WHERE DID THE SUMMER GO?

Hi Friends,

I am back to updating the front page of the website.  There is going to be some changes to the website that might make it easier for you to get a copy of the schedule front and the newsletter back.  Thanks to my Computer guru who is always there to help me. Thanks Ryan!.  So I would like your feed back from those of you who use the web. Please give me your comments if this is helpful. You can email me at Girlie0557@jetup.net. 

I know I have been a little slow as to keeping the front page updated but the past 6-8 weeks have been very busy.  My mom had a triple by pass and is recovering and doing great but she gave us a little scare by having to go back to surgery 3 times the same day for a bleeding problem. She will most likely be going home this weekend. While mom was giving us a scare I gave my family a little scare by having a bacterial infection. As most of you know I had hip surgery on my left hip 2 years ago this coming  September. However, I was having a pain that just would not go away. So my Surgeon decided to go back inand take a look. What he found was quite interesting! I had 3 metal stitches that had opened up and had grownsome scar tissue around them. So he had to go in and take them out replace them, which should have been the end of it . Well I never do anything normal so a week and a half I go back in to have the staples taken out I am feeling fine should be good to go. I walk to the car get in drive about a mile down the road have to get out and when I get out My husband calmly says get back in the car you have to go  back to the Dr.s office  as I looked at my leg I had sprung a major leak.  Well to make a long story short that’s when they discovered I had a bacterial  infection how I got it they don’t know. Kept having that same leak for 4 weeks and each week it meant going in having my leg opened up so that they could clean it out this last time they left it open from Friday til Sunday closed it up and we now have it under control. I am still on a IV antibiotic and an oral but I am going to be FINE! I am feeling great still have a little waddle but that is because they cut my IT band in my leg five times so it will take a while to get the strength back. So that’s my story and Ia am sticking to it. But in the mean time I have not MISSED one JOB of the bands. So my over 30 year record has not been broken!

Now on to the Music Scene.  Wow the month of August is always busy but it seems like we get busier every year. We played the National Nite To Unite in Albany, The Crow Wing County Fair, and we have been asked back again for next year! The Music In the Park in Pine City and with the weather being so iffy we still had a wonderful loyal crowd. Thank you! Then another great year at the Almelund Threshing show more people than ever adn again the weather was giving us a little trouble tornado warnings, cloudy, hot sticky but God Must Like Country Music as the storms went over us left us with a small rain shower and a crowd to finish the evening.  We have been asked back for next year and we want to say thank you to the Crew at Almelund for all their hard work and to the Crowd who never lets us down. Then up to the Bridge in Crosby, new faces and of course familiar fans who follow us every job.  if you have not been to the Bridge you are truly losing on a great club. Good Food, a waitress, nice dance floor and great new friends to meet who love Classic country Music. Then the week settled down till Saturday and we were back at the Foreston Liquor Store. We walk in and to our Suprise we had a bunch of you from Crosby and Brainerd in our small little Honky Tonk. It may be small but for that one night a month it is a country honky tonk, they offer food and a small dance floor but it is a fun club especially when it is our fan club who is there cheering us on. Sunday morning we are having doubts that the weather will cooperate for another Classic Country Gospel Service  in the Park in Milaca, but again God must like what is happening as we got through it! Not as many of you showed up and we do know it was because of the weather but again our thanks to all of you who did come.

We will finish out the month with the Nowthen Threshing  Show, Friday and Saturday and Then the Gospel Sunday morning Service and on the road again to the N. St. Paul Legion again if you have not been to this club you must check it out. Great dance floor, no cover charge, Sunday afternoon music and a food special. How can you go wrong?

However we do have shortage of male dancers if you are just into dancing and want to dance to Great classic Country Music meet some new friends why not comeout and give this club a try. I am working on a dance club idea you know sorta like the Eharmony thing but just have not been able to get it put together  but wanted getthe word out a little bit so that if you hve any friends who like to dance and are looking for a dance partner come on out to the Legion. Lets start a trend of our own! Maybe not new but one that can be related only to the Classic Country Music Scene! 

Well it’s time to print out the schedule and get ready for Nowthen. Hope to see you all there.

Take Care,

Barb