Sunday

This is Shalom Mennonite Church in Newton, Kansas.  The Mennonite Church USA Executive Board has been meeting there the last few days and this morning we met our friends, Walt and Clara and Roger and Carmen there for worship. This is actually the back entrance of the church from the parking lot.

We've been driving by this corn field the last few days as we came from Spring Lake RV Resort near Halstead into Newton.  These are actually bailed cornstalks.

Roger told us that many corn fields had just been bailed whole without harvesting as the crop was so poor due to the drought.  This particular field had a circle on it for irrigation, so it was most likely harvested before they bailed the stalks.

We think this is a field of soybeans --

It really doesn't look very good and the pods are small and few --

We have had thunderstorms and rain the past two nights. Roger said they had gotten two inches of rain at their place last night.  Everything has been so dry that the rain has been very welcome.

I put some spare ribs and sweet potato fries in the oven for supper tonight.  It's the kind of chilly weather that makes one think about oven meals.  We've had to dig out jackets and sweaters as it is fifty degrees colder in the mornings then the 98 degrees it was the day we arrived!