Week of Glenn Miller Festival in Clarinda

82 degrees and bright sunshine in Clarinda, Iowa.

 Last Thursday we drove by the intersection where the Clarinda First United Methodist Church just started dirt work preparing for the 1.6 million dollar building that is to be built soon.  This is on the north side of Business 2 just on the west end of town, by John Hunter's place and just north of the High School.

Later that day Phyllis had me

use my Worx saw with a 6-foot

reach and trim some of the tree

over her flower garden.

 It really opened up the space

to the sunshine and maybe

the flowers will quit leaning

heavily to the west now. 

She put up some rope to help

them stand upright.

Saturday we put out some stuff
during the annual city-wide yard sale.
We hadn't advertised, but did get some people.

 Have gained some

space in my shop building

from the things that

we hadn't used in years.

 One of the things that didn't sell was
the collapsible Christmas tree.  Since
we are not here at Christmas time we
don't need it.  Phyllis puts up some
little ones at our Texas house during
the Christmas Season.

Picked up some wind-blown cherries off our neighbor's tree

 Saturday afternoon we went up town and looked around at the parked classic cars and tractors, then had a pizza at Jay's Pizza and Steak House.

 At six o'clock the Cruisin Clarinda Parade

started and we had our lawn

chairs at intersection where

George Crawford was

announcing info on the

units passing.

 Lots of old, re-built cars.

Lots of tractors, but this

was the only "pulling tractor"

Junior McCall

and his Massey Harris 20.

An old Model A
convertible.

The "General Lee"

I took pictures of only a
few of the various cars, trucks,
motorcycles and tractors.

Can't remember the

brand of this 3-wheeled

machine, but it is a company

that normally makes farm 4-wheelers.

Have been working most early-mornings

on trimming the hedge.  Top is above my

head and reaching over this thick hedge

is a little difficult.  It stands on the top

of a cliff-like drop so you can't work

from the back side.

Some of it is looking pretty

good.  This morning I

got the east end finished.

Will only take one more

morning--I work while one battery

lasts, and sometimes I think it

will never run down!

Sunday we rode the trikes

about 7 miles, including

around the apron of the

buildings at the airport.

This corn just south of

the buildings is 10 to 

12 inches tall.

Hay was down by the airport and

a guy was just hooking up

to the big round baler to

start rolling the hay up.

Dick and Gloria Kline

are putting another storage

unit up on the last bit of ground

by the airport road.

I have been working on the book

for the 55-year Class Reunion and have

much of it printed, and a few copies punched

and bound with the plastic spines.  Out of ink

for the color printer, but it should be in tomorrow.

We go to Omaha in the morning, taking a friend up to have her head worked on.  They can't get the wax or whatever is plugging her ear out here, so are going to put her under and dig it out.  She will do this as an out-patient and we'll be back tomorrow afternoon.  We start doing ushering work at the High School on Thursday for the Glenn Miller Birthplace Society Festival.  It runs through Sunday and we are scheduled to Ush (or whatever it is called) all day Thursday, Friday and Saturday and again Sunday afternoon..  At least we will be inside - weather prediction is for those three days to be above 90 degrees heat in this area.

More later,  Lynn