Clan Life Update.... Post Views, 27,310

    Gram G is settling into the "rainy season" here in VC.  It's wet, BUT it is NOT snow....
   Yet it makes me want to stay inside my cozy house more.  I do venture out when the sun beckons.  
    This is a good time to catch up on a bit of GeoLou Schmidt Clan life...with a glimpse of my week.  

    This photo showed up on my Face Book "memories".  FB did good again on this one. This is probably the last time the GeoLou Schmidts were all together.  We were visiting the Grand Canyon 3 years ago late Oct. We are not in age order....
   Starting with the yellow shirt....
Burt, Chuck, Bill, Debbie, Gerry, Al, Big Lou, Gram G, Angie...
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     Jump back to now....a plethora of recent activities....

Gram G has a new favorite Wednesday store....most items are half price...
It's only a mile up the street....

An economical 4 piece outdoor nativity set....bonus...they have attractive facial features... 





Time to invest in a fresh supply of toddler toys!!  And a basket to store them.  

It's been several years since I've entertained wee ones.. I am excited to have Miss Berklee (grand baby #19) and her folks from San Diego to come visit me in early December.  

      And in time Rosalie, great grand baby #1, will come to play as she and her folks live in Portland.  

With 19 grand kids growing into young adults, I anticipate our family tree will explode into a magnificent, showy, fertile, enduring Evergreen..
(We lived on Evergreen Street for over 40 years.) 
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 On Oct 17 Maud celebrated her golden B-day of 17 years.  But she didn't celebrate at home.  Her home is France. She is spending 3 weeks at the Millers for an exchange program.









French students, 
Maud, Micaela, Cloe.
Cloe is also from France. Micaela will visit France in the spring and live with Maud's family for 3 weeks.
Maud with Angie        Great Gram G with Rosalie    and with Maud

 Time for some JV football played by freshman, Jake....




And a rainbow over the football field....





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Meantime, back in Park Falls, WI  Lou's mom celebrated her 104th B-day!  So many years to be a Packer Fan.... 
Al and Burt looking up with Utah cousin Mindy 

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Looking for a career change? 

How about some horsing around in southern Wisconsin?

Equestrian Olivia Schmidt preparing for her
Hillside Scholarship Horse Show  

Olivia has been in pony club for about 5 years.   She is doing great....

(Photo credits, Chuck Schmidt)

     Olivia will be having her 12 year old trip with Gram G, hopefully next late summer.  Over the last several months I entertained the notion of taking a few riding lessons so I could ride with her. But reason tells me that would be too much horsing around for Gram G. Now if there is a Shetland pony willing to bear me we might be able to ride..... 

Olivia is the oldest of Charlies'  Angels...
 Chuck, Louisa, Anna, Emilia, Olivia, Aunt Angie

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Need a bigger Adrenalin rush?

How about playing "king of the mountain" on a mountain top?

Or scaling Matanuska Glacier in a tutu?
Becca and Cory in outdoor classroom, Anchorage University.

Cory making the first climb of the day...learning to use ice picks for scaling glaciers.....

What goes up must come down.....

Close up of glacier.....





















Classwork finished.....

(Photo credits....Katie Bishop..
  Alaska University, Anchorage)
(Alaska Pacific University Outdoors Program)


Cory is second son of Burt and Jen Schmidt

Jen, Josh, Devin, Cory (standing), Tyler, Logan, Burt
              (September, 2016   somewhere in Wisconsin)

This has been a good 7 "clan life" days in the life of Grandma G.

"But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.  He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither.  Whatever he does prospers."  (Psalms 1:2-3)