A Visitor From Louisiana

September 22 - Thursday

This has been a very busy and eventful month thus far. We h ave had an abundance of rain, part of it has been from Hurricane Lee which left us with over five inches of rain. Once again out barn lot was flooded and kept us from cutting the grass for over a week.

I have replanted lettuce in many different varieties hoping to have a nice fall crop. Our green beans and cucumber are still rendering weekly pickings and our green peppers are blooming again. We have been cutting the grass twice a week again, almost like spring again.

We have been enjoying the f all mums and our roses are more beautiful now than they were in the summer.

I have been looking forward to my girl friend's visit for six months. She flies in from Louisiana twice a year and we had chosen the weekend of the 16th of September way back in May not knowing that a death in the family would change plans, so after making changes we finally got together on the 18th after church and Trish, Lou and I went to the Wheel Club for dinner then Lou wanted to do some exploring so we traveled on some back roads we had never traveled, arriving home after dark, but having a great day.

Trish and I spent the next day doing what we love to do, looking a real-estate and of course, it wouldn't be a day of exploring for us if we didn't get lost, but this time, it was rather interesting, we thought we were in Texas, we found Long Horned Steers, Trish thought their hair dos matched hers!!

All in all it was a great day and it ended too quickly and she was on her plane heading back to Baton Rouge to return again in the Spring. Both of us having added a few extra pounds from the wonderful desserts we found, but maybe we laughed several of them off, as we sure laughed a lot in the few days we spent together.

She also got to see baby Matthew and he thought she was pretty special also, as we all do, it is great to have him just next door, and he even goes to church with us, and on Sunday he crawled from me to get to his Grandpa, who Matthew thinks is pretty special.

We are off to Quarryville for a SMART campout. In the heart of the Amish

country.