AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL
My posts have been few this summer as we have been very busy and have put a lot of miles on the car. From June 20th through July 4th we went to Cody, WY for four wonderful days, came home and worked for a week and then headed to Iowa to see Gary's uncle Ben. ( He will be 95 the end of the month and is in a rest home). On the way we stopped in eastern Nebraska to spend the night with my sister then headed on to Lemars, Iowa. Lemars is also the home of Blue Bunny ice cream so we took a few minutes to go through the museum and have an ice cream cone in the old fashined ice cream parlour. After we left Lemars we went up to Sioux Falls, SD for the night and the next day visited Falls Park and the Sioux Falls Zoo. It was rather hot and I thouht my legs would never want to walk again but it was enjoyable and we took in some really interesting sights. After we left Sioux Falls we drove across South Dakota on I-90 (not much to see there) and took a loop tour through the Badlands National Park (too much to see). It is pretty facsinating to have the flat lands suddenly turn into these amazing outcroppings of rock. We spent that night in Rapid City then headed home via the Black Hills. We lived in Custer many years ago and wanted to see how much it had changed. Also checked up on the progress of the Crazy Horse monument. All said and done I think we put 2100 miles + on the car in two weeks time, even with the price of gas!!! I have posted a few of the scenery pictures so you can get a feel for what we saw.
America has so many great and wonderful things to see.
CODY, WYOMING
SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA
SIOUX FALLS ZOO
BADLANDS NATIONAL PARK, SOUTH DAKOTA
It's been a while since I updated on the progress of the garden. In spite of the wind and late frost and having to replant some things it is growing nicely now. We have finished off the radishes and now are enjoying Kolrabi. I think everything will be a few weeks behind because of all the early adversity but should be able to enjoy corn, cucumbers, squash, melons and tomatoes in a few weeks. Of course there is cabbage to make saurkraut (mostly for Kara and Jaret) and cucumbers to make my "famous" jalepeno garlic dill pickles. Most of my rose bushes have bloomed in profusion and are now kind of dormant but one red one was a bit late in blooming so we still get to enjoy roses for a little longer. They will probably all bloom again later this summer or early in the fall. A few pictures follow.
