New month! May is here!

54º in Clarinda with partly cloudy skies ---- may actually have some sunshine today!  Has been raining for last week or so.  Getting a little soggy.

 These photos were

all taken this morning

of the east end of

our 80-acre farm.

Note the two geese

and ducks floating

merrily on their pond

.

These next three photos
were all taken a few weeks
ago when I was picking up
some dirt to bring back to town.
I was standing just to the left of the very
top photo.

This is the way it is supposed to look before the rains came and there is drainage problem because the county roads won't let the water go anywhere.

Our daughter-in-law Patty and 

granddaughter Ashley came

by for a short visit Saturday evening.

They live in eastern Iowa, but had driven to

Nebraska City, NE to help Patty's Mom and Dad

at a vendor booth for Arbor Day Celebration there on Saturday.  Ashley is 

expecting in latter June.

With a huge Maple tree to our
west, and another to our east,
we have complete seeding
of the yard after the high
winds lately.

Guess if I didn't

mow for a while

we would surely have 

a Maple forest!

 Yesterday, Sunday, after singing

in the church choir and taking

Leland and Bonnie Brown out to brunch

we walked over to the Nodaway Valley Museum to a program TRACES Center for History and Culture with Michael Luick-Thramsa giving

the presentation.  He is a walking encyclopedia as far as histories of people in Iowa, where they are from and especially the time around  

 World War II and the Prisoner of War Camps and also the interment camps of Japanese/American and German/American people.  Very interesting presentation and would have liked to bought all the books, but know they would lie here and not get their full attention.

I found this You-Tube of a presentation by Mr. Luick-Thramsa  -   CLICK HERE  
Think you will find it interesting.

Tomorrow we head, about 5 am, for Omaha so I can get the knee scope/vacuum-cleaning done.  Hopefully will be back home by evening and after a few days will have less pain with the knee, with the removal of arthritic and scar tissue areas.

Later, Lynn