Trip Out West

Well to the middle of the state anyways! We drove out to visit Kilian, Margaret, & Brigitta this past weekend. They live near State College PA and have a nice little horse farm, about 3.5 hrs from Perkasie. I helped Kilian put together a picnic table then we had some delicious ribs & corn for dinner. Not like they have any shortage of corn, thats all you see on the drive out!
So after dinner we watched Kilian practice some dressage tests on Luke- one of their horses.















We watched a somewhat lame movie later. It was a cool night, below 60. Out on the deck we looked at the stars for a little while and saw 2 shooting stars- one of which is the brightest I have ever seen. Not much light pollution out there!

Next morning we woke up early and Kilian made some breakfast. He had a horse show near Williamsport so Luke got loaded up in the trailer and we followed him & Brigitta. Once there Megan showed up and we got to meet Matt quickly before he left. So Kilian got into his Air Force uniform and did 2 tests for which he got a blue ribbon. We enjoyed watching.






















Salute!

Grandmom Lois Burton

Dear Grandmom Lois passed away on Friday July 14, from complications most likely due to diabetes and age. Dorinda and I had many nice visits with her over the last year on weekends that we drove up to also see Grandmom Adelaide. Here's a great photo of her and Dorinda taken Dec 26, 2003 having lunch with her at Crossroads:














Her memorial service was held at St Anne's Episcopal Church in Old Lyme CT on July 28th. My mom gave a really wonderful eulogy about how grandmom loved all her kids and grandkids equally. What a fantastic wit she had too! She was always a faithful Christian and we are happy knowing she is with our Lord. She will be interred in FL next to my Granddad Lewis who passed away about 15 years ago.

Losing both grandmothers has been tough, they were both loving and wonderful ladies. At least we were lucky to have so much time with them both, as many people lose their grandparents earlier in life.