Here’s a glimpse of the Lancaster parade. The lady on the red sweater sang and waved her flag the whole time. Sometimes the people watching the parade can be just as entertaining as a parade!
Archive for April, 2008
Lancaster Parade
Longwood Conservatory
I took this picture just so I could blog it! I wrote nice newsy post and then pushed ‘post’ instead of ‘publish’ and it ran away… so sorry. I hate wriing things twice, but I’ll do my best! we went to this parade on Saturday. We had been out earlier and thought we had missed it, and so we came back to the house and i worked in the kitchen and Joel took a nap. I went into the bedroom to open a window and we could hear cars honking and sirens wailing. Joel bolts upright and says’ “That sounds like a parade!” So we go running down the street to the parade. Then we went to Longwood Gardens. It was a little chilly so we did the Conservatory thing, dawdling over the heating vents when we could. THEN we met Emily and Dave for supper. We went to this cozy little place in the curving Chester county countryside. David said that was about the best meal he’s had in his whole life! I think he forgets some things!
Oh, and one more thing. Sam called me this morning and said he was playing Grace in Online Scrabble and winning by 104 points! It made me laff and laff! I’ll have to find out what happened after that….
New Morning Mercies
This morning as Joel and I were delivering papers in the fog we suddenly came upon a black steer in front of us! As we were thankfully going on I told Joel we we needed to do something about it. So we turned around and honked a few minutes until the farmer came out. By then the cow had “flicked her tail” and run into the nearest field. I’ve seen calves romp off like that, but a full grown cow….?
We also saw a couple of raccoons scramble across driveway in front of us. we knew there is a raccoon back there so we easily ascertained what those strange balls of fur were. I bet their momma gave them what for!
Morris Arboretum
This is me and my favorite grandson so far! Ellis was in top happy form and we began happy memories of running around a garden with a new generation. I remember my mom taking off with the stroller Sam in the stroller) with the 3 olders running alongside at Longwood Gardens and I was sauntering behind with my days-old baby and I said to some other “old ladies”. “What kind of gramma is that?!” :>)
