L & P Miles : Near Conway, Missouri for the week at Starvy Creek Bluegrass Festival

Saturday, July 6, 2024

Near Conway, Missouri for the week at Starvy Creek Bluegrass Festival

Set our trailer up about 3:30 this afternoon (Saturday) at Starvy Creek which will have Bluegrass Festival from Wednesday through Saturday. Very warm. This is on an 80-acre field near Conway, MO and is some 30 to 40 miles northeast of Springfield, MO, along I-44. Had to come early to get a spot with electricity & water. Some RV's have been here for weeks.

Went to New Market, IA on the Fourth for their 1 pm parade. Lasted about an hour with lots of cars, trucks, tractors, fire trucks, etc., etc.

Ronnie Foster, 90 years old,
was riding a borrowed horse.

Phyllis had a pulled pork sandwich and I got a couple sausage links. She got to see quite a few of her cousins in the Cabbage family, finding the lot behind us was a cousin and they all get together every year at her place with a table of food, and chairs to watch the parade. She invited us back next year and to partake.

When mowing the yard Friday I realized the huge Pin Oak tree that we had heavily trimmed some 10 years ago, had lots of sprigs coming out around many of the large branches that had been removed. So I got the ladder out and cut them off.

Japanese Beetles are back!! I found a Neem
Oil spray for them and it seemed to get rid
of all the ones that were there at the time. Sprayed
all the flowers and plants by the back deck.

These are in the circle on west side of house.

Have arranged to go into Springfield on Monday and visit with Sue Rank who, with her husband, spent many years in Kenwood but after he passed we hadn't seen her for several years. Then this last winter she came down alone and rented a place in the park and took part in many activities. Had told her in the spring we would visit her in Springfield, but don't think she had believed it.