Fun weekend with kids, grandkids and great granddaughter

88º and muggy in Clarinda at 4:50 pm Monday.  Here is 10-day forecast.- lots of rain forecast

 Drove to Marengo Saturday morning, getting there about 1 pm.  Angry looking clouds to the north - same ones that caused two separate game delays for the Iowa-Iowa State football game in Ames.  Watched that game Saturday afternoon and evening, since the delays took it into the evening hours.  I also watched Nebraska beat Northern Illinois, played at Lincoln, NE

 Patty & Emmy were at a PEO convention in Des Moines until getting home Sunday morning.  Ashley and great granddaugahter Jessica got to play together all afternoon -- think it wore both of them out!

Granddaughter Ashley and son Cameron

 Sunday morning Cam spent over two hours showing us photos and explaining where they were and what they were doing on their summer trip to Iceland/Greenland.  Was very interesting, but we only got part-way through the trip when it was time for lunch and we didn't get back to finish it.  Cam promised to show us the rest when we are there in four weeks on our way to our winter stay in Texas.

When Grandma Pat and Aunt Emily showed up the games were in progress and got even more involved.

Grandma Patty did some barbering - trimming Jessica's bangs so she could see.

Jessica, with help from grandma and great grandma, put together a necklace for great grandma made up of lettered beads.

A brief interlude of having a book read -- I think this was just before a nap.

Refreshed and ready to go it was time to play a game that involved a spinner.

 

Time to goof off a bit, wearing grandma's specks ---- upside-down.

Saturday evening we picked up pizza at Caseys's for supper and Sunday noon we ate lunch at the Landmark Restaurant at I-80 north of Williamsburg, IA.

Photo at left is chowing down on grilled hotdogs and potato salad Sunday evening while watching on Iowa Public Television the 1st part of Ken Burn's film "Country Music".  Hope to see the remaining parts of it this week.  A very interesting program if you get a chance to see it, take the time to do so.


We left Marengo this morning about 9:30 am and got home in Clarinda about 2 pm.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( I've noticed the strangest thing about men who hang out in bars a lot.  It seems they have only one of two reasons to be there: They have no wife to go home to... or they do. ------------------
 I understand that before the crowbar was invented, the crows did their drinking at home.
--------------------------------- 1. Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?  2. Why is it that no matter what color of bubble bath you use the bubbles are always white?  3. Is there ever a day that mattresses are not on sale?'  4. Why do people constantly return to the refrigerator with hopes that something new to eat will have materialized?  5. On electric toasters, why do they engrave the message “one slice?” How many pieces of bread do they think people are really gonna try to stuff in that slot?  6. Why do people keep running over a string a dozen times with their vacuum cleaner, then reach down, pick it up, examine it, then put it down to give the vacuum one more chance?  7. Why is it that no plastic garbage bag will open from the end you first try?  8. How do those dead bugs get into those closed light fixtures?   9. Considering all the lint you get in your dryer, if you kept drying your clothes would they eventually just disappear?  10. When we are in the supermarket and someone rams our ankle with a shopping cart then apologizes for doing so, why do we say, “It's all right?” Well, it isn't all right so why don't we say, “That hurt, you stupid idiot?”  11. Why is it that whenever you attempt to catch something that's falling off the table you always manage to knock something else over?  12. Is it true that the only difference between a yard sale and a trash pickup is how close to the road the stuff is placed? 
13. In winter why do we try to keep the house as warm as it was in summer when we complained about the heat?  14. How come you never hear father-in-law jokes?  15. If at first you don't succeed, shouldn't you try doing it like your wife told you to do it? And obviously if at first you don't succeed, then don't take up sky diving!  16. The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some sort of mental illness. Think of your three best friends, if they're okay, then it's you. ----------------------- Q: What do you call a bunch of rabbits in a row all hopping backwards? 
 A: A receding hare line

Friday -Tonight’s Rare Harvest Moon, The Last One On Friday The 13th Until 2049

Well, guess I haven't been on here lately. Click on photos to enlarge.
We spent time with Beth & Steve Sunday evening through Thursday morning.

