Well, I have been back from vacation for about a week now and after getting caught up at work I thought I could get a couple lines in....

I got out to Iowa in about 6 hours and the next morning my mother and I left for the Sand Hills Area of Nebraska. We were going to stop for a bit in Winterset, IA so that I could visit the John Wayne Museum. We drove around through the countryside looking for some of the Madison County Covered Bridges, we found three of them before we reached Winterset.

Mom at the Holliwell Bridge

After viewing some of the bridges we arrived in Winterset. Apparently the town was having a John Wayne Festival and that tiny town had absolutley no place to park. Unbelievable....We decided to stop again on the way home. On our way back to I-80 I saw the coolest silo. So I had to turn around to get a picture of it!!

Silo just south of I-80 in Iowa

We arrived well after dark at our destination, or so the GPS Lady informed us. Little could she have known that she had us almost totally lost. No lights could been seen, no dark outline shapes of a house, barn or anything could be see. We were however on the right road, just not were we NEEDED to be. We had no cell phone reception so we were out of luck there but we stayed on the road we were on and and just kept looking for a house on the corner (that was all the valid info we had at last cell call...LOL!!...We did eventully find my Aunt and Uncles house and had dinner. They also had another aunt of mine visiting from Washington whom I hadn't seen in probably 30 plus years. So it really was a reunion of sorts. We then loaded back up again and followed my other Aunt and Uncle to their home a little further south. I got the car all unpacked and we finally got into bed. about 5 mins later, I asked my mom if she heard turkeys??? She told me no and to go to sleep.....HA....the next morning.....

Turkeys grazing I guess....

These were in the trees all around the house, they were in the pasture right aross the road, they were obviously in the front yard. I am a hunter and let me tell you, I had the shakes. Had I only brought the shot gun. I am not even sure I needed a gun, I am fairly certain I could have hit them with a sling shot. Oh well, they will live on I guess.

That's all for now...have work to do....I'll try to post mor later.