Our days in Schuyler, NE for the Kenaston Music Show

 81 degrees on a delightful day in Clarinda, IA at 3:00 pm Saturday.  Dumped a bit under 4" of rain from the rain gauge yesterday that had accumulated from last Saturday morning.  I am now able to do this on the computer with super-fast WIFI.

Well, a change in plans--we left Schuyler, NE and the Music Show about 10:30 am Friday and got back to Clarinda about 3:30 in the afternoon.  Missed both Friday and Saturday of the show, but was necessary.

Here are a few pictures from Tuesday evening when we listened to the Kenaston's, Johnny Button, Venessa Kenaston, Epi Martinez, & Willie play music while eating supper at the Schuyler Golf Club.  

 

Good food, visited with many new (to us) people at our table, and good music for the evening.

Wednesday Phyllis helped set up some of the items for the $5 ticket-drawing table, the auction items and the silent auction items.  Then she sold 50/50 tickets until they drew for them around 4 pm.

This fella at left is from Louisiana and talked with such a drawl he was a little hard to understand.  He did "cajon" singing with a lot of hollering in it.

This is Dale Anchor

who is on KWMT as a

DJ much of the time out of

Fort Dodge, IA.  His wife

came from Clarinda and

Phyllis has gotten acquainted

with both of them over the

years at many music festivals.

At right is table with

items that were auctioned

off.  Many baskets with

wine, food, etc. in them

The Auto-Harp at the

bottom brought several

hundred dollars.

At left during the auction; this was

Wednesday afternoon.

Wednesday evening we went downtown

to the Eagles Club.  They prepared

either hamburgers or cheese burgers

and had probably 20 salads

of all sorts that were all homemade

and delicious.  You could take a dip of

two when going through the line the

first time, but then they opened it up

and since I like salads I had a taste of

about six different ones, all in one bowl.

This couple came from Ottumwa, IA and were in a motor home next to our trailer.  Mary and Gene Scott.

In line

to get our meal.  $7 for

the hamburger and

lots of good salads, everything

from coleslaw, macaroni salad,

fruit salad, watermelon chunks,

Taco Salad, potato salad, flavored whipped-cream

with fruit in it, and a lot more.

My Taco Salad and Macaroni Salad with hamburger.

The musicians

are in the background

of this picture.

Mark Jenkins on the left with Justin Trevino on the right.

Kathy Fleming at left.  She was singing with Rayne McGill, but I didn't get a picture of Rayne that night.

Thursday they

had a Farmers

Market on the same area

as the outdoor stage.  Was

mostly crafts and

baked goods this time

of year before the veggies start

maturing.

They had an outdoor stage

that had entertainers part

of the time.

At right

and below is

Molly Magill, daughter

of Mary Channer Paul

who she sings with quite

often.  This evening

she was dancing with

her oldest daughter Jayden..

.

I hadn't heard of this

Steel Guitarist Jim Loessberg,

but he is a fantastic

steel guitar player.

You can read some

about him by CLICKING HERE

Was concerned if the flooding on the Missouri

River had closed any roads near Nebraska City.  There was water in the low area on the east side of the Missouri River, but not near Highway 2.

Till next time,

L Carroll Miles

Music Show in Schuyler

 I had forgotten from last year how the T-Mobile is secondary here and not reliable in Nebraska.  Will try a post here on the phone which is no fun for me. Photo above is from last night at Eagles Club here in Schuyler.   They served hamburgers with a lots of homemade salads.  Music by some of the entertainers of this festival.  

Terry Smith from Nashville is on stage now 

Cloudy and cool today. 

L Carroll 

Hot in northeast Nebraska

 91 degrees with 102 "feel like " here in Schuyler, Nebraska at 12:30 pm Monday.   Slow internet thru my phone to the computer, but will post a little direct on the phone. 

Unable to post many photos, but here's 1 from Saturday evening. 

We got to campground in Schuyler Saturday before noon--got setup with full hookup and drove south about 65 miles and had a good visit with neices Angie and Julie that afternoon and evening. 

Returned to the trailer that evening and on Sunday morning headed south.   Phyllis had made contact with friend who lived in Clarinda when they were both kids, who now lives in Ceresco, NE.  Had a good visit with Nona Lechtenberg and then headed to brother Roger's place in southeast Lincoln.   After short visit with him and Carolyn we went on to nephew Keith and had good visit with him and Becky. 

  Returned to here in campground where about 60 people gathered to hear several people playing music  - guitars, dobro, fiddle, harmonica, and lots of singing.   A local Bank barbecued hot dogs for everyone followed by s'more.

