911- 2014

Camping at Merry Meadows - Freeland, Maryland

September 10th - Partly Cloudy 75 degrees

The above picture is what we see as we drove into Merry Meadows Campgrounds.  The 1920 Fordson really caught my attention.  I certainly remember many hours riding around in the fields with my Daddy on a Fordson tractor with the same iron wheels; however, ours had fenders and we were allowed to take along a  pillow and we could curl up and sleep on that pillow.

We have had a wonderful time at this SMART muster.  On Tuesday, we made a trip to Miller's Taxidermy and Museum.  We were able to see many of the treasures that Mr. Miller had captured all over the world and many treasures that are native to our area.

The workshop

Some of his treasures

Mr. Miller takes many trips to Africa and the following picture shows some of his treasures that he has brought back.

Do you recognize some of these? 

I was interested in the fowl, as my late husband enjoyed hunting ducks and had several prepared.

Just a few of the birds that Mr. Miller had.

After our afternoon at the Taxidermy we enjoyed our Potluck dinner, which is always a hit, our host, Betty and Bernie along with Ollie and Carol prepared Pulled Pork Barbecue that was delicious and the rest of us filled in with a dish to pass.

We all like to eat and talk.

Today we got new neighbors and they had a different variety of pets...........

Pretty and with voices !!

Tomorrow, we are going to have a special worship service for 911 before we break camp then we all head home.  Our next meeting will be in November when we meet for a wintertime luncheon.  Some of our folks will head south in October and we wish them  God Speed.

Catching Up

September 9th- Tuesday 73 degrees

Currently we are camping at Merry Meadows in Freeland, Maryland and we have a wonderful internet connection and here I can't work outside, so I will take a few minutes and make a blog post.

August has been a very busy month.  We have spent most of the month working outside as you can see from previous posts.  We have let things go for the last two years, and the time has come where we can't any longer. My shoulder has kept me from doing, I guess when I hurt, I just  don't have the energy to think about what needs to be done....

I had another MRI of my shoulder done last week and went back to see Dr. Rackish in Williamsport and I do have another tear in my rotator cuff; however, he  doesn't want to do surgery at this time, as he doesn't think it will help the pain, he gave me an injection and I do think it has helped some, so I am learning to live with it.

Krista has been coming down a couple times a week to help me do outside things and that is a great help, she is always willing to do whatever we need help with and little Matthew loves to follow Grandpa around.  So far we have gotten all of the iris, peonies, day lilies, lamb ears and holly hawks cut down for the season.

We have some heavy pruning to do in the back of the house when we get back home then I can call to have our house power washed for the season.  I am anxious to do the decorating for fall.  I did get the back deck scrubbed and all of the summer items washed and put away for the year.  I am ready to purchase mums.

Lou and I attended Lou's granddaughter's wedding on the 24th of August and that was a delightful event. I could not believe that I did not take one picture.  Someone told me that means I was having so much fun and I guess that must have been the case.  Lou only took a few.  We stayed over night in a motel in Clearfield, PA that Brion picked out, it was lovely,  then we all had  breakfast together in Tyrone.  We went back to Preston and Susie's house to see the new renovations and wow, they were beautiful.  It was a wonderful weekend and a beautiful outside wedding at Penn State.  Stephanie made a beautiful bride.

Lou and I asked my sister to make one of her hand made quilts for Stephanie and Bohb and she was glad to  do that and my Susie did a label for the quilt to commemorate the occasion.

Stephanie and Bohb

Lou took this picture outside before we were all ushered inside.

Stephanie and the photographer

Last Sunday we attended the Kemp reunion.  Dave Kemp is the older living member  of the family.  He is 94 years of age.  Still pretty sharp.  Many of you remember Judge Kemp, Dave is his brother.  He is a first cousin  to Lou.

Dave Kemp

So you can see from what little I have written about, we have been busy and hopefully we can accomplish lots in September,  because, you know what is coming.  Burrr....

Little Barn Project

Monday - September 8th - Cool 58 degrees

Our little barn has needed repair for several years and we have had promises from several  people that they would fix it for us, but no one ever followed through on those promises, so Lou finally said that he would tempt it and that he did.

He started by tearing off all of the old boards that had rotted.  My deceased husband had built the little barn years ago and had used screw nails and it was a challenge to get the nails out without destroying the boards, as we wanted to use the  boards as patterns to get the angles correct.

As with most jobs, it soon became apparent, it was going to require more work than we thought, we had to remove the doors and rework them.  I had built new doors the year that Al died, and I really am not a carpenter either.....

It wasn't long before we were able to start cutting boards to put back up to replace the rotted boards.

Doors back on and reworked, so they shut properly.  Tim cut us some tin so we  can put it above the doors to protect them from the weather.  Lou installed new drip edge to the front and back of the barn, we scrapped the barn, applied putty to all of the cracks and edges and then painted the barn.  Krista was going to help me paint it, as Lou hates to paint, but we got a good afternoon, and Lou said "let's get it done", so we did it and I am so thankful to have it all done.