Back home in Clarinda

 76º here in Clarinda, IA at 11:45 am Tuesday - with forecast high of 83º

Well, we were away from a good WIFI for 11 days, 10 nights - most in our trailer with low phone receiving and little/no Hotspot WIFI from it.

The Back Forty Bluegrass Festival ground is used only a week out of the year.  These photos wwre taken from the side of our trailer -- we weren't disturbing the local residents too much!

This photo taken at the west edge of the stage/campground
area.  Crops needed a little rain -- which we got on Saturday.

This is next to the field in the last photo.  Stage
is to the left, down the hill from this dam.

Stage area - days before the festival

Stage when crowd there

Not as large as Starvy Creek, but good sized.

Rhonda Vincent and the Rage onstage.  This
first set got rained out -- hard rain for an hour.

Rhonda's Momma sang two songs with her

This is after the rain and about an hour and a half
break.  We were cold and sitting on wet chairs.

I hand-held the camera to video the entire show,
some 26.5 hours -- that will cramp your hand/arm.

We really enjoyed the 2 sets of the Kody Norris
Show on Friday!

It was threatening rain Sunday morning, but we
unset the trailer and pulled out early.  Had over
2" of rain at home -- the pump system seems to work
but might not have needed it for part of the time.  I
have it set to drip-irrigate 4 minutes every 6 hours.

Now we (Phyllis) is working on the next project.  She has met a few times with the manager of the Glenn Miller Birthplace Festival to be on next week and we will spend all day Thursday, Friday, Saturday at the high school helping shoo people around (Ushering) and helping as needed.

More later, LCM