Theresa and I made our annual trek to my sister Barbara's (and her husband Dave's) house in central Missouri. They are close to Climax Springs on the southern shore of the lake. Their house is on a beautiful protected cove but with a fine view of the main body of the Lake at about the 45 mile marker. We arrived Thursday afternoon (10/4) and cooked a fine mess of frog legs. The Siefkers grew up on frog leg and consider it a fine delicacy! My oldest sister Carol and her hubby, Denny Doerflinger, were returning from a fun trip through the Rockies on four different trains. They had been at the Lake several days when we arrived and departed Friday morning.
We also departed Friday for our nephew's funeral in Kansas City. Doug Feldman was Theresa's brother Steve and his wife Judy's youngest son who was killed in a tragic traffic accident in Las Vegas. Doug had lived there a couple of years and was, he told his dad, as happy as he'd ever been. He had a wonderful girlfriend with whom he was prepared to spend the rest of his days and was about to buy a house. Anyway, the funeral Mass was in KC. We stayed with Doug's brother's Father and Mother in law who live nearby. They treated us like royalty! It was great to see all of Theresa's siblings although the circumstances were not ideal.
On Monday, we drove our son David to MCI to catch his flight back to Indy and headed back to the Lake (about a 3 hours drive). We had a wonderful time the rest of the week, golf on Tuesday, a trip to the outlet mall plus dinner and conversation with the Stanleys (next door neighbors at the Lake) on Wed, and rain on Thursday (we stayed in and played dominoes).
Friday morning,we headed home with a brief stop in St Louis to have lunch with a dear friend. We met her near her office and were shocked when we blinked and an hour had gone by and she had to go back to work!
Home again for a while - soon off to Louisville for a reunion of Navy Competitive Shooters Assoc.
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