I flew out of Las Vegas on Sept. 17 and Barb joined me in Bismarck on Sept. 21, having elected to spend some post-reunion time with her father.\u00a0\u00a0 On Sept. 22 we attended a \u201cLiving Paintings\u201d exhibition; the title is perhaps self-explanatory:\u00a0 costumed actors posing in front of backdrops that reproduce famous paintings.<\/p>\n
The next day we drove 50 miles to the east to visit sister Zona\u2019s cabin on the shore of Lake Isabel.\u00a0\u00a0 There we harvested apples and Zona\u2019s son-in-law Jon pulled the dock out of the water for winter storage.<\/p>\n
Next day Barb and I helped Zona put oil on the new deck at the rear of her Bismarck home.\u00a0\u00a0 Later we were joined by Marvin and Violet for dinner.<\/p>\n
And then the next day we attacked her storage building; sorting , cleaning and photographing the extra furniture with the intention of\u00a0 placing some ads on the web.\u00a0\u00a0 Fortuitously, we found a charity that agreed to come and take all of the items, so we were spared the trouble of dealing with the sale of individual items.<\/p>\n\n\t\t