Been fishing...

I just did something I never thought I would do, and that is put a picture of myself on my blog...oh, I have did one or two where I was with Lorelei but not a full out pic of me.

After we got all the leaks stopped...that is another story I don't want to go into...anyway, this past week we finally got to head to Shipshewana.  Every evening we went to the Ontario Dam and fished a while.  Both above the dam and down below.  Roger was below the dam fishing in the creek and catching one fish one after another, and I was fishing up above and not getting a single hit.  Till I put on a top water lure.  The second throw caught this Smallmouth!  We were catching and releasing...I caught one more small one, and had another hit, but I missed it.  Lost my lure, and that was the end of me catching any that night....

But isn't this a beautiful place to spend time?

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NOW FOR PART OF A STORY
We always go to this little restaurant in Howe, Indiana which is about 10 minutes from Shipshewana. (I just had to go on google earth and look up the name....The Gathering Place Restaurant is its name.) I there, there is the 'round table' that I assume is for the regulars that gather there for coffee and to visit.  I was half listening to some of them and talking to  Roger.  I heard this one guy mention someone coming to stay with them.  I did not catch the details of why...but part of what I had heard made me think they had people stay with first one family and then another.  I wondered was the person staying a itinerant preacher?  I couldn't think what else.

So, I really started listening when I heard him telling that it was Christmas and his grandma had knitted him a hat and mittens.  I took it as that was her standard gift to him.  So he went on to tell that it was Christmas morn and they were opening their gifts, and the gentleman staying with them was sitting off to the side just watching everyone.

He opened his mittens and looked over at the gentleman just sitting there.  He picked the other gift up from his grandma and knew that it was a hat.  So he took it to his grandmother and asked her if she minded him giving it to the gentleman staying with them.  Of course she told him to go ahead.

So he took it over to him, and gave it to him and wished him Merry Christmas.  He said the tears just started streaming down the man's face....who said it was the first Christmas present he had had in 7 years!

Some randomness

1.  Above is a beautiful Amish home.  Everything about the place seems almost picture perfect.  And it always looks that way, yet I have never seen anyone out working.

2.  Now showing our spider....I wonder how much longer she will be here.  She is getting huge.  This is the topside of her...

And this is the bottom.  This was taken a couple days ago, but she is still here.  But as cool as it is and as windy as it is, I am wondering how much longer she can last.

3.  We had a quick run to Indianapolis the other day.  We did get home the next evening, but somehow I just needed a break from blogging.  But thought I would pop back in with a post.  And may do one or two more....or not.

4.How about a mural...taken through the front windshield...it was raining.

It was on Wabash Avenue in Terre Haute, Indiana.

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Don't you love how there is so much yellow in the fall?   I just love autumn colors.  We did get rain the other day, so I am hoping the leaves will hang on a while.  I don't know if the rain came too late or not.

I am linking to Tanya's Willy Nilly Friday 5.

Fall is coming on....

We were out last week, and I noticed the briars really starting to turn...

Goldenrod has been going quite a while here, so it is in full bloom for the most part.  Of course I see it and think:

The golden rod is yellow,

The corn is turning brown,

The trees in apple orchard,

With fruit are bending down....

you know the first verse of the poem September by Helen Hunt Jackson.

  The other day going to my dermatologist, we passed this sight.

Luckily for me, we were at a stoplight and I got to zoom in a little bit.  I bet this lady had no idea she would be pictured on blog on the world wide web.
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Speaking of dermatologist, I had a spot removed from my ear....it was benign, thank God.  I feel like I have been so blessed by God to not have any more after the first two spots that were cancer.
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We are planning to try to get out to the strip pits to see the lunar eclipse/blood moon.  Have you got plans....or can you see it just fine from your house?  I could probably see it from here, but just not as good as from out there.  And beginning to wonder about it at all because it is back all clouded and overcast as I type this.