It's Hot - Fair Time

Camry was in the baby crawling contest at the county fair yesterday. The first picture is the moms at the other end for their babies to crawl to them. You could have two people at the finish line. It was funny, all the babies were drawn to their mom's cell phones!

In the second picture, Camry is with Grammie Lori getting ready to start. She was kind of bewildered by it all and wondering why she was being put down on carpet with all these strange people around. The baby in lane 1 won. In the starting picture, it looks like baby #4 is very serious about it and going to start out strong and baby #1 is eyeing him like he's her biggest competition.





























Papa Dallas is into chickens and has some at Diane's house. Theirs are rusty colored ones and lay brown eggs. They're now the proud owners of these 3! Diane calls the ones in the 2nd picture "Afro chickens". We're wondering how their mean rooster, Bruno, will like these additions to the flock!

Livermoredaze Parade

We live close to Dallas Clark's hometown (Indianapolis Colts football receiver in case you didn't know) so I've been hoping I'd meet him eventually! I have a Colts magnet on the back of my SUV, I wear Colts shirts quite a bit, etc. I had read that today was a parade in his hometown of Livermore so thought he'd surely be in it! So guess what I did this morning? Yep, I went to the parade. And he was in it!

The Indian was at the edge of town. The 2nd picture is the Hardee's mascot (they don't have any fast food places in that town!).

I thought the family reunion sign with everybody behind it on a wagon was neat.

The two little kids were cute - their sign on the front says "Gone Fishin' ". They were waving most of the time.

Dallas was in the back of the green truck there throwing candy. The sign had the name of his Dallas Clark Foundation and web site on it. No sign of anything Colts except one little girl sitting next to me wearing a Colts visor. People in his town say he's a super nice guy, and I think he's just a normal person in town when he's home.

They've named a street after him though (last picture) - Dallas Clark Road. His house used to be on that street but I've heard he built a new one.

I still hope to get to talk to him sometime!














After the parade, I went on to the Humboldt Farmers' Market since I haven't been to it yet this season. Lots of vendors along the main street. I bought some fresh green beans and a jar of black raspberry jelly.

This afternoon, I made a black raspberry pie from some of Peggy's raspberries. Will post a picture another day. Grandma R. used to make them and they were so good. I was happy to find I had her recipe.

Greater Rolfe Days - Day 3

This is the only picture I got at the Firemen's Omelet Breakfast on Sun. morning - after the crowd had come through! We had 8 skillets and burners that we can borrow for free for cooking omelets to order. People would come through the line and put their choice of chopped ham, green peppers, onions, mushrooms in their cup and then bring it to one of us cooking. We'd get the omelet going, add their ingredients and top with cheese if they wanted it and cook until done. It works out pretty well! We also had sausages that one of the guys had grilled, homemade muffins made by a great baker in West Bend and orange juice, milk or coffee. We ended up serving about 180.



This is a card I made today for Caroline Kemna, a distant relative who is turning 100 on Sunday! She lives here in West Bend, IA. This was a quick and simple card since the flower and leaves are cut out with the Big Shot, the lacey edge is a punch and so are the two ovals. I stamped the Best Wishes on the front and the greeting on the inside. It's nice to have a numbers stamp set to be able to personalize cards with the age for ones like this! All of the products used here are Stampin' Up! Order from my store - above right!

5th Annual Rodeo

Last Sat. night was the rodeo here during Greater Rolfe Days. The Rodeo & Saddle Club sponsors it - and they do a lot of work to have it here.

The events they had were mutton bustin' where kids under 60 lbs. try to ride a sheep for 6 seconds, bull riding with some meaner than usual bulls this year, barrel racing and a wild horse race. The wild horse race is with horses that have never been ridden before or even saddled. Teams have to get their horse saddled and the first one to have a cowboy mount up and ride across the finish line, dismount and run to the judge wins. The video below is part of the wild horse race.

The first picture is Diane in her new Western outfit and boots and her friend Tracy. I worked with them in the concession stand. We worked hard and were very busy and hot the whole 4 hours.

Greater Rolfe Days - Day 2

The morning started off with helping with the Toad in the Hole (toast with an egg cooked in the middle) and doughnut holes breakfast to benefit the Farmers' Market. It was at the gazebo in the middle of town.

Then the parade at 10:15. Bryan and I rode with Bill in the first fire truck. (the yellow one) Then we had lunch at the Lutheran Church. The VFW women made salads and maidrites plus pie and homemade ice cream.





























The Rolfe State Bank entry is a calliope which I think is neat. The guy on the horse was the clown at the rodeo Sat. night. His horse is very well trained. I saw him smack the horse on the rump and it kicked its heels up - while he was on it. Bill said it walked down main street backwards in the parade for a while. The parade used to go down main street and turn the corner and go past the Care Center but it was closed in June so the parade was even shorter than usual.

Saturday night was the rodeo. I'll have a video of the Wild Horse Race next.

Greater Rolfe Days

This was one of my things To Do yesterday for today's firemen's omelet breakfast - chop 24 green peppers! The breakfast starts in 20 min. so I've gotta go but have lots of pictures of things from yesterday to share later.