T Stands for Tuesday & a Busy Week

  Hello everyone, and welcome to another T day.
      We link up with our hostess Bleubeard and Elizabeth and share a post with a drink related photo.

   This past week seemed like a long one for me-not sure why. Some weeks feel that way.
   I have been spinning and have the polwarth-silk hand painted roving almost finished, I will finish it up today for sure. That unspin piece is the last of this one-the roving was 4 ounces total. I really love the colors and the fact that I finally got this one spun up a little finer.
   Next up is to get my loom put back together and finish threading so I can finally get this scarf woven off. February is almost over.

   I needed to go back to the courthouse near the woods home about our personal property taxes in Lebanon. The state of Missouri has a seperate personal tax which includes any vehicles, boats, motors, farm equipment etc.  Last year November when I paid the property taxes and asked about the personal tax the lady in the assessor's office gave me the wrong information-don't ya just love that when government does that haha  She told me whatever was at the lake house would go with Morgan county and whatever was still at the woods house would go with Laclede county.
    So when I went in to drop off my list of property uh no that is Not correct at all-All of your personal tax will go to Morgan county assessor. Ok so that meant next day drive to the Morgan county offices in Versailles which is where I food shop now.
   For some reason map quest gave me the right address but gave me the wrong directions as to where it was.  I had remembered a very old looking building that I had thought was the courthouse at the time and it was.
   Wonderful people to talk with, and I registered to vote as well. Larry will never be able to walk up those steep steps so the lady was really nice and told me I could have him fill out everything, sign it, and I can bring that in with his drivers license to get him registered to vote-I will do that this week. I didn't have my camera with so these photos are from online.

   I had the feeling that this had to be an 1800's building and it was.

This was built in 1889 more photos from postcards here

   If Larry managed to make it up those outdoor steps he never would have been able to walk up to the third floor. I am thankful I still can. The steps inside are very narrow and very steep. I love old buildings like this, full of character. Afterwards I did discover an elevator but it looked ancient as well-I would rather walk
  This is so different than the very modern huge courthouse in Lebanon, Mo for Laclede. I love that Versailles is a very old and rural town still. The land here is so different than back near the woods home-instead of rocky clay soils this area is all farmland-reminds me of where my Grandparents on the farm in Indiana lived surrounded by the Amish. so I feel like going back home in a way.

   One day last week our friends that have the log home, came up and needed to go to Versailles to visit Zimmerman's for parts for his bulldozer. I went along so I could see how to get there as I knew Zimmerman's also sells fresh veggies, fruits and bedding plants and more-they are Mennonite.
    So I was thrilled about the visit-I am not good at going by myself to find places-I most always get lost This is a very large farm with several greenhouses. They must have a cannery as well.
   This city also has a couple mennonite bulk food stores and also a butcher meat market-so I have more to explore this spring and summer.

    Saturday, we drove back near the woods home to attend a yearly charity jump in. The weather had warmed up for the day and the rain was postponed til Monday-a good thing. This is always fun to watch those that jump in the Niangua river.

Note: all photos will enlarge just click on them

  This year someone decided to create a banner

If you are on facebook here is a video that someone took I wasn't able to get close enough at the time to get one Sorry since this is someone else's video that was being shared I didn't know how to embed it here.
 
  https://www.facebook.com/CherryT55/videos/2552394348367133
 
    This group has grown to the next younger generation so we didn't know too many people except for the Native American family we have been friends with for the last 20 years or so. Everyone brings food to pass, and can bring donation items that are raffled off. They raised over $600.00 this year for a local charity that is a safe house for kids and teens that need one or help and a quiet place for their homework.

  The river was fast moving and cold brrrr this area was more shallow for the jump in.

Sunday morning-wow the views out the wall of windows was impressive. The lake was so still it looked like a sheet of glass. I took these photos from indoors so they turned out pretty good.

   We are in for allot of rain here. It started raining pretty steady around 11 pm last night (Sunday night)  through this morning (Monday). Is to continue on and off for the next couple of days. That river will be flooded for sure.

   That day I was in Lebanon I decided to visit Wal mart and Aldi and do some food shopping.  The wal mart I go to now is half the size and it does lack in allot of things. The meat counter is very small as well, so I need to check out the butcher shop soon as many must shop there for meat that don't raise their own.
   I couldn't resist picking up this cup-they had several to choose from, I liked the feel of this one. They also had many cold cups to choose from too.
   So this is my drink share. I brewed me up some decaf coffee and added whipped cream-love that for a treat.

  The design is different on each side

That's it for me this week-Happy T

Oh and with Barbara's suggestions in comments I decided to give my page an uplift. Blogger has images so I chose this one-more on the beach than a lake-but the other option was just water-and I thought this was prettier-thoughts??  thanks