Sue Wise (Divan)

It's so good to go back and read the posts from the last couple of months!  I didn't realize how far behind the '70 news I have gotten.  We made it home safely from AZ the 24th of March.  It was an interesting trip back as we made our own lunches, stayed with family in Albuquerque one night and one night in a hotel.  Wiped everything with Clorox wipes when we entered the lobby and our rooms.  Our 2 week quarantine is over tomorrow but the only way to celebrate is to have more than one glass of wine for dinner!  Maybe I could throw a virtual party!  

Frank, so sorry to hear about your skiing accident!  Putting off surgery has to be tough but you don't really want to be in the hospital for any reason right now!  Hope you are able to get it done soon!

Thanks to those who sent donations with their registration.  I'm really hoping we are able to celebrate in August.  If you haven't registered yet, please do soon.  I plan to mail out letters mid May to those who haven't registered yet.  I haven't checked numbers yet, but I'm guessing we have 40-60 classmates coming at this point.  
 

Hope all of you are well and staying safe from COVID-19!

Sue Wise (Divan)

Anna, I hate staying home too.  I ordered delivery groceries from HyVee and got 2/3 of my order so I'm going to the store anyway.  I have 5 quilts ready to longarm but no batting or backing!  I have to see the fabric to buy it for a finished project so am calling the quilt shop for alley pick it out and pick it up.  Crazy times.  Also trying to support locally owned restaurants to keep them alive.  The gal who delivered groceries owns a dress shop and said they'll be lucky if they don't have to file bankruptcy.  They have a huge inventory of prom dresses that won't be sold this year!  I hadn't thought about that!  I feel sorry for those getting married with only 10 people celebrating with them.  We're hoping things will be somewhat normal by August 1st for Lindsay's wedding.  It's really hard to plan this not knowing what's going to happen.  Graduating seniors have it tough too!  Not a fun ending to your high school careers!  Families with loved ones in the hospital all alone! What a mess this stuff has caused! We are a strong nation so we will survive this disaster together too!

Time to shower, get dressed and go work on a t-shirt quilt for my great nephew!  I have 2 to do for him.  After that, maybe some puzzle time or a Hallmark movie!  Definitely a walk today!  Stay safe!

Sue Wise (Divan)

Just sent out an email reminder for the reunion and noticed some of the email addresses are school emails or business emails.   Please login and change your email address in your profile to your personal email if you have retired.  You can still login with the old address.  Once you've deleted the old address and inserted your new address, you will login with the new address.  Thanks for keeping your profiles updated!  Ok, now I'm off to the shower!

Ron Smith

Kathie Dobberstein Jordan...

Happy birthday to you!!!

Hope you can make it to the reunion.I want a rassling rematch with you in your old front yard in the leaves.Your old dog Duke won't be there to save you. Maybe I can win this time

Kathie Dobberstein (Jordan)

Anna Sobotka (Schroeder)

                     HAPPY   EASTER

Jana Weed (Green)

Hi all from San Diego! I flew out the middle of March when my daughter said she had no one to care for her son while she worked. My daughter, Regan, is a critical care cardiac/stroke nurse, having most recently moved to lead nurse in preop. So far, CA is ahead of the game with COVID 19, thanks to the stay at home mandate. All beaches, parks, etc. have been closed for three weeks and are diligently patrolled by the military and law enforcement. My daughter said the peak should arrive here in about six days, two weeks ahead of the previous prediction, but the danger of spread won't be over. Regan has been vigilant in not letting me go into any stores, Joe's pleased because that means no money being spent! Scary times, my friends. Everyone, please stay safe! Looking forward to our reunion.

Bob Morris

Jana, I have daughter named Regan as well. She is a doctor in Manhattan, Kansas. How strange is that. Happy Easter Hope all is well. She was named after the Exorcist movie..

Anna Sobotka (Schroeder)

OMG  it's only Monday morning-the days seen to be getting longer for me !!!!!

We had a little snow for the Easter rabbit here in Kearney. Now we're back to cold and wind .

I have a request ????  Could we have a different background besides the fall leaves???  Thanks

    Enjoy your day !!!!!!

Ron Smith

Condolences to Dave Mills on the passing of his mother. She was also John Beezley's mother-in -law.

Dave Mills

Ron, thanks for the thoughts regarding our mother's passing  It is a blessing and she is now at peace watching the Huskers with the Lord 

Ron Smith

Happy birthday Cindy!!! I am available for cake and ice cream and could help you blow out all those candles.

