May 16, 2008

• SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 2008

  I didn’t sleep good last night, I went to sleep about 11pm, woke up at midnight, went back to sleep, woke up at 4am and every half hour till time to get up. If only I had my bed at home. Better make the best of it, cause it will more than a month till I see home again.

  When we drove into Burlingham last night, we spotted a huge pile of grain on the ground. It was at least 40 feet high and 80 - 100 foot in diameter. Imagine a pile like that in Oregon. I can just see it turn green from sprouts in less than a week. It is interesting to drive on the side roads around Tangent to Harrisburg, Oregon during the grass seed harvest. After a rain, every crack in the road has grass growing in it.

  It’s 9am and were on the road.

  In Kansas now and driving into the wind and dust. It is blowing so hard it jerks the pick-up around, so bad I can hardly write. “Whoa, Pop don’t get blown off the road”

  Kansas, land of waving grain. And grain elevators galore. Every few miles there is a group of grain elevators. Someimes as many as 60 in one bunch.

  Pop got tired off the dust on the windshield so he turned the washers and wipers on. The wind immediately blew the dust and water off to the right, but the wipers wouldn’t go to the left because of the wind. Kansas…land of waving grain, grain elevators, dust and wind. J

  One time going through Kansas on I-50 we seen an exit to a wildlife refuge. Following the signs we came to a pond with a blind. Went into the blind and took pictures of ducks on the pond. As evening fell we heard the call of a Great Horned Owl. I immediately went to the motor home and put my tape in the deck of Owl calls. We opened the windows to make sure the owls heard it, and soon there were three owls in trees around the motor home. What a thrill. The Great Horned Owl is such a large bird and so beautiful. When we got home we noticed on the picture that the markings down by his legs look like the marking around his eyes, no doubt to make him look as scarry as he can to peditors. God thinks of everything.

  I remember one time my aunt telling me. She would have her devotions early in the morning. One night they was away late, therefore, getting to bed late. Not wanting to wake her husband in the mornig by setting the alarm, so she could wake up and have her devotions. She prayed that God would somehow wake her up. Time for devotions, an Owl called in the tree outside her window.

  I can think of many times when I was at my lowest, that I would hear the call of an owl and that would remind me that God knew all about it.

  The sky is dark behind us, filled with dust. Kansas is flat with gentle rolling hills. In Kansas as well as Wyoming you can look every direction and not see anything but more dry rolling hills Today you can’t see too far because of the dust.

   we should make a stop ahead, we just passed a big bill board that said “Big Yarn Shop Ahead” “Grove City Yarn” Maggie (Knitting Kat) are you still with us? We can stop if promise you won’t by too much yarn, after all we’re about full of luggage. J

  We’ve passed several blinking red lights, people must like to speed on these long, flat raods. When a car passes Pop at a great rate of speed, he gets great pleasure in seeing the poor car sit along side the road (after a couple miles) with “blinking red lights” behind it. (I don’t know about Pop) L “The Bible says “he that laughs at calamity shall not go unpunished” maybe that is why Pop has “blinking red lights” behind him sometimes. Although I think it make a diffence if it’s a real calamity or breaking the law.  I don‘t know, I‘ll have to think that through.

  I don’t know why the bill boards show up so much out here, maybe because you don’t see anything for miles and then when you do get close to a town the first thing you see is huge bill boards.

  It is still 126 miles to Salina where we turn south to Oklahoma. O, dear here is another bill board that says YARN - the second friendliest yarn shop in the universe (I wonder which is the 1^st friendliest) another says Russel Stover Candies - free samples. We passed a couple smaller bill boards that say “Jesus is Lord, I trust in Him.“ I always feel good when we pass those kinds of signs.

  Along the road around the fields there are fences and the post are rock. I wish I knew how to explain it so you could really get the picture. But the posts are actual rock a little bigger around but in the shape of and as tall as wooden fence posts. I wonder where they get rock that size and shape. (I guess I should look it up an google J )

  Oh, I must of went to sleep for awhile. We’re headed east near Salina and as soon as I can get Pop to turn at the right places we’ll be headed south toward Oklahoma. We, we made it and we are now headed south on 135 to Oklahoma, and by 4:30 in the after noon we cross the border into Oklahoma.

  We’ll spend the night at Blackwell, OK. Tomorrow morning (Lord Willing) we will reach my daughter's place in time for church. She lives in OK.

  Although this trip is rather long at times. I must remember to keep a song in my heart so all the world will know I love Christ. It’s not hard when I think about all Christ has done for me. I can’t begin to name my blessings that he gives me everyday.

  “Happy is the people, whose God is the Lord” Psalm 144:15

  You all take care now........... and God Bless !

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