REWARD!!

There will be a substantial reward (of gratitude) for information leading to the rediscovery of ANY Ludke-side family relatives.  We have not heard a peep from anyone in eons.  Nope, nope, nope!

Not any from Minnesota (tho those were the last ones we heard from...with darling pictures of cute little girls!), not any from Maryland, none from Georgia, or Iowa, or even Pennsylvania.  They are absolutely and positively MISSING.  Poof!

I'm sure your lives are just as boring >>ahem, EXCITING!!!<< as ours -- *LOL* -- I know you are thinking NO ONE'S life is as pathetic as YOURS Von -- NO ONE's! -- so anyway that's even more reason to come out of the woodwork.  Give my pathetic little life some meaning - some PURPOSE.

Same goes for any of the rest of you family and 'family of friends'.  SERIOUSLY!  We're WORRIED about all of you!  I was overjoyed, I will say, with a long juicy note from Cousin Kathy in California.  Your life seems like an interesting one.  Can't wait to see the pictures of Casey's girls.  And Kirk, while your news wasn't good - it was nice to get a personal note from you as well.  Thanks.

MAKE IT GO AWAY --   It's too much!  I'm talking, of course, about that pot of chili that I put together a few days ago.  I've had chili twice a day ever since (except for one night).  I can't do it much longer!  There are consequences to having that much chili for one person.  I'll just let you Google that one ... 'consequences of eating too much chili' ... I have no idea what you'll ACTUALLY get as a search result.  But ... well, 'nuf said about that!

Sounds like we're going to have a little family get-together here to play games, talk, watch a movie or SOMETHING on Saturday night.  Rhiannon is in charge.  I'm just an attendee.  I bought a new game called FARKLE (and no, it has nothing to do with chili soup).  I know, I know -- we were moving on ...

Anyway I am hoping for a fun relaxed evening with folks I love! 

I went to TOYLAND at Blaine's Farm & Fleet on Wednesday night.  Rhiannon was looking for a fence to keep her baby in.  So she was going there anyway.  I remembered hearing some hype about all the toys that they have there. So I called and said ... TAKE ME TOO!  I wanted very much to see what bright eyes would think about all the colorful toys. 

I put reindeer ears on her.  They were cute.  And she rode a rocking horse.  She seemed to like that.  I had a good time anyway.  Jaimee seemed to like it and Rhiannon ... she started to foam at the mouth from all of the educational anticpation for her baby!  She had visions of learning stations dancing in her head.  The teacher in her was coming out and all Jaimee and I wanted to do was honk the octopus legs!

Randy has been rebuilding Ryan and Rhiannon's computer.  She wants to do her videos with high definition.  Her computer, the way it was - didn't have enough steam.  So dad is putting all sorts of new stuff in it to make it better than it was.  He wanted Rhiannon to hang around a little longer last night because ... "I'm almost done!!"  The 'puter was going home with her.  He's had his little laboratory down in the basement.  He didn't come up and didn't come up ... and when he finally did.  He said he just wanted a little Jaimee time and the computer would be another day.

Today he's spent a lot of time working on it.  Something about it needed a bunch of stuff put back on it again.  Just now he went to the garage and came back in with a HAMMER.  I'm thinking it isn't going so well down there in the laboratory.

Okay -- I need to run.  Take care.  Remember that reward!
Love to all!