Awake: 5:35am Temp 4 Clear Overnight@ Nicktown
We scrape enough frost off our Suzuki windshield & side windows so that we
can see to drive over to the church hall (3 min) for 9:00am breakfast.
During breakfast, we talk mostly with Carol & Dave who have several
businesses in town & get to know them a little better. Nice people of
course.
Back to our bus @ 10:30 & then leave for a rendezvous with the Footes in
Indiana @ 11:55am. Kevin drives his family & us in the comfortable &
customized 1984 Ford 350 van to New Castle, PA where we spend the
afternoon visiting with my niece Carlene, her husband Bob & their 2 boys
Liam & Bain (1.8 hrs). It was an enjoyable ride; I sat in front and Kevin
and I filled the hours with conversation while Kathy sitting in the middle
row with Matthew and Melissa sitting in the back with Andrew likewise had
no trouble conversing with each other. Kathy also enjoyed playing with and
reading to Matthew, who’s a very good traveler.
Matthew was completely occupied & fascinated with all the neat toys Liam &
Bain have collected. We 6 adults enjoyed an afternoon of family updating
interspersed with small bits of intelligent conversation. Carlene even
fed us a late lunch, a favorite recipe from her mother; Pizza Burger with
a Caesar salad….it was quite good. She also made “self-filled cupcakes”
for dessert, another of her mother’s recipes. As we were leaving, Bob
whispered that they would try & visit us in Nicktown sometime this
summer….that would be nice. We are back @ the Foote home by 7:25pm.
Kathy & I do some light grocery shopping @ Martin’s before returning to
our bus @ 9:25pm. Because of the colder temps, I add an extra 75 watt
light bulb to both of our pump houses to avoid any freeze-up.
Later evening: We finish watching the movie: “Chocolat” with Juliett
Binoche, Judi Dench & Johnny Depp. We liked this movie & thought it was
well done.
High temp? Lights out: 11:30pm
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