July 2016--

I've been working a 4-10 schedule at work. I work Monday-Thursday and have Friday's off. It is nice to have 3 days off. A week ago, we went and found flowers that were in bloom. Here are some of the flowers

 Tree is a beautiful spot near all the flowers

 Clouds were beautiful

 Mixture of beautiful flowers

 We went for a drive in Scott's Mills area and found beautiful clouds and some flowers here and there

We ended up out by the flowers where we were the day before, the white alyssum smells so strong  but it was a good smell. We also so Sweet Peas

We went to the Steam Up on July 30th and I enjoyed seeing all the steam engines working, I think I like all the different types of tractors that are at the Steam up.

We have the Oliver and Hart and Parr tractors 

 The Oliver and Massey Ferguson tractors

The Snoopy 7

A  steam powered ringer washing machine, and and corn sheller

a steam powered wheel in and out in and out 

a weird sign, and a steam engine

 A up close of the levers on a tractor

A Farmall and 

A tractor with eyes and an umbrella 

the John Deere tractors

The Farmall 

Caterpillar 

A collection of seats 

Getting ready to Thrash some wheat! 

An Allis Chalmbers tractor

Oh straw shooting out of the thrasher

Caterpillars 

Flag and Fire Trucks

Miniature Trains

quilts 

Wood sculpture 

Huge old saw blade and teeth...would want to be next to it while it was running...well it would have been cool. 

A steam crane

 A Jordan Spreader for the tracks 

look at what the steering is..it is just a simple piece of metal welded together 

a car engine 

Paul Bunyan 

Babe the Blue Ox 

 Wooden Truck and a couple of Mack Trucks

A Paymaster truck from Lyons, Oregon

White Freightliner

Lego Truck

Steam Engine 

Smoke rings

cool wheels

small railroad 

hauling a loader
It was fun to see some of the thing at the Steam Up; I don't remember if I'd seen a Thrasher work before or not, but it is really quite interesting. there was a huge swap meet....which was really a lot of stuff to look at.