September 2015

SEPT...This month started with Tyler's 18^th Birthday on the 1^st. We went to Doug & Fran's to celebrate with dinner. We had a quite Labor Day Weekend. Denita and family went to see Levi and Doug & Fran went to Great Falls. This month we painted the basement walls and floor as well as the inside cabinets in the upstairs bathroom/dressing room. Still using up old paint. We also laid some carpet remnants on the floor in the basement. I also decided it was time to work on making some jewelry to replenish stock for the two Beauty Salons – Custom Cutter in Inverness and Image-n-That in Turner.

The 11^th we all went to Harlem to watch Tyler play his first home football game. They didn't do so well but it was fun to watch him play.

The 12^th was a big day!!!!! It was the Suicide Prevention Walk in memory of Tristan Billmayer. We road the bus to Hogeland about noon and the 12 mile walk started in Hogeland at 106pm. We started off at the front but Mike left me in the dust about a ½ mile into it. He has longer legs! The had one mile makers along the way with water stations ever 4 miles. I had to get on a golf cart at mile 7 and road for just over a mile (at the same speed as the walkers). I started walking at the last water station and walked the remaining 4 miles with Denita and Darcy. By that time we were pretty sore – low back and toenails (ya the toes push up against the shoes) I talked to Mike and he was almost finished. Those last 4-5 miles were tough It was 85 degrees when we arrived at the Turner Park at 445p. Mike completed the walk in 3 hrs 20 min and I did it in 3hr 40 min. We had sloppy joes in the park and then went home for a rest before the program at 7pm. By the time we walked to the school at 7p we could hardly walk. My calves had tightened up and both of our toe's really hurt (not to self – before walking that far trim toenails as short as possible). It took several days for the body to recover and we are still not sure if Mike will loose his left big toenail. All in all it was a great accomplishment for a very worthy cause. I do believe Mike was the oldest person that completed the full 12 miles.

I took Dad to his camper on the 15^th to stay while we go to an RV Rally. We left the morning of the 16^th in the Motorhome for Great Falls in the rain! We overnighted there.

The 17^th we drove to Devil's Elbow on Hauser Lake, just out of Helena. Our last FMCA rally for the year look place the 17^th – 20^th. It was a great location and we were parked with a view of the lake. We went into Helena a couple of time for some shopping and with the group to the Grub Steak for dinner. a we drove back to Great Falls and overnighted. On Monday the 21^st we took the motorhome into Kustom City Fiberglass to have the crack near the back slide repaired. We left it with them. Dixie had bloodwork and then we both had a chiropractor appt.

On the 25^th we went to Tyler's football game in Harlem.

The 26^th we spent the day in Chinook for the Sugarbeet Festival. Dixie had a booth to sell her jewelry and Mike did the 3 mile run, coming in 2^nd or 3^rd. It was a fun day and profitable. We left a bit early so we could get back to Shay's performance in the Missoula Children's Theater program.

The 28^th we drove to Great Falls. We both had our annual Doctor appointment with Dr. Legan. We went to visit Harold afterwards. He had been in the hospital due to his defibrillator. He isn't doing real good as the dr. told him that it is no longer functioning and the next incident his heart will give out. We went to dinner at Applebees with Dad.

The 29^th, Mike had his bloodwork and Dixie had a mammogram. Later Dixie took Dad to his Stress Test Appointment. Both went well. Dixie spent some time going through stuff at Dad's and made a couple of trips to the Salvation Army to give items away. The 30^th was more cleaning at Dad's.