Day trip to Kansas

49º here in Clarinda, IA at 8:50 am on Saturday morning.  On Thursday we drove to Hiawatha, KS and enjoyed time with Harold & LaRhoda Neher (Our next-door-neighbors in Texas) and friends Burl & Donna Penny drove over from St. Joseph, MO.  

Picked some apples from their tree.

Good weekend with the kids-- and Red Skelton

70º and a nice day here in Clarinda, IA at noon Tuesday.   Click on photos to enlarge.

Spent a delightful weekend at our kids, grandkids, and great grandkids in Marengo.  Also, got to see the Red Skelton Show

As I stated in my post from our trip recently, we had spent close to three hours in The Red Skelton Museum of American Comedy and got to watch a lot of videos and read on his history.

On Friday we got to watch Brian Hoffman's "Remembering Red: A Tribute to Red Skelton.

Yup, that's us with "Red"

The program I use to import the photos to this blog always brings them in in reverse, so here are the pictures from after the show and will work up (or down) to the beginning.  Above, he is with our daughter-in-law Patty, granddaughter Emmy, and our son Cameron.

Click HERE  for original Red Skelton Pledge of Allegiance explanation.  He did a recreation of this video as part of his program.  Still very meaningful.

Saturday morning they moved the corner cabinet we had brought from Clarinda, that had been in Patty's parents house for over 40 years, into a corner of Cam & Patty's living room.

Got to spend a lot of family time with the Greats over the weekend.

Here is a series of "busy body" David, who just turned 6 months old over the weekend.

On way back to Clarinda, from Marengo, on Sunday we stopped and had pizza and a good long visit with dear friend Mary Jo Herzberg.  She and her husband Oliver (who passed away several years ago) had spent time with us each winter in Texas when both of us were going south then.

More later, Lynn

The Ides of September?

 77º here in Clarinda at 10:20 am Thursday.  To get into 90's today. Was a cooler day yesterday..

Not much going on here in Clarinda.  At right is photo of the pegs I put up showing the workers from the hospital, who own the house next to us, where the lot line is.  Hope they respect it. There has not been any construction going on where they started the new Surgery Room and the parking lot addition as well as the new building to the east.  Heard yesterday that the companies working on it haven't been paid for some time by the General Contractor and won't be back until they are paid.  Don't know the reason for all this.

I posted a photo back in April of this arbor that had all the vegetation on it killed.  It has regrown all summer and I continually thread the growth through the metal.  

At right is sunset a few days ago taken from some of the new parking lot construction east of the Hospital.

Three elderly women are talking about their troubles.

“Sixty is the worst age to be,” said Ruth, the 60-year-old, “You always feel like you have to pee. And most of the time nothing happens.”

“Ah, that’s nothing,” said the 70-year-old, Maxine. “When you’re 70, you don’t have a bowel movement anymore. You take laxatives, eat bran, you sit on the toilet all day and nothing happens.”

“Actually,” said Gilda, the 80-year-old, “Eighty is the worst age of all.”

“Do you have trouble peeing too?” asked Ruth.

“No, I pee every morning at 6 a.m. I pee like a racehorse; no problem at all.”

“Do you have trouble with your bowel movements?” Maxine questioned.

“No, I have one every morning at 6:30 a.m,” Gilda responded.

Puzzled with this, Ruth said, “Let’s get this straight. You pee every morning at 6 a.m. and poop every morning at 6:30 a.m. So what’s so tough about being 80?”

“I don’t wake up until 7.”

Old Farmer's Advice you might enjoy

 Old Farmer's Advice:

Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong.

Keep skunks and bankers at a distance.

Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.

A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor.

Words that soak into your ears are whispered... not yelled.

Meanness don't just happen overnight.

Forgive your enemies; it messes up their heads.

Do not corner something that you know is meaner than you.

It don't take a very big person to carry a grudge.

You cannot unsay a cruel word.

Every path has a few puddles.

When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.

The best sermons are lived, not preached.

Most of the stuff people worry about, ain't never gonna happen anyway.

Don't judge folks by their relatives.

Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

Live a good and honorable life, then when you get older and think back, you'll enjoy it a second time.

Don't interfere with something' that ain't bothering you none.

Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.

If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin'.

Sometimes you get, and sometimes you get got.

The biggest troublemaker you'll probably ever have to deal with, watches you from the mirror every morning'.

Always drink upstream from the herd.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment.

Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than puttin' it back in.

If you get to thinking' you're a person of some influence, try ordering' somebody else's dog around.

Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, and enjoy the ride.

Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just shoot you!

Fun day at Carsten Farm Days

78º here in Clarinda, IA at 4:17 pm Sunday -- overcast.

Spent yesterday, Saturday, at Carsten Farm Days near Shelby, IA.  Very interesting day; even though predicted high in the 90's, there was a good south breeze that helped make things tolerable. 

 Carsten Farm Days - Click HERE  

We were at the farm from about 9 am until after the parade that started at 2 pm and was over just after 3 pm.  Lot of walking and we met up with friends from Villisca - Darrell & Mavis Herzberg - and had a good visit with them during the parade.

These pictures all loaded in reverse from where I chose them, so the last is when we arrived and the first is at the parade.  Only took 169 photos and have not edited all of them.

Later, Lynn