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Showing posts with label Kansas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kansas. Show all posts

17 June 2011

Off to Kansas for Spa Week!



It's that time of year...time for Lady K and I to hit I-70 and make our way out to Dad's place in Ottawa, KS for what we, on my side of the immediate family, have dubbed Spa Week. My sister and her two boys come out from Chicago 'burbs, Mom comes up from her house in Fort Scott, KS and Lady K and I out from our Denver 'burb and we all meet up at Dad's. Typically, it's a week of building something for Dad, playing in his pool, going to the movies, digging in the dirt to add to Dad's landscape. This year it's more about maybe building one thing for Mom at her house and mostly about goofing off. I am bringing out the mosaic schtuff to work on the bowling balls Dad has from the closed bowling alley he and Mom found. We'll try our hand at making mirror balls of a sort. Also bringing paints to make some clay pots purdier. We plan on lots of movies and going roller skating. Still dig in the ground since we like to do that so much. Fun time had by all and Mom will cook up the fam favorites of fried chicken, tacos, chicken and noodles....and Seester and I will be hitting the bricks every morning to hammer out a walk for me and run for her to work off the fried chicken, tacos, and chicken and noodles.....


See ya when we get back!!

04 June 2010

Headin' to Kansas...

Lady K and I are heading out for Spa Week 2010 at my dad's house in Ottawa, Kansas tomorrow early in the AM. We had such a good time last year building four or five windbreak fences for Dad, we decided we needed to do this every year. It's only the clan: Mom coming up from her house in Fort Scott to cook for us all, Dad who is housing us and making sure we don't hurt anyone with the powertools, my sister and her two boys and Lady K and me...no spousal units allowed for the week.
This year we're building the grape or other vine arbor for the back of his pool area. Add some extra seating area, shade, and more planting area.
There will be trips to the movies, the DQ, the shaved ice stand and the nursery for more plants for all.
See you in a week!

06 June 2009

Goin' to Kansas....

Lady K and I will be hittin' the road today for a family visit at my Dad's house. We'll be gone for a week of landscaping, fishing, walking, talkin', meanderin', and whatever else comes to mind to my sister, her two boys, my dad and my mom and Lady K and I.

05 June 2009

TGIF!

This TGIF pic seems perfect....Lady K and I hit the road in the 0'dark'early hours in the AM for our trip to Ottawa Kansas to my Dad's house. We will meet up with my sister and her two boys and my mom will drive up from her house in Fort Scott Kansas to honcho the cooking while Dad, Seester, the nephews, me and Lady K all hunker down to the landscaping and such....gonna be a good week!

09 July 2008

Going to Kansas.....



Gonna do some travelin' to the Sunflower State this weekend. Visit my dad in Ottawa, near Kansas City. My mom lives south of there in Fort Scott where I sorta kinda grew up. Might take a drive down there and show DH and Lady K where I went to junior and senior high school and spent time on my grandparents' farm. We'll see how much time we have.
I know we are going to Paola KS to The BBQ Shack http://www.thebbqshack.com/ after we saw it on Food Network's Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives (love that Guy Fieri). Dad's already checked it out with Mom, they approve. Dad took my sister and her fam....they thumbs upped it too. So...off we go to see the hub-bub....bub....
Bringing some 'throws' from some of our plants for Dad's garden, we'll hang in the pool he has now, just chill for a couple of days.
Looking forward to seeing the new place and how he's settled in.