July 22-23 2 more days of memories

 Wonderful two days at Cambridge Nebraska with Krayton and Bekah making memories and intentional conversations. Yesterday included Farmers Market at Cambridge with fresh produce and homemade items, an opportunity to get to know Krayton’s mom Rhonda, one of the benefits in being out in the country is you have to drive a distance to get ‘anywhere’ which makes for great captive conversation time! This morning sharing worship at two different churches, Jimmy John’s for lunch, Walmart run, then back to the farm to load up! Opps almost forgot to mentioned squeezed in one more stop at Scoops in McCook! Then it was time to say goodbyes for now.

Left about 2:30 for a 3 1/2 hr drive to Milford to be greeted by Josiah and Abi Wissmann and their four children Joanna (13), Asher (11), Jenny (7)and Andron (3). Such an excited, energetic and warm welcome! 

My head was on a swivel trying to see who was talking and had something they wanted to tell Aunt Karol! We started with a great corn shucking “party”, cuz anything with Aunt Karol can be made into a party! After a delicious supper of hamburgers and fresh corn, it was time for me to take my Aunt Karol ‘spot’ helping with clean up and dishes with oldest Joanna washing and Aunt Karol drying! Besides 🚙 travel conversation, the next best is at the sink doing dishes conversation! What a joy to do it with the next generation!

Then it was time for enjoying the outdoors, it was still very warm outside but took time to unload things needed for my overnight stay with the generous help of Joanna! 

Sites along my drive today: 10 Texas longhorns and a crop duster that did his last run parallel to my driving immediately out the right window of my car, seeing pivots all along the drive. I think the most sections I saw connected were 8! They were massive! Didn’t know what a pivot was until 3 days ago when Krayton was gracious enough to explain it to me! Google it! pivot farming equipment! Google says: Pivot irrigation systems allow water to be delivered to crops in a targeted way. Water is delivered to plants on a regular basis, and you determine how much and how often plants are watered. Pivot irrigation uses low-pressure application. This means less water is wasted compared to other irrigation systems. Now you know!!!