WowChanges!

 Wow@Changes!

 

Jacqui, Sterling, and the old woman went out to Petrolia today to see Mom and Dad’s house and a few changes that Roger had mentioned lately. Wow! The changes were significant. The parents’ house was getting a new electrical box installed. It probably has sold to new owners. Let’s hope that the home feels as happy for them as it did for us in all the years we lived there.

 

The town itself has changed drastically! Oh, yes, new homes have sprung up, but the fallen down trash heaps are multiple and messy. Amazing! We tried to remember the names of folks who lived on different corners. We found the old house where the Kennedy grandparents lived after moving to Petrolia the last time. But trying to find things on the other side of the Charlie Road was almost impossible except for the Methodist Church and the house where Sterling had lived. What significant changes!

 

We went to Byers to the Riverside Cemetery and had to look twice to find the parents’ tombstone as well as their parents’ and my little girl’s headstone. We know where the Kennedys are buried, but there is still no tombstone. God knows where they were laid. Byers has changed up pretty much, too. They still have a Baptist Church, but the Methodist is now a grand ol’ opry styled place. Remembering my granddad’s funeral there. Anyway, that trip left me feeling lonesome and blue. Jacqui said that even the teachers she had as a teenager are all gone. But Sterling mentioned Mrs. Glasgow who left us recently. Age catches up.

 

Pioneer had a good lunch for us even though we all three ate something more akin to breakfast. Yes, my omelet had some gravy on it that is still kicking up some heartburn. Sigh. So far, however, have been able to stay on this diet. Sterling doesn’t know he left his Nocona Beer in my fridge. Not sure it will be here the next time he comes through.

 

Sterling worked on two or three high priority projects for me and got the little coop stabilized and weather tight. He also got my air things to working right, including the air stapler to put up the plastic cover on the middle coop door. SO glad to have that done already. He is a pretty handy fella to have around. Not to mention the good rocking chair he brought with the chicken burnt into the back!

 

Will not say much about the new road work that Patty paid for, but only that the neighbors should be happy to have a nice, level road to drive on. The gravel will settle eventually, but for the time being, it will be a bit dusty. They have no clue what it was like 56 years ago!

 

Let us all try our best to be the kind of people that a father would want as his own. Our Father in Heaven knows our faults and allows us to ask forgiveness. What greater gift of love can there be?

 

Rest well, my friends. You are loved.