Bruce and Mark Visit Mother

Bruce and I got to spend a wonderful weekend with Mother.  I arrived Thursday in the early afternoon and had Mom all to my self that afternoon and evening.  Bruce made a special effort to arrive in time for the Kreider Ladies Lunch on Friday and made it!  There were six of us, Mother, Aunt Evelyn, Aunt Rachel, Dierra and we two brothers.  It was a happy, enjoyable meal with the added bonus of being able to chat with Dierra after so very many years.  Yes, we did talk politics a bit and found that we were all on the same page, the generation gap making no difference at all.

The days were busy filled with eating in and out, listening to the church service, scrabble and rummy cube games with Mother and friends (watch out, Bruce is an ace on rummy cube!), visiting Milo briefly, shoe shopping and shopping for general supplies.  I got a chance to sit with Mom and work on the computer for a while.  She now has an email folder for each one of us, Greencroft and CMC.  This will make it much easier for her to locate past mail if needed.

I took very few photos this trip.  I didn't think there was much point to taking pictures of Mother and Bruce over and over but there are a few as well as some shots I took of the Amish country on and near to Route 20 between Angola and Goshen.  I could have used a little sun but had only a very gray sky.

A Round Barn

An Abandoned Schoolhouse

An Amish Farmstead

Amish School Children Playing Softball

(a very long shot)

I Think the Middle Grain Silo was Built 

by Gareth S., Tom L. and Me in 1968

A Long Country Lane

At the Old Bag Factory

Bruce Escorts Mother to the Trolley Cafe

The Kreider Ladies Luncheon

En Route to Mishawaka Shoe Shopping

We didn't find the shoes that Mother wanted in Mishwaka but Bruce treated us to a lovely lunch at a Granite City restaurant.  After returning to Greencroft we three ordered shoes for Mother on line.  She emailed me today that they arrived as ordered for color and size and that she was wearing them.  They were sent in a box that said Brown on both ends but when opened contained the black ones she ordered.  They arrived so quickly!