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Re: Rise and Shine!

Postby draglist » Sat Dec 30, 2017 4:16 pm

Slow day today. Denise packed up a bunch of stuff to take to Goodwill. While we were packing up the van, we saw that we got new neighbors across the street. Went to say welcome and the turned out to be a young military couple with a five year old. Super nice. Always hard to know who you are going to get, but I think we lucked out. They are going to be here for at least three years. Happy weekend! bp
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Re: Rise and Shine!

Postby Novel-T » Sun Dec 31, 2017 12:18 pm

Good Morning, sunny but -3c.

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Re: Rise and Shine!

Postby pro70z28 » Sun Dec 31, 2017 9:08 pm

We're back home. Saturday morning it was -15°f air temp. There was a lite wind, but I don't know what the wind chill calcuated to. Somewhere between very cold and bitter cold ? or maybe a little worse than that. Saturday I took off for a couple hours to cruise the area. First stop, out in the country, I pulled into a field drive way to get a photo of the spectacular sun dog display. Grabbed the inside door handle and it snapped off in my hand. :oops: Maybe it was cracked or maybe it just didn't like the temps. :wink:

This morning it was -20f air temp. Burr. We got up early and headed for home. As we got close to Nashua, IA, I told Cheryl, we're a little ahead of schedule, (it was about 9:30am) what say we stop off in Nashua and got to the Little Brown Church in the Vale. The one "The Church in the Wildwood" song was written about. With the fresh snow, I was pretty sure we'd get some good shots. Didn't see any cars but there were tracks in the snow from the house across the street. So. I checked the door, it was open. I went in and the pastor was in front getting ready for his sermon. I asked of it was going to be too cold today for Church and he said nope, I was just a little early, Church didn't start intil 10:30am. We hung around and talked with the pastor until a little after 10. People started coming in so we let the pastor get back to his prep and talked with people as they came in. There was maybe 30 people there. They said they usually have 75 or so, but the temps kept many away. Church was very unformal and they sung the old hymns. And of course the last sone had to be "The Church in the Wildwood". As we were singing the last verse a little old lady came up to us and said, " would you 2 like to ring the bell for us"? That was pretty cool.
Then they invited us to stay for snacks afterwards in the basement. We learned a lot of interesting facts about the Church. FOr instance it was built during the civil war. Due to lead going to the war effort to make ammo, no lead paint was hard to find. They used lead in white pain, but not in brown, so the church was painted with the only paint available. That's where it got it's name, so the church has been brown ever since.
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Re: Rise and Shine!

Postby pro70z28 » Sun Dec 31, 2017 9:13 pm

After Church & Lunch, we attmpted to jump start a car out in the parking lot. I had a starter pack that just about got it going, then tried jumper cables off the truck, but to no availe. Theyn decided to call a tow truck and get in a warm shop to thaw out, so we headed on down the road.
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Re: Rise and Shine!

Postby pro70z28 » Sun Dec 31, 2017 9:54 pm

Did I Mention it was COLD back in Iowa? :oops:
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The water tower shot is downtown Titonka Iowa, where I grew up, or attempted to grow up. :lol:


And now, I think I will go to bed and sleep away the rest of the year. :wink:
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Re: Rise and Shine!

Postby Zapster » Mon Jan 01, 2018 1:45 am

Beautiful church.
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Re: Rise and Shine!

Postby 23t » Mon Jan 01, 2018 6:51 am

Happy New Year to all our Draglist friends!!! Heres to 2018!!!!!!! :D

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Re: Rise and Shine!

Postby pro70z28 » Mon Jan 01, 2018 8:14 am

Happy 2018. -13.2°f clear and calm this mornin'. Spoz' it's too late to cover the roses. :wink:
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Re: Rise and Shine!

Postby Wheelzman » Mon Jan 01, 2018 9:26 am

Morning. Beautiful church and what an honor to ring the bell. Goota stuff Gary. Woke up to a 0 degree reading here at the house and it is -8 at the airport. I think I will stay in the house today so I don't freeze my pieces parts off. We were in the house most of the day yesterday but called my oldest brother to see if he would like to share a party size pizza with us if we brought it to his house? Yep was his response and he told us he has been having trouble with his knee and is getting it checked out later this month. I cleaned his computer, updated his Avast virus controller and deleted a bunch of useless files for him while we were there. Today's schedule will start about 1:00 when the lady and her daughter from across the street are coming over for sauerkraut and pork with some weenies thrown in for good measure. We shall have a wonderful time. Stop to look back on the year gone by, discuss the highlights and see how you have grown then make a promise to yourself to do better in 2018. God bless from Mr. and Mrs. Wheelz. :D :D :D :D :D

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Re: Rise and Shine!

Postby Novel-T » Mon Jan 01, 2018 12:36 pm

Good Morning sunny almost -3c. We had planned on dinner at Olive Garden at 5pm yesterday. There must have been 50 people lined up for tables. Plan B ,,Milestones. The Hostess was determined to seat us on High Stools in the Bar. We were slightly more determined to sit at a table in the Main room. We won. There was a pre-set menu, but very good choices. We were back home before 7 pm. My energy was gone by !0,so went to bed. Susan stayed up until 11:15 she tells me. She recorded the Seattle Space Needle fireworks, we'll watch it now. :mrgreen:


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