Kathi Geiser (Wright)

Ten inches and still snowing on April 16!  Neighbors out cutting up a big branch that broke off.  I went out and beat snow off my bushes.  Spring is here.  Lol

I'm doing lots of zoom meetings,  and  note that some people dont talk as much, thankful for that.

I'm not accomplishing as much as I should during this time, oh well...

Cindy Walters (Castillo)

Condolences to Dave and Sharon on the passing of their mother. Thanks for all the birthday wishes. Dan - just remember, you went to grade school with Kathi D and me🥴 Ron - I would have invited you for ice cream and cake, but we didn't have any. Had a zoom birthday party with my kids, sisters and their families. The best part was it was fun with no clean up😂  Eagerly waiting for it to warm back up to 70. I'm over the quarantine and the snow.  Warm sunny days makes it easier to stay at home. Be safe💙

Anna Sobotka (Schroeder)

  Is anyone else getting as tired of the lock down as I am ??  What is everyone doing from getting cabin fever ???

   Have a awesome day classmates !!!!!!

Leanna Fritz

Anna- I might be going crazy by now if I hadn’t gone to get a few buckets of paint a month ago. Have you ever picked up paint curbside? When I moved into this house, a lot of the rooms upstairs were just white. So, the white rooms will be no more when I get done with them. Then, I had been meaning to seriously start my parents picture project. This means taking all of their old black and whites, and there must be 1,000, organizing them, scanning, and then hopefully making it into a Shutterfly Book. I’m still organizing, but hope to be scanning by later this spring. Then there’s always my recipe mess, and of course planting and yard work. Who thought I’d be staying home this much, and who thought all it would take was seeing toilet paper on a shelf to make my face light up? Haha So, we’ll see how disciplined I am to continue when I’m “set free”!?! I’ll bet there’s a Jonas Salk out there working up a vaccine right now!

If today is April 28, it must be my old Zion buddy’s birthday. Happy birthday Jerry O! I hope you find a good “stay at home” way to celebrate!

Be healthy, contact some you haven’t seen for a while, and be safe.

Jerry Ohlmann

Leanna, thanks for the birthday wishes.  Didn't do anything different . . . just another daily fight with Mrs. O! 

I got a text from another Zionist, Dan Blanton a couple of weeks ago.  Sounds like he is doing okay

This virus thing really sucks but so far so good . . . we all have to thank the good Lord we are not on a ventilator.  I'm looking forward to our reunion in August if we can still have it.  Stay safe and healthy everyone.

Dick Garrelts

Just looked at my 401K.  I'm sure glad I don't own an oil well!

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Dick Garrelts

Try "social distancing" from your pet while eating a Ribeye.

Dick Kincaid

Don't sweat the financials #1.  You can take some of the stock losses to offset the financial windfall you will experience farming this tax year.  The closest I got to an oil well or stock in an oil company was driving a Ford which ran on oil with some occasional gas added.  The best oil with that car was called Double Eagle at twenty five cents a quart.  It was not made of virgin oil stock but rather recycled or refiltered used oil with special additives (dye to make it look good).  I assume Jerry O. got to stay up late lastnight since it wa his Birthday and at our age making it past the evening news can be an accomplishment.  

Anna Sobotka (Schroeder)

          Hope everyone had a good weekend !!!!                                                                       I was working in the back yard this afternoon and and noticed two doors down the wife was giving the husband a haircut on the patio.  Then she did the three kids.  The next thing I knew she was having her husband cut her hair.(what trusting wife)

                At least they didn't get a bowl out for those famous haircuts of our youth !!!

               Enjoy your week

Dick Garrelts

My plan is to NOT get a haircut before the Reunion.  That should stretch the budget enough to pay my way in. 

Mimi won't let me cut her hair anymore.... 

There were a lot of mosquito foggers out there that used Double Eagle back in the 60s.  "Fill er up with oil and check the gas."   I still wonder how many of those junk Hippie wagons actually made it to Woodstock.  Some did, because I gassed/oiled a few of them again on the way back!

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Dick Garrelts

Who needs a 401K !  

I found a sucker who will trade toilet paper for Ribeyes. 

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Ron Smith

Condolences to Bob Beitler with the passing of his father Bruce.

Anna Sobotka (Schroeder)

                      HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY !!!!