Field of Dreams


October 3, 2006

Kathy got up with the chicken lady, our alarm clock, at 6am. She did some computer work, crocheted, and did some sudoko. Will got up about 9:30 and we got on the road about 10. It was a sunny day with cool air. We listened to NPR and zipped along US20 toward Waterloo.

Along US20 we saw a sign for “Field of Dreams” was released in 1989. The movie was based on a book, Shoeless Joe. The baseball field is still in place and people come. We went the distance. We came out from the cornfield onto the field, check the movie! Two families own the land that the field is located on. One family owns the house and part of the field; the other owns the cornfield and the other part of the field. Unfortunately they do not get along. When one family invited Kevin Costner to return which he did and his band played the other family refused to let anyone on their portion of the field or near the house. Over 6,000 people attended the event and aerial photos show “the line”. Despite this frud the place has a peacefulness about it and people do come. Look for movie in the Movie Gallery.

We walked into the St Francis Xavier Basilica, one of 52 in the United States. It is the only basilica in a rural area. A church is given the title, basilica, based on it’s architectural attributes and must be a consecrated church, meaning it is debt free and the main alter must sit on solid ground. Each of the two spire are over 200 feet tall; the mail alter is over 50 feet tall. It is a massive structure.

Corn, lots of corn. We came into Independence, IW and found the Jaycee park where we made dinner and enjoyed some quiet time. We decided to just stay for the night.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Houston Fest Galax, VA

Image
We arrived in Galax, VA and stopped at our friend, Harold's. He was just putting the finishing touches on a cake he made for his nephew.  Harold is great in the kitchen! Brenda arrived!  We had a nice meet and greet. We went to the school across the street with Brenda and Harold and met Linda who likes hugs. Each day the three of them and others from the community volunteer to prepare backpacks of food items for children who otherwise would good the weekend hungry. They have fund raisers to get money and purchase food items that children can manage for breakfast and lunch.  They also get donations.  There is a man in Florida that heard about their need for food so ships items from Amazon.com for them to distribute. They get everything organized then run an assembly line to package items. The bags are then sent to the classrooms where the teachers put them in the children's backpacks so that no one is called to any attention. Time to head to Houston Fest whose mission is to hon
Read more

Pandemic

 This has been a strange year. We arrived in Florida in March and have stayed home since. That is about 6 months now. The Covid-19 virus has set the world to be a different place with stay at home orders, restaurants and bars closed, shelves in the grocery stores empty of toilet paper and antiseptic good, virtual school and doctor visits, hospitals that don’t let visitors enter and no only emergency care, wearing a mask when you are in public and people staying six feet apart. Who knows what the new world will be like after this. 
Read more

Hospital Stay to Camping Out

Image
Update: morning started early with vitals checked every four hours, bloodwork ( interesting side note: you are given an IV port in the emergency room, but that port is not used to retrieve blood for any of the various tests once you are admitted. Instead someone comes and draws blood through a new prick hole each time. ).    I started taking a new pill, Imdur, that helps keep the arteries open. It gave me a terrible headache so I won’t be taking that again!    Went for a CT angio of the chest. Then I waited       It is now 3:00 and they are going to discharge me!!    Yippie. That was about three weeks ago. Since then life has made a 360. We bought a house!! A touchspot really because we still plan to travel. We bought a new to us PleasureWay!! We are scrubbing and painting the house. It is the best way to get to know your new space. And it makes it your own. I take it slow and sit more than I remember doing in days gone by, but we are just ma
Read more