Yes, we are truly now 'home' and it's great! And yes this is a recycled picture. We have been accused of not really living on the boat anymore - just floating from one relative's home to another and mooching and recycling pictures on the blog! Wouldn't be a bad life though based on what we've experienced the past 2 months! Matt/Wendy's for more or less 5 weeks and then Ohio (Tom's farm and Cleveland at Julie and Jim's) for 3 weeks. I could get used to that life! Yea, not really.....
But for real, we're back to Southport NC and Yesterday's Dream.
It is cold here (50's during the day and quite cloudy). Steve dug out the crock pot and made some cabbage rolls since we brought back 2 heads of cabbage from Ohio.
Slow cooking is nice but it really makes you hungry throughout the day!
We stopped at Matt and Wendy's Monday night after dropping both Wendy and Becky off at Susan's home in Columbus (high school friend - we were fortunate that we were also able to visit with her parents for a short time. Band parents together in another life ...). Susan was kind enough to take them to the airport for flights home while we headed south in the car.
After breakfast with Matt and Wendy at the newly renovated Ziggy's restaurant, we were off.
It's been very rainy around here with ultra high tides. Now we know why they build things on stilts around here. The road through town was closed due to the high water.
More about the trip back home. Not sure why this belongs in the blog but it just does. It was a really wonderful trip back with Wendy and Becky being able to join us for a few days.
Mom joined us for breakfast one morning and came back to the farm for a pre-Thanksgiving dinner. She turned 90 this past August. It's good to see her feeling well again!
This is my Mom, Wendy and I in the back seat of the car.
After breakfast at Perkins, we made the short trip back to Ashland. My brother Tom and other daughter Rebecca were along for the trip as well.
There was much walking around the farm hunting for fall mushrooms. Our family never looked for the fall mushrooms - we called them toadstools! - but Steve's Dad always picked mushrooms in the fall in the Metroparks around Cleveland.
The spring mushrooms are morels and are (in my opinion) much better but there is definitely a lot to be said for the fall ones as well.
You can see the end result! This was a much better mushroom day than the next (we think the warmer weather wasn't good for the mushroom growth). Julie, Marialice, Becky, Steve, John and Daisy all went hunting the next day and found some but nothing like what was found the day before.
The trip was really great and being able to stay at the farm where I grew up is just always a bonus. Sitting around the kitchen table with my brother Tom just brings back great memories!
All told, we saw many of our siblings, cousins and families. Nice family fix - now it's time to head south!!
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