Walking is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom. If you go to a place on anything but your own feet you are taken there too fast, and miss a thousand delicate joys that were waiting for you by the wayside. Elizabeth von Arnim

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Saturday, October 10, 2009

Home Again

I left Thursday morning, after my walk, for Pennsylvania to my parents house. Enjoyed my ride up there, no traffic and things went smoothly. I tried listening to the audio book and once again I just couldn't concentrate on the story so I ended up listening to music.

My parents took me for ride up to the top of one of the mountains and I took this picture looking a long way down at Altoona far in the distance. The day was a bit hazy so the picture isn't very clear.

On Friday it rained all day long and that day we went to browse around a furniture store which I loved!! It had all country furniture with lots of cool country decorations. We went just to look and my parents ended up buying two new chairs. People who know my mom will get a chuckle because she is always buying new chairs - she has a thing about chairs. :-) Now that she has two new chairs, the problem is what to do with the old ones (which look like new). Problem solved - I get two new chairs!! Thanks Mom and Dad!! Kenny and I will take a ride up there soon to pick up my two new chairs. :-) Two chairs just wouldn't fit in the Vette!

My Dad got a model ship kit to build. He needed a place to be able to build his model where he would be able to leave it all out and not have to put everything away each time he was done for the day. So he built this hobby table. You can see the picture of the ship hanging up on the wall.
This picture his him working on the ship.

Just a couple of pictures of their yard.
Standing by the front door.
Looking out from the side of the house.

I left this morning for home. I drove through on and off showers. Not heavy, just enough to make my car very dirty. It will be getting a wash one day soon!!

We had a very nice visit. Talked, laughed, knitted and just enjoyed the time we got to spend together.

I spent some time with Kenny today. We did a few errands, stopped at Rita's for ice cream and had Chinese for dinner. :-)

I am way behind in blog reading and will stop by to visit you all tomorrow.

I hope your days have been happy ones.
Karen :-)
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
-Confucius

9 comments:

dot said...

I'm glad you had a nice trip and arrived back hone safely. The view at your parent's home is gorgeous!

Cheryl said...

All good!

Happy@Home said...

How nice that you had a good visit with your parents. It looks like the fall colors are pretty in their area. It sounds like your mom's love of chairs is to your benefit :-)

Enjoy your Sunday.

KathyA said...

You had such a nice trip -- and got two new chairs as well!! It doesn't get much better than that.
The area in which your parents live is beautiful.

Goosey said...

What a lovely place to go and visit your parents, and what views!

George said...

It looks as if you had a wonderful trip to Pennsylvania, even if it did rain. Of course, even the rain turned out well since you got a couple of new chairs out of the showers!

o2bhiking said...

Hi Karen - glad you had a fun trip to see your parents. What's a little rain, eh? Welcome home! Art

Pat @ Mille Fiori Favoriti said...

It all look and sounds so peaceful Karen ..a perfect weekend! My husband used to build model ships wehn we were first married as I worked evenings and nights and he wanted a hobby to do when he was alone.

Judy said...

It looks like a wonderful place to visit! And how nice to have two new chairs to take home.