What the HECK!!!

I guess this is mother nature's way of pulling an April Fools Joke. Yesterday was a rainy day and then in the morning we are covered with this STUFF. Now I love snow but it is time for it to be over. The good news is that it warmed up to the 40s today and it all melted away without any shoveling. Ha Ha mother nature!

Family Open

Now this is makes OdManorII a home. Here is most of the family the Saturday before Easter. Here we are at the start of the "Open house" for the family to meet the new OdManorII. It was great to share a meal around the old oak table that use to be my grandparents. This table is where we all grew up sharing meals at family reunions. I won't say that the furniture was matching but the paper plates all matched. Everyone was chowing down to store up energy to go golfing in MARCH in IOWA!

This is a good scene of the family just chilling. I am not sure what was on the TV because I think more attention was focused on those shorter than me.
Here we are warming up for the "Family Open". Yes we are inside and playing golf! In town there is this great place that is a bar/restaurant/indoor-golf place. I reserved the two "golf courses" were we all battled it out in the first ever "Family Open". In the end we all were winners because it took up nearly 3 hours to enjoy 4 holes of golf. Next time we might have to change up the teams. Pictured here is our warming up strokes at the driving range.


FINALLY it is EASTER. Now tell me what is more innocent looking than a little girl in her new Easter dress holding her freshly discovered eggs. It was amazing even with a dog in the house that darn Easter Bunny made it in the house and left its mark with eggs and CHOCOLATE.

Discovery of Easter Mess left by that darn bunny.

Here is a picture of everyone in their Easter outfits. The whole church adventure worked out great. We were nearly the last ones in church, first ones out of church, and put into the front of the line for the Easter Breakfast. Good news is this new church makes omelettes to order, bad news is to be early out of church you have to sit in the front rows. There is no nodding off in the front rows!

Here is the Famous Easter Meal. Ok maybe not so famous here. I am proud to say that only the "noodle salad" and relish came from the grocery store. This is were I need to also send a HUGE THANK YOU to my sister-in-law for doing most of the cooking and bringing the ham, cheeseee potatoes, buns, etc............ I helped where I could. There also needs to be a huge thanks to Teri since she did most of the dish clean up. There is still no dishwasher.


This is what I saw the day after Easter. Nothing like hosting a party then leaving the country. I bet my friends that live in St. Louis can guess what country this is.
Finally this is my view on Tuesday after Easter. For some reason I think it is funny to see a statue of a man with an egg as his body, eating an egg, two days after Easter which left me with 5 dozen eggs.

More to come..... STAY TUNED!!!!

Almost Easter

Easter is here, or at least the weekend. This year the whole tribe will be coming here for the family meal. There has been a lot of cleaning (not normal) including dusting! I am looking forward to the event. It will be great to show off OdManorII and to have the whole family here to help make OdManorII truly HOME.



More good news, the eyes are feeling great! As you can see in the picture the swelling has gone down. There is still some dryness, but a drop or two of fake tears does the trick. I know it is a little creepy seeing the eye so close up, but it is still cool!

They say a picture says a thousand words. That is most certainly true with this one. Don't we all feel like this from time to time. What do you think this cat is thinking?

I can See!

What an eye. This is a picture of my eye the day after LASIK eye surgery. The good news is that I now have 20/20 vision! No MORE CONTACTS OR GLASSES!
If you look closely at the picture you can see a red half circle surrounding the top portion of my iris. This is where the laser cut the skin of my eye. The skin was then peeled back so the laser could get directly to my lens. My lens were then burned to the correct shape and the "flap" of skin was then flopped back into place.
It looks bad, but there is/was NO PAIN! My eye now feels dry but eye drops solve that problem. The only restrictions I have is that I can not swim for 6 weeks and NO RUBBING OF THE EYE! That means I will have to put my speedos away. BUMMER.

On a totally different subject I have been a cleaning/unpacking like a fool lately. I am getting ready for Easter. The whole Od-family will all be coming to "the big town" and having easter at the OdManor. I am excited to show off the new place. To add to the excitement, I am also planning a golf outing. Imagine that, a golf outing in northern Iowa the third week of March.

Stay tuned for exciting blogs.........................

ELVIS

Finally I am back

Sorry for the delay in updating this site, but I have been living life to much to stop.

Well to start off, let me introduce some of my regular visitors.
These guys love to stop by every day and get a little snack. I think that they like the glass jar, but they can never figure out how to get the cob out.



No winter yard is complete without its own "Snow Angel". If this little angel doesn't melt your heart then your crazy!


This is a picture of my new baby. Basically it is an acme rocket with skis. IT IS FUN TO RIDE! Stop on in and we can take it out for a spin.



I am not the only one that got a new toy with skis. Now that is the picture of a spoiled kid! There was nothing like that when I was a kid.


Here is a picture of a good time waiting to happen. From left to right it is Uncle Black Sled, Kiddy Kat, and Red Sled. We now love when it snows.

Its a whole "new" place

Well since I am not at my old home anymore, I guess I will have to take over the blog. Let me start with a thanks to the Jacobs for prompting me to get this site updated.

I am finally moved into my new home in Algona, IA. It is a dream come true!





THANK GOD FOR MOVERS. This is a plug for Lint Van Lines. They are GREAT. They saved me major back pains and stopped my begging of friends and family to come help move me.











Here is a view from the street.




This is the second lot with its flower garden and grape trellis. Anyone have a good grape jelly recipe?



Here are some of the views I will see a lot of. This is the backdoor near the "little" garage. If you look behind the tree/bush you will see the second garage which has been converted to be a shop. This just makes my mind race with projects that I won't get finished!




I know that you probably want more pictures of the inside, but I am not done unpacking! There is more to come. One of the many perks of the "new" home is shown in the middle of the picture. I am not the proud owner of a corn burner. It is a little noisier than I expected but not bad. Let's burn that corn!