46 YEARS OF MARRIAGE

There is a crab apple tree just outside the door of the Cortland Ward building...several of the children have been eating the tart apples.

On our way inside I saw a woodpecker pounding away at the tree.  I got very close as I took this picture.

Brother Melvin Parker came to the temple this week and received his endowments.  Elder Bushman and I were ecstatic that a Cortland Ward member came to the temple with his former wife and best friend.

MONDAY MORNING : Aug, 4, 2014 we drove back down to Watkins Glen State Park south of Seneca Lake.  We did not stop there as the summer crowd was visiting.  We went on to find some other waterfalls nearby.  We went to Shequaga Falls Park on Genesee St., Montour Falls, NY.  We almost missed it.  It is in a neighborhood with a home on each side of it.

Quite a beautiful... way to inhance your back yard, indeed!

 Here you can gaze at Elder & Sister Bushman in front of the sparkling agua's!

Then since we were so close to Horseheads, NY we thought we would drive through that town to see where our former Bishop Tanner's parents live.  We saw they had a jewelry store owned by someone with my maiden name!  We then stopped at an ice cream store and had a cone.

Next we drove on back up to Seneca Lake and found Hector Falls.  It was right off the highway and there was no place to park, so we just pulled off to the side of the road while cars wizzed by and I had to just hope Elder Bushman didn't get hit as he took pictures.

  We drove along the Lake looking for a  park, but just kept hitting dead ends in private neighborhoods.  We finally found a public parking area where we could enjoy the lakes beauty for awhile.  There were several young families swimming in the lake and some motor boats with waterskiiers and big intertubes full of youth trailing by.  We just sat and enjoyed the shade and the beauty of Seneca Lake.

Then we drove on to the LDS Church owned Seneca Girls Camp.  We were having our Home Evening with all the missionaries there. 

 A  missionary couple, Elder & Sister Miller, serving now in Niagara Falls, Canada area,  drove all the way down here,  & provided a milk can supper for us.  Talk about a dedicated, kind couple.  They also served in the Palmyra Temple for two months and for 5 months at the Seneca Girls Camp before serving in Canada.

The President of our mission, Arthur Frances, is sitting behind us with his wife & family of hungry sons.  The son standing just returned from serving a mission in Idaho where he went to Driggs, Tetonia and Island Park!  He knew the Breckenridges and the Wades...but he was too involved in his supper to talk much!  Anyway, I felt a warmth of home through his smile.

 See the hungry missionaries!

 As we finished eating a torrential downpour drove us all into the shelter.  Then the heaven's rewarded us with a huge beautiful rainbow!

The rainbow stretched from one side of the campground to the other.

I felt that we received a little anniversary gift from "the other side".   Elder Bushman and I will begin our 47th year of married life on Saturday, 9 August 2014.  Happy Anniversary to us!

Tuesday morning we served in the 6:00 AM  temple session so had to be there by 5:30 AM, but we went to sleep on Monday...full and happy.   A special thank you to Elder and Sister Miller for their memorable milk can feast. 

On the 8th of August we drove to Phelps and met Christy and Bob Glave at the Hot Dog Stand.  We ate fish and chips and salt potatoes and ice cream.   It was an awesome day and we ate out on a picnic bench and talked for a couple of hours.  (Burp!)  We came back to the Inn and slept for two hours before serving our evening shift at the temple.

We also saw this grocery store  & cafe we must check out sometime soon.

Well, we did it, we survived to enjoy our 46th year of marriage.  We begin our 47th year today, Saturday, August 9, 2014!  "Happy Trails to You", "Whoopi-Ty-Aye-Yay".  We have been blessed with a great pioneer heritage and will be so thankful for our chance to meet all those, again,  who have helped us along this "trail" we have been traveling these 46 years.

To celebrate we got to go to lunch with my nephew's family Joshua & Mikenzie Wade & little Corbin & Audra.  They were kind enough to give us a quick visit as they wind down a job in Ohio and go on to his last year of schooling in Indiana.  Thank you Joshua and Mikenzie for the awesome visit.

It was a great drive to and from Cortland on Sunday.  We had dinner with all the missionaries who live at the Inn when we returned so it made for a pleasant day. We had really good meetings at church today.  It is always so good to partake of The Sacrament and renew our Covenants.   Here are some of the sites as we returned from Cortland.  We drove through Wells College in Aurora New York.  It is a beautiful campus just off Cayuga Lake

Waterloo NY has this very "pink" tractor advertising this business:

All the corn fields look golden with all the tassels and the corn is so high now...and delicious I might add.  We have found several roadway markets! "There's surely somewhere a lowly place;  In earth's harvest fields so wide;  Where I may labor through life's short day For Jesus, the Crucified".

Well, we graduated from High School in "64" and we have been married for "46" years.  Do you think that 10 is our lucky number?  We shall see!  Meanwhile we will be driving and driving and enjoying the scenery along the glacerial formed lakes of this State of New York.  Oh...we also enjoyed the August Supermoon of 2014....have you seen it?  

"By the light of the Silvery Moon"
46 and counting the Supermoon Silvery Moon!
ADIEU, BRETHERN, TO YOU AND OUR POSTERITY TOO.