Month: September 2019

First things first…

Sunrise this morning!

The moon was still high in the sky when I took the morning photos.

Yesterday it looked like this:

Tuesday – September 24, 2019 Sunrise.

Monday, September 23, 2019

Lovely sunrises.

Vacation:

AND the trip to Branson, MO sort of began with a sunSET.  We were going to leave early on Saturday, but then had the opportunity to leave that Friday afternoon so we took it.

Sunset some place in Iowa.  We stopped in Iowa that evening and then went on to Branson, MO for the first part of our vacation the following day.

Stopped for fuel and did this:

to our beautiful rig. Most distressing.  Never messed up one of our rigs before and we have been using them for many many years.  Kind of put a damper on the spirit, but… it did not keep us from continuing on so I called around to send a new tail light lens to my Dad’s place, we were going there after Branson, so we could fix that at least.  Contacted the insurance company..and did the things necessary to get it fixed when we got back home.

But on with the trip:

Some beautiful scenes in the Ozarks area.

Lots of hills.

Lots of interesting rock formations.

Branson has a lot of Tourist Attractions both man made and natural.

Silver Dollar City is an amusement park.

 

 

Our first look at the place.

But then we went to locate the campsite and get settled.  After that we really didn’t do anything until the evening as we didn’t get there until late afternoon.

So more about the stay in Branson next post.

Just got a new pot of Mums to sit in front of the house. Huge bunch of fall color!

Have a great Wednesday!

So much for a lovely sunrise photo, it was super foggy out this morning.

However yesterday…

A gorgeous sunrise.

Also, when I went out I saw a Bald Eagle snacking on something.

I pulled over the car and got a shot of him, not the greatest, but I am always so impressed with them I have to watch them.

So from August 30th thru September 10th we were traveling in our RV. A little vacation which , during the Labor Day holiday, always leads us down to visit my Dad.

Usually we go to Chicago to visit my youngest daughter and her family then down to my Dad in Florida, but since the kids were just here so we went to the Ozarks, Bransen, MO, then worked our way down to my Dad’s house.

I will cover those in future posts soon!

But I will go back even a little bit further to the weekend before we left, August 24th weekend. We ended up meeting the kids in Stillwater, MN to walk around and catch Pokemon.

I love the murals.

Just a few shots of our stroll around the city.

And there is the lift bridge below.

 

 

Didn’t get to go into the Warden’s house as it was just closing as we arrived.  Maybe next time.

Had dinner at the Brick & Bourbon there in Stillwater, sat up on the roof.

 

 

It turned into a nice day and we all enjoyed it.

Then our Grandson decided he wanted to spend the rest of the weekend with us so he came over and we played some games and watched a movie.

Sunday on the way to take him home we stopped places to collect some Pokemon along the way.

We stopped at the Rum River Dam and Anoka.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These next photos were painted on the walls of a walking tunnel we went through while walking. Pretty neat!

 

It was a nice day with our Grandson.

Happy Friday!

 

Sunrise today. Sky is pretty cloudy now.

Catching up – been a while since I posted so I will go back a few days.

Sunrise yesterday, Monday Sept. 16th, 2019. Sky looked like it was on fire. Beauty.

Sunrise Sunday, Sept. 15th, 2019.  A bit on the foggy side.

Friday, Sept. 13th, 2019 we stepped out for a pint and dinner at The Burning Brothers tap room.

We do this fairly often on Friday night. It is a gluten free facility and they brew a variety of Gluten Free Beers.

 

 

They have variety of food trucks serving gluten free items, so depending on the food truck showing up that evening we go and try new things to eat.

This last time it was Crazy Puppy food truck. They have the best gluten free onion rings I have ever had…however, breaded things in a gluten free world are just not something I have very often, nor are they normally offered, but they were great!

 

Okay – not very healthy, but I get to have something like this so rarely that it is very hard to resist. Chicken tenders came along with it, they were okay, but paled in comparison to the onion rings.

More scenes at Burning Brothers:

Place generally has a pretty good crowd on a Friday night.  A lot of game playing goes on there as well as just community chatting and enjoying a brew with some friends.  Crowd is pretty friendly.

The popcorn is always on the house, they pop it right there. You can also have your own personal mug.

Our furry friends are invited to join us and do quite often.  They are usually open to  some handouts, if allowed by their people.

This is a working brewery, and tables are available in the back – again lots of game playing – in areas where the staff are not currently working.  Occasionally we have gotten to watch them can their items, very interesting to watch them work.

Friday night there was a full moon, unusual because it was also Friday the 13th. A full moon on Friday the 13th is an extremely rare occurrence, according to the Farmers’ Almanac. It reports that this was the first full moon visible across the U.S. on Friday the 13th since Oct. 13, 2000. The next one isn’t expected to happen again for another 30 years—on Aug. 13, 2049.

The photo is taken out the car window on the way home.

Cheers!

Happy Tuesday!