If they bring them back like in Jurassic Park, maybe we’ll actually be able to knit with their fur!!!!! Wow! Again, another fun, fantastic yarn shop – The Wooly Mammoth in Omaha, Nebraska! We left Junction City and headed to Omaha to visit our oldest son and daughter-in-law. Of course I checked to see how…
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September 23, 2019 – YaYa’s Alpaca Farm Tour, Garden City, MO
Other than the day of my wedding or the birth of 2 of the 3 kids!!!!!! Today was the best day ever!! Not only did I pick up my daughter, Dare (who I haven’t seen for four months since she has been working in Alaska), from the Kansas City airport but we got to go…
September 21, 2019 Fort Riley and the Apple Day Festival
Fighting First!!!! Saturday was a lovely day and the hubs and I decided to go to the advertised Apple Day Festival at nearby Fort Riley. We didn’t know what to expect but sounded like a fun way to spend a Saturday. (ED. NOTE – I mean, we kinda expected soldiers and artillery. The apple pies…
September 15, 2019 – Milford, Kansas (outside Junction City)
I wrangled chickens out of a barn for hours one summer!!!! We had a nice, easy drive Saturday to Carthage, Missouri. We decided to stay the night there instead of hoofing it to Milford which is about 9-9 ½ hours in one day. We stayed at the Big Red Barn RV Park. It had level,…
September 13, 2019 – Last Night in Little Rock
On the road again, just can’t wait to get on the road again!!!! After almost two months in either Birmingham, Alabama or Little Rock, Arkansas, we’re spending our last night by the Arkansas River before heading west again! It is a beautiful night with a full moon. This site, directly on the river side at…
August 29, 2019 – Arkansas Yarn Company, Malvern, Arkansas
Well, this was a pleasant surprise!!!! I went to a fantastic, new yarn shop in Malvern today! This shop is owned by Lorri Ann who has been hand-dying yarn for the last two and half years. She has been selling her yarn on Etsy but decided to purchase a building in downtown Malvern and open…
August 22, 2019 – Knit 2 Together, Russellville, Arkansas
Every time I think I’m out, they pull me right back in!!!!! So, we are back in Little Rock for a couple of weeks and enjoying spending some time in old stomping grounds. Unfortunately, the temperature and heat index has been incredibly high and we are missing the low humidity of the west and haven’t…
August 12, 2019 – Alabama
We won’t make this mistake again!!!!! Well, we high-tailed it to Alabama to get warranty work done on our fifth wheel at Dixie RV. We moved in with my parents for the week thinking it would take some time. We got a call the afternoon that we dropped it off saying, “Good news and bad…
July 23, 2019 – Yarn Barn in Lawrence and Yak ‘n Yarn in Topeka, Kansas
Moving across the country like a hell-bent tornado!!!! We are in Junction City, Kansas this week. It’s a great stopping point between the west and the south PLUS it’s where middle son, Josh lives! We’re staying at a the Acorn Resort at Milford Lake, Milford, Kansas. (ED. Note – OMG – this is SO SO much…
July 21, 2019 – Bye Bye Buffalo!
We said goodbye to Buffalo, Wyoming and wanted to share a few more pictures.