Not much to say

 Not much going on.  Another sprinkle overnight made about one inch of rain in the last 36 hours during 3 or 4 times of rain.

GROANER’S CORNER:(( A Few Church Bulletins::
The Associate Minister unveiled the church's new tithing campaign slogan last Sunday: "I Upped My Pledge - Up Yours.
"Our next song is "Angels We Have Heard Get High.
"Don't let worry kill you, let the church help.
For those of you who have children and don't know it, we have a nursery downstairs.
This being Easter Sunday, we will ask Mrs. Lewis to come forward and lay an egg on the altar.
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My boss told me to have a good day, so i went home.
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Three old ladies met on the street on a very stormy day. The wind was so strong and loud that they had difficulty in hearing each other. "It's windy," said one. "No, it's Thursday," said the next. "So am I," said the third. "Let's go and have a drink!"
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Choir get-together and still digitizing old photos

96º with a "feel like" of 103º in La Feria, TX - where we are not.  78º with a "feel like" of 82º here in Clarinda, IA where we are at 11 am Monday.

Phil Tornholm sent me this picture of myself

Sunday evening we were part of a gathering of most of the Methodist Church Choir at our leader Linda Naven's place.  She discussed some times and things going on with the services soon and said she would be playing for and directing not only our choir but the Westminster Presbyterian church this winter.  Discussed having joint practices, etc.

Part of the choir group

Linda discussing with Phil her new smart phone.

Snacks were enjoyed by all.

Many cars at Linda's

Lots of discussion

And even more discussion

Planning for and preparing the trailer to head to State Center, IA this weekend for a week at our Kenwood RV Park get together.

Will put in a few family photos from the ones I have been digitizing -- many from the 1990's, all have identifying stuff written on them:

GROANER’S CORNER:(( A Few More Words of Wily Wisdom Tonight:::
We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive. - C.S. Lewis

- We are often most in the dark when we are the most certain, and most enlightened when we are the most confused.

- We don't have the time or money to do it right, but we'll have time and money to do it over again.

- We need either less corruption or more chance to participate in it.

- We totally deny the allegations, and we are trying to identify the allegators.

- We sometimes get all the information, but we refuse to get the message.

- We're making progress. Things are getting worse at a slower rate.  We've always done it that way!

- Wet manure is slippery.
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Maybe later, Lynn

Page County Fair

67º here in Clarinda, IA at 11:15 am Saturday.  Raining - had 1/4" early this morning and probably that much or more since then. (Note - as I finish this post at 12 Noon - an additional 1/4" of rain and still light rain falling)

After working on this "Bean Bag Baseball"
board for only a year or so, have finally gotten
it done so can take with us next week to State
Center, IA to the Kenwood RV Summer Rally.

Tomatoes keep putting on more

Flowers west of house still showing their colors

These are behind the garage.

Went up to the Page County Fair here in Clarinda last evening.  Looked around the exhibits and then watched the Rodeo they had.

The "Junk in a Bucket" contest - welded items

The "Junk in a Bucket" contest - welded items

Our old friend Ronnie
Foster as he came to
the horse arena

Weather was great, no rain and cool temperature (Most unusual for the fair!)

GROANER'S CORNER:((  It was Mike and Patrick giving the motorcycle a ride on a brisk autumn day. After  a wee bit, Mike who was sitt'n behind Patrick on the bike began to holler, "Patrick... the wind is cutt'n me chest out!"  “Well, Mike my lad," said Patrick, "why don't you take your jacket off and turn it from front to back, that'll block the wind for you. "So Mike took Patrick's advice and turned his jacket from front to back and got back on the bike and the two of them were off down the road again. After a bit, Patrick turned to talk to Mike and was horrified to see that he was not there. Patrick immediately turned the bike around and retraced their route. When after a short time he came to a turn and saw a bunch of farmers standing around Mike who was sitting on the ground. "Thanks be to heaven, is he alright?" Patrick hailed to the farmers.  "Well," said one of the farmers, "he was alright when we found him here, but since we turned his head back to front... he hasn't said a word since!"
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A good laugh for people in the over 70 group!

When I bought my Blackberry, I thought about the 30-year business I ran
with 1800 employees, all without a cell phone that plays music, takes
videos, pictures and communicates with Facebook and Twitter.

I signed up under duress for Twitter and Facebook, so my seven kids,
their spouses, my 13 grand kids and 2 great grand kids could communicate
with me in the modern way.

I figured I could handle something as simple as Twitter with only 140
characters of space.

My phone was beeping every three minutes with the details of everything
except the bowel movements of the entire next generation.

I am not ready to live like this. I keep my cell phone in the garage in
my golf bag.

