Ramblings of a Silver Haired Lady
When I was 10 or 11 (really don’t remember) my dad and I went to Steamboat Springs. Being the “city” girl that I was, evidently I didn’t have the appropriate clothes for spending time on a ranch. So Dad and Aunt Ellie took me into town to buy me some jeans at the western store, …
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Tommy and I got up Monday morning and headed over to the old Mesa Schoolhouse. This school was built in 1916. Uncle Don attended school there in the 1930-1940 time frame. As I was walking around the school, this little guy came up to see what I was doing. Tommy said that cows are as …
Steamboat Springs here we come! Evan started out on his bike about 5:45 a.m. He was going to meet us in Walden. The rest of us got a later start. We were packing Amanda and Evan’s car and Tommy realized that one of the tires was low so we switched over to the truck. Because …
Tommy, along with Amanda and Evan, finally got to ride the Rails to Trails on Saturday. Tommy and Evan rode the complete 20 miles. Amanda stopped at the halfway point so she could spend some time with me. This was along the road to pick the guys up. Lake Owen was the stopping place. These …
We spent the night in McCook, Nebraska on our second night out. We enjoyed a thunderstorm that rolled into town about the same time we did. Dinner was at the Taste of Texas BBQ and was really good. Friday morning we took off towards Laramie. When we got to Sterling, Colorado, we saw the following …
This is one of the first “volunteer” sunflowers we saw along the side of the road. Note the bee on this sunflower–he is covered in pollen. Doesn’t this sunflower have a neat pattern in the center? Some people live a long way off the paved road. And the paved road is a two lane road …
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After spending the night at our usual hotel–Ramada–in St. Joe, we ate breakfast at Shirley’s Dinner Bell in Troy, Kansas. We saw this church in Kansas and liked the way it looked. Another neat building we saw. Note the safe outside on the sidewalk. Guess there was nothing in it! We saw this truck for …
Not much to see or talk about from our first day on the road. The first day, from Atlanta to St. Joseph, MO, is always the hardest and longest. As we were driving over Monteagle (just north of Chattanooga) we looked
Those are the words for Anne and Cleg as they take Bubba for us while we go on our Wyoming Road Trip. As you can see from this picture, Bubba is a very talented Beagle. He has 3 chew toys in his mouth (his record is 5). We fully expect by the time we get …
I just love close up pictures of flowers. This pretty baby is a dahlia living out in our garden.