First Week Back

We've been back for one week now.  Started back to work last Sunday morning.  Took us a little bit to get back into the swing of things again.  There's a new work camping couple here:  Jim & Lynn.  They've been doing this for several years.  He's around 70 years old and she's slightly younger.  They are an awesome couple.  Have enjoyed talking with them this week.  It sounds like they're staying here through the winter, also.

We are parked back in the same spot as before.  In case you forgot what it looked like, here's a picture from last year.

It looks pretty much like this since the grass is now green again with the rains over the last 10 days.

Yesterday, our friends:  Gary & Sue, stopped over in Springfield on their way to Weslaco, TX.  They worked in Okobojie this past summer and will work down in southern Texas this winter.  We were off yesterday so after they arrived we went over and caught up and then went out for dinner at Lamberts.  You know the home of throwed rolls.  They'll be in town until Monday at least.  The gear box went out on their camper and they have someone coming on Monday to hopefully fix it.  They want to be in Weslaco by Thursday.  Forgot to pull out the camera last night so no pictures.

By the way, if you look at the Springfield KOA photos on line, you'll see a picture of Sharon.  And it's a pretty good one, too.

Not much to tell, we arrived safely.  No issues on the drive down just some rain.  The rain stopped long enough for us to set up.  We still haven't set up the grill or the bird feeders yet but hopefully this week. 

This week just been getting settled and trying to remember all of the little things.  So far so good.  Haven't forgotten any major items but we'll get there.  For the most part the weather has been beautiful.  Thursday night had a spectacular lightening show with thunder.  Lost electricity for a short period of time when lightening struck close by.  No damage.

We've enjoyed this past week and looking forward to the Fall season.

Jackson, MN

Left Adel Friday morning at a fairly decent hour.  I believe we pulled out shortly after 9 am.  Of course, we needed to stop at the next exit - 4 miles away - to fill the camper tires with air.  Truck was fine but we had one tire on the camper that only had 40 psi.  Ugly!!!  So after filling the tires with more air, we were on the road and all before 10 am.  We are soooooo proud of ourselves.

It's Saturday afternoon and as you can imagine - football is on TV.  You have it right - the Iowa/Iowa State game.  From the noise coming from the corner chair - Iowa is currently behind. 

It was a great morning.  We slept in until around 9 am.  And just think we were almost on the road yesterday.  It was a little chilly this morning.  Kind of a nice change of pace.  That means we had a bowl of oatmeal for breakfast.  After breakfast and close to noon, we headed out to the grocery store.  Decided we needed nachos for the game and of course, I didn't have the ingredients.  On the way to the store, we saw a field with a lot of kites.  Apparently there is a kite club and the public was invited today.  Here are a few of the pics that we took.

On Wednesday before we left we took a trip up to Ames to the Reiman Gardens.  Sharon saw an ad about the Lego giant sculptures.  There were 27 sculptures.  We found all 27.  Also went into the butterfly room.  We couldn't believe all of the species of butterflies that they had. 

This one is called the owl butterfly.  We couldn't get a pic with the wings open.  There were so many unique ones but we have never seen a green/black one and the other reminded us of stars in the sky.

 In another post I'll include some pictures of the lego statues and gardens.  They were really amazing.

Labor Day Weekend

On Friday & Saturday, we decided to take a tour of the area and see what was changed.  Went into Clive & Urbandale.  Oh my!  We couldn't believe all of the new housing developments as well as the businesses - both new & changes. 

We took a little trip towards Stewart along the back roads.  Found a few flowers for picture taking.

The above pictures were from Friday.  On Saturday, we took a road trip down towards Winterset, then Indianola, stopped by the grocery store on the way back home.  We had a very nice day.

Staying inside today.  Lots of campers with fires.  Hopefully, we'll be able to enjoy sitting outside tomorrow night.