The kids bought me a GPS for my last birthday because they say I get lost
every now and then going over to the grocery store or library. I keep
that in a box under my tool bench with the Bluetooth [it's red] phone I
am supposed to use when I drive.

I wore it once and was standing in line at Barnes and Noble talking to my
wife and everyone in the nearest 50 yards was glaring at me. I had to
take my hearing aid out to use it, and I got a little loud.

I mean, the GPS looked pretty smart on my dashboard, but the lady inside
that gadget was the most annoying, rudest person I had run into in a long
time. Every 10 minutes, she would sarcastically say, "Re-calc-u-lating."
You would think that she could be nicer. It was like she could barely
tolerate me.

She would let go with a deep sigh and then tell me to make a U-turn at
the next light. Then, if I made a right turn instead. Well, it was not a
good relationship...

When I get really lost now, I call my wife and tell her the name of the
cross streets and while she is starting to develop the same tone as
Gypsy, the GPS lady, at least she loves me.

To be perfectly frank, I am still trying to learn how to use the cordless
phones in our house. We have had them for 4 years, but I still haven't
figured out how I lose three phones all at once and have to run around
digging under chair cushions, checking bathrooms, and the dirty laundry
baskets when the phone rings.

The world is just getting too complex for me.

They even mess me up every time I go to the grocery store. You would
think they could settle on something themselves, but this sudden "Paper
or Plastic?" Every time I check out, just knocks me for a loop. I
bought some of those cloth reusable bags to avoid looking confused, but I
never remember to take them with me.

Now I toss it back to them.

When they ask me, "Paper or plastic?" I just say, "Doesn't matter to me.
I am bi-sacksual." Then it's their turn to stare at me with a blank
look.

I was recently asked if I tweet. I answered, No, but I do fart a lot."

P.S. I know some of you are not over 70. I sent it to you to allow you
to forward it to those who are. I figured your sense of humor could
handle it....

We senior citizens don't need any more gadgets. The TV remote and the
garage door remote are about all we can handle.

Later, Lynn

Fun day at Warren County (Iowa) Fair

Though we haven't gotten over (about 3/4 mile) to the Page County Fair this week, yesterday we drove the 120 miles to Indianola, IA to their Warren County Fair.  The main reason was to see/hear our friend Terry Smith from Nashville, TN, at 8 pm last night.  As it turned out he left Nashville about 5:30 pm the night before and with a quick stop in Hannibal, MO he drove the 645 miles arriving only an hour or so before his show.  The backup band were locals he had not worked with, other than once with one of them, but they put together a good show.  He thought he had someone lined up to work his sales table with CD's, cups, etc., but they didn't show so he enlisted Phyllis to set that up and run it.

Terry giving Phyllis pointers and prices on the merchandise

Was more of a crowd after I took this picture -- all people of our age.
Some younger ones walked by and never even stopped to listen.

Terry Smith on the right and one of the 4 backup guys in the band

Couple ladies let their young kids romp around on the stage
to the sound of the music.

We drove Patty's car and stopped in Corning, IA on the way to Indianola at ate at the Primrose Restaurant.
A "red hat" group, in the background,  included Phyllis' cousin Judy Heuer who went on with us to Indianola.

This restaurant has been open only about a year and seems to be doing
a pretty good business; good food and reasonable prices.

Our friend Bonnie Brown was with the red hat group and visited for a bit.

We had a little trouble finding the restaurant -- this is their total signage!

Phyllis, Judy, and Patty Steckelberg looking over some of the
displays at the fair.

This wooden pig is suggesting eating
more beef.

These "Transformers were entertaining the kids

One up and one down.

I watched the "pig races"  - they were runts and dwarf pigs
but seemed to entertain the crowd running for a reward of an Oreo Cookie

The girls talking with one of the wood carving/sawing people

Must add this picture of cousin Donna Wieting,
now Mrs. Wally Jensen- in Watertown, SD, 
married last Saturday.

Tuesday we went to annual summer picnic/meeting
of the Clarinda Circle 8 Square Dance Club.

It was here in Clarinda at Jack & Karen Baumgartner's

Planning on going over to the Page County Fair a bit this afternoon or evening.  Has cooled off considerably and we shut off the AC and opened windows couple days ago.  Kind of nice.

GROANER’S CORNER:(( One night, after a long evening of drinking, Jim was thrown out of the bar as usual. On his way home he spotted a nun walking down the road.  After looking at her twice he ran over and tackled her, then proceeded to beat her up pretty good.  Some people passing by spotted this and called the police.  As the police were pulling him away in handcuffs he looked back and said, "I thought you'd be tougher than that, Batman."

More later