Aug. 3-4 - Visit at Clay and Megan’s

Saturday morning began early with harvesting for an order Tom had with a coffee lunch shop in Storm Lake (beets, leeks, green onions, AND sweet corn to take to Clay’s!) We left the farm about 9:30, stopped to pick up Joni’s mom, Darlene, to ride along to Clay and Megan’s.  After picking her up we made our delivery and hit the road for our 2 1/2 hour drive. With only one hour left we stopped in Ogden for lunch at The Lucky Pig Pub and Grill voted Iowa’s Best Pork Tenderloin Sandwich and had the best homemade pies baked by a local woman that has been baking pies for them since they opened in 2001. I’ll vouch for the Chocolate Silk pie while Tom enjoyed his favorite raisin sour cream, Joni and her mom went with lemon meringue! We all raved about them and were able to thoroughly enjoy them because we shared the sandwich! 

We arrived at Clay and Megan’s about 2pm and found Megan had an incredible spread of food! Opps! Glad Joe and kids and Amanda and kids were able to enjoy it! 

It was hot! Even warm inside the house with so many going in and out the air conditioning was having a hard time keeping up!

Kids spent a lot of their time I. The outdoor above ground pool. While adults went to Clay’s new company building, which I was able tour last summer but they were only partially moved in and two large sections of the building were not being used yet but are now. To learn more about Clay’s wood craftmanship check out Aronson Woodworks. His work is amazing and highly sought after. 

We also got to be a part of celebrating Amanda’s son Owen’s birthday! He turned 14 last week!

Kids play area! Quite the wall of need guns!

Very special chair out of Carl Carlson’s farm. Carl was a cousin to my dad. An amazing man who suffered from polio but didn’t let that stop him from tending his farm. Chair had a Send Turkish Rocker Spring with patent from 1902. Very comfortable with original leather. 

Amanda and Grandma Darlene chatting while at Clay’s shop.

I have one o Clay’s end tables like this one but this one has a cribbage board drilled into it, with pegs behind the round circular piece on the end. These were proto types.

Celebrating Owen’s 14th birthday!

Joni, daughter Amanda and Joni’s mom Darlene reminiscing with old photos.