May 11, 9:29 AM

The Night Before Mother's Day at the Old Packing Shed

 

The crowds that celebrate mom are good--no great--guests. Last night it seemed to be "I worked on the Rileys medical night." One fellow, Angela Shaddix's Dad, helped prep Grandma Riley for hip surgery and another restorative-looking guest, with a look of hippocratic serenity, looked very familiar. "Do I know you?" I asked. It turns out he was the ER doctor that stitched up Nicholas' shin a few years ago.

After carving a planting ground from the wilderness, colonial farmers nurtured the young blogs to maturity by editing out any tediousness from the daily farm routine and then pitching the harvest-ready blogs, shamelesly to the public. " Vote Today! Ron Conrad has voted. Have you?

Mike and Susan both gave tributes to our mom, and mom did a little quilting for the guests as well. We had some world-class musicians last night and some fine dancing led by Susan Usher. Not to be left solitary, the crew at Colonial Chesterfield hosted a wedding, complete with Cinderella carriage and a first-class video crew, chronicling the affair with beautiful, high-tech Sony gear. There's the difference between men and women: girls will get weepy at the site of the bride's flowers. Guys will get all choked up looking at the video cameras.

"What's wrong, Jim?"
"Oh. Oh. Nothing. It's just that it's a 20x Optical zoom with three 1 inch CMOS sensors. Just caught me off guard, I guess."

Wedding Pitch: if you want a wedding coordinator who cares as much about your wedding as you do, you can't beat our own Jan Theim. I'm telling you; it's almost as fun watching Jan getting ready for the wedding as the wedding itself. She loves getting people married, so give her a call or send her an email!

 

 

 

More of the Farm Journal -- May 10, 2008