Awake: 4:23am Temp 59 sleep 5+20 clear overnight @ Nicktown.
We drive to the community center, attend 8:00am Mass, then join the Koffee
Klub for 1.3 hrs. Kathy brought 16 of her zucchini muffins for the Klub
members; they liked them a lot.
After our breakfast, I begin putting together a shooting gallery for
Matthew using twine stretched between 2 trees; on the twine, I hung an
empty cereal box with the line running directly in the middle of the box &
doing the same for an empty milk carton; 2 Wal-Mart bags blown up with air
finished the project. Using water pressure & a powerful stream, one can
make the boxes spin & the bags shutter when shooting. I was ½ finished
when Melissa drove up with the young boys @ 10:50am. I asked that Matthew
stay in the coach until I finished & have my tools put away. 20 min later,
Matthew was left loose to shoot water @ those targets from a distance of
maybe 12 ft. He actually did pretty good to begin with but quickly lost
the enthusiasm once he spun the boxes & moved the bags. Maybe I needed
more targets or an older child!
Next Kathy arranges to have a small picnic lunch on our driveway with ham
salad, crackers, peanut butter on Graham crackers & some chocolate
zucchini muffins cut into chunks. Naturally Andrew is @ the age where he
is ready to explore; he would not stay on the beach towels & persistently
scooted over to the driveway to eat rocks. Finally I proposed to take
Andrew over to our neighbor’s yard & just let him crawl & I’d watch him
closely. The abundance of fallen leaves was his target so I stayed ahead
to clear the path of any of those leaves & limbs. He was funny though, I
would distract him by moving a big colorful leave just beyond his reach &
he would go full speed ahead but just couldn’t catch that slightly faster
leaf. Matthew was content with gathering & rolling apples that he found
below the apple trees. All of this gave the ladies a much needed rest &
they had a chance to talk with each other without being interrupted.
Then, we take a hike on the quad runner trail that goes through our
property. We weren’t far along when Matthew was wining & complaining of
being tired & wanted to be carried; then he wanted to go home; then he
wanted a treat to eat. We deducted that maybe the fall that he experienced
on the steps going out of our motorhome a bit earlier might have gotten
him in an uncomfortable mood. Anyway, he did keep us busy and softy
grandma (Ah-ah) did wind up carrying him on her shoulders. The Footes
leave around 4:30pm.
K & I walk to & from church to attend 6:00pm Vigil Mass.
7:50 dinner: Homemade tomato soup with crackers & leftover meatloaf.
Today’s high=68 Lights out: 11:11pm,
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