Best Emails of the Week

June 11, 2006

Mary and I had a nice visit to Minnesota this week.

Here's the 20 acres her dad Wilfrid still owns.

A farmer rents it from him to plant these soy beans.

This might be his new home after the Veterans home.

We stayed with Liz, Dan, Ryan and Nick.

Here's Liz and Dan's Mom and Dad Elaine and Melvin.

New Airline --
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> > We are pleased to announce Lutheran Viking Air is now operating 
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> > in Minnysota and also serving Visconsin, Nort and Sout Dakota.
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> > If you are travelin soon, consider Lutran (Lutheran) Viking Air, 
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> > da no-frills airline.   You're all in da same boat on Lutran Air, 
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> > where flyin is a upliftin experience.
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> > Dere is no First Class on any Lutran Viking Air flight. Meals are 
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> > potluck.   Rows 1-6, bring rolls; 7-15, bring a salad; 16-21, a 
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> > main dish, and 22-30, a dessert.   Basses and tenors please
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> > sit in da rear of da aircraft.   Everyone is responsible for his
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> > or her own baggage.   All fares are by free will offering and
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> > da plane will not land 'til da budget is met.
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> >
> > Pay attention to your flight attendant, who will acquaint you 
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> > wit da safety system aboard dis Lutran Viking Air 599.   Okay
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> > den, listen up.   I'm only gonna say dis vonce.   In da event
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> > of a sudden loss of cabin pressure, I am frankly going to be
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> > real surprised and so vill Captain Olson, because we fly
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> > right around two tousand feet, so loss of cabin pressure would
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> > probably mean da Second Coming or someting of dat nature,
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> > and I wouldn't bodar with doze liddle masks on da rubber tubes.
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> > You're gonna have bigger tings to worry about den dat.   Just
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> > stuff doze back up in dair little holes.   Probably da masks fell
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> > out because of turbulence which, to be honest wit you, we're
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> > going to have quite a bit of at two tousand feet, sort a like 
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> > driving across a plowed field, but after a while you get used
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> > to it.
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> > In da event of a water landing, I'd say forget it.   Start saying da 
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> > Lord's Prayer and just hope you get to da part about forgive us 
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> > our sins as we forgive doze who sin against us, which some people 
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> > say "trespass against us," which ain't right, but what can you do?   
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> > Da use of cell phones on da plane is strictly forbidden, not because 
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> > day may confuse da plane's navigation system, which is seat of 
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> > da pants all da way.   No, it's because cell phones are a pain in 
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> > da wazoo, and if God meant you to use a cell phone, he would
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> > have put your mout on da side of your head.
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> > We start lunch right about noon and it's buffet style wit da coffee 
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> > pot up front.   Den we'll have da hymn sing; hymnals are in da 
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> > seat pocket in front of you.   Don't take yours wit you when you
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> > go or I am going to be real upset and I am not kiddin!
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> > Right now I'll say Grace: "Come, Lord Jesus, be our guest and 
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> > let deze gifts to us be blessed.   Fadar, Son, and Holy Ghost, may 
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> > we land in Dulut -- or pretty close."
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> > Happy Landin wit da Lutran Viking Airline!
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> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Our next door neighbor Britta and her dad Scott are in Ireland now after she won the top award

for the best IMPAC poetry writing.

Attorney F. Lee Baily was at the awards dinner as seen below with her.

No I didn't misspell my father in law's name.

His birth certificate from 1923 says Wilfrid, not Wilfred !

We've all had it wrong all these years !

Peter not Pete

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