The 2006 Travels of Richard n Shirley

1:30 pm

This is the visiting team pitcher. Got him at the beginning of his stretch. He is rated 1st in his district and has a full schlorship to a university in Kansas. Wish him well as he could be the next great name in baseball.




The first batter at the top of the first inning. The visiting team drove nearly 500 miles friday to be here for their saturday game. The home team stands in the background did fill up as the game progressed. The visiting team is from an American Indian reservation near Farmington, NM.






And the home team pitcher as he was in the middle of his pitch. He pitched a good game as the score will attest.





The sign at the ball field in Lovington, NM.










The final score for today. The rule is 10 runs at the end of four innings is the ball game. The score board tells the tale.




10:00 am

This is what we woke up to. It was a misty morning and now its cloudy with rain in the forecast. We are suppose to go to the high school ball game at 11 am. So far its not to cool at 57. The weatherbug has no wind but it rained some all night. We will probably go and see if they play. The last time we saw a ball game was in Wessington Springs last year. If you go back to our travels to then there are lots of pic's to see. If they play, I will post some pics for ya.

We have been scanning family photos since March 21st, about then. We scanned 4 albums of 50 pages, double sided. the count at that time was, approx. 970 pictures, plus news paper clippings, death notices, birth announcements, etc. Close to 1050 documents. Now we are doing more of the same and the count on pics alone is around 1225. There is a box of stuff yet to go through as well as two foot lockers and a file cabinet..

Once I get it all scanned, I/we will go back to where I stopped, about 672, and add names etc to each photo. All of this is to keep our family history intact and with our genology that my mom started and worked on till her death in 1996. Lots has been done and yet lots more to do. Probably more to scan than has been scanned. There is work to do on the road.

We will be here till about the 15th so my brother can go to his grandaughters 16th birthday. We will be house sitting their 3 dogs and 3 cats. Then its off to Pecos to see the family farm of 15 or 30 acres. We will know more once we get to the county court house's. I say that plural as the property is in two counties. We will stay at the Escapee park there. Our first time at their parks. But not the last as we will be going thru "The Ranch" and making a stop there as we head north.

We have some wildlife on the lake. There are ducks, geese, and more ducks and geese.





This is the three bachelor's. They spend their time chasing the girls around the lake. Sometime they are successful and sometimes not.



Here is some of the girls. There are lots of fowl here to watch and feed.

They egg is the future of the fowl. Shirley found this one at the base of a tree. We went back later and it was gone. Probably found and destroyed by the human visitors.