June 15, 2012

We drove to Daniel Boone’s home today.  He moved here in his later years after leaving Kentucky.  The home was started in 1803 and finished in 1810.  This is the home in which he died in 1820 shortly before his 86^th birthday. After touring the Boone home and some other historic homes and a church that were moved to his home site we drove to Augusta Brewing in Augusta, Missouri.  We had a beer and a fresh, hot pretzel.  We also stopped at Daniel Boone’s gravesite.  Then we went back to camp and sat outside and played Yahtzee.  Jim’s friend in Longview, Fred, called to tell us his brother, Gale, had a stroke on June 11^th.   We just visited Gale and his wife Kathy on June 6^th  in Tulsa and had dinner with them.  The stroke has affected his eyes.