For every even year since I was born and for many more before that, the Meiners-Hodes family reunion has been going on in Kansas City. There are over 4000 living descendants of Katherine Hodes and Henry Meiners. This newspaper clipping is from the KC Times 6/29/1970 to put this event in perspective. Since I got … Continue reading “Family Reunion – 6/22/2024”
Christmas is coming up and I promised my sister, Hannah, that I would work on some plumbing and electrical issues at her house while I stayed there. I knew the visit would be limited in time, so I thought a scouting visit would be a great idea. Lucky for me, Danelle and Sonora joined me … Continue reading “Kansas City Visit – 12/2/2024”
Dad had open heart surgery a few weeks ago. After his surgery, he went to residential care where they took care of him around the clock. Once he was cleared from residential care, he was going back home. It just happened that my sisters were both on vacation that same week. Nobody was going to … Continue reading “Dad Week – 7/7/2023”
My niece Lindsey is about a year and a half old. We have never seen her. Since she lives in Wichita Kansas, we don’t often get to KC at the same time. In fact, I even tried to end my motorcycle trip early to see her and failed. So we got in town and the … Continue reading “KC With Lindsey – 4/30/2016”