Tuesday July 27, 2010

 

 

Flowers ~ Sunday School Picnic

Sunday Evening, July 18

Mailing the Highway News

Visiting Great-Grandma

Monday, July 19

 

 

While getting a few groceries on Saturday morning, I purchased these flowers for the pavilion on Sunday.

 

 

 

 

While looking through the rows of flowers on the Peters’ Farm, I saw these and inquired about them. They are Lisianthus.

They decorated the tables for the Hershey Reunion (previous post) and our Sunday School picnic in the evening.

 

 

Following the Hershey Reunion on Sunday afternoon, we changed the tablecloths, refreshed the juice and water containers, and put new candles in the small lanterns on the table in preparation for our Sunday School Class Picnic Supper.

We had a great evening of visiting. I especially enjoyed Rachel Fahnestock’s suggestion that the ladies sit in a tight circle, and share – one-by-one – what is going on in their life at the moment. It turned out to be a very special evening. I think the men did their normal visiting – talking about hunting, jobs, farming, and whatever was happening in their lives.

 

 

On Monday morning we cleaned up the pavilion things, then prepared for the arrival of granddaughters Diana and Gloria, and Alta and Don Hollinger who helped label the individual Highway News in preparation for mailing.

 

 

The process takes six of us almost two hours.

 

 

This was the first time the girls helped, and I think they enjoyed it.

 

 

 

 

The girls stayed at our house until evening when we visited my stepmother (their great-grandma Velma) who was at Pleasant View Retirement Community. She had surgery two weeks earlier, and came here for ten days of rehab – mostly to regain her strength.

My Aunt Lois was visiting when we arrived. You met her at the Hershey Reunion in the previous post.

 

 

Velma was going home the next day, and is doing quite well.

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After this we took the girls home, and spent the next day preparing for a six-day trip to Fergus, Ontario, Canada.

It was during this trip that I did not have access to the Internet – the reason I was offline for several days. I will begin our trip photos tomorrow night.

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