Day 27

Today we drove all the way to Iowa from South Dakota. It was a long drive and once again David did all the driving, and as usual I offered but he declined every time,  U have decided I should keep him around if he likes to drive so much and I don’t. This trip was similar to the last it was beautiful but very flat, except for when we drove through the South Dakota Badlands. He badlands are really cool prairies and rock structures. The drive was long and now we were listening to Treasure Planet now and knitting, well I am knitting. We stopped to eat at a picnic shelter bur the mother birds ran us out and back to the car.

            We made it to Iowa in good time, actually early. We spent some time with David’s great grandmother and hung up our wet tarps, covered with dirt and yellow pollen. She told us the story about getting her teaching license. At the time, she had to take a test at the courthouse and they would mail the license to her on her 18^th birthday. She passed the test and got her certificate in the mail. That same night however, Lloyd Fox presented her with a ring, so she never taught a day in her life.

            I showed Katie around the farm a little bit, we got into this building but I had a hard time getting the door back shut since the building was so old, it became a battle between me and the door, which I won by using a crow bar and hammer, but I was covered in white paint dust.

Uncle Bill got home and took us out to Pizza then to the Chisholm’s farm so Katie could meet them. They are the Fox’s lifelong friends, Monty, the father, was David’s dad’s childhood friend, and now Steve’s kids are friends with their kids. They have eight children, but only four left at home now. We returned to the Fox farm and chatted with Grandma Fox and went to bed in the old house. 94 years old, to be exact, as Grandma Fox claims because up in the attic there’s a beam that has the year 1913 written on it, the same year she was born. I hope she hasn’t been up in the attic recently though!