Ah, some rain!

Got .8" of rain yesterday afternoon -- made quite a difference in the look of the yard, even though it may not be detected in these photos.

Was nice to see the rain after temps near 90 that noon

On Monday, after the ceremony, Phyllis watered flowers that
had been put out before Memorial Day

Granddaughter Ashley - about the age of
her Daughter Jessica now.

Great Granddaughter
Jessica, this weekend

             

Fella at right is 114 years old.

Just a glimpse at what I may

look like in another 39 years!

Glenn Miller Festival comes up next week.  We are housing 4 members of the orchestra from the Netherlands that will arrive here on Wednesday and depart the next Monday.  We will work the 4 days of the festival at the high school, ushering, taking tickets, directing people, etc., and get the Bill Baker's Band people to and from the High School as needed.

Here is the whole schedule:  43rd Annual Glenn Miller Festival on June 7, 8, 9, & 10, 2018 and the amazing concert line-up: World-Famous Glenn Miller Orchestra plays both a concert on Friday and the Saturday night Festival dance dedicated to Glenn's Army Air Force Band and swing dance music. The Canadian Brass band plays on Saturday. The Tamana Girls High School band from Japan will play 3 concerts. Bill Baker's Band from the Netherlands will play a concert and the Festival Pancake breakfast. Adam Swanson 4-time World Champion ragtime piano player will play a bit with the Tamana Girls, and a full concert on Saturday. Key of Steam a steam punk group featuring GMBS band player Marcy Holub plays on Saturday, and Shades of Blue USAF Jazz Band will play the outdoor concert on Thursday. In addition, the GMBS vocal and instrumental competition will be a Festival favorite, along with GMA's presentation by Dennis Spragg, the popular panel discussion, and much, much more. A complete schedule and ticket order form will be available on our website as soon as final plans are made, www.glennmiller.org. Book your hotel reservations early and contact Shari at 712-542-2461 or email: shari@glennmiller.org with any questions. See you all in June!

GROANER’S CORNER:((  With all the new technology regarding fertility, an 88-year-old woman was able to give birth to a baby recently.When she was discharged from the hospital and went home, various relatives came to visit. “May we see the new baby?” one of them asked.   Not yet,” said the mother. “I'll make coffee and we can visit for a while first.”  Another half hour passed before another relative asked, “May we see the new baby now?”  “No, not yet,” said the mother.  A while later and again the guests asked, “May we see the baby now?”  “No, not yet,” replied the mother.  Growing impatient, they asked, “Well, when can we see the baby?”  “When it cries!” she told them.  "When it cries?” they gasped. “Why do we have to wait until it cries?”  “Because, I forgot where I put it.”
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Here’s A Great Fruit Cake Recipe…….  You'll need the following: a cup of water, a cup of sugar, four large eggs, two cups of dried fruit, a teaspoon of baking soda, a teaspoon of salt, a cup of brown sugar, lemon juice, nuts, and a bottle of whisky.  Sample the whisky to check for quality.  Take a large bowl. Check the whisky again. To be sure it is the highest quality, pour one level cup and drink. Repeat. Turn on the electric mixer, beat one cup of butter in a large fluffy bowl. Add one teaspoon of sugar and beat again.  Make sure the whisky is still okay. Cry another tup. Turn off the mixer. Break two leggs and add to the bowl and chuck in the cup of dried fruit. Mix on the turner. If the fried druit gets stuck in the beaterers pry it loose with a drewscriver.  Sample the whisky to check for tonsisticity. Next, sift two cups of salt. Or something. Who cares? Check the whisky. Now sift the lemon juice and strain your nuts. Add one table. Spoon. Of sugar or something. Whatever you can find.  Grease the oven. Turn the cake tin to 350 degrees. Don't forget to beat off the turner. Throw the bowl out of the window, check the whisky again, go to bed and hang onto your head.
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- "Thousands of years ago, cats were worshiped as Gods and cats have never forgotten this."

- "Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well."

- "My husband said it was either him or the cat ... I miss him sometimes."
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A priest decides one day to visit one of his elderly parishioners, Mrs. Smith. He rings the door bell and Mrs. Smith appears. "Good day, Mrs. Smith. I just thought I would drop by and see how you are doing."   "Oh just fine Father, come on in, and we'll have some tea."  While sitting a the coffee table, the priest notices a bowl of almonds on the table. "Mind if I have one?" the priest says.  "Not at all, have as many as you like."  After a few hours, the priest looks at his watch and alarmed at how long he has been visiting, says to Mrs. Smith, "Oh my goodness, look at the time. I must be going. Oh, but dear me, I have eaten all your almonds. I'll have to replace them the next time I visit."  Mrs. Smith replied, "Oh don't bother Father. Ever since I lost all my teeth, it's all I can do just to lick the chocolate off them."

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More later, Lynn

Videos from Marengo

Some videos of this last weekend in Marengo, IA with the family

Trip to Cam's -- Memorial Day Weekend 2018

Okay, it has been a while since I posted.  Hot weather this weekend, in the mid to upper 90's most days.

This was taken Sunday in Ottumwa, IA after having supper
with granddaughter Emily & her boyfriend Derick

Phyllis visiting with her friends(Can't remember their names.

