Awake: 5:20am Temp 59 sleep 6+09 partly sunny overnight @
Nicktown.
How do they know? Our Saturday Koffee Klub meeting @ 8:30am was well
attended & Kathy’s healthier cookies were a huge success. Saturday
meetings are often times the least attended. The meeting broke up much
earlier than the last several days due to many of us attending the funeral
Mass for Arthur S., who was 92 & very well liked in the community. I
talked Kathy into joining Barry, his sister, Monica, & me in attending the
luncheon remembrance celebration immediately following the Mass at
Nicktown, then driving to the Goodridge Church of God, about 3 miles. The
dinning room was filled to capacity & the food delicious.
Besides knowing a lot of Arthur’s family from my school days, our ole
classmate Ernie (one of Arthur’s sons) & his wife drove in from Chicago to
be here. It’s been over 25 yrs since I’ve seen him. Also, my nephew Eric,
his wife Emily (Arthur was her grandfather) & their 3 boys were present.
That’s one thing about weddings & funerals; you usually see a lot of
people you know. We returned to our bus around 2:15. Then we call Melissa
& encourage her to join us in doing the “Corn Maze” @ the Barr Ridge Farm
just 5 min away from our motor home.
Matthew was our fearless leader; the corn stocks were high, the paths
narrow & curvy & 5 acres seemed never ending. They gave each of us a card
with pictures of displays that could be found in the maze. Each display
had a hole puncher so one could keep track of his progress in finding all
16 hidden displays. Matthew liked making left turns so we went in circles
a lot, but he was a real trooper & never asked to be carried. We did find
9 of 16 hidden displays & punched our cards accordingly. It was a lot of
fun. The Footes leave @ 5:50. Kathy & I attend 6:00pm Vigil Mass.
Afterward in our bus, we call glen & Connie (friends from Burlington,
WA.), they are motoring thru Boise en route to Denver (and then on to
Albuquerque for the hot air balloon fest) as we speak. We have a nice 15
min chat.
8:00pm dinner: Kathy’s homemade tomato soup with crackers.
Satellite movie: “Man without a Face” with Mel Gibson, Nick Stahl,
Margaret Whitton, etc. Literate, absorbing drama exploring the evolving
relationship between lonely 12 yr old Stahl, who’s intent on gaining
entrance to a military academy & reclusive, facially scarred ex-teacher
Gibson, who becomes his mentor. 1993. A good story.
Today’s high=69 Lights out: 11:50pm
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