Rain, rain, rain.....................and a little more rain!

Clarinda, IA - 65 and overcast.  Phyllis has dumped rain from the gauge almost every morning.  .65, .4, 1.0, 14

 On one of the sunny days I rode recumbent trike down to the airport, put on 5 miles including riding around the apron of hangers and coming back.
Yes, we are just under 1,000 feet above sea level here.






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I fastened our two lawn chairs between back of the trailer and the spare tire.  Not sure I like them there, may see how they look behind the propane tanks, above the battery, on the front of the trailer.

Working in the shop one day I devised stops on the table saw sled to cut corners from some blocks.

The blocks were stacked to bring downstairs bed up 8" so Phyllis can use the bed as a work table for laying out her quilt materials.

Friday night Patty Steckleberg drove over from Shenandoah, IA and rode with us as we picked up Theresa Minard here in Clarinda and Bernadine Behlers in Corning and went to Creston for their Square Dance.  At left is a line-dance between the square dance tips.  (A tip is pair of two calls for square dancing)

Caller for the evening was Fred "Who" Logan from Des Moines.  Saturday was his 77th birthday and cake was made for him.

 Two pictures at left are dancers in line for the refreshments after dancing quit at 10:00 pm.

Sunday morning, at coffee after church service, the ladies were visiting and I tried to catch all in these two photos.

When I was gluing the blocks together to make the riser for the basement bed I had the nail from the nailer (driving 2.25" nails) go into the 2"x4", hit a knot and come out the side of the board.  Of course, I was holding the board and it went into the front of my thumb and came out the side - where the dark dot is.  This was taken day later when it was a little swollen and red.  It will feel better as soon as it quits hurting!

 After church Sunday we went for a 6 mile ride, stopping at HyVee to pick up some things on the way home.  Nice and sunny that day.  Started raining that night - glad I mowed the lawn Sunday afternoon.

Later Sunday afternoon we went for a drive down to College Springs and west to visit Luther Compton.  He will be 93 this June, has had several small strokes, but seems to be getting along well.  Has no use of right hand and some bother with right leg.  However he was in good humor and he and Phyllis visited about a lot of people in the neighborhood of the past - and present.  Marie was in Shenandoah with two other ladies at a play -- she came home shortly before we left. 

Driving home from Comptons we went past Coin, Iowa where we ran the grain elevator from 1974 to 1994.  Only one Quonset building, the yellow Chief building and the Butler building remain from when we were there.  The complete drier facility and bins are gone.  Of course, the wooden elevator building was burned down in the 1990's being replaced by the "Morton type" office building.

Grain elevator used to sit where the green-topped building sits now.  We built the yellow "Chief" building in the late 1980's.  The low Quonset building on the right existed then.

The large grain bin is only one left - we had that built in the '80's.  The 4 smaller bins and one large bin as well as the continuous dryer were between where that bin is and the "Butler" building on the right.  Things change.

Taken of TV last evening.  Tornado watch was just south of us, on the other side of the Iowa/Missouri state line.  We just got rain out of it.

Taken out our picture window to the south.  Clarinda Regional Health Center is across the street to the left.  In center is "bunkhouse" for the 24/7 helicopter crew; beyond it is the building for the 4 ambulances that serve our area.  Not uncommon for sirens in our area and the helicopter going out or coming in.

While working on this blog I am playing some VCR tapes from the 1970's, 1980's and 1990's.  Above is our oldest granddaughter Ashley when she was about one year old, living in Wisconsin.



One sunny day Phyllis did her shearing thing.


Got call that our pickup topper will be put on this Friday so will be making a trip to Omaha then.

Later, Lynn