Awake: 6:41am Temp 67 Some clouds Overnight @ Nicktown, PA
Kathy makes her special sourdough pancake breakfast this morning. I always
enjoy that meal.
Now that we are energized, we make a water run (2 miles) to the North of
Nicktown & fill 13 one gallon jugs from a spring that, as long as anyone
can remember, has never gone dry. Then using a short 2 ft hose & funnel,
pour the water into our 161 gallon pure water tank. It usually takes
longer to pour the water into the tank than it does to get the water from
the spring.
Anna calls Kathy….she is arranging a luncheon for the ladies tomorrow.
@ 12:45, Melissa rings our doorbell. We are riding with them to
Carrolltown to have the Fire Company’s Annual Jubilee Turkey Dinner. The
meal was very good…. & afterward, we walk around & check the game booths &
other attractions. They had a larger than life blown up clown head
balloon with air circulating and swirling smaller balloons around inside;
Matthew was very brave & went inside by himself for maybe 5 to 8 min
catching & releasing some of the smaller balloons. It was fun to watch him
through the small plastic windows.
Next we watch a parade of the fire trucks from all the nearby towns….. I
should have counted: I bet there were 50 +…… & interspersed with the fire
trucks, a number of marching bands & majorettes from the local high
schools. It was so much better than the 4th of July parade in Mt Shasta
City, CA. The main street was lined with cheering townspeople. We think it
was Matthew’s first fire truck parade ever! When he wasn’t watching the
parade, Matthew was busy walking the hillside where we sat, making contact
with several other spectators, none whom we knew…he’s such a friendly guy.
The Footes bring us back to our bus & we make another run for water to add
13 more gallons into our tank.
We have an evening popcorn snack; enough after our turkey dinner.
Late evening: I call my friend Kenny in McCarthy, Alaska….then call Chong
in Anchorage …then call Katrina in Denver.
High temp today=83 Lights out: 11:37pm
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