Poor, neglected blog...

Due to extenuating circumstances, this here blog has been sadly neglected for the past 3 months.  I do hope you have not minded incredibly much.  As is customary, I shall present y'all with pictures.  Of... scenery, mostly.  I know, I know, that's all that is ever posted on here.  If you want people pictures, you know where to look.  =P  

 Who ever said Kansas is flat??  I beg to differ.  What does this look like to you?  Flat?

 And who ever said Kansas has no trees?  What is that I see in the distance ...  monsters, maybe? 
Now, back to the earlier picture saying that Kansas wasn't flat; I shall insert a disclaimer.  Of course, there are indeed areas of Kansas that are flat, but that is perfectly marvelous!  Because, as you can see from this picture, flat is BEST for crops! 

Milo head emerging

 Rainbow after rain!  Yet another picture to disprove a common thought: that Western Kansas is a desert.  My dear friends, does it rain enough to make grass green in a desert?  In fact, is there ever even GRASS in a desert?
There is such a thing as plains, ya know.  It doesn't have to be either forest or desert.  There is a happy medium, and this happy medium is the marvelous plains of Kansas!  By the way, is there a town in Kansas named "Desert, Kansas"?  No, there is not.  Is there a town in Kansas named "Plains, Kansas"?  Yes, there is.  So, the logical inference from that is as follows: the land area is to be described as plains, NOT desert.

 I like rainbows... A marvelous reminder of God's promises and His faithfulness to keep them!

 Hmmm... what a muddy pickup!  (Ahem... does a pickup get muddy in a desert?  I highly doubt it.)

 Ah... ever so much better.  "A clean pickup is a happy pickup"!

 Yum, food.  =P  Chicken, zwiebach, green beans, and mashed potatoes (hmm... quite yellow mashed 'taters!).

 Supper, again.  This time, enchiladas, green beans, and rice.  (I'm sure you could tell, but I am having fun typing.)

 Mmmm.... lots of cheese!

 Kansas sunset!

All righty, maybe those pictures will last you until Thanksgiving break or Christmas break.  =)
-JJJJ

Scenery pictures

Delightful Kansas sunset! ... er... sunrise, actually. 

Eggs in a nest

Parsley

Guess! 

A valley

An old house

An old shed

Trail going across the Pawnee River... no water due to the fields up there being irrigated at the time.

Rain!!! photo courtesy: Irene

Rain, without flash =P photo courtesy: Irene

A swarm of nasty flying ants.  Photo courtesy: Irene

The grass is green!!!

Uh, I guess you can see this is a flower.  (Or several)

There, there's just one.

Ah, delightful green grass!

A slug/snail thingy I found in a corn field the other day.  I actually see a lot of them in some fields!

All righty, there are some pictures for ya!  I didn't take the time to auto fix them or anything, so I hope they don't look too bad! =P
-JJJJ

Mountain Lion!

Photo courtesy: North Dakotan brother-in-law

Pretty neat, eh?  =D

Dust storm plus some other pictures =)

Oh, I guess the pictures will come first!  I found this horse yesterday and took pictures because he was so friendly!  =)  Yay!  The first picture I messed with, and it looks kinda weird.

 This one I just auto fixed and changed the brightness and stuff.

 

Cows, for Patty!  =)

And here is the dust storm video, taken May 8.  Kinda nifty, huh?  There were some worse ones in 2011, though; we just didn't catch them on video.

Okay, now for a very lovely quote I read in a book ("There Have To Be Six" by Amelia Mueller) a couple weeks ago!  Kind of ironic after the above video, but it still holds true!!

"Occasionally a good man becomes dissatisfied with Kansas and moves to Oklahoma.  He takes good Kansas money and buys a farm which today is and tomorrow is not, because the wind has blown it away.  He tries Colorado and slushes mud trying to irrigate a strip of bottom so narrow a cow could jump across it. 

Then he hears of Texas and goes down to hunt the bag at the end of the rainbow.  When his money is all gone, he begins to feel like he did the first night he stayed away from home.  He yearns for good old Kansas and the yearn sticks in his throat and chokes him till the tears come to his eyes.  He would give months of hard work to see a cow standing at the bars of his old Kansas farm and hear the horn for supper...  And happy is the man who wakes to find that he has wandered from Kansas only in a dream!"
 Ah, how true! =D Dear ol' Kansas!

All right, I think that is all for the time being!
-Josie