More on trip from Callaway to Clarinda

84º here in Clarinda, IA at 11:45 am on Tuesday.

 On Sunday, after eating breakfast on top the sand-hill near Callaway, NE and getting done with the Trail Ride and  we headed down high 40 and stopped in Oconto to look at the sculptures by Charles Horn.  I had seen a few photos, but had no idea he had made so many.

Charles had been in a class ahead of me and had married Patsy Empfield right out of high school.  She passed away last year from Cancer and one of the large metal sculptures was an angel -- his sign he put at the bottom.................................................................

Entire angel sculpture












I have up-loaded all 114 photos to my Picasa web site HERE
Hope you enjoy, and appreciate the hours this farmer took to re-purpose all these iron "junk" items.

 We proceeded on to Kearney where we got on Interstate 80.  At left are two photos of The Archway near Kearney.  We had toured this many years ago and the couple hours in it was very enjoyable and showed history of Nebraska and the Plains Area.

 These three photos, at right, were taken at rest stop near Grand Island.  They show interesting points about the area.

Must include some more photos of Great Granddaughter Jessica.
This is poppa Heath holding her while they were still at the hospital.  She was born Thursday and finally went home on Sunday.

Understand there was some struggling figuring out how to fit the car seat in the car and how to fit Jessica into the car seat, but it was accomplished.

This is what Ashley posted on Facebook with the photo at right:      "Made it through the first night and full day at home. Fresh butt and all clean. What a life!!"





We are lined up to drive to Marengo this Saturday (4 days from now) to spend couple nights at our son's and get to see Jessica Lynn and see some 4th of July fireworks.

More later, Lynn

55 year Class Reunion of Callaway (Nebraska) Class of 1961

82º with a feel like of 92º at 4:00 pm on Monday

We stopped in Lincoln, Ne about 4 pm yesterday and had visit with my brother Roger and his wife Carolyn.  They fixed some hamburgers and brats on the grill.


Got our trailer backed into the spot in front of the shed just at dark.

Saturday we attended the 55th Class Reunion of Callaway (Nebraska) High School class of 1961.

In photo at right - back row: Lee Ann Nansel Young, Carol Farmer Dennis, Marci Uhlig Wahlgren, Karen Leibhart Dodge, Linda Whaley Taylor, Nancy Cantrell Willis, Gaylene Hoffman Rudy, Mary Lynn Bridges Griffith.
Front row:  Craig Meads, Albert (Bud) Wise, Bob Lewis, Lynn Miles, Phillip Lord.

We had watched the Pioneer Picnic Parade and then gone back to the Senior Center for our gathering.

 Were surprised that Bob Lewis, from Portland, Maine, attended.  He had not been to any reunions since the one in 1966.  I had sent him the book of classmate stories and addresses; don't know if that had anything with him coming.  He visited with his sister and brother here.

 Sisters Bernita and Gaylene.

Lots of visiting and many from other grades in school stopped in for a bit of it.  We finally hustled out just before 6 pm because that was when the banquet at the High School started.

At the banquet and the All-School-Reunion program afterwards I got to meet Stan Boyer, now from South Carolina, who grew up just a couple miles from where I grew up in Custer County, Nebraska back in the 1940's and 1950's.

 Sunday morning we were up early and 2 miles south and west of Callaway for the Trail Ride.  The starting point was only a few miles from where I was born 73 years ago.  6 tractors pulled some pretty good sized low boy trailers that had bales of straw on them for seating.

 We went about 2 hours slowly over the prairie grass and hills with a lot of twisting and turning.  Quite a few were on horses riding along,, ahead or behind us.

Bit old cottonwood tree.

 Went by a couple tanks of water.

Pivot irrigation system working in the early morning, let us see bit of a rainbow against it down in the valley.

 Finally reached a hilltop where members of the Seven Valleys Rodeo were preparing scrambled eggs, sausages, biscuits and gravy with juice or coffee.  They had prepared more than the crowd, so seconds were offered.

Elmo Witthuhn, class of 1946, (89 years old) was having a bit of trouble sitting on the straw and asked if we could support each other on the way back from breakfast.  We went only about a mile or so and then were on the paved Cozad Road and then probably 5 miles back to where we had left our vehicles.


Lots more pictures to post, but I will make it in a new blog later tonight or tomorrow.

Later, Lynn