"Sticky-Bun Ice Cream and Pizza" Who Doesn't Love It!

Nicely Put!

After nearly 1500 photos at many Colchester County cemeteries, we're having a bit of a lazy day back here at the campground.  Time to catch up on a few chores, like fixing the screen on the upstairs window and tracking down a small leak in the hot water tap in the bathroom.  We're pretty good at most fix-it jobs but one has us stumped - we've tripped the breaker on the rooftop air conditioner and can't find the breaker box.  Bill suggested looking in the pedestal under the bed and an online article suggested it might be behind a panel on the outside of the motorhome.  No luck either places.  If anyone has experience with these things, I'd love more suggestions.  Fortunately, although it's 28 degrees, we're in the shade and there's a lovely soft breeze flowing through the open windows

Speaking of cemeteries, though, which is the topic of much of our conversation - we've discovered another tool that comes in very handy out in the field.  There is an iPhone app that changes your phone into a walkie talkie.  That way, when we're on opposite ends of a cemetery, Ann can just ask me about a certain tombstone.  We've also learned how to download my cemetery listings to her iPhone so she can refer to that as well.  Have I said how much I love my iPhone.

Tomorrow my cousin, Fonda has invited us on a tour of the Londonderry area where many of our relatives of the past lived.  Hopefully, we'll see the church she and her family bought.  She's going to do the driving, which will be a nice change for me and since we share so many common interests in genealogy, I will, no doubt learn, much from her.

Love the big grin on
her face!

As I've said before, even though I am here on the trip of a lifetime (again), life at home goes on.  Yesterday Carolyn sent my some of her latest shots of Megan.  She is rapidly becoming a barrel racer with a "burn in her turn".

Yesterday was hot and muggy and so after several hours in the local cemetery, we stopped at a roadside ice cream stand.  If you ever get to experience "sticky-bun" flavoured ice cream in a waffle cone - be sure to try it.  Cinnamon buns - but better.  They also had a flavour called Oxford Blueberry Cream. (hmm - I wonder where that comes from?)  Maybe next time.  On the say home, we stopped off at the Brookfield Market and Pizzeria and got an excellent pizza for supper.  The decadence never ends!

It is really hard to describe the feeling of being here in the land where so many of our ancestors came to make their dreams come true, or to escape tough conditions in their homeland.  There is something that touches you to your inner core when you walk into a room and can safely assume that you share the same DNA with most of the people there.  One such experience was our visit to the Gamble get-together at Debbie's cottage last weekend.  Yesterday a woman saw us at the Folly Village Cemetery and came over to chat.  Turned out to be related on both her and her husband's side.  It gives me butterflies!

So back to my book and my lazy Saturday afternoon...

To be continued.........................