Getting Trailer Ready

84º here in Clarinda, IA at 7:30 pm Monday as I start this.  Basically a nice sunny day.

Watched Dish Tech check out our system, which hadn't worked since Thursday evening, and replaced the black box itself.  Also added a sound bar with speakers behind our easy chairs --- which sure adds to what I can hear!

Mowed the lawn this afternoon.

Not sure what these are, but they are blooming behind my shop.

Spent most of afternoon hooking up trailer - Phyllis has been loading stuff in in it for several days - finished with the food tonight and other that a few things will be ready to pull out in the morning.  Plan on eating breakfast at the Junction in Bedford and head on to our campsite reserved at Prairie Flower Recreation Area on Saylorville Lake north of Des Moines.  To spend several days touring some museums and gardens and buildings in the Des Moines area.

SOME OTHER PEOPLES THOUGHTS:

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible.
- George Burns
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Santa Claus has the right idea.  Visit people only once a year.
- Victor Borge
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By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
- Socrates
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My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.
- Jimmy Durante
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I have never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
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I don't feel old. I don't feel anything until noon. Then it's time for my nap.
- Bob Hope
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I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.
- W. C. Fields
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We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress.
- Will Rogers
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Don't worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will avoid you.
- Winston Churchill
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Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty, but everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.
- Phyllis Diller
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By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.
- Billy Crystal
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And the cardiologist's diet: If it tastes good spit it out.  author unknown

Knock Knock
Who's there?
Mischa!
Mischa who?
Mischa a lot!

Later, Lynn