Honey, we have left Kansas ! and we did for a good while! ! !

We have been back now for a couple of days, still recovering. Just about over the jet-set lag- and we did enjoy our time jet setting around. Panama and Stephen and Jen's wedding was as blogged GREAT ! and now we are back in our Kansas. Good ole North Carolina and this weekend we are visiting Patt's Mom at the farm, so I have selected some of my favorite farm pictures. Someday I will scan some of the older photos and I will enjoy sharing


Work was primed and waiting for both of us. Patt had a personnel issue - she is loving "drama" issues among her staff - just get Patt started - Patt is new to this. In the past she has only been peripherally aware this stuff went on as she was working, now as a manager, (I have been one for a long time) she is finding out the joys of that opportunity of management. We enjoy talking it over in the evening -- we are not the most patient of managers. Surprised I'll bet.



I walked back to expected court room issues and immediately passed some stuff up-hill. Been around long enough to know danger when I see it. Other than that the budget for North Carolina is going to be painful and that is going to be a challenge for us.



you may notice an absence of photos of people in this blog. Guess who has had plenty of people. Now I love people and I spent time with wonderful people, but now I am ready to not spend time with people. I am also enjoying a John Sandford "Prey " series novel, after finishing one of the mindless Lee Child novels of Jack ( whoop somebody's butt) Reacher.



the cows do look nice don't they. They are Charolais - a prime beef type of cattle - my father-in-law raised them after he stopped dairying. Now a brother-in-law is. At one time the Hodges farm had one of the best herds of Charolias anywhere. I have set many of the fence posts that keep the cattle inside the pastures. I am good at it- and for some reason my brothers-in-law would "let" me. My father-in-law worked me pretty hard doing that too.






Patt, Laura, Stephen and I worked very hard on these barns too, cleaning them, repairing them and getting them ready for the years we did hayrides and raised pumpkins, That is another set of pictures I need to get scanned and I will enjoy sharing those too..