There was some concern, since we wouldn’t be staying at Grandma Kathy’s real house, that we would miss the horses.  However, it turned out that there were plenty of friendly horses in the pasture right next to the trailer house, and although the kidlets didn’t get to do chores with…

Valley City was still flooded while we were visiting, which meant that there were dikes up in town, and that the road to Grandma Kathy’s house was flooded in both directions over bridges.  Grandma Kathy was camped out at a trailer house that she and Papa Richard own on some…

YaYa found a long piece of paper that had been used to pack something in a big box (I can’t remember what for) and decided that it would be perfect to turn The Banana into a caterpillar.  The Banana is a very patient girl.  She was wrapped up for quite…