One of my (our's and a lot of other peoples) favorite landmarks is hurting more and more. In fact, it continues to stand while slowly falling apart. This is the old grainery in Crookston. No one is tearing it down and, obviously, no one is saving it. So, one day it will be a pile of sticks on the ground. SAD!!! I'm sure it was there when my Grandpa Logterman was a young man....probably he could have remembered when it was put up. Another thought ------ when the top of it falls off it will probably just sit there ---- UGLY!!!! No one will clean it up. AUGH!!! I hope there's usable lumber --- that will get someone out there!!!
Anyway --- on to other things. Valentine had some hard winds over a month ago. A guy called up Gary --- he had gotten his name from a mutual acquaintance. "Did Gary want a Spruce tree to cut up?" He had found out that Gary had his own sawmill. "Sure."
He got a real nice amount of lumber from that tree. But what a loss for the Boyers. They lost all of their shade on the west side of their house.
Holland Michigan has Tulip Time in May. They have to work real hard at getting the tulips to be perfect and some times the weather doesn't cooperate. People are fined quite heavy for even picking one tulip!!! Well, we don't have a week long celebration over our Sunflowers ---- but I think the beauty is ever so much more special. We don't do a thing to get them to grow and we certainly don't fine anyone for picking a huge bouquet .... and there are tall ones and short ones..... You do have to be careful because there are also bees and ants on them --- but everything can't be perfect.....
Here is our driveway -----
The other day as we were driving along I got the feeling that we (in the car) were in a parade and the sunflowers were watching us go by and waving at us.....All those yellow faces looking at us. OK --- so I'm wierd......
The BIG project is the parsonage....... well - it's a breezeway attaching the parsonage to the garage.
They started this past Saturday.....tore it off in 3 hours. I guess the steps were SOLID cement and it was quite the task. They beat it to pieces ---- blow by blow. Somehow one of Gary's hammers came up broken but no one has claimed doing it. Oh Well --- all in a days work. This could be something that goes along nicely and then again --- it could be something that has this problem and that problem. Hope it goes nicely for the workers sake as well as for Pastor Mark and Dawn!!!! Gary has somehow been put "in charge".....
It was down right chilly this morning --- 45 degrees. So I suppose summer could be on the way out. But we are hoping for some good warm days yet. I have about 20 nice sized pumpkins in the garden --- it's the first time we've gotten pumpkins----really never planted them before. We also have about 9 watermelons that we are watching. No muskmelons this year.....they don't do very good for some reason. We've dug our potatoes and pulled all the onions....canned beans.....made sweet pickles and sweet pickle relish. Guess you could call our garden a good success. Still waiting on the cauliflower and brussel sprouts.... also something new we are trying.
Enjoy what remains of the summer!!!
One of the sunsets while we camped at Maloney Lake south of North Platte this summer.
Gary and Barb
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