January 4, 2018 Happy New Year! We arrived in Harlingen December 23 and didn’t see the sun again until January 3. We’re told so much gray is unusual. With the gray comes cold, wind, and mud. We weren’t happy [and one of us complained mightily: We chose the Rio Grande Read more…
December 25, 2017 The cat jumped down but here are Dave and Jane enjoying Christmas in their park-for-a-month, Tropic Winds in Harlingen, Texas. It’s gray and a little chilly (that is, 60 degrees here–compared with 16 degrees in Decatur, Indiana just 10 days and 1500 miles away), but we wanted Read more…
December 20, 2017 The USS Kidd was launched February 28, 1943. It’s one of 175 Fletcher class destroyers built between 1942 and 1944 designed to attack surface vessels, submarines and aircraft. She is 378 feet long. The Mississippi rises and falls about 30 feet in the course of a year Read more…
December 20, 2017 The Old Capitol Baton Rouge means red stick and takes its name from the red cypress pole that marked the boundary between two native nations. The capital of Louisiana was moved there from New Orleans in 1846. The building was completed in 1852 and is decorated with Read more…
December 17-18, 2017 Getting There A check of the Geocache app let us know that there was an exhibit about the New Madrid Fault at a rest area in Missouri’s Bootheel. The fault was named for New Madrid, Missouri, where devastating earthquakes occurred over a few months in 1811-12. When Read more…
December 10, 2017 Our friends who are or have been used to snow may not appreciate how unusual being in snow was to us. It was fun to watch fall but we don’t enjoy the cold and will be heading south as soon as we can. We had snow Read more…
November 27-December 14, 2017 You may remember from our visit to Decatur and REV around Labor Day that tiles were not available to replace ones damaged by the slide. The name was the same but the color was different so REV agreed to replace the floor. Demolition took a week. Read more…
After Jane’s visit to Folkcraft Instruments in Woodburn, Indiana in September, she ordered a new dulcimer. She went to Folkcraft for Dulcimer Club November 28, and got to see it under construction Top Side From the bottom It was exciting to see the instrument close to being finished, and a Read more…
The Froelinger-Friemann Botanical Conservatory opened in 1983, the result of a community effort spearheaded by two people. The seasonal garden was full of Christmas! The tropical garden reminded us of Florida. Bird of Paradise Hanging Lobsteer Claw (Heliconia pendula) Pomegranate! The Spanish used pomegranates as part of their Christmas decorations Read more…
Adventures of Hotel Guests When we returned one day to the hotel in Berne, several parking places were blocked with cones and stayed that way through the weekend. We were curious but didn’t guess what was going to happen. A concrete saw Read more…