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What SHALL we do for the weekend?????
3 sisters...
Kate, Betsy and Georgia
AKA Gram G







Wednesday I left central Wisconsin 

Flew into hazy
Minneapolis




 Then on to Indianapolis, 
my home town. 

Flying over the Speedway....
It's the weekend of the 
100th running of the 500 mile Indy race.....

Was refreshed with Mexican 

cuisine at Don Pablo's after getting picked up at the airport by Kate and daughter, Stephanie

Kate got us tickets for the 500 mile festival parade on Sat.

WHO DOESN'T LIKE A PARADE??

Circle Monument downtown Indianapolis

Hoosier ingenuity.....powered by individual
bicycle peddle power

     It's parade time, ladies!!

Cloudy part of the time, 
HOT most of the time....

World's 
largest race
driver....

World's largest
parade drum...
Purdue U., IN




This parade is a lot about cars...and drivers...

 Blue elephants,
 scary pandas...

And Patriotism.....

 UFO's

  
hanging
out in Indp.

  And seeing how the drivers line up for the race....

After the parade a little sightseeing is in order...
"Walking the canal" through down town...

1816--2016
200th anniversary of
statehood

Marriott hotel dressed up for the 500 mile race...

Sunday was Race Day....

for the 1st time since 1950 the race was telecast live on TV.

         
   START YOUR ENGINES!
   And they are off!!
 33 cars   200 laps around the track
500 miles...
350,000 spectators

The winning moments courtesy of ABC news

The WINNER....

 Alexander Rossi of California
23 years old

He figured his fuel so close, there was none left to drive to the winners circle and had to be towed there....

________________________

On the Winner's platform 
June, 2014

 Having a news conference...

 California Jude, Indy Nick, Kate, Betsy,
 Gram G
visiting the Indianapolis Speedway....

THE WINNER!!







     I still can hear the "zooming" of the cars practicing on the track as I sat in school in Speedway during my early elementary school years, while living with my foster family.....many, many years ago.

This has been a good 6 "start your engines" days in the life of Grandma G.

"Do you not know that all who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize?  Run in such a way that you may win. And everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things.  They do it to achieve a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable."  (1 Corinthians 9:24-26)

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       What does Gramma G mean to you??
To her family Gramma G means.......
        DUMPLINGS!  OH, YAH!!

One starts with pork steak and almost dry bread.  Roast the pork with garlic and caraway seed, pour in water for gravy.  Mix the bread pieces with grated potatoes, shape into baseballs and boil for 30 minutes.  Cook up a bit of sauerkraut.  (homemade in the old days)

Add the hungry folk..

And its family time!

Mom Jen, cousin Eddy and Uncle Al

Birthday cake time for mom. 

So, we (Devin and I) had this intellectual (though, not intelligent on my part) discussion about an algebra problem I saw presented on the computer.  

9-(3 divided by 1/3)+1 =?

Most people came up with 3, 7, or 9 which are all wrong.  The answer is 1.  

I have never favored algebra (It's a bunch of confusing, useless number and symbols. My panicked little math brain cells start bombarding each other.)  

Devin was trying to explain to me that 3 divided by 1/3 equals 9.  (How absurd, one multiplies)  

Next he tried explaining to me a practical application for dividing by a fraction.  OBSERVE:

y=1/x.  (in other words)

y=the amount of snow on the ground

1/x=1/temperature

Therefore (my logic)

y=4 inches of snow on the ground

1/10= 10 degrees above zero
THEREFORE: At 100 degrees there is 40 inches of snow on the ground.

Time to howl at the almost
 full Wisconsin moon!!

 (Friday night)

Jen and Burt Schmidt family minus 2

   Burt and Jen are flying west to Hawaii....

  WE are driving "up north" to Park Falls....100 miles

Traffic the way Gram G likes it!! 

Wide open fields...

 Northern Wisconsin rest area.....

Crossing the Wisconsin River 

 Single lane roads, blue sky,

soft clouds, spring green 

           AND

bug splatter....

We are approaching "Up North"

AAHHHH.....
Finally....

A little evening darts and pizza with Uncle Al

A Captain Nemo sub for Gram

 Off to "ruffin it" at the cabin for Sat. night...
On the Flambeau River













      Soaking up the warm Sunday morning sunshine.....

 Whoa!!  Who's the Babe??

Snuggling with 3 of 5 little furry friends at cousin Sandy's house... 

Last minute river fun....

Time to drive back home on a Sunday afternoon....

 A Monday viewing of 

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat , 
(great, entertaining musical),
rides to and from school and play practice, a pot of beef stew, laundry and stretches..... 

   A Tuesday of rides to and from school, one last walk, packing, blogging, an evening of high school variety show...Devin singing, visiting with Gram JoJo (my replacement),
Good bye hugs all around.....

     

 THEN......

Another successful Gram G's AT (annual training) is completed....

IT'S....

Off to Back Home in Indiana on Wed.  

     This has been a good 8 AT days on the life of Grandma G.

"But Jesus called the children to him and said, 'Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these'."
 (Luke 18:16)