Happy Birthday, Karen Lindell

June 13 is Karen Lindell's Birthday. She isn't quite as OLD as I am, but pretty near it!!

When we were children, our farms were within shouting distance (if you climbed on top of the graineries and shouted as loud as you could)

We loved to spend playtime together at each other's houses. Our playground was the barns, graneries, horse tanks, farm machinery and anything else we could climb on and, of course in her east porch where she had wonderful toys that I could only dream of.

Because the district line fell between our farms, she went east to Prairie Bell school over on Parks Road and I went to East 10 school west on "our" road. Then, the summer before my sixth grade, we moved to Colorado for a year while my sisters attended Campion Academy and my dad drove a truck. Before I left, Karen and I spent an afternoon together swimming in their horse tank and that's when we became "Blood Sisters". She had brought a pocket knife along and we actually made a small cut in our hands and pressed them together and swore we would always be friends and sisters.

While we were raising our families, we lost touch with each other except to hear or read that the other had been to Haigler visiting family. But, during the last few years, we have again taken up our friendship almost where it left off many years ago as if we were still best friends.

We have alot of catching up to do and plan to spend more time together in the future -- more than just the email and Skype conversations we do now and then.

Karen, I want to wish you the HAPPIEST of Birthdays on June 13....and hope you celebrate many more!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
From Sherri