Ride along with PF -- part 5

It has been another nice week here on the Plains of Kansas. I have had a good time driving the back roads and taking photos of things that I find interesting. Sometimes those things include old cars and trucks which I share with you guys from time to time. We have had some rainy weather which I am thankful for too.
Monday was a good day for me and I stopped at a Kansas State University Experimental Test Farm Plot to take photos of a cool season crop not otherwise grown in KS. It is canola or rape seed used to produce vegetable oil. It was a pretty scene on this day after Easter...

 

Further down the road I saw this nice old barn on an abandoned farmstead. There was other neat stuff to see around there too.

 

Not far down the road I saw this nice old Ford Econoline pickup truck.

 

Quite a few miles down the road later that same day I saw this old truck...
It was a 46 Chevy 1.5 ton with a John Deere chuck wagon box on it for feeding silage to cows.

 

Then I was going past a farm and saw this nice old 30-31 Ford Model AA truck next to a house but no one was home...

 

We'v had a fair amt of rain here in Texas also.My little lady would love that birdhouse and bed frame.You sure have nice drives.Webb.

 

and then I rolled into a tiny ghost town where most things are abandoned and saw yet another Ford Econoline pickup truck....
Two on the same day !!!

 

and in the same ghost town I saw an old Hudson sedan sitting all alone...

 

and after some time I rolled into the town where my friend Louise owns an upholstery shop. Her husband Harry is wizard123 on the HAMB and they are great folks to hang out with at KKOA and Stray Kat events...
We had a nice visit and I looked at her projects which included some seasonal work on boats and so forth.

 

Later in the week, I saw this good old solid Advanced Design Series Chevy 3/4 ton pickup truck...

 

Very cool.Thanks for posting. Seems you have an eye for the photogenic.

 

Paul, some day I want to just do a ride-along with you on one of these delivery runs you make. I know we've got a lot of sweet old iron hidden in Kansas, but there seems to be more of it out towards you than there is here on the sunrise end of the state.

 

this one looks like the body is in good shape

 

Poverty, thanks for taking us on another ride. What a wonderful country we live in...

 

I look forward to your ride along posts! Great photos and interesting adventures. I love the "flower bed" ..........pun intended.

 

Also worth noting is the fact I cover perhaps 250-350 miles in one day so it is spread out over alot of countryside...

 

I also liked these old buildings including a wooden water tank tower, hand cranked blacksmith forge blower, and an outhouse with a "skylight"...

 

That's it for this time. Thanks for riding along.
We will be attending the KC Shriner's Swap Meet in Lee's Summit, MO this Saturday rain or shine and will have a report on that later...

 

Another "thank you" for taking us all along - great trips you have!

 

Pov, love this stuff bro, now that is a flower BED! Two Econ pu's in one day, sorry pal, over the limit. That blacksmith forge is really cool. Wifey likes the look of the skylight outhouse and we might be putting one in ours. Thanx for sharing your daily treks with us, lookin forward to Salina already! ~sololobo~

 

Thanks for the ride along, PF.

 

Thanks Tom

 

thanks for the ride Paul!

 

Cool stuff...thanx for the ride!

 

I think it's cool that you find all of these beautiful things out in the country. Cars, buildings, machinery, and of course great folks! People always say "you can snooze thru flat boring Kansas". They don't know what they're missing. Thanks for the trip!

 

I do love these excursions you go on PF.

 

I wish I had time to come out and take a ride with you. That looks like a nice, relaxing time...something I get very little of here in Dallas.

 

Everyone says that !!!
only the legendary BobK has actually done it...

 

Hey Flats, sorry I missed you, but as Louise probably told you I had some back surgury recently and was lying down when you must of been at the house. I heard the dog raising cain, but thuoght he was just having a brain fart. By the way, Louise is looking into getting her sign at the shop redone as it's looking pretty ratty, been up since 1999. Hope to see ya in Dewey, Harry.

 

Harry, your brave dog "Clayton" only barked once when I knocked on the door. He seems well trained. I will catch you at Dewey for sure.