Karen's Korner: 2013

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Girl's Saturday fun DAY!

Well, the girls and Nana had a great time Saturday! Except that Nana erased all the pictures except these two!
Here is what we did:
1. Shopping at Target
2. To the mall to see the Snow Plows that were painted by local schools.
3. Cross Country meet down by Harrisburg. (Maria was running and I had some pics of her but they got deleted.) We drove to the golf course and were told to go back to the new Middle school and ride the shuttle bus. The girls were concerned there were no child seats OR seat belts...but they survived their first bus ride. My fingers hurt because L was holding on so tight!
4. Burger King for lunch
5. Sertoma Butterfly house
6. Playing in Sertoma Park.
What a great day we had, despite the lack of photos!

Friday, April 12, 2013

April snowstorm 2013: WALDA

Ready for SPRING!
We are ready for Spring, starting to clean up the yard and such (April 6):

Put the "house" back together after winds blew it apart during the winter.

Little did we know that we were in for a big Surprise: Snowstorm WALDA decided to hit SD on 04-09-13! Whammo! Back to winter for us:

Terry had finally decided what he wanted for Christmas, so he bought a new gas grill! And assembled it on Monday. Here it is on Wednesday:

No school Tuesday through Thursday, 12+ inches of snow, sleet, ice etc. here in Madison. But it wasn't so bad compared to others; Abby and Anthony were out of power for 24 hours in Dell Rapids, and Sioux Falls had a disaster as they started out with freezing rain first that caused many downed power lines, downed trees, and just a big mess in general.

SIOUX FALLS, SD -

Officials have declared a state of emergency for the city of Sioux Falls.

At a briefing Wednesday morning, Sioux Falls Mayor Mike Huether said it will take time, maybe even weeks, to recover from this storm.

SIOUX FALLS, SD -

A total of 80,000 homes and businesses have been affected by power outages this week in South Dakota, Northwest Iowa and Southern Minnesota.