A Leisure Fall Walk

Monday - September 29th - Sunny 81 degrees

After a couple of very stressful days and little sleep it became very evident that God has this situation under control, Lou and I decided we would wait until Matthew awoke from his nap and ask Krista and Matthew to go for a walk with us.  They were more than willing to take us up on the offer.

We went across the creek and over to the Butternut tree to check on the nut supply and found there were a few nuts on the tree and a few on the ground.

The Butternut and it's leaves

Matthew loves to throw rocks in the creek so he had a great opportunity to have lots of time to do that while the rest of us shipped rocks in the creek.

This was a rather shallow spot and a perfect place for Matt

We walked further down the creek and up the deer path to the stone wall into the open field where we found the Hickory Nut Tree.  When Daddy was still alive we had a lovely orchard in this area with lots of Spy trees.

The stone wall that was built by my father

Matt and Lou where the orchard used to be

After we reached the top of the hill, we headed for the cow path and started back down the hill, it was a beautiful day for a walk.

Lou and Matthew 

After we got back from our walk Lou remembered that we needed to get to the cemetery to water the mum that we had placed on Al's grave so Krista put Matthew's cars seat into the Saturn and we went to the cemetery.  We have noticed that several of  our family stones are growing fungus and Krista is going to search the internet for a formula and we are going to go back and scrub some of the stones.

All in all it was a very nice afternoon.  I can't remember when I have enjoyed a fall as much as this one.  We are all very thankful to God for the great stress relief and concern and love from our many friends.