I should probably finish

talking about our trip to Michigan.

We left on Highway 31 to Highway 131. As we were driving along, we saw a sign for an Air Zoo. Now I never heard of an Air Zoo, but what made us turn around was the SR-71 on the small bill board.
SR-71 will always be hubby's favorite. Beale AFB, California (back in Regan's time) was our first joint assignment after getting married. So, we turned back and followed the signs to Portage, Michigan. I wish we could have stayed longer; but we saw the important (to hubby) display.

There were a number of these stencils leading from the parking lot to the front door of the Air Zoo. We used to see these all over Kadena AB, Okinawa. Hubby would not admit to doing a few of them himself. ;-)

We looked at a few other displays, like an actual engine from an SR, an interactive weather video and a few other things, but we barely scratched the surface. The SR was one that had been used by NASA, as you can see.

I did see my first one of these, while I was there:

Fortunately I was the only one using it at the time, so I didn't have to wonder...

If you want to know what all you can see (and what we missed), click on this link for the Air Zoo.



And a little store we actually discovered about 4 years ago. Wilson Farm Market. A great little farmer's market type store in Amish country. We specifically made sure to stop there on the way home. And should have bought more! We thought that last time, too.
Click the link to see more, because I didn't think to take pictures. The Pumpkin Roll we bought was great. I thought about getting the Red Velvet one also, but didn't.
We did buy a dozen jumbo brown eggs (hubby's favorite), and they all had double yolks! (Again, hubby's favorite!)

We'll just have to go there again!

You all be safe and God bless!

Thought I should do another update.

The pecan season is upon us.

Pecan prices are the best we have seen since we retired. 80 cents a pound right now. pecans are so so, but the season is just starting.

While we were picking pecans, we saw this out in the pasture.

To give you an idea, I pushed it around a little and put my pecan picker on the ground beside it. The pecan picker is four feet long..

And a close-up of the 'head'.

I feel like it gives me a fair outline of the snake's head/nose/eye area. Or so it seems, haha. It was(is) probably a corn snake or rat snake. If so, neither is poisonous and actually good to have around.
Especially if I don't see it while it is alive. ;-)

The weather has been really nice. We actually had a couple nights in the 40s. Thought maybe "winter" was finally here; but nope. Getting another warmup. Not the 90s, hopefully. I think the last I read in Farmer's Almanac was wetter warmer. We'll see.

Since I never did the other update on our Florida trip, I'll add a couple pictures here. Sister-in-law and hubby took us fishing on a pier. The great 'blue' herons there are not really afraid of people. They will steal your catch or bait right out of your bucket if you're not careful. Some people feed them, which adds to the lack of fear.

Most of the people weren't catching anything. And when they were catching, They caught these little mango- or mangrove snapper, I think they were called.

The evening was gorgeous. Just enough breeze to cool the 90 degree weather. The moon was out early, and as the sun began to set, most people packed up to go home.

And it was just as well we left then, because we were barely into the truck when it started pouring!

But is was a good trip, even if we didn't catch anything.

You all be safe and God bless.

Grissom Air Museum -End

Going to try to end it here, so it may get picture heavy.

This plane was being cleaned, I think. Hubby saw someone inside it, anyway.

There were a few pictures from inside, but the planes were the highlight. We were glad we stopped. It was a nice change from the driving home.

You all be safe and have a blessed day.

So I haven't been posting much.

Now that we are retired, it is hard to share stuff. Partly because we are mostly private people. Partly because what makes us... happy, is just the usual daily stuff that I don't feel a need to share. But I will try to make a post anyway.

The end of June we went to Michigan to visit my mother. She will be 84 next month. Her knee was bothering her, so we just visited. We did take her a perch dinner from a favorite seafood restaurant. Whitlow's Forerunner Restaurant.

I should add that this is not my picture. I forgot to take one. This is from their Faceless Book page.

We thought about trying to do some fishing, but they have some sort of vehicle license you have to purchase now to fish certain places, and the fish weren't biting in the Muskegon channel. It was pretty windy, so we just chalked that part of the trip up to not this time.

We stopped in to see one of my 5 brothers and his wife, too. Was nice to visit with them.

As we were leaving Michigan, we stopped for brunch at an interesting little restaurant.

Log House Restaurant. I was a little disappointed that it wasn't a real log building; but the food was fantastic! Hubby had breakfast and I had lunch and it was all great. I can't recommend it enough. If you are ever in Argos, Indiana, stop in for a meal. You won't regret it.

The only other part of the trip I took pictures of, was our stop at the Grissom AFB (or whatever they are calling it now) Air Museum. I will probably do that in another post as it is very picture intensive.
I will share one picture though.

Be safe and God bless America.

Sportsman's Show

Friday we went to an Outdoor/Sportsman's show. They were supposed to have tractor implements there. They had a few, but none that hubby wanted. He is trying to find a reasonably (cheap, haha) priced plow for the tractor.
Most of them are around $1500. He will eventually buy one, but for now he was hoping for a better sales price.

They had boats and 4-wheelers -which is what they were called when I was younger; things for kids to do. Food stands and they were supposed to have a display of the largest bucks taken in 2016. I did see a lot of deer mounts, but they were mostly displays to get you to join a hunting club or to sign up for a hunting trip. All the bucks I read about last year were mostly taken on public forestry land.
Ah well.
Hubby's feet started bothering him, so we didn't stay long. He was kind of disappointed by how small the tractor display was.

I did remember to take a few pictures.

This one is on the way to the entrance. For some reason I didn't take a picture of the entrance..

John Deere, Toro and Kubota had tractors there.

There were also small tractors for kids.

There was a section by the food court for kids.

The tall column is a wall climbing thing. One young girl made it to the top, but I did not hear the bell. It said win $100 if you make it to the top and ring the bell.
The bounce things were empty when we were there. The other attraction was to sit in some straps and then jump around doing somersaults and such. I didn't understand it other than that.

This is one of the swamp/shallow water boats that was on sale.

And I took pictures of some of the deer mounts.

It was pretty interesting, even if we didn't see what hubby was hoping to see.

But don't be in Gonzales/Baton Rouge at 3PM on a Friday afternoon. Traffic is terrible!

You all have a blessed week.