Nice weekend with family

 73 degrees with partly cloudy skies here in Clarinda, IA at 2:00 pm Tuesday.  Dumped .7" of rain from the gauge this morning from the storm passing through overnight.

A few photos of flowers around our place here in Clarinda.

Cut these two and brought them into the house.  Think a few more Peony buds will blossom soon.

Spent the weekend with our son & family in Marengo.

Here are just a few photos I took of the grandkids & greats.

More another time,

LCM

Cool weather in May here in southwest Iowa

 62 degrees at with heavy overcast at 4:22 pm on Monday -- with 100% chance of rain tomorrow.  Was in the 40's several mornings lately.      

Sunday we sang with the combined choirs of the Clarinda First United Methodist Church and the Clarinda Westminster Presbyterian Church - singing at the 8:45 am service at Methodist and the 10:30 am service at Westminster.  Went well and I was able to edit the videos from both services and convert our three songs to an MP3 file to listen to off the flash drive in the pickup.

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Drove out on Herron Hill to Nancy & Scott Brown's place last week to harvest some Rhubarb.  Phyllis cooked up a good cobbler, which we are still working on.

She made a great Taco for lunch Sunday.

After mowing the lawn this morning, I used air compressor to blow it all off and clean the air cleaner.  Then worked on greasing it.  For first time ever (have had this mower since 2007) I was able to reach underneath to grease a universal joint I have never gotten to before.  I do take it every other year to dealer I bought it from and he goes through everything, including that particular grease zerk.

 

While in greasing mode, I took apart the Arrow Hensley hitch stabilizer on the travel trailer and greased it.

Did some more tree trimming - getting the dead stuff out of bottom of two trees on east side of our property and cleaned up some of the trimmings from under tree north of the shop.

Phyllis is working on getting her Clarinda High School Class of 1962 together in September.  Has sent out e-mails, getting corrections on some of them, and getting snail-mail addresses to send out letter to many of them who we don't have email addresses.

Am learning the title I put on the blog each time makes a difference.  I routinely have only 5 to 10 readers.  However, when I labelled the one "At the 10th Annual Little Roy & Lizzy Music Festival"...it had 582 reads.  Then I labeled one "Bands at the Little Roy & Lizzy Music Show" and it had 388 reads.  Most of the time we aren't at name brand places.

More another time, LC

GROANER’S CORNER:((  The following announcements actually appeared in various church bulletins::

Don't let worry kill you -- let the church help.

Thursday night - Potluck supper. Prayer and medication to follow.

Remember in prayer the many who are sick of our church and community.

For those of you who have children and don't know it, we have a nursery downstairs.

The rosebud on the alter this morning is to announce the birth of David Alan Belzer, the sin of Rev. and Mrs. Julius Belzer.

This afternoon there will be a meeting in the South and North ends of the church. Children will be baptized at both ends.

Tuesday at 4:00 PM there will be an ice cream social. All ladies giving milk will please come early.

Wednesday the ladies liturgy will meet. Mrs. Johnson will sing "Put me in my little bed" accompanied by the pastor.

Thursday at 5:00 PM there will be a meeting of the Little Mothers Club. All ladies wishing to be "Little Mothers" will meet with the Pastor in his study.

This being Easter Sunday, we will ask Mrs. Lewis to come forward and lay an egg on the alter.

The service will close with "Little Drops of Water." One of the ladies will start quietly and the rest of the congregation will join in.

Next Sunday a special collection will be taken to defray the cost of the new carpet. All those wishing to do something on the new carpet will come forward and do so.

The ladies of the church have cast off clothing of every kind. They can be seen in the church basement Saturday.

A bean supper will be held on Tuesday evening in the church hall. Music will follow.

 

Third week in May

 78 degrees at 10:45 am on Thursday - bright sunshine with predicted high of 90 degrees today.

I fixed an omelet for breakfast this morning.

Cleaned up all the deposit-cans we had and took them to the redemption center.

Couple of the Saturday Evening Posts I bought when we were on our trip in an antique mall.  I have always enjoyed reading the stories in these magazines.  Recall back in the 1950's when I would get in trouble while watching the irrigation ditch water because I would be sidelined reading a magazine when we had a "break out" on the ditch and it got too big because I wasn't paying attention and we would have a "wash out".  In fact, one time I got in trouble because Dad had to take the old 1940-something Chevy coupe we used like a pickup into the mechanics because the windshield wipers wouldn't work.  They found the Saturday Evening Post, Colliers, or Look magazine I had jammed up under the dash to hide it, not realizing the mechanical arms to the windshield wipers were under there and it jammed them.  I believe I was always considered a responsible kid when I was young----when anything went haywire I was usually responsible!

Just got done mowing the lawn yesterday.

  Cleaned out the gutter on the east side of the shop building yesterday.  All the Maple seeds dropping now were just starting to sprout.  Gunk was thrown on the ground.

Trimmed everything below 7 feet from the ground on the cedar tree behind the shop building.  Was mostly dead stuff there.  Then I climbed the ladder and trimmed the branches that were rubbing the metal building.

Salad I put together yesterday noon.

Peonies are on the verge of blooming.

Filled one of the propane tanks on the travel trailer.  Should be ready to use the trailer in a couple weeks for a weekend visit to Neher's near Hiawatha, Knsas.

  Have donated blood fairly regularly for last few years.  Had unusual event Tuesday when donating.  Gal had inserted the needle and blood started to flow when she adjusted the position of the needle just a bit.  If you can imagine a half of an egg laying on it's side -- that was the size of the swelling in just a few seconds.  They stopped, took out the needle and applied ice.  Then switched to the other arm.  They were just lucky I had brought both arms with me.

The little Maple "helicopter" seeds have been flying lately.

Phyllis had 

just started trimming

the hedge in front of

the picture window

when I was leaving

on the Trike for a ride.

I have a pretty good

telephoto lens on my

camera.  This photo was

taken from the east

side of the hospital,

probably about a city

block away.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( - Hello! Gordon's pizza?

- No sir it's Google's pizza.

- So it's a wrong number? Sorry.......

- No sir, Google bought it.

- OK. Take my order please.

- Well sir, you want the usual?

- The usual? You know me?

- According to our caller ID data sheet, in the last 12 times you ordered pizza with cheeses, sausage, and thick crust.  May I suggest to you this time ricotta, arugula with dry tomato.?

- What? I hate vegetables.

- Your cholesterol is not good, sir.

- How do you know?

- We crossed the number of your fixed line with your name, through the subscriber’s guide.  We have the result of your blood tests for the last 7 years.  

- Okay, but I do not want this pizza because I already take medicine.

-Excuse me, but you have not taken the medicine regularly.  From our commercial database, 4 months ago, you only purchased a box with 30 cholesterol tablets at 'DrugSale Network'.

- I bought more from another drugstore.

- It's not showing on your credit card statement.

- I paid in cash.

- But you did not withdraw that much cash according to your bank statement.

- I have other sources of cash.

- This is not showing as per your last Tax form unless you bought them from an undeclared income source.

-WHAT THE HELL?

- I'm sorry sir, we use such information only with the intention of helping you.

- Enough! I'm sick of Google, Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp. I'm going to an Island without internet, cable TV, where there is no cell phone line and no one to watch me or spy on me.  

- I understand sir but you need to renew your passport first as it expired 5 weeks ago..........

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 Till 'nuther time, LC