Happy Thanksgiving!

Our day was so blessed - and we hope yours was too. Here is our COMPLETE family on the porch of Jo & Scott's house (in front of their spectacular new handmade door!) We thought it would be the four of us--and just before supper, Scott went out on an errand ("be back in a minute")--and came back with Carla, who had flown in from Kansas City as a total surprise! While it was wonderful to have her with us for Thanksgiving, the real motivation is that Jo wanted her sister here for the opening of her photography showing tomorrow evening. Along with our friend from Enid, Pat Mundy, we are about to go to the Justins to hang Jo's photographs. Have a blessed week-end! Love and grateful thanks to each of you! Mary & Jerry  

You are all invited! The showing will be up through January, if you should be in San Antonio. Best of all is that we get to be there for the opening! We are proud of her work - and you can see more on: CJoShoot@gmail.com CJoShoot.com Think of us on Saturday evening! Love, Mary and Jerry

It is wonderful to be home! As we left Missouri, in cold and rain, and headed into Oklahoma, the sky cleared, the temperature warmed up, the sun came out eventually, and the skyline was limitless--what a good sight! One night was spent at Quartz Mt. Park in southwest Oklahoma, near Hobart--it was a perfectly glorious evening, pleasant enough to have a campfire for cooking supper and sitting out..and a very brazen deer who obviously thought she owned the place nibbling on the grass in the next campsite! Our comings and goings didn't bother her in the least. We are SO glad we stayed for the opening of the Christmas season at Silver Dollar City. There were 4 million lights twinkling everywhere you looked..an absolute fairyland. We saw a superb musical production of Dicken's Christmas Carol. Above you see Phyllis Garrett (Monett MO), Sally Campbell (Marshall MO) and Mary with a SDC treat--more 'smores! There were charcoal fires going in fire pits so you could roast your own marshmallows--what a great idea!

Anything better than S'Mores??

Take a bag of marshmallows, a box of graham crackers, a bunch of milk chocolate Hershey bars, a roaring campfire, some long roasting sticks, a beautiful setting amidst changing trees, and some of your favorite people – and what do you have? A perfect day! Last Saturday evening, we had with us Garrett & Shannon Worley from Chesterfield MO (some of our “grandchildren”) and our dear friend Pat Mundy from Enid OK – and all of the ingredients listed above for an ideal time for making s’mores…and they were yummy, as evidenced by the photos of Jerry and Shannon!