Another fall weekend has come and gone, and another page was added to our memory books. Travel four hours northwest of Kennett Square, PA, you will come to a tiny town called Shunk, PA. The town of Shunk has a single stop sign, an old bus depot, a school room turned township building, and perhaps an auto shop. Blink and you miss it. Our dear friends Bill and Erin Shindle invited Steve, the boys, and I up for a weekend away. Mountains are near and dear to Steve's heart; in fact when purchasing our beach house several years back, we contemplated between the beach and the mountains. The beach won, but the mountains are still a comfortable and familiar place for us to be. Perhaps it was the weekends at ESU with Steve early in our relationship that kindled the love and admiration for the beautiful terrain of Pennsylvania. The weekend was spent enjoying the outdoors, but also doing several other things: Waking to a thick frost that blanketed the field behind the Shindle's Visiting Thrift shops in the small town of Canton, PA Wine tasting at Timber Ridge, where we purchased our first case of wine EVER Celebrating Halloween with a parade in Troy, PA followed by our first ever "Trunk or Treat" Cooking and enjoying a breakfast reminiscent of Christmas morning Pellet Gun shooting Spotting dear and shooting stars (yes, that is plural) Trying to discipline a child who still had remnants of his penciled on mustache from the night before Time with friends that mean so much William, our deep soulful thinker, can't wait to return. In fact, he mentioned he could see himself having a place in the mountains when he is older. He said, "Being able to explore the woods with my friend, holding our pellet guns and target shooting was a feeling I can't explain." I can't explain it either, but I do acknowledge that our sons are growing up and appreciating the earned independence they are experiencing.
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Cathy Maule
11/7/2015 04:44:32 pm
I know you had a wonderful time and I can't wait to try some!
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