Update from Green Bay

By Uncle Neil

It was nice to get the phone message from Uncle Rex the other day..... We have been reading the blog and thinking of you a lot lately.... I think we would have moved away from the fire long before you did.... We're glad to hear your life is good....

Thanks for the corny joke from Wendy & Hans about the Talking dog... Sara & I collect stupid jokes ... She has a reputation as a bartender with corny jokes.... The talking dog is on our list of favorites and we have told it many times... As you can imagine, when you tell it in person the story grows.... We start as a puppy entertaining children birthday parties, then a German circus in Europe, then a Japanese "Oscar Winning" movie star, then a CIA spy, then a FBI undercover Drug enforcement agent and finally retiring in Northern Wisconsin.... If Hans, Sara & I were at a bar together telling this joke .... then the story would have many more new chapters and it would probably go on past bar closing time!!!!!

The same old same old around here for us..... Sara is doing well in the UP and she is working as a bartender at two bars in the Marquette area.... Sara's boyfriend is "on & off" but that's her routine the last few years... Laura, Barry & Nathan are doing great.... They sold Barry's crotch rocket this spring and bought a used Harley - they look great on it.... They are also enjoying the summer - this week they are on a lake up north with our boat on vacation at Barry's parent's cottage.... Kathy is happy as can be.... We just finished a kitchen remodel and it looks like a new house (we are very proud of the improvement).... I'm busy at the animal hospital as usual...

See you this October.... I do have Lodging information for you.... The Motel we selected for you and our other out-of-town quests is the Country Inn Suites.... It has a pool, Ground Round Bar/Restaurant and is near the wedding reception hall and our house... I could not reserve a block of rooms for our wedding but rooms are readily available now.... I think the Spooner Clan, The Rex Family, The Ecuador group and a few others will be at the same motel....

C Ya.... Neil & Kathy....