We missed the bad weather.

81º here in Clarinda, IA at 12:30 pm Friday with bright sunshine.  We didn't get any of the tornado weather yesterday that was in other parts of Iowa.
We drove, yesterday, down to Hiawatha, KS and had a delicious lunch with Harold & LaRhoda Neher and then played several games of Pegs & Jokers in the afternoon.  Nearly everything we had for lunch was home grown or by neighbors-relatives; tomatoes, cucumbers, green beans, sweet corn, zucchini along with some short-ribs.

We picked some summer apples off of Neher's tree

They have been real dry in northeast Kansas, but garden
didn't look too bad.

Did some grocery shopping in St. Joe, MO on the way home and stopped in Maryville, MO for supper.  Always good fried chicken and salad bar we like at the Pizza Ranch there.

Phyllis' tomatoes are still producing.

Flowers behind our garage

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I just found this picture posted on Facebook that was
posted some time ago of our daughter-in-law Patty
when she was a baby on her mom's lap

Stories on TV and internet about the Duck boat on Table Rock Lake at Branson that went down and many drown yesterday.  We saw those boats and wanted to go on one of them this spring when we spent a week there.  Of course, the bad wind storm was the problem, but imagine things will change about that ride now.

Have not heard from friends in Marshalltown, IA if they were involved in the tornado there yesterday.

If you google lycamiles Youtube you can come up with some of the videos I uploaded of the entertainment in Stratsford, IA last weekend at the Bluegrass Festival.

Our Granddaughters -- many years ago.

Have been scanning more old photos.  Here are some of them.

I am assuming this is bunch of cousins, friends, etc. of
Phyllis' sometime in the 1940's.  Is front of her home.

Phyllis was in the Clarinda City summer band years ago.

Not too many attended my 25th High School Class Reunion.
Of course, we only had 28 or so in the graduating class.

Many years ago when the four of us were square dancing.

GROANER'S CORNER:((  Two Hindu swamis were in conversation. One said to the other, "How did you like my latest book, 'The Art of Levitation'? "His companion replied, "It kept me up all night."
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“Everybody is the goal of a small-town mortician.”

Later, Lynn