Lori Plank: memories in the rain.

About five or six years ago I was with my aunts and cousins at the park when two lady’s and their children came up and started talking to us. so we started a conversation and the one lady, Mary, was playing around with us children and I immediately liked her. To make a long story short, we started writing back and forth, I always looked forward to getting her letters because they were so interesting and had a bunch of bright stickers, which my young mind liked.:)

Two years ago, I was SO excited that she was coming out to Arthur to see us; we had a most marvelous time! About a week ago, she called us again and wanted to come out to see us! Naturally, I was happy to see her and her daughter Allison again.

She arrived around 3:00 so we started the wonderful afternoon by picking up our milk at a local farm:) then drove over to our Grandpa’s to pick up my aunt Rosemary, cousin Lisa and my grandma. We cruised over to the local farmers market, Shady Crest, and then on over to the health food store where we bought some yummy goats milk cheese. Mary told us it tastes a lot like a Mexican cheese and Allison absolutely loved it! We went back to grandpas so They also taught Mary how to make Amish peanut butter, which turned out to be absolutely delicious!

We drove to our coffee shop expecting to eat supper when it started dumping barrels of rain and the electricity flicked off. We waited for about 45 minutes but it did not turn back on, so scrambled back to grandmas and she quickly whipped together green beans and noodles, we also had bread, Amish PB and Cheese. We made so many memories yesterday I don’t think I’ll forget for a long time!

Allison enjoying the rain:)