Starting our summer vacation

69º here in Indianola, IA at 9:36 pm Saturday evening as I start this.  Has been overcast all day and almost had a mist a time or two.  We went to the John Wayne Museum and Birthplace house in Winterset this afternoon.

Phyllis and Lillian Witt in front of the museum.

Image taken off movie presentation in the museum.

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Tuesday I had helped men move the choir robe closets, music, small keyboard organ and the "Feed My Sheep" food from the old Methodist Church in Clarinda to the new one.

 Phyllis' cousin Judy Heuer's husband Clay passed away last Sunday evening.  On Tuesday evening we attended the visitation and then on Wednesday morning the funeral here in Clarinda.  Clay had driven the county road maintainer for better than 30 years and someone drove it to lead the funeral processional  to the cemetery .

Clay's son Rusty from Washington, and his wife Krista

Larry Guthrie, brother-in-law, and Phyllis with the Wagoner girls.

Phyllis, Steve Cabbage and LaDonna Cabbage

Judy Heuer on left, her sister Jan Guthrie Freye and Judy's daughter Lori Sleep.

Judy/Clay's son Scotty Heuer in center

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 Wednesday afternoon our friends Jerry and Lillian Witt from Ohio parked their 5th wheel in our driveway.



We drove them around the area, showing them the town and where we used to live in  the country.

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 Thursday the four of us drove to Omaha and took a guided tour of SAC Air Force Museum.

Jerry Witt is on the left and wife Lillian on the right of  our guide who had flown several of these planes
in World War II and afterwards.  He told some pretty good stories of flights during the war.

Friday we both pulled our
trailers to south of Indianola, IA
and toured the National Balloon
Festival Museum.

Later in the afternoon we watched these three balloons
being filled with air.  -- they each had 8-10 people on board

One of the balloons with the big gondolas

Later many of the balloons were able to return to the field.

Phyllis, Lillian and Jerry, watching the balloons

They did a "night glow" after dark.

I tried uploading my first video to this blog and somehow it got to the top of the blog.  It is the night glow.

We returned to the balloon field today after touring the John Wayne museum and are back at the trailer.  Will both head to State Center, Iowa tomorrow morning.

GROANER'S CORNER

What's the difference between a bad golfer and a bad skydiver?
A bad golfer goes: WHACK... "Damn!"
A bad Skydiver goes: "Damn!"... WHACK.

- Just after the maid had been fired she took five dollars from her purse and tossed it over to Fido the family dog. When asked why by her former employer, she answered, "I never forget a friend. This is for Fido helping me clean the dishes all the time!

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You might be a redneck if...

- Motel 6 turns off the lights when they see you coming.

- There are more dishes in your sink than in your cabinets.

- You think a turtleneck is a key ingredient in soup.

- Your anniversary present was getting the septic tank pumped.

Your local ambulance has a trailer hitch.

You watch cartoons long after your kids get bored.

You think the French Riviera is a foreign car.

You think you are an entrepreneur because of the "Dirt for Sale" sign in the front yard.

You're still scalping tickets after the concert is over.

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Knock knock.

Who’s there?

Iran.

Iran who?

Iran all the way here so let me in!!