Weekend at Beery's

Do we need a reason to visit the family in Ohio? Nope. Did we have lots of reasons. Yeah.

The catalyst for heading to Shreve this October was a wedding. After long discussion we decided that Laura's great aunt's daughter Sara was marrying Laura's new great aunt's son-in-law, or something like that. The bottom line was we were invited, and we wanted to go, so there we were. It was a beautiful day, and a beautiful wedding, and it was great to see the Yarnell side of the family.

Of course, the next day we saw all of the Yarnell family again, at an early "Thanksgiving" with Grandma. You see Grandma Nina leaves for Florida, so all the local siblings gather for a meal before she goes. Sharon gave us a great "antler" decoration that I will proudly display in the rustic room. I scavenged an old "tree farm" sign from Scott's dumpster after I passed on an large aluminum canoe. Is this a random entry or what?

We did manage to also get a trip to Books in Stock, our favorite used book store in. We also got to visit for a little while with Grandma Beery. That evening we had a great time with Brian, playing regular and Disney versions of Scene It! We enjoyed pizza, and laughed our guts out.

On Monday, we got up way to early (for Beery standards) and went out to hide and find some letterboxes. I will not disclose locations, but we managed to hide one box before we were informed by an "official" that the land we were on was closed to the public at that time because of the upcoming waterfowl hunting season, and they didn't want us scaring the ducks. No need to worry I thought, the hunters would have plenty of time to "scare" them on their own. Anyway, we cut our loses and headed to another great park to find two letterboxes, as we admired the lovely fall foliage and snowflakes in the air. It was a great morning of hiking and exploring, and was glad to have rbbceo and Daffy Lady with us!