Miles, Countryside & 500th post

This is my 500th post on this blog and it hardly seems possible that I have been boring people for this long and I haven't been shot or assaulted. 

This is our son in law Jack's birthday and I wanted to wish him very happy birthday from Gerry and me.  It didn't go too well for him since he is having some car trouble, but he is a smart guy and will have it running soon.

Happy Birthday Jack 

We made a Costco run today at their warehouse in Lancaster, PA.  It was so hot outside that we didn't feel like doing much touring and sightseeing, so a cool shopping trip was in order.  I found a spot close to the entrance and pulled into the space and noticed the odometer on the Saturn has turned over to exactly 107,000 miles.  It was just last September when we had 94,000 miles so we are running about 16K miles a year in the car.

 Yes, I know it isn't very interesting to you all, but we like to see when the odometer turns over 1K miles exactly.  Call us crazy.

We decided to take a tour of the countryside and enjoy the beautiful views up here in the Lancaster County area.  There are a number of dairy farms run by the Amish and others and the farms are immaculate.  The barns are huge and look like well over 100 milk cows would fit in them at one time.  

Lancaster Dairy Farm

Stone house and nice lake.

What are you looking at?

 We drove around the area for a while and enjoyed the views.  There was a soccer tournament going on near Manheim and there were 10 fields in play at the same time.  I can't imagine either playing soccer in that heat or even watching the games.  Even though, we used to play softball from 1-4pm every Saturday while we lived in Abidjan, Ivory Coast for 4 years.  It was more or less the same temperature, but I was about 25 years younger and in better shape than now.   Gerry came to most of the games to watch Larry Jr. and me play softball.  She was the best water girl around the diamond.  She is the pretty girl with the yellow outfit in the picture below.

My cousin Sharon and her husband, Al received some good news recently.  They may have their home rented and if so, they will hit the road fulltime in their 5th wheel trailer around the 1st of September.  They have been planning this for a number of years and it looks like they will finally be on the road.  Congratulations you guys.