Visiting Granddaughter in Kirksville, MO

63º with 90% humidity at 8:08 am Monday here in Clarinda, IA as I start this.
Spent the weekend in Kirksville, MO with our granddaughter Emily.

On our way from Clarinda, IA to Kirksville, Mo Saturday we stopped at the Dutch County General Store - an Amish place - for some free ice cream cones, cantaloupe, watermelon, and some other items.

Quite a large store with a variety of items.

Emily works at KTVO Television Station in Kirksville and gave us a tour of the facilities.  Since it was Saturday afternoon the station was nearly empty and we got to see the whole thing.

She works as Social Media Specialist so keeps up all the stuff on the Internet as well as other duties.

Me and Emmy

Em and Grandma

On way back to Clarinda Sunday we stopped at the Dinky Diner in Decatur City, IA and had a delightful lunch.

 After returning to Clarinda we had visit with friend Patty Steckelberg and she went with us to the Methodist Church for an Ice Cream Social at 7 pm.  These photos are of the group that gathered.

Our friends from Ohio are to be here and set up their 5th wheel on our drive this Wednesday and we will show them around the area, then Friday we both pull our trailers to a park south of Indianola, IA and will take in a few days of the National Balloon Festival, which started this weekend.

Am working on scanning hundreds of negatives from the early 1980's which will post later.

GROANER’S CORNER:(( A nursery school teacher was delivering a station wagon full of kids home one day when a fire truck zoomed past. Sitting in the front seat of the fire truck was a Dalmatian dog. The children began discussing the dog's duties. "They use him to keep crowds back," said one youngster. "No," said another. "He's just for good luck." A third child brought the argument to a close with this comment: "They use the dogs," she said firmly, "to find the fire hydrants."

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What's the difference between getting a new husband and a new dog? A year after, the dog is still excited to see you.

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Mary Clancy goes up to Father McGuire after his Sunday morning service, and she's in tears. He says, "So what's bothering you, Mary my dear?" She says, "Oh, Father, I've got terrible news. My husband passed away last night." The priest says, "Oh, Mary, that's terrible. Tell me, Mary, did he have any last requests?"  She says, "That he did, Father." The priest says, "What did he ask, Mary? "  She says, "He said, 'Please Mary, put down that damn gun.' "

Knock knock.

Who’s there?

Lettuce.

Lettuce who?

Lettuce in, it’s cold out here!

 Later, Lynn 

Some Coin Grain Corp. photos

87º - 38% humidity Clarinda, IA 4:41 pm Friday as I start this.  Not too bad a day.
Been spending all day scanning old (1961 to 1977) slides and now found a whole bunch of negatives, which are much harder to scan -- and no dates on them.

The "Masked Lawn Mower Guy" mowed the lawn yesterday.

Nice flowers at Clay & Judy's place today

Stopped at the O'Reilly Lot to get some sweet corn & cucumbers before noon

Phyllis & daughter Michelle dressed "old"

Some of the old slides I found -- these are when we participated in a parade at Coin, sometime in the early 70's I would guess.  Think it was Coin's Centennial or something.

 From 1974 to 1994 Phyllis & I ran the grain elevator in Coin, IA.  Back at that time I had taken nearly all slides and they got put away and I just discovered them.  These probably won't mean much to anyone but me.  Only the Quonset building in the upper center of this picture is still standing in 2017.  All the others were razed in the 1990's after we sold the elevator.

This Quonset building is one of the few buildings still standing in 2017

Guessing these photos were taken in the late 1970's or early 1980's

These pictures with the rail cars would be in the mid to
late 1970's as the rail was taken out in late 1970's.  The large
grain bin in this photo is the only bin standing in 2017.-

The two American batch corn dryers as they were when
we first bought the elevator in 1974

Showing the "new Deluxe continuous-flow dryer I put in in the late 1970's in
the center of this photo.  Today, in 2017, only the large bin on the left
and the Quonset building on the right are remaining.  Everything
else has been torn down and removed.

Bob Christianson from Shenandoah or Garth VanFossan from Braddyville
put in the complicated augers to get the corn from the wet bins to the leg that fed
the continuous flow dryer and other augers coming from dry bins to load
out to the semi-trucks.

Corn Dryer in operation on a cool day and vapor is coming off it.

Looking down on the unload pit and leg I had installed

The "tall" leg that fed the wet bins
as well as the bins from the dryer

Been 23 years since we sold and quit the elevator business - 43 years since we started working there - so these photos brought back memories.  Since so much of this was destroyed after we sold the
facility, only these photos remain.


GROANER’S CORNER:(( A pregnant woman gets into a car accident and falls into a deep coma.
Asleep for nearly six months, she wakes up and sees that she is no longer pregnant. Frantically, she asks the doctor about her baby.  The doctor replies, "Ma'am, you had twins! A boy and a girl. The babies are fine. Your brother came in and named them."  The woman thinks to herself, "Oh no, not my brother -- he's an idiot!" Expecting the worst, she asks the doctor, "Well, what's the girl's name?"  "Denise," the doctor says.  The new mother thinks, "Wow, that's not a bad name! Guess I was wrong about my brother. I like Denise!" Then she asks the doctor, "What's the boy's name?"  The doctor replies, DeNephew.

Later, Lynn

My folks 40th Wedding Anniversary surprise celebration

Have been going through photos and found these taken at brother Roger's farm near Oconto, NE in June of 1974 celebrating Mom & Dad's 40th Wedding Anniversary on June 6th.  At the time Dad was  70 years old and Mom 67.  Here are some pictures I located that I took that day.

Here I presented a "money tree' that had been put together for them.

The whole day was a surprise to Mom & Dad and they were really surprised when the people showed up.

Here Dad's sister Edna Miles French, from Cavour, South Dakota is greeting Dad's brother Bud Miles from Batavia, Illinois.

At back is Kermit Miles, Addie Johnson (Mom's brother Bill's widow), Sylvester Rourke (husband of Mom's sister Emma Rourke)  at right is Cora Johnson (wife of Mom's brother Walter Johnson.

Seated is Pearl Miles, her sister Emma Rourke and her brother Walter Johnson

Dad was just greeting Alice Miles (brother Bud Miles
 wife) and was certainly happy.

Dad's sister Ruth Miles Arbrogast, from Watertown, South Dakota and Edna Miles French from Cavour, South Dakota visit with Dad.

My Dad got to visit a bit with our kids Michelle & Cameron

My sister-in-law Carolyn

got to do a lot of kitchen work

that day.  Here she is visiting with 

Aunt Emma

Posing for pictures.
My oldest brother, Roger, with wife Carolyn and their kids Angie, Julie and Keith

My next-older brother Don
with wife Paula and
their daughter Jenny.

My family - Lynn, Phyllis and
our two - Cameron and Michelle

The younger cousins together.

I do not find any photos of my little sister, Louise, or younger brother Darrell.  I do not recall if they were there or not--at least not in any of my pictures I can find.

Will pick up another episode later.

You Might Be A Redneck If 

You might be a redneck if...
Your most expensive shoes have numbers on the heels.
Your wife has ever burned out an electric razor.
Your birth announcement included the word "rug rat".
You've ever hitchhiked naked.
You use the O on a stop sign to sight your new rifle.
Your bumper sticker says, "My other car is a combine."
The gas pedal on your car is shaped like a bare foot.
The highlight of your parties is when you flip out your false teeth.
Your wife keeps a can of Vienna sausage in her purse.
There are more than ten lawsuits currently pending against your dog.

Lynn