Branson, MO

We certainly have been busy! Thursday we went to see SIX. It is six brothers who perform with no instruments. They use their voices to sound like instruments. It is kind of hard to explain but they were fabulous. They did songs from the 50's and 60's and some gospel and threw in some comedy which had us all laughing so hard we were crying. These boys came from a family of 10 brothers. Can you imagine their poor mother? And they told us that at age 17 their mother was told she could not have children! Well she did and what talent they had. Jim and I think this is one of the best shows in Branson. You could not tell they did not have instruments playing - it was unbelievable. One guy made the sound of drums and it even sounded like cymbals; another sounded like a trumpet, and you could of sworn you could hear guitars while the other brothers sang the words. It was pretty amazing. Jim's brother, Mason and his wife, Judy arrived today. Anyway, after the SIX show the whole gang met at Landry's Seafood restaurant for dinner, to include Mason and Judy. There was 12 of us. We had a great time discussing the shows we went to. The Halstead's and Tolson's went to see Jim Stafford, a comedian. Donna said her cheeks were hurting from laughing so hard -- they really enjoyed that show too. After dinner 10 of us went to see Joe Diffie, and Mason and Judy went to see the Presleys. Joe Diffie is a country singer who is famous for Pickup Man and John Deer Green. He was really very good. He said he's only been in Branson for 2 weeks and the band had only been together for a week and half. You would never know it -- they really did a great job. Diffie also did the song, Don't You Think My Tractors Sexy. I got Jim a Sexy John Green Tractor shirt. Here I was thinking I'm being the thoughtful wife and what does he do? He tells about the time I was bush hogging our fields at home and took out two sections of the horse fence. Jim was still working at the time and we were planning on going on a trip, but our fields needed bush hogging, so I thought I would help him out so he wouldn't get stressed about all the work that needed doing before we left on our trip. I was doing great until I made a quick turn and forgot I had the front end loader on the tractor and it was heading for the fence. Instead of stopping; I was trying to get the loader lifted up over the fence and instead went right through it. I decided to continue getting the bush hogging job done so he wouldn't have to fix the fence and bush hog. I called him at work afterwards and told him I had good news and bad news -- the good news was the bush hogging was done so he wouldn't have to worry about that little job and the bad news was he had a fence mending job to do before we left on our trip. I think the fence fixing took longer than the bush hogging would have taken him -- he had to go out and buy six new boards, 2 fence posts, dig the holes for the new fence posts, take out the old fence posts that had been cemented in, but you know it was the thought that counted! Anyway, if I hadn't bought him that cute little shirt last night, my dirty little secret would still be a secret!!! Until next time.......