Last week my friend Bennie – our son-in-law Lee’s mom – and I visited our local Museum of York County and went out to eat lunch to do some catching up. There was an exhibit about mushrooms, of all things, and the highlight was this walk through one room of the exhibit that had these glowing mushrooms and snails all along a pathway that wound through. It was the coolest thing. Fun day.
For my birthday this year Meg got me a box of truffles from the Country Gourmet in Murfreesboro. They are absolutely delicious – every one I’ve tried so far – but my favorite thing about them is that each one is named after something that has to do with Murfreesboro, like the ones with the blue swirl is the Blue Raider truffle. How fun is that?
Last weekend Meg & I spent the afternoon in Liberty, SC, a little town we’d heard about south of Greenville. We actually went to take in their community theater performance of Little Women, but first we had lunch at a restaurant we’d found while researching: Arnold’s. It got great reviews online for their hamburgers, and while we didn’t expect it to be attached to a gas station, the food definitely did not disappoint. Then we had a little bit of time to wander around town before the play started, & ran across this great mural on one of the buildings. Great fun.
When I went by the Yarbroughs’ house Thursday to take them their Halloween goodie bag, June gave me a tour to show me how all of her plants are doing. We had gotten her a hosta collection – she is very much a plant lover, and she just went crazy over the hostas that we saw when we were in Massachusetts for her birthday, and that just came in the mail a few weeks ago, when, according to Brecks when I ordered them, it was time to plant them in our zone. They have all started coming up, so we’re hoping they can live well and prosper.
Wednesday morning after Charlotte & I left the B&B we decided to drive the 45 minutes up to South Mountains State Park. A friend hikes there often & has posted beautiful pictures, and Charlotte saw that they had a really nice visitors’ center. The drive up was absolutely gorgeous, but when we got to the park, this is what we found 🙁 Damage from Hurricane Helene was still visible everywhere, and I guess they just hadn’t had time to get the park cleaned up yet. We’ll just have to go try again at a later date.
This week my friend Charlotte & I headed to Lattimore, NC – less than an hour down the road – to spend the night at a B& B that I’d read about. It was originally built by the B&B owner’s great grandfather, and he also made all of the furniture in it. It was a beautiful place – we had a great time. We had called ahead & the very nice lady in charge of the local history museum agreed to open it up for us. It really was interesting. Lattimore is a town of about 500 people, and it was cotton country back in the day – there were seven gins in that small town. I loved checking out all of the historical relics and clippings that were on display, including this wheelbarrow that was used to deliver the mail from the train depot to the post office.
After lunch at a great local restaurant, we spent some time driving around town and the countryside around it. We ran across this house with crazy Halloween decorations, so that night after supper we went back out to see it all lit up. It did not disappoint 🙂
Sunday after church Mason & I went out for lunch for a very late 15th birthday celebration for him. I told him that we could go anywhere in the county to eat, & made several suggestions – and he chose Subway. He does make me laugh all the time. I had the best time catching up with him – such a fun time.
Late Saturday afternoon Jeff & I headed over to Lindee’s house to see Clara and her friends head out to the Fall Military Ball. They all looked so beautiful and handsome. Clara and Wade have been big buddies at church for years, so I’m sure they had a good time together. Mailey is on the golf team with her, and her boyfriend Dylan seemed very nice, too.
Clara with Emmy & Pawpaw, her other grandparents.
Yesterday Meg & I headed to Sumter, SC, to the Jewish History Center there, to see the traveling exhibit, The Women of the Holocaust. It was on loan from the Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem. It was small but so well done, and so heartbreaking. There were displays on women and resistance, which this picture was part of, as well as art, motherhood, friendship, food, caring for others, feminity, love, faith. Maybe more that I can’t remember. Just such a horrible time in the history of our world.
