Happy Fourth of July

July 4th - Sunday - Hot 92 degrees, beautiful cloudless blue sky

This has been perfect weather for the 4th of July, the typical hot weather that we think of when we think of the holiday. Thankfully, we have had a light breeze and the humidity has been low.

Saturday morning, Lou did get the wheels changed on his push mower and gave it a try and found that it was like a new machine, will walk right along, in fact Lou said he almost had to run to keep up with it. I was able to get my house cleaned up a bit and the laundry done while he was gone.

We set off for the Bark Peelers' Convention outside of Galeton, and we went right to the saw mill and watched them saw up a huge hemlock. It was a bit dark in the mill, but were able to capture a picture. From there we moved on to the kitchen, where a lady was making homemade buttermilk biscuits and baking them in a wood stove. We sampled them with freshly churned butter, a delight to withhold.

You will see a picture of a cake that was baked that resembles a tree, the sign will tell you how the care is made. We thought it was rather interesting.

We listened to Sadie Green Sales perform. I have a special interest in this group, as one of the singers was my tour guide when Michelle and I went to Prague.

We toured the rest of the museum and once again found it a wonderful place to visit. We would like to go back in the fall when it is a bit cooler and not so many people, that was we can spend more time in the museum.

We did get to see the "greased pole competition" and the "log rolling competition". Lou and I decided it was much more difficult than it looked.

We stopped at the Ox Yoke Inn on the way home and had a wonderful dinner along with a baked apple dumpling for dessert.

We went to Mansfield to watch the fireworks there. Lou was able to find a parking place by the ball diamond, so we could sit in the car and have a wonderful view. We were able to get in and out quickly and enjoyed the display of fireworks.

Today we went to church, on to George's for lunch where we met two old friends and enjoyed catching up with them on the happenings in their lives. We ended up staying until after 2:00 chatting with them. We stopped to get gas in town and met up with Brion, Janet and Casey, so had a chance to talk briefly with them. They were on their way back to Lou's house where they stayed last night and then they were returning to Camp Hill.

Lou and I spent the afternoon, getting caught up on paper work and what a great feeling that is to have those things out of the way. We had a light supper and Lou, Estee and I were off to see the firework at Ives Run. That was the first time I have ever been over into the camp area. We had a wonderful view from where we parked our car. You can see we all enjoyed the sights and the fireworks were much superior to what we viewed in Mansfield.

Seems like this has been a week for auto accidents. Lou's grandson was also involved in an accident and spent last night in the hospital. He has a compression fracture at c-7 and will be in a brace for six weeks. Lou talked to him tonight and he sounded in good spirits. He will be staying with his parents for a few days. His father is due to have surgery this week to have a kidney removed. We understand all things happen for a reason and I am sure Lou's daughter is wondering what those reasons are. We would appreciate prayers for both the father and the son.