59º with overcast skies here in Clarinda, IA at 3:00 pm Sunday. Had .1" rain overnight and predicted for more rain today. (I am just now finishing this up at 6:00 pm and it has been raining for some time again this afternoon)
Yesterday, Saturday, Granddaughter Ashley with Jessica & David as well as Granddaughter Emily came in the afternoon from eastern Iowa. They had been uptown here in Clarinda at their other grandpa's place where our daughter-in-law Patty and her sister Pam were helping their Dad clean and sort things at his house, probably preparing to sell the house. That gave time for holding Grandson David and reading to Granddaughter Jessica. The four of them had supper with us and stayed overnight, going to Grandpa Fred's for breakfast this morning.
They all came back to our place about 1:30 pm and had lemon pie and a short visit before heading back to Marengo and Iowa City.
I read some more books today to Jessica.
Yesterday afternoon the ladies sat on the deck while I was cleaning the maple seeds from the screening on the rain gutters. Got some overhead shots of them.
Great Grandma with both the great grandkids.
Reading to Jessica last evening.
Saturday morning we drove to Burlington Jct., Missouri to the greenhouse. Phyllis got some flowers to put on tombstones next week and we also picked up a couple shrubs to put in front of the house.
The one flowered shrub and the other one on the other side of the rose bush will grow to about two feet tall and two feet across -- considerably smaller than the huge bushes we took out last summer.
I also got up on ladder and cleaned all the Maple helicopter seeds from the valleys and rain gutters.
Discovered a missing piece of screen in one corner that was really filled with seeds. Cleaned and then added new screening over the void.
I was still working on the cleaning project when the girls came.
Jessica "helped" some.
Some views from above.
Oh, yeah--even though I had convinced myself not to mess with tomatoes this year account we will be gone with the travel trailer so much----here are the two grape tomato plants I bought at the greenhouse. Guess will get what we get.
Have been planning a week-long trip in June and a more-than-a-month long trip in late summer.
Later, Lynn
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