BONUS POST!!!!

 So much to tell and so little time 

to tell it in! 

(grin)

So......

This morning (after a BUSY day yesterday)

after we picked up Fred, 

we headed into Hays to do the shopping,

and then I took Jim and Kyle out for

a late lunch for their birthdays.

(It was YUMMY!!!!!)

Then home for dinner.

Except we were FULL.

So Sabrina made some mac & cheese

for her and Rod to share.

Also oatmeal raisin cookies because

they are Jim and Kyle's faves!

Anyhow.

This morning Rod and I were on the road

by a little after 7:00, headed to Wichita.

Tuesday night there was a ROWDY storm.

We were on the Veeeeeeeery edge of it,

so heading back from Hays it was pretty windy!

There was a truck pulling a 5th wheel trailer

we were SURE was going over.

That trailer was wagging more than the tail

on a really happy dog.

But to the east of us, Salina got SLAMMED.

115+ mph straight line winds.

About 60% or more of the signs along the

highway looked like this.

(I had Rod take some pictures, but he's at Mutual

and didn't text them to me yet.... so I grabbed this

one from facebook...)

Most of the city was without power.

Those guys have it figured out though!

On the way to Wichita, we saw LOTS of twisted signs

on the side of the highway.

Just a short 3 hours later, on the way back,

ALL the signs between Salina and Wichita

were fixed already!

There were still some down on I-70 West of Salina,

but it was lunch break.

(grin)

I just pulled up Salina Weather on Facebook to

snag pictures, and looks like they are under

a tornado watch this evening.

Glad we chose to live in the north west of Kansas.

We don't typically get the rowdy weather they

do further east of us.

(Plus WAAAAAY less snow in the winter!)

Anyhow.

We drove down to Wichita for Rod's 

6-month checkup.

The doctor was VERY impressed with his progress

and lifted ALL restrictions.

Said he can do anything he wants (as long as he

uses common sense.... bungie jumping would

probably be a NO.)

We were BOTH very happy!

(And wind blown!)

He said the only way you could TOTALLY

be sure the bone was growing back was to

do a CT scan, but based on these x-rays

he was confident we were well on our way.

He said it helped that his bones were

super healthy to start with.

So, YEA!!!!!

We've gotten a little rain over the past 2 weeks,

and look how BEAUTIFUL Kansas is!

Amazing what a little water will do.

We stopped in Hays at Tractor Supply and got a couple

black rubber water troughs for the pigs

(they love to play in / with them, and they

are pretty indestructible...) 

and then Rod took them to the farm and I 

started teaching.

Rod went to Mutual to teach the boys about

basic vehicle maintenance.

Checking oil, tire pressure, washer fluid,

that sort of basic stuff.

And now we are all home and it's time 

for some dinner.

So happy about Rod's great dr visit.

We were confident it was going to be 

good, but it's always a relief to hear it

"from the horse's mouth".

Thank you for everybody's continued prayers!