Rain every day..

This summer is starting to remind me of the floods of 1993 in Des Moines, Iowa....  It rained and rained that spring, until the rivers covered the city... They flooded out the main water works plant and we went for several weeks with no water in the cities pipes....

In that same keeping, we have had rain after rain here in KC...  It rained on Tuesday when we went for the lunch ride on the bikes...  And then yesterday it rained in the morning before I rose for my doctor's appointment...  Had to be there at 8 AM........ Ugh...

It was just like a day of work...  Leave the house at 7:15 and commute into the downtown area where the hospital is located...  I barely made it as the traffic came to a complete stop several times......  And then they do all these tests like your blood pressure......  Its awfully high Mr Ivers........  Well, how about that harrowing drive into town a few minutes ago???

So after several attempts at getting my prescriptions entered into the computer system, and getting all the up coming tests and things scheduled...  you'd think I was going to die...  And of course they want an MRI of my shoulder...  Which they scheduled right during the Tuesday motorcycle ride next week........   Drat!

But the ride is  to a Mexican food place in Holt, Missouri, and I can't eat Mexican very well anyway...... I'll have to go on my own ride, assuming it stops raining long enough...

Now today, (Thursday) it was time to go over to Target where the prescriptions are being filled...  One of the places that the AARP part D is accepted...  And as I surmised, the Doctor didn't get things written correctly and they can't fill the orders......

On one he wrote the wrong daily dosage, and they won't fill it....  And on another it is for Neuropathy from having diabetes, and the drug is controlled....  So they won't fill that one over the e script system...  Has to be in written form....  Signature on file kind of a thing.......  They had called the doctor's office but hadn't heard anything back.

I didn't come home with a single pill................

And all this while its still raining outside....  Our grass is about knee high, but its too wet to mow..

And yes it is to rain again tonight and then tomorrow as well....  Maybe I can purchase a bailer for my garden tractor.   Its a John Deere...... but,


 This might be a bit bigger than my garden tractor, LOL!

Other than those things, everything is about normal here in KC.......

Retired Rod

Wet Tuesday

This is downtown Adrian, Missouri.....  I know, not a big place for sure...  Its South of Harrisonville, Mo on what is now called I 49.... which is US 71 to us old timers...  But the tan building is Wimfields the local restaurant and bar there in town....




Looking back the other way outside, the town isn't much larger but the row of bikes seems about the same... Ben was with me again today and our bikes are in the middle of the row, but seem to be lost in the crowd...



Once inside we were early enough to order breakfast, so in keeping with the theme of biscuits and gravy, I ordered two with a side of sausage... Seems like it was Ben sitting beside me that was telling the fibs as this picture was taken....




We were about 60 miles from our house in this town and about 10 miles across the border into Missouri... We stayed off of the interstates and for the most part took back roads... But that wasn't the story for today..

It was the fact that it was heavily overcast and was supposed to rain after three PM.... Well... Three PM came quite early and we had splatters at about 12:30.. By then we were back over in Kansas but had to go straight West thru La Cygne to avert the shower to our North... Which is the way we really needed to go...

We ended up going over to Ks 7 and then North which skirted the wetness for a while.... But at Paola, Kansas it became impossible to stay out of the rain....




Ks 7 is a divided interstate road and the traffic rolls at 70, which throws water from the cars and walls of water from the trucks.... Then it began to hail as we got off at Spring Hill.... We ducked into one of those gas stop convenience stores and sat next to the pumps under the canopy... Once it let up enough we came on home.  Total about 140 miles..

B is where Adrian is and LaCygne is at C.

It was about 2:30 when we were back, and Loyce had the grand kids while we were gone, so she took them back as they had afternoon activities for the rest of the day.... Never a slow moment....!

Again the pictures were provided by my ROMEO brothers at their web site.....

Retired Rod

Memorial Day is over!!

These weekends at the lake become such a whirlwind that there is no time to post blog entries...  But Sunday was the nice day where everything happened....

We got the pontoon boat cleaned the rest of the way and the kids got to go swimming in the lake, even though us grown ups knew they would freeze...  But they weren't about to admit that the water was cold....

I went to town and bought a bunch of gas in our jugs to put into the jet ski and the pontoon...  And filled the car.......  Yeow, almost a hundred bucks........   But later that afternoon we were all out on the water in the boat......

And like usual, the big off shore racing boats were speeding up and down the center of the lake channel....  Making it impossible for smaller pontoon boats to travel on the water...  Smaller as in 26 feet..  And the water was splashing up onto us from the wind and the churning waves....  Eww, cold....

It was in the 80s though and after the initial reaction you got over it fairly quickly...

We did hit one especially deep wave where the engine began to nose the front of the pontoon deck down under the water...   These are dangerous, and you have to be quick to get the throttle back...  Pontoons can be dangerous this way..  The water was several inches deep on top of the deck, but kind of just runs off the back end of the boat...  Lake Ozark on these holiday weekends is a tough place to enjoy...  Small fishing boats, like bass boats with shallow sides could be swamped easily...

We spend a lot of time just out on the dock in front of the house...  It doesn't go anywhere, but you aren't out of reach of the kitchen too far either...

On Monday, we had hoped to have more of the same, but the skies were overcast and threatened rain...   I headed out on the scooter for a tank of gas and some shock cords to lash the deck furniture together on the dock...   The winter weather had destroyed the old ones...

Anyway some last minute dock time was in order for the kids, and the jet ski was running various riders up and down the cove...  Since we only have one ski, our sons have the duty of taking the kids on rides...  And with 5 kids to ride........  Well the littlest one is too small so there are 4.  And at one point, the 11 year old was driving his dad around...

But he needs to be 14 to go by himself...  And the ski is 1500 cc engine, so he may be older than that before he get the privilege..  Then the skies opened up!!!!

And the rain came pouring down... Torrential rain almost washed us away...  The older son and his family had already left for the other sides parents home and called back to warn us of the deluge...

 

So tonight we are back here in KC, and the washing machine has run for the entire time since we arrived home..........  We have one at the lake cabin too, and it ran all day there as well....  We just ran out of time...    Every kid has to have a beach towel...  And they get all wet so then we have to get another...  And beds for 11 people need to have their sheets washed, you get the picture....

So Happy belated Memorial Day!!  Hope yours was hectic like ours!!!

Retired Rod

 

We see some sun!!

Today all of our family arrived and with 5 kids running all over it became a wild scene all at once....  

The sun was cooperating and we managed to wash the pontoon boat and its cover with the power washer...  That's kind of a do a little every day job...  So we hung it up in favor of the jet ski in the garage..

We connected the vacuum oil extractor to the tube that goes down the dip stick and sucked all 5 quarts of oil out of its engine...  I had driven over to the local Menards lumber yard which is our closest big box store....  And they had a small automotive section complete with oil...   That saved a drive down to Wal Mart....  Our traffic becomes quite busy on these holiday weekends...

Eventually we got the ski in the water with Ben and grandson Caden riding in the really cool water...  They reported that the water temperature was 54....  Burr..!!

Tonight was pizza night with three store bought pies arriving from the favorite local shop..... Imo's a joint from St Louis....

So the weekend is in full swing as I type this late at night...

Retired Rod