Whew...the time FLEW by over the past couple of weeks! We left home on July 9 heading to NY State for my 50th Class Reunion and reconnecting with friends of long ago as well as visiting Dennis' Mother (who will celebrate her 98th birthday in December), his sisters, nieces, nephews and cousins on both of our sides of the family! What a SUPER time with short visits with as many as we could work in! The trip came upon us rather suddenly as we first thought we would not be able to make it...then our double wide sold, we were able to trade off our truck for a much more economical Chevy Cruz and we decided to "just do it"!!! We called my sister, Phyllis, in Palmetto to see if she would like to go along and she said she would and would drive her motor home and take her Great Granddaughter, Phoenix along with her...what a treat to make a trip with your Great Granddaughter!!! Phoenix is 12...soon to be 13 in August so she was at a good age to enjoy travel and meeting lots of family members she had never seen before! Denny and I were happy to have a wonderful opportunity to getting to know Phoenix also...even tho we only live a little over an hour from each other we had not seen much of her since she was a baby!
Evenings were spent playing games...Phoenix held her own against us older folks...we all had a fun time!
Denny's sister, Irma, Phoenix, Linda and Phyllis.
We were hoping for COOL weather and it did NOT happen...the temps were in the 100's all the way from Florida to upstate NY and continued many of the days while we were in NY! Folks up that way are just not used to such high temps...or when it does happen it usually doesn't last more than a day or so! Thankfully, we had the only room in the house that was air conditioned! We stayed at Dennis' sister, Irma's home in Treadwell and Phyllis parked her motor home in Irma's driveway also for several nights and spent a few nights over at the Maywood Historical Depot in Sidney Center where she still actively helps out with various tasks of the historical group.
We visited Kellogg cousins in Walton at the home that our Great Grandfather built in the early 1900's and enjoyed their hospitality and homemade dessert on the huge front porch with lots of reminiscing and laughter.
We met with cousins on our Dad's side of the family at The Spot Restaurant in Binghamton, THANKS Frank and Charlotte for treating us to a delicious lunch and for driving over to spend a few minutes with us...we always enjoy getting together with you folks!
More cousins from the Anderson side of the family met at Brooks BBQ at Oneonta, NY followed by more fellowship, laughter and ice cream with fresh blueberries dessert at Irma's home in Treadwell, NY. Denny, Linda, Donna, Agnes, Irma, Phyllis, George and Quint...what a wonderful visit with lots of food, laughter and fun!
We attended an ice cream social at the Maywood Depot in Sidney Center. Also visited our sister-in-law outside of Sidney Center and rode many of our favorite back roads and revisited where we grew up as kids.
SO many years have brought MANY changes...only the hills of the Catskill Mountains remain the same...the pastures and meadows of our old farms have grown up and many of them are now woods...roads are paved that were always dirt when we were kids...MANY changes...all of the buildings of our farm have been gone for many years and the buildings on Denny's farm are different except the barn and that has not been used for many years now! What was once an area of many small independent farms now has "summer folks from the City" occupying the houses...in most cases the farms are no longer active but in some cases the hay is harvested by one of the few remaining farmers!
This is the homestead of Dennis' grandparents...a grand old house that needs some TLC!
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