Storm coming

Saturday evening and storm forecast with high winds, rain & hail.  Pushed things aside in the shop and backed the Ford inside in case of the hail.  We took the trailer out west of town to our old neighbor Jim Whipple's place yesterday and it is under roof, too.  It will be stored there until we need it in August when we plan to go to State Center, IA to the Midwest Kenwood RV Park Summer Rally.  We may go on east, stopping at some Kenwood friends and ending up near Delaware, Ohio -- a suburb of Columbus where our daughter lives.

When got weather warning on phone and had put the Ford under roof, took this photo to the west.

Had just gotten the hot tub out today, filled and started recirculating water (that is the way it heats) so covered it with boards and bricks to hold down.  Also put the metal picnic table and chairs back under the eaves of the house.

Catching up on some of our late travel time from Texas, at left is Don & Vicki Miles when we ate out in Cape Girardeau, MO.

At left is Jenn Miles, Don's daughter, and Phyllis.

Playing cards with Don and Vicki before he had to drive in to Cape Girardeau to give a massage at the Health Center.

The next day it was very windy and very cold as we stopped at Marti & Carl's place and set up the trailer in their driveway.

This afternoon I got the hot tub out of the shop and tightened up all the fittings inside the motor area and then connected it to the tub.

 Some of the pottery stored in the little trailer that will be set up on the wall below the front window and flower pots put in them.

Getting yard stuff out of the trailer where it had been stored since fall of 2012.

Surprisingly, no leaks and tub filled and heat/circulating going on.




Friday we had the Dish guy here in the morning, getting our 3rd & 4th TV's working in the dining/entry area and also at my desk in the basement by the computer.  Also had the Mediacom guy hook up the cable internet so can keep up with the blog---------when in the mood.

Last Sunday Cam's took us to What Cheer, IA where we enjoyed the concert of community band -- Grandson-in-law played the tuba in this program.

Cam getting ready to go to work on Monday morning when he took us back to our trailer parked in the bank parking lot.

This cute throw rug is in Ashley & Heath's kitchen.

On the way to What Cheer we ate Sunday lunch at Thornburg, IA

On Monday we had blow out of the spare tire we had put on week earlier in Arkansas when we were just north of Villisca.  had the coop come out and put on a new tire on original wheel (spare steel wheel was bent up).

Dumped our tanks (from the week's journey) at the city airport dump site before coming in home.

Spotted back where the trailer was on October 15th when we headed to Texas.

No leaves on the trees here.  We had come through a lot of "green" areas not too far south of here.  This is looking from front of garage towards my shop/shed.

Front of house.

 Parked this way the wheels of the trailer, and the hitch, are on cement.  If I needed to unhitch, could leave it here.

Took lots of time to transfer all the stuff out of the trailer and truck that we had brought from our home in La Feria, TX.

Lots of leaves accumulated since October 15, 2013.

 The Worx vac I got sucks up the leaves, grinds them to 1/10th the size/space.

Wasn't nuts about the temperature one morning this week.

Cleaning the leaves.  Behind Phyllis is the cart where I was chopping the leaves and blowing them onto the bank of the old railroad right-of-way just past the hedge row.

Suckin.....................

and blowin.....................

By just after lunch the temp had raised quite a bit with a strong south wind blowing.

When finally got the wheels back on the recumbent trikes we took a spin.  Haven't ridden them for several weeks and needing to work the legs back in shape.

This is on the trike, looking northwest as we come up LaPerla street to our house.

On Wednesday evening we went to Choir practice at the Methodist Church -- Linda had requested our presence -- first time in almost 2 years.

Then we went to Clarinda Circle 8 Square Dance where Lanny Weekland from Omaha was the caller.  We used to be members of this club, but are gone most of the year when they are dancing.

Carolyn Rude had a lot of photos on display from the Iowa State Square Dance Convention that she and Southwest Iowa put on.

This is photo I took off Carolyn's Facebook page of those from the local club at the State Convention in Council Bluffs.







Well, got you caught up on some of our activities.  Seems like a busy week--haven't been to this home for a whole week yet.
Will see what next week brings.

Later, Lynn