Part of the crowd at the Memorial Day Ceremony today
at the Clarinda Cemetery

One of the honor guards, Alan Schenk
he sang with me in the Plainsmen group

This lady did the National Anthem
A Capella from behind the crowd.

Lady in the hat gave the speech 

Freind Tom Edwards from Blanchard

Spent the weekend at son Cam's - he was cutting dead limbs
off a tree when we got there Saturday morning.

Cam hauled all the smaller branches to a burn pile by the railroad track.

Grandma Phyllis, with Great Granddaughter Jessica and granddaughter Ashley

Me pushing Jessica on the swing - she just loves it.

At the top of her swing.

Saturday night we went to Cedar Rapids and ate at Zeppelins Bar & Grill
celebrating Cam & Patty's 34th Wedding Anniversary

Jessica really enjoyed her spaghetti 

Topped off the meal with huge hot chocolate chip cookie  served on a
hot skillet with ice cream on top--Very very tasty

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Close-up of the hot chocolate chip cookie on a hot skillet (with ice cream)

Jessica working with her Grandpa Cam assembling things

Jessica with her daddy Heath

Jessica with mommy, grandma, and ggrandma

When Ashley & Heath came with Jessica

Enjoying time with Grandma, but needing
to mug for my camera.

This afternoon

Tomatoes are growing!

Customer: “How come this car is covered with dents? You said it had one careful owner.”
Car salesman: “The others weren’t so careful.”

GROANER'S CORNER:((  After a long, dry sermon, the minister announced that he wished to meet with the church board after the service. The first man to arrive was a stranger.  You misunderstood my announcement. This is a meeting of the board said the minister.  I know, said the man.  If there is anyone here more bored than I am, I'd like to meet him.
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There are two sides to every divorce: Yours and dipshit's.

The closest I ever got to a 4.0 in college was my blood alcohol content.

I saw a very large woman wearing a sweatshirt with "Guess" on it. I said,  "Left Tackle?”

I don't do drugs. I find I get the same effect just by standing up really fast.

I don't like political jokes. I've seen too many get elected.

The most precious thing we have is life, yet it has absolutely no trade-in value.

If life deals you lemons, make lemonade. If life deals you tomatoes, make Bloody Mary’s.

Shopping tip: You can get shoes for a buck at bowling alley.

No one ever says, "It's only a game!" when their team's winning.

Marriage changes passion . . . suddenly you're in bed with a relative.

Why is it that most nudists are people you don't want to see naked?

Now that food has replaced sex in my life, I can't even get into my own pants.

I signed up for an exercise class and was told to wear loose fitting clothing. If I HAD any loose fitting clothing, I wouldn't need the class!

Don't argue with an idiot; people watching may not be able to tell the difference.

Wouldn't you know it! Brain cells come and brain cells go, but FAT cells live forever.

Why is it that our children can't read a Bible in school, but they can in prison.

(Do it now!!!.........while you remember it.

Sometime later, Lynn

May 22nd - 153 days until we will be in our Kenwood home

Small stained glass made with walnut shell frame.
Open window indicates the nice temperatures right now

89º with a feel-like of 97º at our place in La Feria, TX.  Here in Clarinda it is 86º at 3:30 pm Tuesday with a feel-like of 86º.  Had a little shower over the noon hour and is partly cloudy now.

Phyllis planted flowers around the tomatoes

One of her potted plants

Flowers by the arch behind the garage

Don't remember the name of these
flowers, but Phyllis has had them, or ones
like them about every year.

Finally got the stained glass church window up in our front-room picture window.  Phyllis had gotten it from the old church building (built in 1882-83) a few weeks ago and cleaned and painted the wooden frame.  Hung it by chain from hooks in the ceiling.
Anxious to see how it looks at night with the lights from inside.
Believe Phyllis' sister had had a stained glass window of some type hanging in this window for some years -- she now has that hanging in her bedroom window in Colorado.

Window on the right --- before we removed it from the church.

While riding on the recumbent trike this morning I took this photo of the back side of the new Boulders Inn & Suites that is immediately south of the Fareway Grocery store just a long block east of us.

Front side of Boulders motel

Ready to work on chain guide

Broken chain guide Gorilla Duct Taped together and
a wooden splint below it to hold it up.

Puns and Other Groaners

1. The roundest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.
2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian.
3. She was only a whisky maker, but he loved her still.
4. A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class because it was a weapon of math disruption.
5. The butcher backed into the meat grinder and got a little behind in his work.
6. No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery.
7. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering.
8. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.
9. Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.
10. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
11. A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it.
12. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
13. Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway. One hat said to the other, "You stay here, I'll go on ahead."
14. I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me.
15. A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said: "Keep off the Grass."
16. A small boy swallowed some coins and was taken to a hospital. When his grandmother telephoned to ask how he was, a nurse said, "No change yet."
17. A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.
18. It's not that the man did not know how to juggle, he just didn't have the balls to do it.
19. The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium, at large.
20. The man who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.
21. A backward poet writes in-verse.
22. In democracy it's your vote that counts. In feudalism it's your count that votes.
23. When cannibals ate a missionary, they got a taste of religion.
24. Don't join dangerous cults, practice safe sects!
    Later, Lynn