October 8, 2014 Now In Arkansas (Sebastian County Fairgrounds, Greenwood, AR)

There is only one downside to parking at the near-perfect site on the Williams' Farm, near Iberia:  No internet, unless we carry the computer to Jan/Bruce's house.  I say that to make my excuses for being behind in posting to the blog.  

No posts didn't have a thing to do with St. Louis Cardinal games most every night, or visiting with Jan and Bruce, their sons--Matthew and Mitchell and families; or going places with Jan and Bruce; or riding the four-wheeler over the farm, generally just having a great time!

The view from the MH windows at the farm include fields filled with black cattle, bluebirds perched on the fence, flickers checking out the fallen walnuts, a Carolina wren perched on the window sill, rows of round bales of hay.  

We left all of that today to travel to northwest Arkansas to the home of our daughter, Trisha, hubby Jeff, and their four children.

We stopped first just east of Joplin at Colaw's RV Surplus.  Oh, my goodness, it is the biggest offering of RV supplies, plus all of the surplus RV's we have ever seen.  

I think I have mentioned that the bins in the new refrigerator used to hold milk, OJ, etc are shaped differently that the old refrig.  We could have kept the bins from the old refrig, but that didn't occur to us.  No fear, in a back building, was an abundance of bins from old refrigerators.  There were plenty of the right shape and size.  We chose the newest/cleanest one.  

Next stop was at SpeedCo, at Joplin MO, which specializes in lube/oil changing for heavy duty diesel trucks.  All of the necessary procedures were done, and we were on the road again.

We arrived just in time to pick up Tanner from soccer practice, take him home where he showered, and took him to church for Youth Services.  

Trisha is under the weather, not feeling well with sinus infection-type of symptoms.  

There is some major remodeling underway at their house.  Both bathrooms are being updated--floors, countertops, new shower surrounds;  The kitchen is also being updated ---new cabinets, counter tops, hardwood floors refinished; popcorn ceilings throughout the house is going to be removed.  The construction crew say it wll will be finished in two weeks.  We shall see.

I plan to stay on schedule ---stay tuned.

Here's a few pictures from the past week.

Mattie

L. to R: cousin Diana (from Iowa), sister Jan; Aunt Lois (from Iowa), Gayla

 Mattie, daughter of Matthew and Teresa, enjoying a ride in the frontloader. Her grandpa Bruce is the tractor driver.

Diana and Aunt Lois (mother/daughter) enjoying a visit  with all of us at Jan'Bruce's.  

Lois is the remaining sibling of the nine in my father's family.