Returned to trailer about 9:45 pm. Slept in this morning. Seemed like the thing to do. Activities will begin moreso tomorrow. 

Later, L Carroll Miles 

To Kenaston's Country Music Show in Schuyler, NE

 Below is 10-day weather forecast for Schuyler, Nebraska.  We will pull our travel trailer to Schuyler early

tomorrow morning and stay until Sunday, June 30th.  We will drive to Lincoln both Saturday afternoon and Sunday to visit some relatives.  We have volunteered to help on Monday and Tuesday with setup at the several different places that the Kenaston group will be having the Country Music Show perform.

With any luck, will post some from the trailer,

L Carroll

More rain here - almost first official day of summer

 4:05 pm Wednesday, between rains here in Clarinda.  Rained much of the overnight and heavy clouds today.  At least we aren't getting the heavy rains and wind here like they are getting at our South Texas Home.  Storm warnings and flooding in that area from the tropical storm Alberto going ashore into Mexico to the south.

Been doing a lot of digging through old files and pictures, on the computer and otherwise.  Came across this one of Dad back in the 1970's.  He is standing in our living room by a photo of him when he was a kid, with his mom, dad and brothers and sisters he had at the time.  Have uncovered lot of things.  Today ran across a Cassette tape my brother Darrell made in Vietnam in the late 1960's.

    Picture at right shows Byron Olivier, 48, of Church Point Louisiana and his wooden sculpture bench he made to honor his long passed grandparents. This master craftsman carved the piece so that he could once again sit with his "mawmaw and pawpaw" and drink coffee and smoke cigarettes with them like he did as a child.

With all the memories jostled, I recall that about 30 years ago now, sometime in the summer of 1994, I made the decision to sell Coin Grain Corp. that we had ran for 20 years. The last several years we had totally owned it. In 1974 four other men put up money and had me put up one-fourth what they each did. At the time I was happy to have a little ownership. As the years went on, especially with one of the owners being a complete and total bastard, I regretted having ownership. Would have quit my job otherwise, which I then realized is why they had me put some money up. Over the years one, by one the others sold out and we bought shares. Got up to

a total of seven employees, counting ourselves, in the 1980's when we were running fertilizer. When started in 1974 most of the corn and beans at harvest time were brought in by tractors pulling small wagons. By the late 1980's we sold off the fertilizer part and cut back to only four of us. By 1994 we had only one other employee besides us. Many of the farmers had their own semi trucks and were bypassing local elevaators. Others hired the local truckers to haul out to St. Joe, MO and other places and didn't need the elevator. So, I made up my mind sometime in the summer and sometime in early August sent out letters to our customers we wouldn't be there in the fall. In 1989, when we sold the fertilizer business we couldn't get enough bid to sell the elevator itself, though we did get rid of the bagged feed business we had built in Clarinda. We had feed business in the elevator and ground and delivered feed to quite a few farmers in the area. In 1994 I sold various buildings to various farmers and a couple of brothers from Westboro, MO bought the elevator itself to use as their own storage. One of the brothers eventually went ahead and started a seed business out of there and burned the original wooden structure, which had been built in the 1950's, down and built a metal office building in it's place. I think he also ran fertilizer out of there. Anyway, we had started doing a sign business out of our bedroom and garage in 1984 and fell back to it, eventually building an office and doubling the size of the garage to use as a shop to build the bigger signs in. We ran the sign business until selling in November of 2008 when we retired effective January 1, 2009.

Lot of things happened in the last 50 years since we first started at Coin. Family has changed, we moved to town, started spending winters in South Texas to avoid the cold Iowa winters.

Well, I went off on a tangent there. Will finish up.

More later, L Carroll

Insults from a former time

 These  insults are from an era before the English language got boiled down to 4-letter words. 

 1. "He had delusions of adequacy ” Walter Kerr

 2. "He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”- Winston Churchill

3. "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. - Clarence Darrow

4. "He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.”-William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)

5. "Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?"- Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)

6. "Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it.” - Moses Hadas

7. "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.” - Mark Twain

8. "He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.” - Oscar Wilde

 9. "I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend, if you have one.”   -George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill

10. "Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one.” - Winston Churchill, in response

11. "I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here” - Stephen Bishop

12. "He is a self-made man and worships his creator.” - John Bright

13. "I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.” - Irvin S. Cobb

 14. "He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others.” - Samuel Johnson

 15. "He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up. -  Paul Keating

16. "He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.” - Forrest Tucker

17.  "Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?” - Mark Twain

18. "His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.” - Mae West

19. "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.” - Oscar Wilde 

20. "He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination.” - Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

21. "He has Van Gogh's ear for music.” - Billy Wilder

22. "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But I'm afraid this wasn't it.” - Groucho Marx

23. The exchange between Winston Churchill & Lady Astor: She said, "If you were my husband I'd give you poison." He said, "If you were my wife, I'd drink it."

