I'm Still Alive

Though some of you might think I had kicked the bucket because I haven't posted anything for a long time. We have been traveling.

On Thursday, April 20th we drove to my Mom's in Coldwater, Michigan. Sunday, April 23rd we drove to our place in Crossville, Tennessee. Then on Thursday, April 27th we drove back to Centertown, Missouri.

On Friday night we went to the Moose Lodge in Fremont, Indiana for fish. It is always good but that night it was awesome. People in the photo are Kathy (my brothers wife), my Mom, Kathy, Cindy and Nancy (Kathy's sisters), Ed (Cindy's husband), Doug (our son), Anthony (Doug's husband) & David (my brother).

Before leaving the Moose Cindy handed out a bunch of her famous cookies and I got a bunch of her tomato juice hootch.

Chasen & Colton, David's grandsons, certainly enjoy Cindy's cookies. So does Ashton, his other grandson, but I didn't manage to get a photo of him.

 

After setting in Mom's barn for 17 years David got his Chevelle out last fall and now has it back on the road.

We enjoyed having a chance to catch up with Tom (Kathy's brother) and Mary Lou (his wife) while in Tennessee. Kathy took the photo below out one of our cabin windows.

On the way back from Tennessee we stopped for lunch at a Southwest Grill. I don't think I had eaten at one before. Lunch was excellent, and while not cheap it was a good value. Dinner/supper prices looked a little high (I'm cheap) but the prices on their lunch menu were reasonable.

Friday through Sunday we got 6.75" of rain at our place in Missouri. We needed rain, but not that much that fast. Our pond needed water it was at least a foot below the bottom of the overflow pipe Friday morning but it was overflowing by Sunday PM.

Water flowing through the overflow pipe and over the spillway/path.

And running down to a pond on a neighbors property. When its full this pond comes almost to our property line.

Water flowing under our driveway feeding our pond. The pond also gets fed from runoff from the other side of the house.