{"id":6294,"date":"2016-11-16T00:06:01","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T00:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=6294"},"modified":"2016-11-16T01:46:45","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T01:46:45","slug":"hither-and-yon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=6294","title":{"rendered":"Hither and Yon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another eventful week.\u00a0 Veteran’s Day morning was spent at our youngest grandboys’ school where there was a Veteran’s Day celebration.\u00a0 I had to get up way before my wakeup time, but I managed to do it. How did I get up so early for years and years?\u00a0 Getting kids ready for school.\u00a0 Sending David off to work and sometimes me just getting\u00a0home from work.\u00a0 When I cleaned our church years ago, I would go in at two o’clock in the morning and clean until I had every bit of that church clean and come home in the late morning and go to bed.\u00a0 It really messed up my sleeping schedule.\u00a0 I am finally on an eight or nine hour a night sleep schedule that seems to work well for me.<\/p>\n

Anyway, this isn’t about me sleeping.\u00a0 It’s about the Veteran’s Day celebration.\u00a0 All the veterans were met at the door and asked to wait to be seated in the cafeteria.\u00a0 The rest of us went to get seats.<\/p>\n

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This is our daughter, the mother of our youngest grandboys.<\/p>\n

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The veterans came in.\u00a0 I think David was the oldest one and probably served longer than any of the other men.\u00a0 Thirty-seven years in the army National Guard.<\/p>\n

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There he is again.\u00a0 Or is that Santa Claus?\u00a0 That little boy is thinking, “I’m sitting right in front of Santa Claus!”<\/p>\n

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This is the school principal. They make them young nowadays.\u00a0 She gave a little talk and introduced the veterans, the pianist and this boy who played taps.\u00a0 He goes to the school.<\/p>\n

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Taps always sends a chill down my back.<\/p>\n

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The children who had a veteran there were asked to come stand with them.\u00a0\u00a0 Our two grandboys there.<\/p>\n

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Although they don’t look too thrilled to be there, our daughter said they were real excited about the day.<\/p>\n

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Each class sang a patriotic song.<\/p>\n

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One of the songs they sang was Amazing Grace.<\/p>\n

The younger classes had made cards for all the veterans and David got a handful.<\/p>\n

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This is the\u00a0 one our grandson made for his grandfather.\u00a0 It is hanging on\u00a0our refrigerator.<\/p>\n

We walked through the halls of the school looking at all the things on\u00a0the walls.\u00a0\u00a0It\u00a0always amazes me how talented children are.<\/p>\n

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This wall of quilts\u00a0 caught my eye.<\/p>\n

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This was quite a project.<\/p>\n

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Minions always show up when you least expect it.<\/p>\n

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It was a very nice morning, but we had places to go and other things to see so we said, “Good-bye,” and off we went.<\/p>\n

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David at the wheel, we were going to northern Ohio to a Folkart and Antique show.\u00a0 I read about it on Facebook a while back and said I would like to go, so we went.<\/p>\n

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Over the rivers and through the woods.<\/p>\n

To a tiny town\u00a0called Peninsula.\u00a0\u00a0The show was held in this building.<\/p>\n

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Inside were lots of beautiful handmade things.\u00a0 All kinds of treasures and a few antiques.<\/p>\n

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I bought this in honor of our next president.<\/p>\n

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And this because I collect Santa Clauses.<\/p>\n

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And this because the man who had the booth literally put it in my hands and said I needed it.\u00a0 Like two heads, but I bought it.<\/p>\n

Because sometimes serendipitous things happen to us, there happened to be an estate sale in town.<\/p>\n

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At this log cabin.<\/p>\n

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On this busy street.\u00a0 Ha.<\/p>\n

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Plus the log cabin was for sale and all its contents.\u00a0 It had belonged to an antique dealer who was quite the collector of primitives.\u00a0 The cabin was stuffed and everything was for sale.\u00a0 And this was the second week they were doing it.<\/p>\n

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Signs telling us we must behave ourselves.<\/p>\n

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See that green chair in the corner?\u00a0 It was twenty dollars and I am crazy about old chairs, but we didn’t buy it.\u00a0 We went back the next day to see if it was still there, but it had a sold sign on it.\u00a0 Always buy something when you first see it, because it will probably be gone next time. Oh, well.<\/p>\n

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This room had stacks of really old, but beautifully kept quilts.\u00a0 There were so many things to see that I forgot to take many pictures,\u00a0 but it really was amazing what one man can collect in a lifetime and now, it’s all being sold.<\/p>\n

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There was a forgotten little garden outside with the cutest picket fence.<\/p>\n

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We saw this sign while driving around.\u00a0 Thought I might try making one like it.<\/p>\n

After we were finished at the cabin, we looked for some other antique stores and quilt shops.\u00a0 We were directed to the town of Seville, Ohio by one quilt shop owner who told us there were a lot of antique stores there.\u00a0 And wouldn’t you know it? Another serendipitous moment because all the stores in town were having a pre-Christmas sale! And, yes, there were several antique stores.\u00a0 Really good ones. With good prices.<\/p>\n

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Ummmm?<\/p>\n

And here are some of our treasures we purchased.<\/p>\n

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Vintage Christmas tablecloths.<\/p>\n

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Vintage sewing paraphernalia.<\/p>\n

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Cute little clothespins with a clothesline.<\/p>\n

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Vintage children’s books.\u00a0 I love the graphics in them.<\/p>\n

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A Jim shore Santa Claus at a VERY reasonable price.<\/p>\n

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Some of the stores even had pretty bags.\u00a0 I am not throwing this one away.<\/p>\n

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We got this little lampshade back at the cabin, I forgot to show it.\u00a0 But isn’t it adorable and only one dollar.<\/p>\n

Tired and hungry we ate at this restaurant that night where I had the best penne pasta with Alfredo sauce and shrimp that I have ever tasted.\u00a0 With crusty bread, it was a very delicious meal.\u00a0 They also do carry out because the night before we ordered food at our motel and I had a wonderful turkey sub sandwich which was so big, I could only eat half of it.\u00a0 We brought it home and the dogs had a real treat with the rest of it.<\/p>\n

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Anyway, this was a really good restaurant. Good service too.<\/p>\n

So coming home the next day, we took mostly back roads.\u00a0 We saw a sign that said, “covered bridge,” so of course, we had to check it out.\u00a0 Remember the Big Cedar?\u00a0 We drove and drove and drove and David said, “This isn’t going to be like the Big Cedar and nothing is going to be there, is it?”\u00a0 But, there was a perfectly nice covered bridge and several people were there.\u00a0 Men were fly fishing in the river going under it.\u00a0 We walked across it and spent some time taking pictures.<\/p>\n

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We were surprised that the fall colors were still so brilliant this far north of us.<\/p>\n

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We’ve traveled many roads together.\u00a0\u00a0Some of them have been bumpy and hilly and some have been smooth, but we have been over them together and that is all that matters in the end.\u00a0\u00a0 It was a wonderful trip and\u00a0I really hated to see it end knowing we won’t be going anywhere\u00a0until next year, but we have such wonderful memories.<\/p>\n

Hope you are making memories or\u00a0remembering fond things in your past. Bye.<\/p>\n

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