Meade!

And after the NW - at last to Grandpa and Grandma's house - where there's lots of love and lots of good Mennonite cooking! Eating corn in the Reimer family is very serious business. Everyone gets silent so as to focus properly on the corn. And then we begin. Butter and salt. Silent, happy chewing. But what is this? Julie puts pepper on her corn? Scandalous - but they still accept me. Seventeen ears of corn later, we are done. Mmm. When Troy and Gerald were little, they had corn-eating contests - Gerald went back-and-forth and Troy went around and around. It it still unclear as to which way is superior - it just depends who you ask!
Ready for church where we got to speak in the evening. It is always so good to be in Meade to see much of the Reimer clan and many friends.
Nothing like a ride on the 4-wheeler with Grandpa!

We got to be in Meade over Mom Reimer's 75th birthday! Although it looks like Gerald might be threatening his parents, he is actually showing the spatula he used to cook his famous biscuits and gravy for breakfast.
What would a trip to SW Kansas be if we didn't visit the Wizard of Oz museum? We had a fun tour but later Katrina worried quite a bit about tornados coming to get us!

Just a few minutes ago, Katrina and Kendra were talking in what sounded like an attempted Kansas drawl. I asked her if she was talking cowboy talk, and she said, "Of course! I'm from cowboy country!"