To say that I was lazy today would be an understatement. I mean I even had my jammies still on at 11:00!! But I was tired. I know that I didn’t work that hard getting ready for the stew supper that we had at our church, but between that and getting Kyle off to Korea, really took it out of me. So like I said, I didn’t have much planned for today and was really OK with that.
So first things first. I literally watched two full movies today and it was GREAT! The first one I’ve never seen before and it was an old movie and the second one that I watched in the late afternoon was one that I’ve seen but it’s a scary one so I just had to watch it again. I did want to get a couple of things accomplished so it wasn’t a total loss of a day. I was able to get all our laundry done from what we used in the kitchen last night at the supper. I’m not sure why we used so many towels and rags, but they’re smelling pretty fresh right now and I’ll have to drop them off tomorrow night. I also got the kitchen cleaned up and a pan of bars made up. Then recycling was getting out of control and that’s when I decided to go on a drive. It needed to get done and it was a great excuse to check out this one river that I heard was overflowing with ice. With the car packed and cameras in the car, off I went. Daryl ran into work for awhile and I just wanted to make sure that I was home when William was coming through from his vacation. A bunch of kids went to Myrtle Beach and it sounded like they had a great time. I knew that it shouldn’t be an issue to be home in time so off I went. It’s always so good to get the junk out of the house that needs to get recycled isn’t it? I’m not that ‘green’ and it bothers me to have all that stuff in your house. But it’s a good thing to do, so we do it right? Then to see this river. And as I was driving on the back-roads to get there I realized that I was going to run out of gas pretty soon. Now wouldn’t that be about the most embarrassing thing? And it wasn’t something that I was going to be doing this Sunday, so I turned around on the road and headed back to find some gas. Of course the gas pump didn’t work at first and I knew that I had only a couple of miles until I was empty so it just HAD to work, but finally they got the pump going and I was back in business. I started back to see the river and I knew that I was close to the World’s Smallest Church. So of course I had to go right? I haven’t been there for many years and it was a good reason to go today. The church is nestled in right beside the river and it’s just a really cool place to go. I took a couple of pictures along the way though. The first one is this old abandoned house. I felt sad at first for it and then I thought it would be a great place to take some photo’s. There was a sign posted for no trespassing so I hurried up and snapped this one. 
The next one that I took was this old bridge that you drive over. If it looks old in this picture, it looks even older in person! 
Then finally I made it to the Smallest Church and I snapped a couple of pictures while I was there, so take a look. There is also a cabin behind the church so there’s a photo explaining how the cabin got there.
World’s Smallest Church, Festina Iowa
World’s Smallest Church – Festina, Iowa
Inside the church
And then I finally found the river that our friend was talking about. This river goes past their farm and their road has been closed for quite some time now. The river in the picture below is what is covered in ice and trees. I think it looks pretty cool but I guess it wouldn’t look that great if your farm lane has been under water.
Check out the ice in the river! Doesn’t Mother Nature know that it’s officially Spring?
After I saw the river, I ran to the farm store to see if I could find myself some new farm boots. I didn’t have any luck but couldn’t believe how many people were shopping in there today! I did have a good laugh when I saw this truck in front of me driving around with three dogs in the back just running back and forth and barking at every house they saw. Now even though New Hampton isn’t a big town, there’s quite a few houses to bark at! I had to snap the picture fast (I was trying to drive and look for trains all at the same time!) and I only caught two of them. But it’s still a funny picture! 
And I even got all my running down before William stopped by on his way back to college. It was a great weekend!