May 2022

As the COVID levels fell Troy's employer implemented a new phase of their policy. That means Troy has to return to office in Vincennes, Indiana at least 4 days per week.

Troy made another trip to Oscola to help his mom. He replaced two tires on the riding lawnmower and showed her how to use it.

As temperatures continued to warm the blueberries continue to bloom. Troy found a pair of turtles out in the blueberry patch. These two seem to be year round residents.

Four years of studies at Andrews University came to a close for Abigail. She graduated with a 4.0 GPA all through college! Troy's mom came over and rode up to Michigan with us. We had a good time celebrating Abby's achievement.

These are some pictures of the dedication service for Abby's dietics school.

While we were in Michigan for Abby's graduation we enjoyed some local pizza and ice cream made in front of you. Based on some work experience, Troy really wondered about the oxygen concentration when they were using the liquid nitrogen to make the ice cream.

We made a trip to Lake Michigan at a place near where Abby enjoyed coming with her friends. It was too cold and windy to get in the water but that didn't stop Ann, Abby and Elizabeth from getting their feet wet.

Troy headed back home with Abby's car full of items from her room and the rest of us went to visit Ann's family, which we had not visited since before the start of COVID. While we were there we found some morel mushrooms at Lynell's house.

Troy's mom sure could have used his dad to help navigate back home from our house.

Streams of Light worked with the adventist churches in the St. Louis area to hand out 100,000 copies of the Great Controversy. The West County gymnasium was busy with people from the different churches bagging the books. Here are some pictures of us bagging part of the books that Southside sponsored.

Here are some pictures of flowers that were blooming at our house this month as well as a strawberry and some baby asparagus plants.

Abby's friends Rachel came to visit when her family came to help move a relative to the St. Louis area.

Here are a our kitties. Sparkle has continued to not feel well and Elizabeth is doing all she can to care for him

The house closest to ours has not been lived in for just under 20 years. This year a pair of foxes had pups under it. That meant added vigilance when we let our cats outside and it was tough on the local rabbit population.

Troy made another trip to Osceola to set up some cameras in his mom's house but part way through she decided that she didn't want them there.