Last Friday Tom and I visited the Ohio History Center in Columbus. After our trip to Campus Martius, we realized that we would save money visiting the sites in the Ohio History Connection if we bought a membership. We took advantage of the 20% off on the website and bought a duo membership for just …
From Happy Trails
Mound Cemetery, Marietta Ohio
Fortified by a delicious lunch, Tom and I headed out for Mound Cemetery, the last place we wanted to visit before leaving Marietta. On our way to the cemetery, we stopped to check out some historical markers. Marietta is filled with historical houses and many of them have markers in front of them. Some of …
Rebuilding Grandma’s Bridge
Last Saturday was a day dedicated to rebuilding Grandma’s bridge. My mom and dad live in a condo in a retirement community called Wedgewood Estates. Their condo backs up onto a pond and a woods. When Wedgewood Estates first opened, one of the original residents built a bridge over a creek in the woods. That …
Hartman Rock Garden in Springfield
The Sunday before my surgery, Tom and I visited the Hartman Rock Garden in Springfield, Ohio. We didn’t go there alone. We met one of our favorite families, Steve, Amy, and Emma Winstead, so we could all enjoy it together. Emma is 3 1/2 now, and I thought the rock garden looked like a fun …
Wool Gathering at Young’s Dairy
On September 20 I attended the Wool Gathering at Young’s Dairy. This was the 29th Wool Gathering. I have thought about going previously, but went to the Autumn Fiber Festival in Mansfield or the Great Lakes Fiber Show in Wooster instead. When my hip replacement surgery was scheduled for October 8, I knew the Autumn …
Grand Lake St Marys, Ohio
On our recent trip to Ohio, we had an adventure day with Mom and Dad to Grand Lake St Marys. Mom had seen an article about Boardwalk Village and wanted to go there. Anything they want to do, we are happy to try. We had a beautiful day for our adventure. The sky was blue …
Blacksmiths Depot in Candler, NC
On our way to Asheville, Tom and I swung by Candler, North Carolina to visit Blacksmiths Depot. Tom has been a blacksmith at different national park sites since 2017 when we worked at San Juan Island English Camp. Most of the time, he has to build a bellows and furnish his own equipment. Over time …
Maysville, Kentucky
Tom and I recently visited Maysville, Kentucky on our journey back to Ohio for my cancer surgery. We try to find one interesting or historical place to stop each time we travel back to Ohio, to give us something new to see. Maysville, Kentucky is a small city – about 9,000 people – on the …
Cheryl and Scott Giddens, Visitors
The first week of July Tom and I had some very special visitors, Cheryl and Scott Giddens. They were our first out-of-town visitors and they came all the way from South Carolina. Well, actually, they live in South Carolina and they were sort of on the way from being in western Virginia for a show. …
Fun Three Days in Ohio
Tom and I had a fun three days on our “weekend” back in Ohio. We weren’t really home for much of that time, but we got everything done on our to-do list. We drove up to Ohio on Tuesday morning and afternoon. We decided to take a back way, missing Cincinnati. Although Cincinnati is a …