This last week was our county fair; generally it falls the week after the Fourth of July. All the 4-H’ers and the FFA’ers in the county come together to exhibit their animals and projects. Once you get to the livestock division the kids not only show and compete with their animals but in each division…
Saturday afternoon my hubby and I were tired of hanging around the house. It really was too hot to do much, so we jumped in the car and headed off toward West Mineral, KS toward Big Brutus. About a year ago or so we had a really funny conversation about this one restaurant in this…
When I was a little kid, my dad took me somewhere in Kansas to see Big Brutus. Turns out, Big Brutus is in West Mineral, KS. So can you tell how big Big Brutus is?? Big Brutus is the nickname for this massive machine, a Bucyrus-Erie model 1850B electric shovel. It was the…
With the temperatures scorching us here in the Midwest (We’re supposed to see 100 today!), I wanted to share this great little Ice Cream place that’s just around the corner (You know, depending on where you live…). A few weekends ago we went out to lunch with my parents. When we were leaving the restaurant…
When I was a little kid my dad called me McGillycuddy. I have no idea why. I have no idea where the name came from. I don’t know anything about the name other than he called me that and I answered. It was one of the very few nicknames I’ve been given. Normally my parents…
In 1984 Ronald Reagan declared July as National Ice Cream Month with the 3rd Sunday being National Ice Cream Day. I just found this out last year in fact. How did I go 28 years without this knowledge? (I googled this to be sure after I found out!!)… So since it is the 3rd day…
I’ve told you before that one of my husband’s favorite side dishes is corn. I might even go out on a limb and say he could make an entire meal out of corn, but it might need a bit of meat in it somehow. Maybe this is something I could work on… Back in 2009…
I came home last night and hubby was laying on the bed not feeling the greatest. I changed out of my clothes, turned on the tv and snuggled up next to my hubby. We’ve been watching a Gilmore Girl’s marathon. We no more than turned the tv on got the dvd set and the power…
Typically a Friday night for us consists of eating pizza. Ok, not always, but there for a while, yes that was the case. When Gusano’s in Joplin opened in December of 2009, we eventually wandered in there. Now, this is our go-to place for pizza. Yeah, it’s that good. And the cool thing is you…
This has been a whirlwind of a weekend! It started out with Thursday really. We continued to move farm equipment to our house. This weekends plans were to bale our field in square bales for my dad. My car got left at my parents house so Friday morning hubby took me to meet my mom…