Tennessee Family-Day 2, October 24th, SESSON 3, Jen and Harmon-Pumpkin Carving Event.

Hello,
After our Day 2, Session 2, 5:00 PM Lasagna Dinner with Debbie and Cliff, we loaded eight pumpkins and headed out to niece, Jen and husband, Harmon for the Annual Family Pumpkin Carving Contest.  This is the Third Session of our Tennessee Saga.  What a wonderful time we are having.

The Annual Family Pumpkin Carving Event

will take place here at Jen and Harmon's home. 

Son, Hunter and Daughter, Emily will try to keep the adults under control.

 We first had a tour of Harmon and Jen home while eating delicious desserts. Harmon and Hunter, like to hunt. 

 Wyoming is one of their favorite states.

  Harmon, Jen, and Jimmy

 Harmon, Peggy, and Jen

 Hunter was 15, last year, when he bagged the elk and bison. 

 On a hunting trip with his dad.

It is now time to carve pumpkins for the chance for bragging rights for the pumpkin that gets the most votes.  Below is some awesome pictures of carving pumpkin techniques and designs.  Be sure to vote on the Facebook link,  https://www.facebook.com/jim.laptop/about

 Peggy and Kathy carving their pumpkins.

Debbie, Kathy, and Jessica and Kinley

Sally, applying her expertise to pumpkin carving.

 Go to Facebook to register your vote for best of show.

Darryle and grandson, Jr, and Peggy taking the pumpkin innards to feed to Emily's pigs.

 Yes, Emily  (Harmon and Jen's daughter) has graduated from bunny rabbits to two pigs.

Uncle Don and Hunter built the Hog Shanty.

 This has been a wonderful, bonding experience.   Thank you all very much for including Peggy and me (Jimmy) in the Annual Pumpkin Carving Experience.  Vote for # 5

Fresh pumpkin seeds.

Kathy roasted and seasoned the pumpkin seeds.  They are delicious.  

Tennessee Family-Day 2, October 24th, Session 2 with Debbie and Cliff.

Hi, 
Continuing with our saga:

Niece Debbie and Cliff, her wonderful husband,  (her words) had us over to their new home. Garmin said to go down this steep hill. I literally couldn't see the road surface in front of me as we descended over the crest of the hill to go down their driveway.  I said to Peggy, "Shut your eyes, take a deep breath, and pray".  Thank goodness she did, we made it down safely and up safely too.  

 Debbie and Cliff live on a hillside. 

It is a lovely location, on nine acres, out in the quiet countryside.

Debbie just got home from work.  

Meet Cliff.  He is in the auto body repair business. 

 

 Cliff and Debbie are full of fun and laughter.

View from Debbie's Juliet Balcony

 Debbie prepared Lasagna before she left for work.  

Cliff was a wonderful helper,

 he put the Lasagna in the oven at the proper time. 

He did a great job.  It was hot and delicious. 

With the tour of the homestead over and while we were digesting Debbie and Cliff's delicious Lasagna meal, we left for desert at Jen and her husband, Harmon, my third niece's home. By now it was 6:30 PM.  

See you later for Tennessee  Nieces--Day 2,Session-3 !!!!!!!

Tennessee Family-Day 2, October 24th, Session 1 with Kathy and Darryl .

Hello,  We arrived October 23, Sunday, at our Host Family, Kathy and husband Darryl, Springhill, Tennessee. We were blessed with the warmth and generosity of their Southern Hospitality. Following is a
sampling of the wonderful time we hand with the three Southern nieces and their families, Kathy, Debbie, and Jen.  They all live within a short drive from each other. Following is a whirlwind three days of fun bonding with my nieces and their families.

So here goes:

Out hosts, Kathy and Darryl, their daughter Allysa,

 grandson, 15 month old, Gasner, Jr. and
 7 day-old granddaughter, Nala.  

 Peggy was taking the picture.

 

Meet Gasner Sr.. The proud dad of Gasner,Jr. and Nala.

 


Meet baby Nala's big brother, Gasner Jr., held by "Aunt" Peggy.

 Kathy opening up our Host gift.

 Beautiful plants through out the house. 

 Kathy had a beautiful story about each plant she received from family and friends.

Old School Cafe.  

You need to experience this.  It is an old school, parts originally built in late 1800's and added on over the years but became obsolete.  The school is being retrofitted for different uses.

 

 The Old School Cafe is set up in an original classroom.

While we were waiting to eat,

 Kathy and Peggy thought 
I needed to be kept busy playing with the latches.  

HEE HEE

The food is absolutely out of this world. 

We had a wonderful time with Kathy.  Now we will go home to Kathy's house and Peggy and I will continue onto niece Debbie and husband Cliff's home to enjoy a 5:00 PM Lasagna meal before we head out to niece Jen and husband Harmon's home for desert and the Annual Family Pumpkin Carving event.   

Until we see you later, Peggy and Jimmy

New Orlean' Trip of a life time--Cousin Carrie and son Dennis

This is our TRIP OF A LIFE TIME !  We started out October 20 heading for New Orleans to be part of Peggy's God-son (Kevin's), wedding.

We plan to visit along the way, stopping in Everson, PA; Springhill, TN; Jacksonville, FL; Cary, NC; Raleigh, NC; and Lancaster, PA.  'Triptik', calculated 3000 miles and at least three weeks.

October 20, 2016--It was one of the most gorgeous road trips we had been on, traveling down Rt 6 from Waverly, heading to Pittsburg area.  The views were absolutely "the best I had seen" (Peggy adds, "In '73 years !"). Problem was my battery died and didn't get any beautiful pictures of the country side. 

Our first stop was to visit cousin Carrie , Everson, PA (SE of Pittsburg).

This is the house where cousin Carrie and son Dennis and family live.  

This is Carrie's part of the house. They added a bedroom with two sets of these windows. Carrie's plants are gorgeous. She has her own renovated kitchen and living room.

 

The above three pictures were taken at Penn State.  Peggy saw a sign for Visitor's Center, so we turned into campus.  The sign was for the Football Stadium and campus.  That was OK as we saw the 80,000 Football Stadium  and close by the  Dairy Research Facilities. I love dairy animals.

We then traveled on to Kentucky.

 The best was our meal at "Blue Isle"  in Winchester, KY.  

The BBQ ribs were out of this world.  This was a 1/2 order.

That's all for now.  We can't wait to visit the nieces in Tennessee.

Love, Uncle Jimmy and Peggy