Off to Kansas today

59º here in Clarinda, IA at 9:00 pm Tuesday  evening.  Weather cooling off.  Has been good weather last several days.  Click on any photo to enlarge.  Feel free to leave comment -- I would enjoy hearing from anyone who reads this.

 Was delighted when my brother Roger and his wife Carolyn came from Lincoln, NE on Labor Day.  Since I had gotten home from the hospital on just the day before, had several friends stop in to check on me.  Mary Jo & Oliver Herzberg had stopped; Mike Kurtz stopped by, Dale Fulk stopped, but he was actually bringing back the recumbent trike of Phyllis' that Dale's wife had been riding the last several weeks.  Gary & Michelle Walter had stopped at the hospital

as well as Bonnie, Steve, and Leland Brown and Judy Heuer.

Weather was nice enough that we had Roger & Carolyn eat on the patio with us and had a nice visit during and after eating.  Had not seen them but once in the last couple years.

Had heard other people said the Monarch Butterfly was migrating through and this one visited us while we were eating Monday noon.

Today we drove the 2 hours from Clarinda, into Missouri and then Kansas to Harold & LaRhoda Neher's place.  Played some Pegs & Jokers and then went uptown to eat at Gus' Restaurant.

After lunch we picked a 5-gallon

pail of Delicious Apples, and also got a couple buckets of red apples that Tim had picked the day before.

Enjoyed several games of Pegs & Jokers

 LaRohda's flowers were still doing fine.

Their son Tim was getting the corn head on the
combine, ready to test some corn tomorrow.

We enjoyed the day, stopped in St. Joe, MO to do a bit of shopping on the way back and were home from the 100 mile trip, each way, about 7:30 pm.

Feeling good and getting things ready to pull the trailer Friday when we head to Spencer, IA to spend Sat, Sun, and Mon at the Clay County Fair with the Messers from Minnesota.

This is the last photo I took of my Dad before he passed in
March of 1978.  Tomorrow, September 6th, will be the 113th
anniversary of his birth.

GROANER’S CORNER:(( A man was just coming out of anesthesia after a series of \ests in the hospital, and his wife was sitting at his bedside. His eyes fluttered open, and he murmured, "You're beautiful." Flattered, the wife continued her vigil while he drifted back to sleep. Later, her husband woke up and said, "You're cute." "What happened to 'beautiful?'" she asked him. "The drugs are wearing off," he replied.

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Wife: Whatcha doing?
Me: Nothing.
Wife: You did that yesterday.
Me: I wasn't finished.

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A vacationer called a seaside hotel to ask its location. "It's only a stone's throw from the beach where the kids hang out," he was told.  "But how will I recognize it?" asked the man.  Came the reply: "It's the one with all the broken windows."

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Knock Knock
Who's there?
Panther
Panther who?
Panther no panths, I'm goin' swimmin'

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Q: What U.S. production car had the quickest 0-60 mph time?

A: The 1962 Chevrolet Impala SS 409.

Q: What's the only car to appear simultaneously on the covers of Time and

Newsweek?

A: The Mustang

Q: What was the lowest priced mass produced

American car? 

A: The 1925 Ford Model T Runabout.

Cost $260, $5 less than 1924.

 Later, Lynn