Update

I haven't had time to post in here over the past couple of weeks or more. We have been busy. Two weeks ago we went to Glacier National Park and to Canada to the Hawke Family Reunion in Jaffray, BC. This past week we were hosting a wonderful couple from Germany. They left at 1:30 this morning and I am finally getting a chance to write in here. We had a good time up in the Park and Canada. There were a lot of things that we did. The dance festival went very well and we all had a good time. Lorna was a dance teacher for the German team to help them learn the opener and closer. The team was from northern Germany close to the Baltic Sea.

I am doing something different for the pictures. I have a web site where I can post pictures now and I am setting up albums to post the different pictures from our trips and events. Keep checking back for additional pictures and new albums. I am trying to put the best of the best pictures in those albums. I am starting out with pictures of the grandchildren. I am trying to get pictures from all of them but I am trying to add the best and right now. It is not even between the grandkids as you can see, so don't be hurt or upset if your child doesn't have as many as others. It is a work in progress and I will be continually adding and deleting pictures as I go through the over 20,000 pictures we have in our photoshop. I will also be adding albums for events such as the dance festival, the trip to Glacier, Canada, New York and so forth. So keep on watching as I try to put the very best of our pictures on the web site. If you want to critique the pictures let me know for better or worse. I want feedback.

I will try to keep you up to date in the blog but will probably not post any more pictures.

In case you were wondering I had a really good day in a water park taking pictures of David Dalby. I thought they turned out pretty good. That is why there are so many of him in there right now.

The link is in the blog but in case you want it it is - reedfmly.photoshop.com.

The Deck is Finally Finished

We finally finished the railing on the deck making it officially complete. There may be a couple of things that need to be done with it but we will see. We also put on a storm door on our bedroom so we can have it open in the evenings. It think it will also add some light. Deborah (aka the Energizer Bunny) helped with most of the work in between all of her other yard projects during the day. Next on our list is to build a patio with pavers out in that corner. After that I want to plant a herb garden there and make it look nice.

The other night we had some really pretty colors in the sky so I took some pictures. I have include a few of my picture here. I hope everyone is doing well. I still need to get Washington DC picture in here. When I have a free night I will do that. I also need to get some pictures of our newly rearranged basement with the new furniture and television. It looks pretty nice now.

New York, New York - 3

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New York, New York

New York, New York the city so nice they named it twice as David Letterman says. Here are a few pictures of New York. They will follow after my narative. I had nearly 1,000 pictures of New York before I started to weed them out and I still have too many. I do not have everything we visited but this is what we did. Thursay we walked the Brooklyn Bridge. Friday we went to the Statue of Libert, Ellis Island, Ground Zero, Grand Central Station, Museum of Modern Art, Rockefellar Center, Times Square and Wicked. Saturday Staten Island Ferry, Empire State Building, Yankees and Mets game, China Town, Little Italy and Times Square at Midnight. Sunday we went to the American Museum of Natural History, Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Temple in Manhatten. We also saw a lot in between. My next blog will hopefully cover Washington DC. Enjoy.

Home at Last

Deborah figures it has been about six weeks since we had a week-end to ourselves. We took advantage of it and worked on the deck. Deborah and Lorna helped (probably did most of the work) and by about 9:30 pm we got most of the deck done. We just have the railing to do then we have it done. It is nice to go out our bedroom door now.

We also made a few changes in our home. We added a love seat to our bedroom. I am not sure how long it will last. We also sold the couch down stairs and bought a new leather couch to take its place. We also took my chair down stairs to be with the couch.

I am still working on the pictures of New York and Washington DC.

Reed Family Reunion

Over the weekend of June 5-7 we had a Reed Family reunion up in Island Park at Deborah's parents cabin. Although it rained most of the time we all had a good time. Nearly everyone was there, we missed Krystle, Connie and Ryan.

Friday evening we went for a walk and took the go-cart, scooter and motorcycles. It was about the only time we had no rain and everyone had a good time.

Saturday it rained on and off all day long. In the morning we had a cross-word puzzle contest, females against males. I am not sure who won that one. Later in the morning a group of us went into West Yellowstone - some opted to go into the Park, while the boys stayed back and swam. Later in the afternoon several of us canoed down the river from Big Springs to Macks Inn. It rained off and on the whole trip and rained constantly the last 20-30 minute. Needless to say we got pretty drenched during that canoe ride.

Sunday morning we woke up to snow - snow in June. Some went to church and everyone left for home that day. It was a good time together and we all enjoyed it.

We also had Kirsten and Jonas stay with us for a week which was fun for all.

Next post will be from our trip to New York City and Washington DC. I know some of youn want to see picture but it will be hard to go through over 1,000 pictures to get down to just a few. I hope to get that done in the next few days.