Spring is here!

We are soooooooo glad winter is over. Kansas is really beautiful in the spring. It is so green with lots of beautiful flowers. All of our neighbors are outside now so we are meeting a lot of nice people. For months now Larry & I take a 2 mile walk every night with Skylar & Taz. There is a beautiful huge house on the Missouri River on a corner lot. Larry has always wanted to see the inside of the house. The lady that owns it (her name is Merry..yes the spelling is correct) saw us outside & welcomed us to the neighborhood with a loaf of her home-made wheat bread! Yesterday she invited us in for a tour of her house. It was beautiful! It was built in 1949 & there is a small plaque inside that lists all of the previous owners. The inside has several bedrooms with bathrooms, a game room, playroom, a photography studio, a print/frame shop, craft room, & a food storage room that looks like a grocery store! She has 10 kids & 19 grandkids (they live in Utah) Her husband is deployed right now. After our tour she invited Skylar & I to a pot luck lunch. She has one the 1st Wednesday of every month. There were about 25 people there. We had a great time. We met lots of interesting people. Merry is a really fun lady & has lots of hobbies. She has her art work/portraits all over the house. She is having someone over soon to teach her how to can veggies & fruits & said she would let me know when! This weekend there is a big flea market down town & in about a month a Farmer's Market will open with locally grown veggies, fresh milk, etc. I'm looking forward to it!