Our visit to the Shetlar family lake house on Pomme de Terre Lake included an outing to Lead Mine. It was a 30 to 40 minute drive back into the Missouri country side. The community is located about 3.5 miles east of Tunas on Missouri Route E and approximately 50 miles north-northeast of Springfield, The Lead Mine community is made up of 50 to 60 Old Order Mennonite families. These Mennonites left Lancaster, Penn., in 1969 and settled in Missouri because land was cheaper. Most people thing they are Amish but they are members of Stauffer Mennonite Church. It is a small conservative sector with similarities to the Amish. Most Mennonite are more modern than this group and use electricity. First we stopped at the produce auction. Mennonites are known worldwide for their farming practices and in the summer, many families sell their produce. We wanted to purchase some of …
We were invited to a Honey Harvest. We didn’t know what to expect, but we knew, from the invite, there would be food, drinks, music and maybe some honey. As we arrived, there were lots of cars turning into the road leading up to the ranch. We parked, grabbed our chairs and cooler and made our way up the long driveway to the barn. We found a nice shade tree to put our chairs under, then continued up to the big tent and barn. On the left of the tent were four huge grills with skirt steak cooking. Inside the barn was a very large batch of Margaritas, a samples of the honey that had been harvested the night before and many collectibles the family had gathered over the years. Beyond this barn was the horse stables and a large garden. There were about 200 people milling around having quite …
On Friday and Saturday night we had storms move through our area. Between the two nights we had 5 1/4 inches of rain in our rain gauge. On Saturday night the storm started about 9:30, with small wind damage in our area but parts of Kansas City had widespread wind damage and power outage. Some reports said the storms packed winds between 70-75 miles per hour with lightning, heavy rain and scattered hail. We had the rain, didn’t hear any hail. After the storm on Friday night we had lots of leaves in the pool so kind of think we had more wind then on Saturday night. Kansas city didn’t far so well with winds toppling trees, knocking down power lines and damaging homes and businesses. The severe weather canceled several events on Saturday night including Boulevardia, Funk Fest and a Willie Nelson concert. Kansas City Power & Light reported …
One of the reasons that the Chinese Theatre remains so famous today is its legendary hand and footprint ceremonies. Â Even now stars long to be immortalized in cement in the theater’s forecourt. Â There are several stories on how this first occurred and they all seem to start with someone accidentally stepping in cement. Â Some say it was Sid himself. The TCL Chinese Theatre officially attributes the event to Norma Talmadge. These are just a few of the hand prints, and signatures of the stars in the forecourt of Grauman’s. Some of the stars have include more than just their hands, feet and signature. George Burns left his cigar print, John Wayne left his fist, Whoopi Goldberg pressed a deadlock into the cement and Roy Rogers included his six-shooter along with Triggers hoof prints.
Along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine there was so many activities it was like a maze of tourists. We encounter musicians asking us to buy their CD, protesters and people in costumes wanting us to pay them to take a picture with them. The Walk of Fame runs 1.3 miles and the stars are paced at 6-foot intervals. The monuments are coral-pink terrazzo five-point stars rimmed with brass inlaid into a charcoal-colored terrazzo background. In the upper portion of each star field the name of the honoree is inlaid in brass block letters. There are more than 26, 000 embedded in the sidewalks. For a celebrity to obtain a star on the Walk of Fame there are several requirements. An application has to be submitted with why they want a star, an agreement that they will attend the unveiling ceremony and a $30,000 sponsorship fee. A committee selects 20 celebrities to …
The group performers, and bands make the parade a parade of America, making it feel like a hometown occasion. There are 8,000 total participants (approximately 4,000 of which are Macy’s employees, including clowns, marching bands, dancers, balloon handlers and big-name performers. Many of these volunteers are doctors, nurses, advertising executives, social media managers of course a tone of Macy’s employees. These people gladly spend their Thanksgiving morning dancing and throwing confetti down the streets of New York. The 610 Stompers with ages ranging from 20 to 60l refuse to allow professional dancers to taint their motto of Ordinary Men, Extraordinary Moves. Since their birth in 2009, they have evolved and grown into a 100-man strong, all male dance group whose bold mission is to return the ordinary man to the glory of dance. The members f the Stompers come from all walks of life and from across the country. New …
More balloon photos with a little info about the balloon.
This is the tent Steve purchased, it was cheaper to buy instead of renting one for the weekend. They didn’t put the sides on since it was going to be nice weather. It made a nice area to sit and visit before and after lunch. Rick had tables we used and Bob got chairs from work, it does take a village to have a get together! Some of the pictures seem like repeats but there might be one person different and I wanted to get everyone I could into the pictures.The kids table, looks like they had enough to eat.
As I started to write this post, I looked up at the title I had written. Then I questioned, what does it mean to be a friend. So I went to the Urban Dictionary, not a source used by persons of my age, but I find they usually have some interesting definitions. So it’s definition of friend is: people who are aware of how retarded you are and still manage to be seen in public with you. people who make you laugh till you pee your pants. people who cry for you when one of your special items disappear. when you don’t have enough money to get an ice cream, they chip in. knows all of your internet passwords. who would never make you cry just to be mean. Not a bad definition except I don’t care for the word retarded being used. Guess that puts me into being a …
Some of the marchers were marching to commemorate the life of a father, grandfather, uncle or a relative of a friend. For motivation some said they kept in mind the Bataan soldiers and their suffering. “Every time you start feeling tired, you think about them and this is nothing compared to what they had to go through.”
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