On Saturday, July 3rd, Annie finally took me to the 6:00 am prayer meeting. That was enjoyable. The temperature in the mornings in Hagerstown was in the upper 50s. Sure did feel good. After prayer meeting, we had breakfast downstairs.
The Castang family was responsible for fixing lunch. Of course, I got to be in the kitchen, too. It was so much fun working with the family. My! I was afraid we was going to run out of food. There must have been close to 200 people there for lunch.
After lunch, Vivian, Darese and Melda wanted to go down to see the new dormitories they built to house some of the folks that came from far away to the Convention.
Finally, Melda came out to her car around 3:30 pm and we went to her house. It was so nice and cool there. I hadn't been there for a long time.
July 4th was the last day of Convention. I went to Sunday School and Church. Gary, Annie, Melda and I went to Panera Bread for lunch. I got to go to the 2:00 pm service. I was kept in a plastic freeze bag during church. I didn't mind because I didn't want to attract from the service and it was cool in there. Then I went home with Melda and Twila.
Annie and I got to be home to help celebrate Sarah's 45th birthday. As they are trying to lose weight, Annie made a bluebery bar for snack instead of the normal cake and ice cream. I must say, it was pretty good. There wasn't a crumb left.
I went with a group of ladies from church to Cracker Barrel. Of course, I was sent around the table. "Joslyn, this is Batesy. Batesy, this is Joslyn."
Poor Grandma Castang, someone always has something for her to do. Annie brought some long-sleeved shirts, needed them cut off at the elbow. Ooops, Grandma missed a stitch!
One day, Annie and I got to babysit for Darese while she did some substitute teaching. Logan and Benjamin can really make that computer go! Logan gave me some of his gluten-free lunch. Not bad.
I finally got to meet Kyle for the first time. The first time I saw him didn't count because he was only a couple days old and slept ALL the time. He sure can crawl fast. Annie made sure I was within the safety zone. By the way, Kyle, in case you were looking for one of your pacies....umm I snuck away with it.
Meeting David's goats for the first time, liking the little ones, cause they were little like me.
They sure can run fast. "Hang onto your hat, Batesy!", everyone yelled.
Meet Jessi, the oldest. She will be 3 on July 18th. I understand she is going on to daycare this fall as she is to big for Annie's place.
Emily will turn 2 on October 8th. She climbs everywhere. We are constantly pulling her off from chairs and couches. Forget about the toys. She loves to play with the containers Annie pulls out for her.
There's Kaylea. She's the one I am scared of most. That's my hat, now....bug off! She is turning 10 months on the 25th of March.
The schedule has changed some. The water aerobics is back and we don't meet as often, mostly Saturday's and Sunday's.
I jumped into full swing of things. I met the "Sisters in Sweat". There's Bobbie, the oldest, who has started the group. Jerriane, the "put the peddle to the metal". She has lost a total of 117 lbs and has managed to keep it off! There's Carol, the pastor's wife, who keeps themall straight. There's Janice, Annie's sister-in-law. She is well on her way down with the pounds. Annie has mastered the 5 miles, with sweat!
Here I am after tiling Sioux's dining room. It was exhausting work.
I'm an interior decorator now! I helped Sioux pick out all her tile, carpet and paint. I picked "warm colors" because it's just tooooooo cold here!
Bahhh-Burrr. Look at all the snow on the lake!! I begged Sioux to send me South to visit Annie where it's at least above zero!!
What a grand time we had in IL visiting Wilma and Douglas. The Arches and Grandma Castang took me to lots of cool places. It just so happened that at the time we were visiting, several homes in the area were having their annual Garden Walk. This is one of the homes we went to and is owned by Wilma's friend, Sandy.
They also took me to ride the train. How gorgeous the sights were! We went from Monticello to White Heath and back. The conductors were so cool looking!
Another fun thing we did, which I could hardly believe my eyes, was to watch radio controlled modeling enthusiasts fly their jets and airplanes at Eli Field located there in Monticello. The jet you see here is the one I wanted to board because it was so fast and sounded so real, but the owner wouldn't even let me TOUCH it. As you can see me in the picture, that was the closest I was allowed.