Iowa summer

 

Montauk, a fair, & a call from China

Today my roomie, her mom & I went to Montauk (a Governor’s mansion) in Clermont.  I can’t believe that I’ve never been there before because it’s only 45 minutes away from home & FREE!!  It was also a beautiful place.

This rooster greeted us with some crows

 

Pretty flowers

The music room

Funky chandelier in the music room

I think I saw Chris drooling over the library ;)

 

Old carriage

Fire hose

 

 

Later on this afternoon Jeanne & Jeremy came over & we all headed up to the county fair.  We checked out all the animals & exhibits.  Congratulations to Kaela & Kortney who had some pieces chosen to go to the state fair.  Kortney has even won with her beef cattle & rabbit showings! 

Also, I just got off an hour long Skype call with Steph not too long ago.  She still has about 3 more weeks left in China before she finally comes home on the 31st.  It’s so wonderful to have all this technology so that we can stay connected from half a world away!

Weekend fun

Shayne, Edna & Aliana came back for the weekend last week.  It was great seeing them again!!  Since Edna had never been to our little corner of Iowa in the summer, we took her out & about.

 

We went on a garden walk…

…and ran into Ruth & Jeremy.

A quick stop at Pike’s Peak

Guttenburg – Shayne posing with his Aliana’s new toy

We were all wondering where Larry was & then we saw him strolling along eating out of this huge bag of popcorn – just like a little kid.  :)

Edna had never been to Decorah or seen a waterfall before so Michele & I took her over to Dunning Springs.

Here she is taking pictures at Phelps Park

We also went out to Seibert’s farm where we fed the cows corn stalks

…and we even petted a duck!