a rowing crew on the river and they were stopped by the "Fish and Wildlife" officer who demanded to see their life jackets, which if you stop to think about it for just a minute, is hysterically funny.  Anyway, it turns out that racing skulls are exempt from that law. 

TRASE - is done with school for the summer finally, and she  gets to become 'mother' full time now.  

MARI - has been seen in the company of a new friend, but that's all I can safely tell you.  

SANDY - will be heading for California in July to help take care of the new baby, right after her hair appointment.  

DASHMANN - says that if others are like him - (ed: Doubtful) - then more people will be watching Letterman at nights.  Conan O'brien is just too weird.  Do you agree?  

IRENE and family - are heading North to get warm.  You have to remember they live in Australia and it's winter there.  

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Some recent snapshots of friends

Pilot and Felix in the Wilderness.

Old Friends at the Beach House 

Marilyn on the loose. 

Liam at 5 months 

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Some Humor  

Forwarded by MIKE C - 

At any given time, 79,000,000 people on earth are engaged in sex.  Some poor folks, like you, are just reading about it. 

MIKE C. - forwarded this: 

Forwarded  by JOE: 

After being married for 24 years, I took a careful look at my wife one day and said, "Honey, 24 years ago we had a cheap apartment, a cheap   car, slept on a sofa bed and watched a 10-inch black and white TV, but I got to sleep every night with a hot 30-year-old gal.       Now I have a $500,000 house, $45,000 car, nice big bed and plasma screen TV, but I'm sleeping with a 54-year-old woman. It seems to me that you're not holding up your side of things."     My wife is a very reasonable woman. She told me to go out and find a hot 30-year-old gal, and she would make sure that I would once again be living in a cheap apartment, driving a cheap car, sleeping on a sofa bed and watching a 10-inch black and white TV.

Forwarded by JERRY: