After a long day of more phone calls, working through office files and stacks of throwaway stuff, general chores, and errands around town, our daughter, Anna, planned a supper-time picnic for us. Our Walmart stop to get prescription medicine (for me) and a few other things, was also the stop for bratwurst, buns, fresh veggies, chips, a small bottle of propane, and other various and assorted treats.
We loaded up the car and took off to Allegany State Park that is just across town from us (and over the PA state line into New York.) This has always been a favorite place to go on a nice evening whether for a picnic, walk around the lake, ride around the bike trail, or just to throw the frisbee at the field where the deer come down to graze. We have made many good memories with our children at this park and tonight was just another beautiful reminder of the Lord's goodness and one more memory to store up for the years away from the kids.
Among the delights we experienced tonight, besides the good food and laughs, were seeing two little fawns and their mama, feeding the fish, seeing a beaver swimming by, watching the sun set, and on the way out of the park, a very bold little raccoon who, expecting to get a treat, reached up and grabbed the end of the flashlight that Don was holding out the window.
Ben, Carolyn, and Anna, are all here with us right now and the only ones missing were our oldest daughter, Danielle, and her husband, Gonzalo, who live in Norman, Oklahoma right now. Wish you were here with us.
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