It was raining when we awoke. A nice steady rain giving those thirsty fields a wonderful drink. Ruth went over to help mom clean out her middle closet and pulled out these.
These windows had been in Pleasant Home. There were more of them but Spark and Rhonda have the others installed in their dining area. They had been by the book cases in the living room of the house pictured below.
The picture above was taken shortly after the home was finished in 1918. My parents bought the house around 1951 but didn't move in until Spark was 2 years old and John was 9 months old. My great Grandfather Henry Baer and his second wife Aunt Emma built the house to hold their 10 children and I think my parents thought they would have to fill it up so they raised all 11 of us there. Mark and I bought the house in 1991 and raised our 5 children there. It really IS a wonderful home for children. Matt and Lisa Waibel live there now and they are raising so many kids that the neighbors thought it was some kind of children's home. Getting back to the windows mom told Ruth to post them on Facebook market place but as soon as I saw them decided they should be installed on the new barn. Yes stained glass is out of place on a barn but this way we can remember our past as we forge our way into the future.
I picked up mom around 11:00 this morning to take her to Costco for her hearing aid appointment. The test taken about an hour, then she had 15 minutes to walk around trying them out while shopping only we ran into Tim Roecker as we stepped out of the office and visited a while, then started heading toward the produce section and ran into Max Pfaffmann. He was one of the groomsmen in our wedding. Of course we needed to visit a bit with him only to realize our 15 minutes were up. Mom liked the hearing aids and bought them but she had to wear her old ones home as the new ones won't come in for 2 weeks. By this time it was 1:45 pm and we had not had lunch so stopped at John's Taco's which is near 474. We both got the taco salad and it was good. We decided we must come back in 2 weeks. It had stopped raining by the time we got home. Karin, mom and I played games until 5:00 pm then Mark sent a text he was bringing home VERY expensive bacon from Dollar General. He wanted BLT's for supper as we had some beautiful vine ripened tomatoes picked this morning but we didn't have any bacon and no one wanted to drive to a real store. We decided the cost of that BLT was equal or more than we expect to pay at a restaurant. BUT it really was delicious.
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