October 2015 is here!

55 degrees here this morning in Clarinda, IA.
Been a week since I wrote; lets see, what have we done.

Oh yeah, we went to Hiawatha, Kansas Monday to visit with our next-door neighbors Harold and LaRoada Nehr.  Picked some apples from their trees, had a terrific lunch and then played Pegs & Jokers for a few hours.  We had driven down Highway 71 and stopped in St. Joe, MO on the way; and on the way back we drove north in to Nebraska and then crossed into Missouri at Rulo.  Stopped at John Metzger's place in Mound City, MO but he was not home.  Lots of crops on the verge of being harvested in southeast Nebraska and Southwest Iowa.  Nehr's were about half done with corn, working slowly as it was still carrying some moisture.

Tuesday night we drove to Red Oak, IA and helped with the square dance entertaining at nursing home on the north side of town, eating afterwards at the Pizza Ranch.  Last night we rode the trikes up to the church for choir practice.  Since we are finished around 7 pm it was just about starting to get late by time we got home.  Don't like to ride on the public streets after dark.
Tonight we are taking our "country neighbors" Jim & Evelyn Whipple and Marcelene Von Dilligan out to supper.  Not sure where we will eat.

Only 18 days and we will be hooked on to the trailer and heading south.  So far, our plans include staying that night in an RV Park just south of Kirksville, MO and visiting our granddaughter Emily and her roommate Vince, then going on south to Jefferson City, MO for a state capitol tour.  Will go on over to Cape Girardeau and spend some time with brother Don and his wife Vicki.  We have tickets to see the Grand Ole Opry  on Friday night the 23rd.  Plan on going south to tour Mississippi's capital in Jackson and then spend a few nights near Hazelhurst, MS and visit with Phyllis' cousin Stan Runyon and his wife Ann.  Then, if my brother Darrell is coming with their RV up to meet us near Pensacola, FL we will go that way and spend a few days with them.  After that will head for south Texas, maybe stopping at Phyllis' Cousin Rusty Heuer at Elkhart, TX and maybe her cousin Ruth Davis in Houston before getting to our place in La Feria, TX in early November.

Later, Lynn