55 degrees partly cloudy - had been raining much of the night and all of yesterday.
Have been gone from our Clarinda home just about 5.5 months. Arrived at our place about 1:30 pm yesterday (Thursday). Realize I had not posted since last Sunday. After that posting we were staying at friends houses (in driveway with the trailer) and was up until late each night and didn't post. On Monday, the 5th, I had intended to wish brother Roger & his wife Carolyn a happy Wedding Anniversary, though he has told me more than once he DOES NOT read my blog, so that would have been a waste of time. However, the same day was the birthday anniversary of my brother Darrell's wife - so belated happy birthday to the Mrs., Darrell.
Completely unloaded the pickup yesterday afternoon -- much less time than the two full days it took to pile all the stuff in there. And, parked the trailer in the driveway near the house so transferred some stuff and will do more from it today.
Emptying the back of the pickup.
Bags of carrots and onions from Texas in the garage refrigerator.
Just a shot of the trailer as we pulled up to the dump station near the airport here in Clarinda around 1:00 pm yesterday.
I have 956 photos in my April photo folder, and we are only 8 days in - so made many photos on our trip home. Have not gotten them all edited, which will take several hours. Will post some of them here.
This is just a shot of giving the flowers in the back of the pickup a little air - not much sunshine as we were in heavy overcast, foggy, misty or rain much of the trip.
Drove a little out of our
way to see the Texas Eiffel Tower
at Paris, Texas.
Was more impressive on
the web page.
Writing the blog last Sunday at campground near Stratford, Texas
Spent a little time at Bristow Train Depot and Museum in Bristow, OK on Monday morning. Volunteer lady gave a lot of information on the museum and the town.
Drove on into Tulsa and stopped at Oral Roberts University to view the worlds largest hands.
Sculptured greenery around the Hands
Drove to Tulsa Expo Center to see The Golden Driller, a 75-foot-tall, 43,500-pound statue of an oil worker. Parked the trailer on a side street and had a sandwich for lunch.
Then drove on to Owasso, Oklahoma, a suburb of Tulsa, and parked in the driveway of Jim & Patsy Gallaway. They have been to Kenwood, though did not come this year.
The Gallaway's live on the edge of a private airport and many, many houses around the airport have their own hangers and access to the concrete runway. Jim took us for a tour on his golf cart and pointed out every person in every house with their age and/or health situation as well as the year and type of plane they had. They have much of their family living at their house and that is quite a story in itself.
Was only 15 miles from Gallaway's to
Will Rogers Memorial MuseumClick HERE for website We spent about two hours at the Museum and it is most interesting. Of course, there are innumerable posters and I took photos of many of them and will be able to read them at leisure one of these days on my photo program that lets me enlarge it to read.
Not much activity, but we were able to walk through the original house and a replica of the barn that was there when he was little. Also very interesting.
Inside the birthplace home.
The barn, reconstructed like the original, is still in use on this working ranch.
Tuesday evening we drove to Gravette, AR and stayed in the driveway at Don & Bessie Runyan's place. This town is where Phyllis' mom was born and lived as a youngster. Don drove us by where her house was, where she went to school and also Bessie's house as she was born near Pauline's birthplace. Had a good visit and ate supper at a Mexican Restaurant in town.
Wednesday morning we went from Arkansas into Oklahoma and then into Kansas to see Big Brutus. Click HERE for Wikipedia website near West Mineral Kansas Click HERE for website This is only a few miles from where our friend Harold Neher was born and raised and he told us about it. Harold & LaRhoda are our neighbors in Texas
This is one of four electrically driven crawler treads on this machine. It could move at .2 mph and was used to remove overburden so coal could be mined hundreds of feet underground.
The inside is so big you feel like you are inside a ship or a huge hanger. The huge rollers in the picture to the left is for the huge cables that went out to the arm and the bucket.
When I took this picture I was sitting in the operators seat.
Following our couple-hour visit to the machine and the museum that was by it we ate a sandwich in the trailer for lunch in the museum parking lot and then headed north to Hiawatha, KS to visit Harold & LaRhoda Neher.
Ate a delicious supper that LaRhoda had fixed and then played several Pegs & Joker card games with them.
On Thursday morning she had another delicious breakfast and then we played a few more Pegs & Joker games before heading north again. Stopped in Maryville, MO at Pizza Ranch for lunch and then on home.
Is now almost 2 pm and I took a few breaks to start picking up limbs and sticks in the yard and also moving the trailer over to its regular parking spot in front of the shop building.
More later, Lynn
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