24. "He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know." - Abraham Lincoln

25. "There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure." -- Jack E.  Leonard

26. "They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge." --  Thomas Brackett Reed

27. "He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them." -- James Reston (about Richard Nixon) —Robert L Truesdel

Humid day here in Iowa

 

77 degrees - partly cloudy at 1:30 pm Saturday here in Clarinda, IA.  Received 1/2 inch of rain overnight and is high humidity.  10-day forecast shows rain next week.  We will be in Omaha Thursday, Schuyler and Lincon on Saturday and Lincoln on Sunday.  Guess will have some rain with us.

  Yesterday, Friday, we drove to Hiawatha, Kansas and spent time with dear friends Harold &  LaRhoda Neher.  They were neighbors for 10 years in Kenwood RV Park in Texas, but due to age and health have not been back to the park since spring of 2020.  Harold is 97 years old & LaRhoda will be 88 this fall and both are slowing down.  He isn't able to get out of their farmhouse much at all anymore.  They bought a delicious fried catfish dinner from "The Bread Bowl" in town and we ate at their kitchen table.  

After lunch we played 3 games of Pegs & Jokers and then took naps and then another game followed by "No Guilt" pineaple pie Phyllis had brought.

Their stamina isn't what it used to be, but we all enjoyed being together for the afternoon.

Stopped at Aldi's in St. Joe on way home for some grocery shopping and was home before dark

This, and several other robins, were searching over the lawn for worms, I assume, this morning after the many hours of rain overnight and until 10:30 am this morning.

I think below is interesting

and would be well for kids to learn.

40 Old-Fashioned Skills That Kids Need to Know

How to write a letter   --    How to make a phone call  --    How to take a message  --   How to converse with an elder  --    How to play with a baby  --    How to sew on a button  --    How to genuinely apologize  --    How to hammer a nail  --   How to introduce yourself   --   How to notice the needs of others      How to make scrambled eggs  --   How to balance a checkbook   --   How to write a thank you note  --  How to do laundry  --  How to garden  --  How to fix something  --  How to plan a healthy meal  --  How to hang a picture  --  How to wash dishes  --  How to budget  --  How to wait and save for something  --  How to check tire pressure  --  How to ask questions to get to know someone better  --  How to read a map  --  How to find a book in the library  --  How to seek counsel from someone more experienced  --  How to care for a pet  --  How to select a thoughtful gift  -- How to admit a mistake  --  How to set the table  --  How to iron a shirt  --  How to give someone the benefit of the doubt  --  How to weigh pros and cons  -- How to have good table manners  --  How to dust  --  How to read a recipe  --  How to vacuum the stairs  --  How to change a lightbulb  --  How to open, close, and lock windows  -- How to use a fire extinguisher  --  How to make a salad  --  How to make a smoothie  --  How to clean the refrigerator  --  How to clean the bathroom  --  How to clean the kitchen  --  How to address and stamp an envelope  --  How to write a check  --  How to refill a stapler  --  How to put air in a bike tire  --  How to pump gas  --  How to change a flat tire

Later, L Carroll

Red Skelton on John Wayne

 Here are a few jokes and anecdotes that Red Skelton might have used in reference to John Wayne

1."John Wayne was so tough, he once broke a mirror over his own head and got seven years of good luck!"

2."You know, I once asked John Wayne if he ever gets tired of being called 'The Duke.' He said, 'Red, I don't mind it at all – it's better than being called 'The Princess!'"

3."I had the pleasure of working with John Wayne once. He was so tall, I had to stand on a box just to get in the same frame. And he still looked down on me!"

4."John Wayne had a walk that was all his own. They say he walked like that because he had one leg longer than the other. I say it was because he was always in a hurry to get to the saloon!"

5."John Wayne made so many westerns, he once told me, 'Red, if I have to ride one more horse, I'm going to ask for a saddle with a cushion!'"

6."People always said John Wayne wasn't afraid of anything. But I found out his one fear: he was terrified of running out of coffee!"

7."John Wayne could walk into a room and command it without saying a word. I tried that once, but they just thought I was lost and showed me the way out!"

8."John Wayne was the ultimate cowboy. I once saw him rope a steer, tie it up, and grill a steak all at the same time. And he did it without spilling his drink!"

9."John Wayne had that deep, gravelly voice. When he talked, you listened. When I tried to do the same, people thought I had a frog in my throat!"

10"John Wayne was so popular, even his horses had fan clubs!"