Going Home…

What a beautiful weekend!  So hard to believe it’s the end of October and still in the 60’s.  The sun was shining, the sky was bright blue with puffy clouds, and the cows were in their fields.  Kathy and I hit the road for Home early Friday morning, and stopped to visit the aunts (and uncle!).  We got a bonus visit with cousins which made it perfect.

After a picnic lunch at a roadside pulloff, we headed to Route 422 and up I-79 to Albion.  The leaves were spectacularly colored under the bright skies, and we could not help being taken up with the beauty and majesty of it all.  What a glorious drive!  It was great to see our parents looking happy and content, and we were so glad to be spending the time with them.

Because it was such a balmy evening – most likely one of few that would be left – before supper Kath and I took a walk out to Route 18 and back.  The fallen leaves accented the woods, the little ponds, and even the huge red barn near the corner.

We were puzzled, however, over a fork in the road, and were uncertain as to which way to go. 🙂  We decided to ‘leaf’ the way we came and made it back safe and sound.

The next morning, bright and fairly early, we took our 2 mile ‘constitutional’ down Crouch Road and captured the sunrise, as well as the little overflow under the bridge. After breakfast we got to work, cutting tree limbs, carrying dead branches back to the woods, cleaning up leaves, sweeping off the porches, and climbing 100 year old ladders (That was KATH!!!) to unclog the porch gutters.  The friendly birds had deposited seeds and there were clusters of grapes growing from the roof!  Silly birds….

By lunch time we had worked up quite an appetite, and truly enjoyed sizzlers, cauliflower, scalloped potatoes, applesauce, and carrot cake for dessert.  Yum!  The afternoon sped by, and by 4:30pm we were back on our way down I-79, sad to wave goodbye to two dear little parents standing in the drive, but anxious to reach home and our families.  A 30 minute delay by Moraine State Park set us back a bit, but we arrived home tired but refreshed from the lovely days of visiting with the people we love most in life.  So to Aunt Dolly, Aunt Joan, Uncle Clifford, and of course Mom and John, we love you to the MOON and back!!!