Great weather in SW Iowa

92 degrees at 3:00 pm on this Monday afternoon in Clarinda, IA.  I wrote the heading "Great weather in SW Iowa" yesterday --  we had 3 or 4 days of cool, open-window weather with highs in the 70's or low 80's.  It changed and now is to be in low 90's or near 90 for several days with super high humidity.

Here are a couple links to some amazing comedy from a conference on aging in California in 2014:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN3031h6r7A    The first part -- second part below:


https://www.youtube.com/embed/LR2qZ0A8vic?rel=0


Hope you enjoy this guy, I did.

Had a bit of wind through the night Friday night -- this is the big tree on the neighbor's yard just to the east of us.  Much of the branch is on our side now.

 I got much of it cut up and moved, but neighbor said she would have some tree people move the big stuff.

Phyllis went uptown Friday to the Home Coming parade.  This float has her younger sister, Beth, at the front left of this picture for the class of 1966.

Beth and Steve Gregory now live near Grand Lake, Colorado.  They spent time here for her 50th high school class reunion and also some time in Omaha with their son's family.

 Weather was cool Thursday when they arrived and we spent some time on the back deck.

 Last Wednesday evening we went to the Clarinda Circle 8 Square Dance with Mike Hogan (Suit Coat and blue shirt) from Omaha calling the dance.  He is always enjoyed.

With dancing done at 9:30 pm lunch was served.

Sunday, after singing in the church choir, we went for a short ride with our recumbent trikes.

Ate lunch Sunday on the back deck -- sun was a bit warm so we moved the table and chairs up close to the house under the wide roof over-hang to be in the shade.

Getting tops on my radishes -- don't know if they are going to produce -- about 2 weeks since I put them in the planters.

Safe T Home®
GoServ Global has teamed up with Sukup Manufacturing to bring the Safe T Home® – a highly-modified grain bin – to Haiti and other places around the world to be used as compassionate housing for displaced people 

This is a display we saw at the Clay County Fair.  These are shelters that are being built in Haiti.  They have a double roof, with space between the two metal layers so heat will be dissipated 

 and a large vent in the center that draws the air through some.  The flower box in the front is filled with rocks to give some ballast to the building for wind as it is generally set right on the ground.

CLICK HERE for link to GoServGobal website
This is a non-denominational mission service that works with the people in Haiti, as well as other countries of the world.

This is inside, with an upper deck just under the roof.   I admit I had not heard of this type of construction -- transforming a grain bin into shelter.  The size is small, but it can be shipped in a container and is small enough to be put together without any large equipment necessary.

 pou·tine po͞oˈtēn/ noun CANADIAN

1. a dish of French fries topped with cheese curds and gravy.   We did not try this dish offered at the Clay County Fair.

We watched this very talented wood carver work at the fair.

 As we exited the Fair we saw, through the fence, this performance of some seals.  They did many things, including one of them standing on only one "front" flipper.  Several stood upright on their back flippers

We passed this site, north-east of Walnut, Iowa where a B-24 Liberator bomber had crashed during World War II on a training run.

 There are a lot of wind farms, generators for electricity, in central and northern Iowa.  These, to the north, are not part of Mid-American Energy, which is the largest owner of generators in Iowa, and are a steel-girder tri-pod design.  We think they are older ones.

Closer to Interstate 80 we passed this place where new generators were being installed.  This single leg is the style most common these days.  A lot of facts on Iowa Wind Power can be seen if you CLICK HERE










Well, that is about all for this time.  Later, Lynn