A little more rain

Clarinda, IA 64º    We got to go "across the street" to the new hospital this morning for the first time.  Thought we would walk because, even though it is across the street it is actually a couple blocks to the front door, it is close, but was raining at the time we needed to go to the Medical Clinic that is inside the hospital for our blood draws.  (Found .3" rain in gauge at noon when it had quit) We had physicals last October before we went south and are now getting our checkups again.  As a type 2 diabetic I am supposed to get an A1C every 3 months, but the doctor had no problem with waiting longer time because had been doing okay last summer.  Am a little anxious to get the reading now.  I have been on an antibiotic for a sinus infection that has one side affect of increasing blood sugars since April 11th, so this may show up on the long-term test.

 Couple shots of the main entrance to the hospital interior as we were waiting for the "blood sucker" nurse.

Yesterday afternoon, while the sun was shining, I painted several boards that I had moved to town with us from my shop in the country that will be put up in the ceiling of the shop.  They dried nicely in the bright sunshine, 72º degree temperature and a light breeze.


We rode our Recumbent Trikes about 5:15 pm a little around town and then to the Methodist Church to choir practice.  After about 45 minutes at practice we rode some more, getting in 5.5 miles. 

I took this photo of the sun peaking out of the clouds to the west about 7:00 pm.

Phyllis is with a friend helping her move her mother from an assisted living place here in Clarinda to Griswold, IA today.

We will go to the "Thursday Night Group" supper at J's Pizza this morning for the first time since last October to see old friends.
    I finished reading Nora Robert's "Northern Lights" book and now am reading "The Worst Hard Time" by Timothy Egan.  It is a very deep discussion on the dust bowl of the 1930's, starting with the 30-45 years use of the land leading up to the dust bowl, especially in the area of "No Man's Land" - the far western part of the Oklahoma Panhandle and the surrounding area in Colorado, New Mexico, Kansas, and Texas.
Till later, Lynn