Saturday, September 3, 2022
Pat and I took a few days this week to do a little traveling and sightseeing. We were gone from Sunday afternoon to Thursday evening. We drove up to Dyersville, Iowa to see the ‘Field of Dreams’, and then on the return trip, we spent a couple days at Springfield, Illinois to take in some of the special sites about Abraham Lincoln.
We stopped by the John Deere Pavilion in Moline
Field of Dreams
Played ‘catch’ and admired the beautiful DeKalb corn
Took the house tour at FoD
Visited the National Farm Toy Museum. I spent a lotta hours on a 560. This scale model caught my eye among the thousands of toy tractors there
The Iowa countryside was spectacularly beautiful to a farmer’s eyes.
In Springfield, we visited Lincoln’s Tomb. Impressive.
The Lincoln Museum was amazing.
A mock-up of Lincoln’s boyhood home in southern Indiana, inside the Museum.
In Springfield, we toured the only house Lincoln ever owned.
We met up with friends Lance and Vera Panzier in Dix, Illinois to enjoy some ice cream and a great visit.
While we were away, the guys from Hendrixson Concrete came to pave areas around the new grain bin. They do excellent work, and the result was very nice. It will be much cleaner around the bins and dryer now.
Preparing for and pouring the concrete is a hard job
They did a very good job building the new concrete areas.
… and, of course, the finishing touch to any concrete pour… the date.
The guys here got the remainder of the preparation of the corn heads completed and the trucks are serviced and ready for harvest. That’ll probably come in about 2 weeks.
