My out of town family have reminded me that I have not posted anything for the month of June and I see that they are correct, so to catch everyone up on a very busy month, I will just post some pictures that I have taken of our many activities with some captions, along with a promise to do better in the month of July.
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| We attended my Aunt Marilyn's funeral in Erie, PA on the 8th of June. This is my cousin Russ and his wife Sherry Bush |
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| We celebrated Matthew's second birthday on the 15th of June at his Aunt Missy's house and it is always a delight, as we get to have a picnic and watch the Laurel Festival from her shaded yard. A wonderful time was had by all of us. |
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| You can see Matthew loved to ride in his cousin Nick's car with his new friend that his Grandma Torpy made for him. Matthew loves anything that goes Varoom and has wheels! |
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| This was his big present, and what fun this was, works great on Grandpa Rice's driveway. |
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| The best act in the Laurel Festival |
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| Pastor Keith doing his last communion using the new chalice and plate that we had Preston make for him as a going away present. Pastor was touched by the act of kindness |
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| Pastor and Kathy singing as they often did throughout their five year ministry with us. |
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| Pastor Keith singing Thank You by Ray Boltz |
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| Lou with his new toy that Janet and Brion gave him for Father's Day |
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| Close examination of the Power Mulit-Tool |
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| Finally have the fountain operating |
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| Clematis |
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| Lou used his new power tool with the sanding wedges on this and removed all of the rust, then used the saw blades and cut the legs off even, painted it and we purchased a plant dish and planted flowers, added a hummingbird feeder. |
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| We stained all of the decks, railing and all of the deck furniture after the ceiling and all were scrubbed down, this all took several days. I sewed new cushions and pillows. |
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| Lou made a marker for Estee's gravesite and planted her favorite flower, pansies. She would eat them as fast as we could give them to her. He did the engraving himself and used his new tool to polish the rock. |
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| He continues to haul rock from the bank, to enable mowing an easier task. |
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| We made a new flower bed in front of Lou's work shop. |
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| The bank where we have planted lots of new wild flowers and they are coming along great. Lou faithfully waters them daily. |
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| Lou, Krista, Matthew and I went to our cemetery and to Whitneyville to run the weed eater as they just are not kept the way we would like to see them kept, and we water the flowers weekly also. We have a lot of other things that need to be done here at home, we have work on our spouting scheduled for this weekend and am hoping that it isn't as hot for the guys to do the work. We are going to get the barn painted and want to do that when the humidity isn't high. Krista and Steve with help with that. Last time that was done, was the year before Al died and Krista and Steve helped me do that. We sprayed it and plan on doing it the same way, so you can see things are progressing along. Have to get our work done before the first of August, as we will be gone for the entire month and we are certainly looking forward to that. |
