Friendly Neighbors!!

Hey!
Grandpa and Grandma and I had an interesting talk with "Officer Friendly" this afternoon!
(Karen, Jason and Brian will know who that is). Him and about 7 other police cars were surrounding the house next door when I got home. As Grandpa, Grandma and I were swingin' on the patio, speculating what was going on THIS time, they were walking around with gloves on and cameras again! But good ol' officer friendly came over to talk to us and fill us in, thought it was important that people know what's going on in the neighborhood. So! everything the new neighbor told us is pretty much not true, she's not a cop, doesn't own the house and pretty much everything she has she either stole or forged checks for. The cop said that it was a pretty big bust, they were bringing lots of things out that he said were stolen. He even gave Grandma his card in case she ever wanted to report anything suspicous! Well, so much for that wonderful new neighbor!

A Norwegian in Ireland

Last Sunday was such a gorgeous day! We spent the late afternoon at the Lake Harriet Bandshell (Mike just made it in time from the cabin). It was great to hear Brian Tenneson's Irish Celtic band. It was such a great atmosphere with sailboats going by in the background as they were singing. It was extra special to hear Karen sing a couple songs, I think she even did a great job with the Irish accent, Pat mentioned that with a name like Bindewald, they would only let her sing 2! All in all was really a beautiful concert.

A Wet Weekend!

So....guess where we went this weekend! Oh yes, our camping trips are starting to get notorious, and this one will go down in the memory books. We've always wanted to go down to the Lanesboro area to camp and go biking....it really is a beautiful area and we did get to take a short couple hours bike trip on the pretty trail before the clouds rolled in! It started raining on Saturday afternoon and didn't stop! It got pretty noisy in our tent trailer that night, between the continuous thunder, wind and hail! But we can honestly say, our tent is totally waterproof.
The next morning we went into town and thought we'd try to stick it out one more night but when we got back to the campground, WOW! let's just say the river was getting just a little too close for comfort. We dismantled the tent in the pouring rain, got in the car soaking wet but could still laugh about it....drove to red wing and stayed in a hotel overnight....felt good to be warm and dry!

Mike has been a little busy!!

Time sure flys by! Everybody probably already knows what's going on but feel I should Journal a little bit here and update this blog. Mike took a short but great jaunt down to St louis to see Jason and Andrea, and bring them a little cabinet he made for them. He also had to get a little
"Bo Time". It was fun for him to see Bo running around ....also waiting for the "next one"....due in about August....it has to be a little hard to be pregnant in the summer, huh Andrea. Bo will have fun being the big brother though.

Mike got back on May 12th, and the following week, as many of you know ended up in the emergency room and was admitted for a couple days due to some heart problems. Even as a nurse I haven't really realized the degree to which doctors are specializing. First he saw the cardiologist, then a few days later went to the atrial cardiologist and yesterday we went to Abbott to the Cardiac Electrophysiologist! mike calls him the electric engineer. The problem of atrial fib, is what he has. His heartrate is very fast and the rhythm gets all "fluttery". The doctor says he has an abnormality in his atrium and so the nerves trigger abnormal beating. He says that it will probably just get worse, but there are things they can do. They can do a procedure that will "zap" the nerve endings in the atrium and usually solves the problem totally in 85% of cases. Mike is going to wait until he sees if he has another "spell" as bad as this last one. The doctor is comfortable as these spells don't cause a heart attack but he would have to go to ER as they could potentially cause a stroke. Mike is feeling good though, and the dr said he could do his normal activities. So we will just have to wait and see.
He got out of the hospital on Wed 5/21 and we went up to the cabin on Saturday 5/24 for his birthday, with his parents, Karen and her friend Brian, to relax........It felt good to get back up there.