I thought these were funny.

A Bouquet for Kay

Please pray for my sister Kay.  She is in Butler Memorial Hospital with multiple issues.  She will be home in a few days, and her doctors are going to manage her condition with medication, but she has some serious medical problems:  cirrhosis of the liver (she has never been a drinker), enlarged spleen that is destroying her platelets so she doesn't clot (an internal bleed first alerted us to the problems), a total heart blockage and a partial blockage (Kay is younger than me, and had quadruple bypass surgery when she was only 38.)  Because of the low platelets, her physicians prefer to avoid surgery.

She also started a job a few weeks ago and is still on probation, so she may lose her employment because she has been in the hospital.

Thank you, faithful friends and pray-ers!

Iron Butt 615 Mile Road Trip Day One

Hmmm.  A motorcycle road trip?

It stormed (and was still storming to our east 

and south when we left to head north.)

Oh, well, what's life without a little adventure?

We rode up to PA Route 6,

and took a detour up to Kinzua,

which isn't as much fun since the old bridge was destroyed.

Then back down to Route 6 toward Wellsboro.

Ah, we took one more little unintentional detour

after apparently missing a turn in Coudersport.

We weren't lost, mind you--

we just didn't know where we were 

or how to get where we were going . . .

We had breakfast day two in this original 1938 diner.

Fun.

Iron Butt Road Trip Day 2

Our friends Roxann & Jim recommended:

We rode up to New York in rain/sun/rain/clouds/rain.

We walked down 800 steps (1.5 miles) through the beautiful gorge

some of the time in a thunderstorm.

At least we had raincoats from the bike ride!

(My leg muscles are still a little sore!)

On the way back to Wellsboro, we stopped at a

Norton motorcycle convention.

There were also some other British bikes--

BSA's, and this 1967 Triumph Bonneville, which is

exactly like one Burger used to have:

By the time we got to this point,

 it had stopped raining for the day.

Iron Butt Road Trip Day 3

Pine Creek Gorge a/k/a the Grand Canyon of PA is well worth the trip. 

A few years ago, we rode bicycles through 10 miles of the gorge and back.

Funny.

Around and about Rehoboth Farm in July

"I am the rose of Sharon . . . "

"I am the rose of Sharon, 

The lily of the valleys."

Song of Solomon 2:1

I have white and lavender Rose of Sharon bushes, given to me by one of my friends named Mary Ann.  I need a pink one . . .