Went to Lincoln, NE Wednesday - single lanes on Highway 2 east

 of Missouri River.

Passed at least 2 dozen Model A cars that were heading to Lincoln.  They had been in Clarinda earlier in the week and were making a tour around Iowa and Nebraska.

Ate at the Mexican Restaurant here in Clarinda Wed evening

 Thursday I rode my Recumbent Trike to the Methodist Church where they have the Food Bank and helped unload the truck and put stuff in freezers and on shelves.

Finally finished cleaning the roof on the travel trailer today.

 I have been protecting two small tufts of what looked like pine trees by the shop cement apron and today I finally transplanted one to where I hope it will get some height.

With the Gregorys here we missed square dance and choir practice Wednesday evening.  We are leaving in the morning for Marengo, IA to spend time with the kids, grandkids and great granddaughter.  Should mention that we stopped in east Lincoln at Sam's Club and they had Christmas stuff on the front display behind the registers--don't know what happened to Halloween and Thanksgiving.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( A pastor, known for his lengthy sermons, noticed a man get up and leave during the middle of his message. The man returned just before the conclusion of the service. Afterwards the pastor asked the man where he had gone."I went to get a haircut," was the reply."But," said the pastor, "why didn't you do that before the service?"  "Because," the gentleman said, "I didn't need one then."
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“What fruit makes for classy counter tops? Pomegranite.”
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Kofi walks in to a restaurant and wants to order chicken. Unfortunately, English is not his first language and he can't remember how to say chicken in English. Kofi sees the guy at the table next to him with a plate with 4 boiled eggs on it.  Kofi points to the plate of eggs and says to the waiter, “I want their mother!"
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Maybe more later, Lynn

Little more rain overnight

84 degrees in Clarinda, IA at 3:30 pm on Tuesday.

Drove by the old Clarinda Elevator site and see that the Co-op is erecting a huge grain bin and cup elevator beside it.  I worked there 47 years ago before even the smaller bin at the left was there.

Decided to clean the roof of the trailer - got some stuff that is supposed to not damage the rubber coating and found I should have done this before.  Will try to do it more often.

While riding the trike this morning, I rode through Cornerstone Motel parking lot.  A group from Central Iowa Model A Club Their web site HERE   They were working on one Model A at the motel entrance and several parked out front.  Several more headed up the road (Highway 71)

Had about a half inch of rain overnight.

Had really high winds when the rain went through yesterday and lot of small limbs down.  Brother-in-law Steve piled them up and I picked them up and have most chipped.







We are going to Bryan East in Lincoln, NE tomorrow as follow-up on Heart Surgery in early June tomorrow.  Will also give a blood sample for the Kidney Study they did at time of surgery.

More sometime later, Lynn

Monday

74º here in Clarinda, IA at 9:15 am with predicted high of 73º and scattered showers.

 After going to church, and singing in the choir (we hadn't been notified that rehearsals had begun) - I was the only male and there weren't too many females - we went across the street to the setup in the parking lot of the hospital for their 80th year being in Clarinda.

 I added some bricks to the lower corner of the cement in front of the shop where they had been leaning, and then went to the farm and got six buckets of dirt and added it to the area below the bricks.  Yesterday we rode the trikes over to Orcheln's and got some grass seed and cheese cloth, to keep it from washing.  Got it done and then added sprinkling of dirt over the top of the cheese cloth after these photos were taken.  The dirt is very wet from the 2.5" of rain we got Sunday morning and predicted showers today should maybe give it a chance.

Beth & Steve Gregory (Phyllis' sister) arrived from Grand Lake, CO last evening and we had late supper of BBQ'd pork chops, grits and lettuce salad.  They are heading out this morning to funeral of son of dear friends of theirs and we are heading to hospital for my check-up following heart surgery and my 3-month diabetes checkup.

Lynn