Bedford Springs, PA

 

I so enjoy history and this property fit the bill.  It is Bedford Springs Resort that has been in operation since 1796.  The US Presidents would stay here. In fact it served as James Buchanan's summer White House.  There were many ledger entries where the Presidents had registered.  Lincoln couldn't come because of the War so he sent his entire cabinet.  It is a magnificent place.  

This is their logo embroidered on the back of chairs like this one.  Of course, many other places as well.

There was also a hall of First Ladies that showed silhouettes of each Presidential couple who stayed there.          Ronnie and Nancy

Fun Out East

In September we traveled to Pennsylvania to visit friends and then traveled home through Niagara Falls and Canada.  I will show a few pictures of our adventures.

That part of Pennsylvania - Somerset County - has many covered bridges that you can still drive through.  We enjoyed several of them.

Our friends live 4 miles from Shanksville.  I brought my camera and snapped the entryway sign.  I did not take any more pictures.  It felt like sacred ground.  It was a bright sunny day just like September 11, 2001.  Whoever is in charge of the ideas as to how to set up this memorial is doing it right.  A house has been purchased on the edge of Shanksville to accommodate any of the families of the victims who come to visit. 

October 3, 2014

It snowed yesterday and is still on the ground today.  Enough said.

Fourth Anniversary

It was four years ago that we moved lock (precious items), stock (our birds), and barrel (it just seemed like every box weighed as much as a full barrel) to our place in the Northwoods of Wisconsin.  We pulled away from Mt. Prospect with the Dakota pulling an enclosed snowmobile trailer* (fits 6 snowmobiles) that was filled from floor to ceiling.  Oh my goodness!  We asked Tad to take a day off from work where he networks computers in the largest privately-owned printing company in the US to help his Mom and Dad set up our system at the new place.  (We have to get something back from that fancy school learning!) 


The last four years has brought ups and downs as with everyone everywhere.  No one is immune to problems and challenging situations.  We are enjoying our new life in the quiet woods.  Starting year five...


*One of our new friends loaned us his trailer. 

Sunflowers

In our travels around the "neighborhood" we came across this field of sunflowers.  What a happy surprise!  Don't know why sunflowers are grown. (Hey Kansas, let me know.)  But the yellow heads in our Northwoods landscape of green certainly made me smile.

A Toadstool/Mushroom Kind of Day

I think one looks like a pancake...with a little syrup, who knows?

The local newspaper had a picture of a "puff" mushroom measuring 38 x 40 inches.  Unbelievable!

Sentimental Fools

Selfie of Case and me in the parking lot of my apartment in Urbana, IL in 1975 when I was student teaching.  We were in the area for a family reunion last month and decided to visit the exact spot where we met.  There was a party on a Saturday evening for the residents of my apartment complex and for the residents of his apartment complex across town (same owner).  This is the exact spot.  Unfortunately,  one of the sentimental fools refused to get out of the car for this special occasion.