Harvest Party and Other Scary Topics

Last Wednesday night (October 31) was our church’s Halloween alternative (Harvest Party). It was a wonderful time and I’m including one small picture of each of the kids.

At roughly the same time, I also learned that my sister (Michelle) and her second husband (Randi Irwin) who have lived up in the Adirondacks (up state New York) for I’m guessing over 10 years (?), were selling their house and moving back to the Meadville area. This was a great surprise. The entire family is looking forward to having them closer.

First picture: Meredith on left -- black face.

Second picture: Clint on left with Rambo buddies.

Third picture: Evelyn on left with two friends (Willa Howard and Hannah Nolan)

Fourth picture: Ellen on right with next door neighbor, Xan Clelland.

Last picture: the "lovely and gracious Mrs. Glenn"

Other journal entries of note are as follows:

• Mary and I have decided to stay married for life (just in case anyone was wondering). It has never been a question for us! Mary and I have also decided to replace all the windows in our house. They should all be replaced before Christmas. We’ll not talk about the price…..!!!
• I and Clint were able to successfully replace the front sidewalk (mostly) this last Saturday. It looks great. There’s still some work that needs to be done on it, but 90% of the work is done and everyone agrees that it looks good.
• Meredith and I with some help from Evelyn, cleaned up most of the leaf piles in our yard yesterday (Sunday). It is unusual for us to do yard work on Sunday, but I am going to be out of town all this week in Chicago and I didn’t want the leaf piles to kill the grass, so we did a work of “necessity” and cleaned up the piles.
• We also had a church meeting at our house last night (Sunday, November 4). It was a busy weekend. Mary did a great job entertaining the Porters on Saturday night (Dave, Valerie, Dave, John, Ben, Anna, Sam & Dan) and folks from the church on last night (6 Nolans, 4 Emericks, 2 Colosimos, Bill Voorhis, and Kerry Black, plus our six). A total of 20 people.
• I’m spending the week in Chicago and won’t be home until Saturday night. This week, the following events are happening concurrently at the Hyatt Regency O’Hare in Chicago: IHEA Combustion and IRED Seminars including a tabletop exhibit tonight (Monday); IHEA Board Meeting; IHEA Fall Business Meeting; MTI Board Meeting; MTI Fall Business Meeting, and the Global Heat Treat Summit. In one way or another, I’m involved with all of these events. It’s nice to knock them all out in one week, but it will be a very long week w/o family! I’ll be happy to be home on Saturday.