75º here in Clarinda, IA at 7:15 pm Monday. Great weather day - had 2.3" rain as of Saturday morning.
Have spent last couple days with photos, blog, etc. of the Surprise Birthday Party I took photos for Saturday for Rodney Johnston.
I told in the blog today about my troubles with the video. Here is the link to look at my Google Photos Album of the gathering -- CLICK HERE so you can look at them.
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| This is one of the photos that was passed around at the supper. Rodney is second from left on middle row; Phyllis is at far right on bottom row. |
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| Came across this very old photo of sister-in-law Carolyn Miles holding Julie only a few days old |
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| February 4, 2013, when nephew Steven Miles arrived home from tour in Afghanistan. His mother, Julie is in center, next to Melissa and Steven |
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| Our granddaughter Emily Christmas of 1994 |
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| I climbed up the laddeer and used my electric clipper on a 5-foot extension to take out lot of new growth in center of our big tree |
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| Our neighbors to the west had a crew spend several days installing a professional putting green behind their house. |
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| Had supper with Phyllis' sister Beth and her husband Steve Thursday evening. |
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| We ate at the Mexican restaurant on 16th Street. |
I have always read a lot. In fact I have memory of reading Time, Look, or Saturday Evening Post every chance I had growing up. In about 1954 when I would have been 11 years old, and we were running the irrigation setup on Jim Cornish's place I recall getting in trouble for reading those. We were driving an old Coupe, using it like a pickup and Dad gave specific instructions to not be reading, but to be checking the ditch regularly. This ditch irrigation had canvas or plastic dams every few feet to maintin the water level high enough for the siphon tubes to work that we put over the edge of the ditch onto each row. There were always "break outs" and if caught in time they weren't too serious----but if you were reading and not paying attention a break out could become serious and very hard to get enough dirt back into place to stop it. I, of course, smuggled some of these magazines into the coupe and when we had to leave I stuffed them up under the dash so Dad wouldn't find them. Well, one day it was raining and the windshield wipers wouldn't work. This is a 1940's vehicle and there were mechanical arms under the dash connected to both wipers (I didn't know this until after this incident) and it seems a magazine, or two was caught in the mechanism. Dad had taken it to Stub's garage in Callaway to see why the wipers wouldn't work and they dug this out. I do recall getting quite a talking-to over it, and I never hid the magazines there again. This all came up when I posted this photo of a book I am reading. Last winter I caught a couple-hour YouTube on George Burns and Gracie Allen. It was very interesting and I looked up and bought two used paperback books. The other one was a short one--don't recall the name, and I left it in Texas-- but this book has lots of black and white photos and George tells his history and his time with Gracie and the two kids they adopted. I am still in the middle of it, reading in my library (the bathroom) and it is a very interesting book.
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| Got the axle replaced from the incident in April when we had a wheel bearing go bad and scarred up the spindle. First one received was wrong, but finally replaced now so we should have no trouble going to Starvey Creek Bluegrass Festival the first part of July. |
Photo at right is of the house to our east. When the owner passed away many years ago, the hospital bought it and had helecoptor crews live there. After many years of using it that way, the helecoptor service left town and it set empty for many years. The last two years the employees of the hospital have been working on the inside of the house. Today we just found out that a Doctor and his wife have moved in just last week. So we finally have neighbors that are not sawing and hammering all the time.
Later, Lynn
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