Westphal NL

My daughter isn't the original rebel - she learned it from somewhere. Sounds like a good idea so I'm posting our NL, too. Enjoy!

Hello all,
First, thank you to all of you for acknowledging Ray’s and my birthdays and our anniversary. Your cards and e-mails and phone calls were very much appreciated. Those two weeks are jam packed with celebrating with the 4th thrown in for good measure. We are always somewhat glad when it is over. This year at the neighborhood party, during the fireworks show, one of the fireworks ignited on the wagon they were using to shoot them off and got Stacy’s (McConnell) husband in the face. He had some burns and a small laceration and ultimately a black eye. He was lucky that was all that happened. There’s a reason those things are ignited by professionals!

I’ve finished a month of physical therapy to relieve back and neck pain. It was wildly successful and took away almost all of my headache pain as well. I haven’t had any pain pills for three weeks. I wasn’t too certain they could do anything as I’ve lived with the pain for a number of years, but they certainly proved me wrong. I can actually cook dinner standing up now. That’s very BIG!!!

Ray has had a couple of trailers to deliver the past month and he’s taking one out tomorrow (for the second time – manufacturer’s error). He wants to spend a couple weeks at the RNR fixing some minor things and just enjoying being there. Paul may go up while he’s there and Ray has a couple of friends who have talked about meeting him to go fishing. That will be a unique experience for him – fishing with friends.

To all who have posted old photos on the blog and on Facebook, a great big THANK YOU! I love seeing the pictures even if I can’t remember the occasion when it was taken. You are motivating me to go through my own pictures (although I’m not quite there yet – just thinking about it).

Ray has increased his poultry farm to five chickens, two ducks and one goose. The goose is getting pretty old and can’t walk very well. Lately, we’ve had 20 – 30 Canada geese from across the road at the lake come over in the morning and they swim around in the pond with our goose. It’s funny to see all those geese in our little pond. Hopefully, they will clean it up a little.

I’ve had plenty of chances to see Tracy, Scott and the kids this month. I get to babysit often and the babies change daily. I even heard from Cody this month – he and his girlfriend are living and working in West Palm Beach. They aren’t very stable and move around a lot so I always appreciate it when he contacts us.

Guess that’s it for July. Enjoy the summer and do something you’ve never done before just for the hell of it.

Love you all - Ray and Sandy