I am finally back folks.
I know you all missed me terribly. 8-))
The trip went well and a good time was had by all.
I wish we had more time there since 2 of the 3 days was an all-day drive.
The fun part in the middle went by much too quickly.
The weather was great all 3 days.....sunny and warm-ish but not too hot.
Which is a good thing since the Reunion is held outside on the house grounds.
And my foot/leg suddenly felt much better by Saturday. We stopped a few times on the way down Friday to break up the car ride, and for awhile I sat on the back bench seat with my leg elevated. I walked through Walmart on Friday as we needed to pick up a few things and I felt the foot was better then(though it wore me out for the day)but by Saturday morning the foot was feeling 80% well. My brother and sister in-law had brought a wheelchair they have for me to use on Saturday but it turned out I did aok without it. Besides the small cement patio area they would have had a hard time pushing me around on the grass as it's not exactly flat there, so it's a good thing I was able to walk some. I navigated ok with my cane and the folding chairs were fine for me to use plus they had the 5 large wooden rocking(and a small table I could put my foot up on)that are usually on the back porch out for folks to use and I parked myself in one of those for awhile.
Heck, I even walked up to the second floor to take a peek around at the work that they've done upstairs in the house(and the rooms that still need work). I hadn't been inside the house since my great grandmother moved out of there in the mid 1960's.
The Reunion day went way too fast. I connected with a few folks but there were so many more there that I didn't even get a chance to introduce myself to. Many of them left after only a couple of hours so the die-hards(us and a few of my mother's cousins)sat until about 4:30pm just visiting.
I didn't get nearly as many photos has I had wanted to at the Reunion or of the entire trip. sigh.
And I didn't take a single horrendous video either.....I know, some of you out there are relieved about that one. lolz
I didn't get as many photos taken as I wanted to overall.
My brother took my camera with him when he went off on Saturday afternoon to my mom's property to get some photos there for me. It's a long walk from the road and heavily forested so there was no way I was going to be able to get back there myself by foot(and nobody would have been able to wheelchair me back there either). So I gave him the camera which meant I didn't have it to take photos from about 2pm on.
We had dinner after the Reunion with my mother's cousin and her husband from her Harper/Tucker side of the family at the pizza/Italian joint down the road from the motel. That was a good visit too, plus mom's cousin helped me ID those mystery people in the photos I have which I had posted about in August of 2012 HERE.
This information also helped me break down a brick wall this morning on my Tucker ancestral line.
I'll post more about my trip later this week. #2 Son has my camera cord so I can't even download my photos until I get that back from him.
Gary the workman is here from the handyman company and working on the baseboard and the crown mouldings. I am hoping he can finish this up today so we can get moving on these rooms to get them inhabitable asap.
I'm off to go work on the end of the month budget/bills accounting now. September will NOT be pretty...... 8-(
Sluggy
I know you all missed me terribly. 8-))
The trip went well and a good time was had by all.
I wish we had more time there since 2 of the 3 days was an all-day drive.
The fun part in the middle went by much too quickly.
The weather was great all 3 days.....sunny and warm-ish but not too hot.
Which is a good thing since the Reunion is held outside on the house grounds.
And my foot/leg suddenly felt much better by Saturday. We stopped a few times on the way down Friday to break up the car ride, and for awhile I sat on the back bench seat with my leg elevated. I walked through Walmart on Friday as we needed to pick up a few things and I felt the foot was better then(though it wore me out for the day)but by Saturday morning the foot was feeling 80% well. My brother and sister in-law had brought a wheelchair they have for me to use on Saturday but it turned out I did aok without it. Besides the small cement patio area they would have had a hard time pushing me around on the grass as it's not exactly flat there, so it's a good thing I was able to walk some. I navigated ok with my cane and the folding chairs were fine for me to use plus they had the 5 large wooden rocking(and a small table I could put my foot up on)that are usually on the back porch out for folks to use and I parked myself in one of those for awhile.
Heck, I even walked up to the second floor to take a peek around at the work that they've done upstairs in the house(and the rooms that still need work). I hadn't been inside the house since my great grandmother moved out of there in the mid 1960's.
The Reunion day went way too fast. I connected with a few folks but there were so many more there that I didn't even get a chance to introduce myself to. Many of them left after only a couple of hours so the die-hards(us and a few of my mother's cousins)sat until about 4:30pm just visiting.
I didn't get nearly as many photos has I had wanted to at the Reunion or of the entire trip. sigh.
And I didn't take a single horrendous video either.....I know, some of you out there are relieved about that one. lolz
I didn't get as many photos taken as I wanted to overall.
My brother took my camera with him when he went off on Saturday afternoon to my mom's property to get some photos there for me. It's a long walk from the road and heavily forested so there was no way I was going to be able to get back there myself by foot(and nobody would have been able to wheelchair me back there either). So I gave him the camera which meant I didn't have it to take photos from about 2pm on.
We had dinner after the Reunion with my mother's cousin and her husband from her Harper/Tucker side of the family at the pizza/Italian joint down the road from the motel. That was a good visit too, plus mom's cousin helped me ID those mystery people in the photos I have which I had posted about in August of 2012 HERE.
This information also helped me break down a brick wall this morning on my Tucker ancestral line.
I'll post more about my trip later this week. #2 Son has my camera cord so I can't even download my photos until I get that back from him.
Gary the workman is here from the handyman company and working on the baseboard and the crown mouldings. I am hoping he can finish this up today so we can get moving on these rooms to get them inhabitable asap.
I'm off to go work on the end of the month budget/bills accounting now. September will NOT be pretty...... 8-(
Sluggy
