Grandkids

Boy's and their toys

Pictures taken 9-18-08

For Christmas last year we got mom and dad "Family Pictures" We are having them taken this weekend at the pond. We decided we needed a few props, so I got some pumpkins and some mums.




These are pictures of the water line coming through. We will be hooked up to rural water before long. Can't wait!

This is the creek that runs through Paul's hog lot. They're going right through the creek with the line.

Road Kill Trip 2008

Well we decided to take a little trip over Labor Day weekend. We left early Sunday morning and headed south. We met up with friends Diane and Dwight and their son and grandchildren. We had a good breakfast and a really nice visit. Then "on the road again". Headed farther south but this time we took the two lane. Didn't get back on the interstate. Oh what you can see.

Stopped at 3 winery's and an orchard. Drove through "Giant City Park". Our final destination was Lambert's in Sikeston Mo., and yes they "throwed the rolls". We ended up staying in Sikeston over night. Got up the next morning and headed home on a different two lane road. Drove through Mounds Illinois. Stopped at the National Cemetary. That was very touching. There are a lot of "unknown" graves, hundreds of them. I just can't even imagine.



We stopped at a little town called Desoto to see an artist's shop, he wasn't open, but his creations were outside, bears and buffalo, eagles and benches. Lots of really neat stuff.



I guess I should talk a little about the name of our trip. We were in southern Illinois and Joe was driving. He saw a dead copperhead snake on the side of the road. He had never seen one so one "u-ey" later and we're going back to see it. He wanted a picture so the name just fit. The last pictures are of the road kill we saw. Boy did that coon stink. We didn't get the skunk. It took us three tries to get the squirl. Three u-eys and we met a cop. That one would have been hard to explane.



Anyway when ever you go anywhere with my mom and dad you have a good time. You just have to be kind of nuts and laugh at the silliest things.



Anyway we really had a good time.



Oh yah, Coartney I still have the road kill in my freezer for you.

The UGLY red headed ducks at the motel. They were really UGLY.

Bob being Clyde

ADM grain veyor system. Taking grain to the barge on the Ohio river.

The guys wanted to drive through this greenhouse. They had this really cool stone fence.

Joe checking out the buffalo. He almost tipped it over on my. He thought it was iron, but it was alluminum.

Making a new Blanket

Kristyn wanted a new blanket sooooo we just whipped one up.