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We love you! Daddy & Mother
Refreshing Mountain ~ Explorer Package
Wednesday Afternoon, August 16 Day 4 of Brothers’ Week After getting our tickets (which we reserved on Monday) we followed the paw prints to the Explorer Package starting point. They watched a video while waiting for their guide and other team members to arrive for their 1:00 PM appointment. Walking toward the Paintball Targets Challenge […]
Supper at Gus’s with the Boys
Tuesday Evening, August 15 Supper was part of Jesse’s 2017 birthday gift. He chose Gus’s because they have an all-day breakfast. He wanted pancakes. 🙂 We were each ready to eat after bowling two games. Jesse was happy with his pancakes and bacon. I chose a breakfast as well. When the waitress heard that we […]
Bowling for Jesse’s 2017 Birthday Gift
Tuesday Afternoon, August 15 We continued our week by going to Dutch Lanes for Jesse’s 2017 birthday gift. I wanted to get a good picture of these four, but couldn’t find one. First Cerwin was adjusting his glasses. Then Ian sneezed. I guess this one – the response to the sneeze is best. 🙂 We […]
Labeling Highway News and Eating Churros
Tuesday, August Our first job on Tuesday morning – of brothers’ week – was to label the individual Highway News (September issue). After taking the seven bags to the post office, we went to Costco where Cerwin had an appointment to have a checkup on his hearing aids. The boys – Jared, Jesse, Ian – […]
Build-A-Bear with the Boys
Monday afternoon, August 14 Jesse informed me that he never made a Build-A-Bear like the other grandchildren. Sometimes the youngest grandchild gets special benefits, but other times they get missed. So we went to Build-A-Bear after Refreshing Mountain. First he had to choose an animal from the many bins of animals. He named him Fluffy. […]
Swimming at Refreshing Mountain
Monday Afternoon, August 14 We had a relaxing morning, then went to Refreshing Mountain so the boys could swim and so we could plan a Challenge Adventure and Zip Line Excursion for later in the week. It was a great day to be at the pool – there were very few people there. Maybe because […]
Visiting Great-Grandma Hershey
Sunday, August 13 The week was what we used to call “Cousins Week”, but all the cousins (our grandchildren) have grown up and have jobs and busy lives, so we are down to “Brothers Week” with Ian, Jared, and Jesse. The Amish must have had church in our area. We met four buggies in our […]
A Summer of Rain
Saturday, August 12 This has been a most unusual summer in our area with a downpour almost every week – sometimes more than once a week. As a result, fields are filled with tall corn, beans, potatoes, soybeans – whatever the farmers are growing. Yards are green and need mowing every week – sometimes twice […]
American Music Theatre
Friday Night, August 11 Going to see Clint Black at American Music Theatre was Roy’s 2017 Birthday Gift. I know who Clint Black is, but was not familiar with his music, so I was looking forward to a new experience. Earlier in the afternoon Jere brought four warm cookies that Jana had just baked. We […]
Hawthorne Family Picnic
Sunday Evening, August 6 The pavilion tables are ready for the Hawthorne Family Picnic – my mother’s family. I asked our sister-in-law Dot if she would be interested in bringing flowers. She did a fabulous job of creating beautiful arrangements from their own yard. The food table decoration 5:00 pm – time to eat. Joyce […]
A New Birdfeeder
This is what I brought home from the Steam Show in Berryville, Virginia. I had the hanging apparatus – from a secondhand store – for several years and was looking for something to fit inside it. I had been using baskets, but they rot after a few months. I found this graniteware strainer at one […]
Sunday Afternoon at the Steam Show
July 30 Shortly after lunch we watched the Parade of Tractors – which lasted about half an hour. Those with whistles blew them in front of the announcer’s stand. I think my heart skipped a beat when I heard the name of this tractor – Hart Parr. This brought back a memory of my Grandpa […]
Sunday Morning at the Steam Show
Sunday, July 30 We were looking forward to the Sunday morning worship service on the fairgrounds – and were not disappointed. This service has been part of the steam show for many years. Singing, Redeemed, how I love to proclaim it. Redeemed by the blood of the Lamb. I think someone said there were about […]
TFC’s Promotional Chapel at the Steam Show – Part 5
Saturday Evening, July 29 More views of tractors going through the grounds. It’s not every day where you see this kind of pattern on the ground from tractor wheels. The cement block guys invited this little fellow to help them. His parents were watching. I love the look on his face. Like. Are you watching […]
TFC’s Promotional Chapel at the Steam Show – Part 4
Saturday Afternoon, July 29 We saw a lot of boys driving tractors with their daddy or grandpa nearby. What a great experience for the boys. The speed – putt putt. Very slow traffic continued all day long – even during rain and drizzle. After the weather brightened up in the midafternoon, I walked around the […]