March 22, 2011---Corning, CA

Today was a nice day of travel. We had no hills to climb but we did have some very rough roads. I- 5 can be a bear in spots. We arrived at our park at about 12:15 so we had the afternoon to spend with some friends who Walt and I have known since NFO days. They are ranchers her in the area. When we got set up and did a few daily chores we gave them a call and they invited us to their ranch for dinner. We had a lovely time and our hostess is a great cook. We had a great salad with a white crisp vegetable in the salad. I found out it was jicama. I will have to get some at the grocery. It was almost 11:30 before we settled into bed.
It seems like ranchers and farmers are the friendliest people and you can have a wonderful time together. 
Tomorrow is the day for a new grandchild. We pray that all goes well.



They have had so much rain in this area of Sacramento that the overflow lake is now full. This area is usually dry but it has been designed to handle a large amount of overflow rain to prevent other areas from flooding.
Note the railroad track which goes right through the area. More rain expected in the morning.

This is a picture of the road we traveled to our friends ranch. It was about five miles from our park and then on some roads through the country to their lane. The lane was 1 mile long and at the end their yellow house was in front of us.











A view of the rolling hills of their ranch land--there were other hills which are very steep--they have a self leveling tractor for working and planting the crop.

The family farm is composed of acreage to accomodate a cow calf head and other ground which is planted in barley.

Their ranch is huge and it makes our farm of 160 acres look like a garden.




This is the tractor that self levels when working the heavy packed clay ground for the barley planting in the spring.


This tractor did tumble down a hill   and land on the top of the cab with the tool for breaking the ground up on top of the tractor. No one was hurt.
This is the end of Tuesday.