spring update...

We are near Parkers Prairie, Minnesota, visiting some friends we met at the Habitat for Humanity build in Leyland, MS.  They live on a farm.  Jim has been a bit like a kid in a candy store, got the drive the tractors,(THis one is a CAT, treads and all!)  help till for the corn planting, and other fun stuff...'course, they might have finished faster without rather than with my help, but have been good natured about it!  They grow mostly corn and Soy Beans.  It has been raining here since Thursday, and is expected to keep it up until Tuesday.  That's probably when we will move on up to Lake Itasca State Park, which is about 80 miles north of here.  I'll try to get a picture of Christening our Itasca with water from Lake Itasca and post it here...

 

At this time, our plans after that are to visit Grand Forks Air Force base in North Dakota, for a couple of weeks, and then down to Pipe Stone, MN, where stone for many traditional medicine pipes (Peace Pipes) are mined.  We will probably then move West to Ellsworth Air Force base in South Dakota for a bit, before continuing on to Yellowstone National Park...we may finally get to Yellowstone!    Our druthers would be to get to Yellowstone a little earlier, to avoid the summer rush, but gas prices are keeping our miles per month a bit constrained.  That just means we'll have more time for reading and the contemplative life style...the Latest book of significance is Gnostic Philosophy, from Ancient Persia to Modern Times, by Tobias Churton. THAT takes some contemplation...

 

 

 

Jim and Cathy