Half-way thru January

81 degrees, with strong wind blowing here in La Feria, Texas at 3:30 pm Sunday as I start this.  Had a hard rain yesterday afternoon, although neighbor said he only had a short 1/2 inch in his gauge.

I helped serve breakfast at the Rec Hall Saturday morning.  Biscuits & gravy
with eggs and Tater Tots.

Dave was deep fat frying the Tater Tots in peanut oil.  Had over 50 people for
the breakfast.  Think number of RV's in park are higher than last year at this time.

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Still have some of the car track to disassemble.

All the long pieces of the car track piled against wall under the edge of the roof.

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Lost the small hubcap in the car wash.

Went to car wash and they had found it.

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 About finished with this book (actually borrowed from our neighbor here in the park-they are from Hiawatha, KS) but it is about the Manager of the Clarinda A's Baseball team in the town where we live in Iowa.  Lot of things I had not realized -- Merl Eberly led such an interesting life.  Though he bought a lot of advertising signs from us for the baseball field in Clarinda, and we did a lot of work on the scoreboard for advertisers, we never went to a single baseball game there in town.  See a book review BY CLICKING HERE  It is a very interesting book and we knew a lot of the town people mentioned in the book.  Get it to read if you get a chance.







My daughter-in-law gave me this book for Christmas.  Just finished it this morning.  It relates story of Leland Stanford - one of the main instigators for the Central Pacific Railroad who was a store owner at the time of the California Gold Rush and went together with 3 other store owners to form the Central Pacific.  He had been Governor of California, also.  They made a fortune off it and when he started a horse farm by his mansion he got Edward Muybridge to do "motion studies" with crude cameras of the time. Muybridge went on to form what was later the motion picture business, though he got no credit for it--when it was right at the edge of being workable he interested Thomas Edison in it and Edison went on to develope it without giving Muybridge any credit for it.  Very interesting book.   Click HERE for review

This book was published by one of the men in our RV Park.  I haven't found any record of it available through Amazon, etc.  He loaned it to Phyllis and wanted it back before too long.  She read it and I just photographed all the pages, so can read it in the Picasa 3 program as I get time.  Donald Steinke spent most of his life as an auctioneer and real estate agent.  We visited him and his wife Terry at their log cabin home in northwest Ohio in 2015.  He is a very interesting man -- he speaks each Sunday at the church service at the Rec Hall and leads Responsive Readings.

I started a Facebook page -- Clarinda, IA Class of 1962 -- hoping to get their classmates together for their 55th Class Reunion this September 22/23rd in Clarinda.

22 days until we leave Galveston for our 5 day Musical Cruise.

More later, Lynn