Woke up this morning to the EDY's Ice Cream truck delivering goodies to the Hope Church Daycare at 7:30 am. Just before breakfast Barbara, the Hope Church Administrator, came out for a look see at our home. Quo did her part and looked real fine, despite the dried mud all over her tires!
We hustled over the Mississippi River at Saint Louis, Missouri, and found about the sixth National Guard convoy so far on this journey on the road. It's that time of year Kaream (our grandson is heading for Pa Nat Gd basics at Camp Wood, MO, just south of here, next week)
Big sky country and midwest barns dot the landscape between millions of acres of corn.
We arrived in Kansas City around 4pm, in time to share a planned dinner date with Carol and John Minor at the Overland Park Cheddars Restaurant.
Carol and John are parents of Vance Minor (to the left pictured with his new bride) who attended Hope Church several years ago and who now is living near his parents farm in northwest Missouri near Saint Joseph. Several Hope Church folks got to know them well.
Tonight we are sleeping in the parking lot of First UMC in Bonner Springs, Kansas, not too far from where the first wagon trains going west started, and where, years later, western beef ended up in the stockyards of Kansas City.
The names of all these wonderful ladies who greeted us as they were leaving their Bible Study escape me (age... just call it age). I believe the lady in red to the right is Sheila, but that could be the name of the woman in green, who leads First's Children's Ministry. They have typical Sunday morning programs for kids and a Sunday night gathering connected to their Sunday night Praise service called SNL (Sunday Night Live).
The sweet lady in red asked if she could take us to a town band concert in the park tonight, but we had some work to do in the coach. Work? But we are retired! Right.
-Ken
PS:
-Final word: The 100 Holly Drive house SOLD at settlement on Tuesday so we can afford to eat tomorrow.
-More conversations needed with a Honda dealer about the CRV. The steering wheel, and hence the front wheels, lock up when the ignition key is not in the 'accessory' position. Tows OK, straight, but the tires, and the steering mechanism don't like turns much. Hmmm. You'd think Honda and Blue Ox, the maker of the tow bar and baseplate system for the Honda CRV, would have this figured out. I'll be on the phone with both early tomorrow and maybe, maybe we'll be making another visit to a Honda dealer, or RV shop, since Honda can't work on after market stuff.
-Well, if we must, First UMC in Bonner Springs has happily agreed to host us to another night in their lot! I wonder if that band is playing again tomorrow night?
Update on CRV.
ReplyDeleteREAD THE INSTRUCTIONS. With the key in the ignition and the coach feeding the battery all should be right in the world.
Did we damage the steering at all driving it with steering locked for 5 hours? Maybe. We'll find out when next we drive it. But probably not. Works fine in turning wheels as hitched. And we rarely made hard turns.
But as I said above, the TOAD didn't like being forced to turn when it couldn't. I don't like that either.
I am so glad to read your reports on Face Book & on this blog. I know you are having a wonderful time. The little things that are happening will all work out. As always every night both of you are in my Prayers. Enjoy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much Keith. For the kind words, the prayers, and the hope. They are little things which feel so big when they occur. Then the perspective of time kicks in and hours, even minutes later, they have shrunk in importance to their real dimension. God is GOOD!
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