Things that didn't stay in Tekamah (and Nebraska)

We got home late this Thursday afternoon from Blogstock '08 and a detour to Telluride, Colorado. Our Colorado visit will be told in part in a later blog.

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About half of the Blogstock '08 festival attendees wore t-shirts with this logo. Mrs. Jim and I didn't get one as we really weren't around very much during business hours.

Mrs. Jim and I didn't have anything to hide. I scratched my head and found some things that did not stay in the Corn Country (Nebraska).

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Several of these items shown are from the Welcome Bag given to Mrs. Jim and me the first night of Blogstock, starting at the top row from left to right:
1. A pack of two black and one red markers from the Dollar General store in Blair, Nebraska. We had to get these to make our poster for the float.
2. A nice tall mug from the Morrow Kennels. This will be nice for my Arnold Palmer drinks.
3. A neat little star template I made to stencil the stars onto the poster. As a retired engineer, it had to be almost perfect. See the poster below.
4. A new phone book having Tekamah, Herman, and Blair phone numbers in addition to Fremont. Borrowed from the Super 8 Motel at Blair.
5. A very nice book made by Ralph Campbell for the Blogstock attendees. It contained a bio and a couple of posts of the others and a few who wanted to come but couldn't. Thanks, Ralph.
6. A jar of honey from bees on Cliff's farm. Well, from Sue Bee who has hives on the farm.
7. A nice jar of cherry jelly. I suspect the cherries were from trees on the farm.
8. A bright orange bag the Blogstock favors came in. The computer cartoon reads "I love my computer because all my friends live in it."
9. June 25th Burt County Plaindealer with an article about Blogstock written by Cliff Morrow.
10. Ten washers I got that were left over from weighing down the trim on our float.
11 (Not shown) Two nice ball pens, green and white, advertising the Morrow Kennels.

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A neat little sore from rubbing on the stirrup leathers on Major's saddle. I had left my blue jeans at the motel. No pain, no gain, my nice ride, see the previous post, was well worth this little bit.

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Four dozen plus two golf balls given us by our cousin, John, of Tekamah. John walks a lot and when his walk is at the cemetery beside the golf course, he finds many 'out of bound' balls.

Thank you, John. And Cliff, you might identify one of these (golf rule number one, identify your ball).

At any rate is 'finders keeper' rule for our family and John graciously gave us these balls that he had found.

Now, Mrs. Jim and I will play 'one for me, one for you' with the NIKE and Callaway balls. Then Mrs. Jim will take what she wants and I can have those she doesn't want.


Something that did stay in Nebraska

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We worked hard to make this poster (aren't my home drawn stars beautiful!) and similar mate, then left both of them in Cliff's truck. We aren't sure whether or not he will save it for us or give them to a cousin. We would like to have them to show Adi. Maybe she has looked at the blog. I hope so.

Bloggers writing about Blogstock '08 (so far)

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http://cliffmorrow.blogspot.com/ Cliff said we made the paper in three places and left links to two.
http://homespunheadlines.blogspot.com/ Ralph put on a couple of pictures that have Mrs. Jim, one of me.
http://lz-blogger.blogspot.com/ Jerry's blog is the most comprehensive report so far (I'm checking them as I write).
http://slidingthroughlife.blogspot.com/ Rachel has a nice picture of Mrs. Jim talking and working with Mrs. Morrow. I'm there too in another one.
http://changelog.complete.org/plugin/tag/blogstock John and Terrah's son, Jacob, was the hit of Blogstock '08! Mrs. Jim and I couldn't figure out how he was able to eat all the sour cherries he picked.
http://forest.complete.org/ Terrah doesn't have pictures but does have some nice commentary on Blogstock '08.
http://jamiesmindlessblather.blogspot.com/ Jamie Dawn has some nice things the rest of us missed.
http://jwiley.typepad.com/ Jerry has a neat little rundown on some logistics of attending blogstock.

Note: Scroll down on these blogs if you are looking this post in July 2008 and you will find them. If later, you probably should do their blog search--upper left hand box on most--on their blog using the word, Blogstock.

We surely did have a good time. And we got to meet quite a few fellow bloggers and their families.