Awake: 5:18am Temp 61 sleep 5+16 sunny overnight @ Nicktown, PA.
K & I drive to attend 8:00am communion service led by Sister Lee. Afterward, we join the Koffee Klub. Barry & Al were @ their finest, especially Barry. He had our undivided attention with laughs a plenty.
After the meeting, Roger joins us for breakfast in our bus & then encourages me to search for more classmates to visit during his brief stay in the Nicktown area. I make a few calls & we decide to visit Leroy, about (3) miles out of town.
To our knowledge, Roger has not seen Leroy since high school. Now Leroy is like a one man machine with a lot of machinery in his own business. Just driving up the road to his homestead, we see vehicles & tractors, forklifts, bulldozers, diesel engines, large generators & a good size sawmill. Leroy makes many useful things from the trees on his property; his large diesel engine powers a (3) phase generator powering many other (3) phase electric motors powering the woodworking equipment in his large shop. He gave us a live demonstration of just about everything including getting a large log with the forklift & sawing it into (3) inch planks, then further cutting it into (3) inch blocks (20 ft in length). This was fascinating. Leroy does it all; the maintenance, the upkeep & rebuilding of his machinery; this guy is amazing. Before we leave, we meet & talk with his wife who handles herself well. From here, I take Roger back to his sister’s home, change clothes & get ready for another adventure; this time with Kathy.
We visit Rosemary & Gary in Saint Augustine; about (19) miles from Nicktown. Their house & landscaping look great; Gary just finished (4) hrs of mowing. Inside their home, with wine, different cheeses with crackers & peanuts, we spend a good hr bringing each other up-to-date on “what’s new.”
Dinner: Spaghetti with Italian sausage, salad, using some fresh vegetables from their garden, black olives, & garlic toast. Rosemary’s meals are always very good. After dinner, we take a tour of their young fruit trees & pine trees & then scrutinize the garden. After picking out some veggies, Gary & I sit on their front porch & talk while the gals go back inside the house & talk about some general subjects; not us guys.
Later, inside their house, Gary serves us his fresh homemade apple pie (made by him from scratch, crust & all) ala mode for dessert; it’s quite good. Something in that pie must have had an effect on our minds as the table conversation drifted into a (3) against (1) home building & sight seeing “pick on Monte” discussion. All things considered, it was another nice visit with Gary & Rosemary.
Lights out: 11:22pm
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