Fall colors

Trees by Lehman's driveway.

Tree at Central

Fall colors around the house.
Took these pictures during our walk today. It is supposed to freeze tonight.
May be enough to kill the vegetation and we can finish cleaning up flower beds.

Katie teaching kids to make paper.
Grandma Bonnie and Micah, who is learning to sew. (Not his favorite center!)
Todd finishing his candle.
Making apple butter, top view.
Micah and Paulo enjoying the day.

A few more pictures from Colonial Day, as described in the previous blog.

Colonial Day

Today we had our Colonial Day at school. The kids did activities at 10 different centers. This is Todd pressing cider. I've chosen several pictures of people from our family. I will add a few more on the next blog, as I haven't figured out how to add more than 5 at once.

Todd with some of his colonial friends.
Four generations of apple butter making. Grandpa Til, Kurt, Micah, and Todd.
Esther and Don helped all day as well.

It was rather wet and rainy, but they were troopers. We were so good to pick the only day it has rained between many sunny days. The kids were excited to walk over our quickly built "bridges" to get over the huge puddles. All our activities were in the big MCC tent except the apple butter making.
Todd is just beginning his candle dipping.

The kids also made butter, played colonial games, learned about manners, learned to sew, made paper (Katie ran this center), fruit painting, shelling popcorn, traded beads, and made hand formed marbles. It was a great day. We were just thankful it wasn't snowing!

VA trip

Dad & I enjoyed our weekend in Virginia. Saturday morning we took Joe & Crystal to lunch at Mr. J's (bagel place). The pumpkin bagel with cinnamon cream chez was great! Joe & Crystal took us up to Massenhutten Mountain. We rode the ski lift up to the top to see the leaves and the wonderful view. They had a fall fest with booths, food, etc. at the base of the mountain to support the fire departments in the area. It was the first time I've been up a ski lift and it was great. In the afternoon, I had my 30th college class reunion. It was interesting for me, but Ed was rather bored. We ate dinner together and watched a video of EMU's 90th year celebration.

We went to the soccer game for a brief time-it was rather cold, then went to Crystal's to watch the Indians. This morning we had breakfast together before we left for home. The leaves were not turning too much yet, but the valley is always wonderful, no matter what the season.