Fun weekend with kids, grandkids and great granddaughter

88º and muggy in Clarinda at 4:50 pm Monday.  Here is 10-day forecast.- lots of rain forecast

 Drove to Marengo Saturday morning, getting there about 1 pm.  Angry looking clouds to the north - same ones that caused two separate game delays for the Iowa-Iowa State football game in Ames.  Watched that game Saturday afternoon and evening, since the delays took it into the evening hours.  I also watched Nebraska beat Northern Illinois, played at Lincoln, NE

 Patty & Emmy were at a PEO convention in Des Moines until getting home Sunday morning.  Ashley and great granddaugahter Jessica got to play together all afternoon -- think it wore both of them out!

Granddaughter Ashley and son Cameron

 Sunday morning Cam spent over two hours showing us photos and explaining where they were and what they were doing on their summer trip to Iceland/Greenland.  Was very interesting, but we only got part-way through the trip when it was time for lunch and we didn't get back to finish it.  Cam promised to show us the rest when we are there in four weeks on our way to our winter stay in Texas.

When Grandma Pat and Aunt Emily showed up the games were in progress and got even more involved.

Grandma Patty did some barbering - trimming Jessica's bangs so she could see.

Jessica, with help from grandma and great grandma, put together a necklace for great grandma made up of lettered beads.

A brief interlude of having a book read -- I think this was just before a nap.

Refreshed and ready to go it was time to play a game that involved a spinner.

 

Time to goof off a bit, wearing grandma's specks ---- upside-down.

Saturday evening we picked up pizza at Caseys's for supper and Sunday noon we ate lunch at the Landmark Restaurant at I-80 north of Williamsburg, IA.

Photo at left is chowing down on grilled hotdogs and potato salad Sunday evening while watching on Iowa Public Television the 1st part of Ken Burn's film "Country Music".  Hope to see the remaining parts of it this week.  A very interesting program if you get a chance to see it, take the time to do so.


We left Marengo this morning about 9:30 am and got home in Clarinda about 2 pm.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( I've noticed the strangest thing about men who hang out in bars a lot.  It seems they have only one of two reasons to be there: They have no wife to go home to... or they do. ------------------
 I understand that before the crowbar was invented, the crows did their drinking at home.
--------------------------------- 1. Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?  2. Why is it that no matter what color of bubble bath you use the bubbles are always white?  3. Is there ever a day that mattresses are not on sale?'  4. Why do people constantly return to the refrigerator with hopes that something new to eat will have materialized?  5. On electric toasters, why do they engrave the message “one slice?” How many pieces of bread do they think people are really gonna try to stuff in that slot?  6. Why do people keep running over a string a dozen times with their vacuum cleaner, then reach down, pick it up, examine it, then put it down to give the vacuum one more chance?  7. Why is it that no plastic garbage bag will open from the end you first try?  8. How do those dead bugs get into those closed light fixtures?   9. Considering all the lint you get in your dryer, if you kept drying your clothes would they eventually just disappear?  10. When we are in the supermarket and someone rams our ankle with a shopping cart then apologizes for doing so, why do we say, “It's all right?” Well, it isn't all right so why don't we say, “That hurt, you stupid idiot?”  11. Why is it that whenever you attempt to catch something that's falling off the table you always manage to knock something else over?  12. Is it true that the only difference between a yard sale and a trash pickup is how close to the road the stuff is placed? 
13. In winter why do we try to keep the house as warm as it was in summer when we complained about the heat?  14. How come you never hear father-in-law jokes?  15. If at first you don't succeed, shouldn't you try doing it like your wife told you to do it? And obviously if at first you don't succeed, then don't take up sky diving!  16. The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some sort of mental illness. Think of your three best friends, if they're okay, then it's you. ----------------------- Q: What do you call a bunch of rabbits in a row all hopping backwards? 
 A: A receding hare line