Trip to Othello

We've had our insurance for the ranch through the same company for many years. The agent we used to have bought/leased some additional farmland and gave up the insurance game for full-time farming. The new agent our policy was assigned to has been wanting to get together with us to review our policies. She went by our mailing address and thought we were in Mount Vernon. While talking to her on the phone, she finally realized that we were actually in eastern Washington. She offered to find her way out to the ranch to visit us, but we told her it would probably be easier for us to come into her office in Othello.

We made an appointment with her for this morning at 11:30. It's been a long while since we had driven to Othello. It was interesting to see all of the growth there has been in both Othello and Warden in potato sheds and processing plants. After yesterday's lovely rain, the sun was shining and it was a beautiful day to be out and about.

We spent a few hours with our new agent Anna and made sure everything was adequately covered. She turned out to be a very bright and competent woman and a delight to work with.

On the way back to the ranch, we stopped by Monsanto's plant in Warden and surprised my brother Pat. We just caught him coming out the office door with his hard hat to go check on something in the shop. It was good to get a couple more hugs from him before we leave for Arizona.

Getting Ready to Move On

Preventive maintenance isn't Forry's favorite thing, but today he was out checking the air pressure in the tires on the Toad --

 We're planning to leave here in the morning and start heading on down towards the Gulf Coast:

While he had his air compressor out, Forry checked all of the tires -- and added a bit of air to a couple -- on Auntie Violet as well --

I spent most of the day doing laundry, that never-ending task. I made a pot of chili for supper that I served along with biscuits.

I have been chatting with my friend Cathi in Spokane off and on since last night about the three inches of snow at her place in Spokane. The conversation widened to Sharla near Menno and Mary in Warden. Sounds like it is snowing or trying to snow all over that portion of eastern Washington. I was gritching about the wind here in Mississippi, but at least it's in the seventies.

I want to give a "shout-out" to my great-neice Ellie today -- she's celebrating her second birthday! Happy Birthday Ellie Jane!