For those of you who knew, and those of you who didn't, we're home now.
We had a most enjoyable weekend up at Alicia and Howard's farm in Lebanon, Conn., celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary and Alicia's 80th birthday. Howard is Paul's next oldest sibling. What a good time we had!
Unfortunately, Edna and Bonnie couldn't make it, and we missed them, but understood because Ray, Bonnie's son and driver, is recovering from a heart operation and Mike, Edna's husband, stays pretty close to home with with his COPD problem. The three brothers were there. Bob, Paul and Howard.
Once in a while, people come up to me and tell me they read my blog. That's nice. Kathy, Bob's daughter, said she reads it. He's Paul's oldest brother. I think she prints it out for her dad. Kathy called herself a "creeper" which I wondered about. It doesn't sound very good, does it. But she described it as someone who reads Facebook, etc. and doesn't respond. That's okay with me. I'm really good with it. It didn't "creep" me out.
It's nice to be able to tell friends and family what's goin' on at the Woodsedge.
We boarded Gracie at her favorite place - Carol's Habitat for Hounds. Gracie pulled and pulled on her leash when we got out of the car. She wanted to get into the house and see Carol and her little dog, Mickey. She just loves it there! And they love her. You can't imagine how glad we are to have found Carol.
It was a six hour trip to Lebanon. We drove up Friday - the day before the party. We left here at 9 and got to the motel at 3:30. The drive was beautiful. We had a rest and then on to Applebees - practically across the street. Then after supper, we went on to the farm - a 15 minute drive - just to touch base. We didn't stay long because we were tired. We all had the cake I brought up with us. So that worked out well.
Weather-wise - they couldn't have gotten better weather. It was gorgeous. Beautiful blue skies. It had rained the days before, so the grass was exceptionally green. Howard and Alicia have a 40 acre farm with Herefords. They have an electric fence to separate the cattle from the back yard, and the cows just enjoyed coming and looking at everyone. There were only ten or twelve of them at one time. Including calfs. The kids had fun - touching the fence. Paul said it was harmless. He said kids like to get a piece of grass and touch it to see how close they can get to it. Didn't sound harmless to me. But I'm originally a city person. (Long Island)_
Alicia and Howard's three children, Joe, Karyn and Chuck, put on the party for them the next day. It was catered and about 100 people showed up. . Parking was in the village green, across the street from them Lots of friends and neighbors.
But, I must say we had a good number of relatives that attended. Sharon, Ida and Charles came in on Friday evening late in their new truck, pulling a pop-up tent. They set it up on the side lawn along side a tent Karyn had set up. Then there were two carloads from DuBois, Pa. which included Bob, and his two daughters, Kathy and Sue, husbands, and Bob's granddaughter and two little great grandchildren. Plus Lue's son Mike also came in from New London.
The party was in the backyard. A big white tent had tables set up with lavender tablecloths and little bouquets of flowers, white folding chairs. There was an outside appetizer station, a drink station with wine, beer and soft drinks. Inside the tent was a hot buffet with several entrees.
We left Sunday morning at 8 AM which was early. The reason: We had a date to visit with my old college roommate and her husband in Ballston Spa, .an hour outside of Albany. I've known Carol since kindergarten. . .it's been a long time. . .I almost feel like we could be related! Carol and John just had a new home built two years ago. They'd lived in an old farmhouse out in the country. This one is "in town." We stayed a couple of hours and had lunch with them.
And guess what - they're celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary on June 29th - Same day as ours - only we'll be celebrating our 6th! And Gracie's pet sitter's daughter is getting married on the 29th. How about that?
What a lovely little one-story house. Actually it's about the same size as ours on the bottom floor, but much more open 1800 square feet. And, to be honest with you, very uncluttered. Hmmmm..... It made Paul and I come home and think about how to get rid of stuff! We're trying. We'll see. We've found some things in boxes and around the house that we didn't know we had, or forgot we had. It's a slow process, but we hope to get our house looking as uncluttered as theirs. We also loved their hardwood flooring in the main area. Now Paul is mulling over whether to do that to ours.
So that's all the news for now from the Woods edge. How're things goin' in your neck o' the woods?
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