After brunch we went for a nice leisurely walk, Oreo of course is in heaven, she runs ahead, comes back, snoops around the area, and generally is just a happy puppy. She is never out of our sight though always watching us.

Dave lives on 143 acres, the house is situated in PA, and the land is split between Maryland and PA. We wandered around investigating some trails and cut lines. At one point Woody was walking in Maryland and I was walking in PA, too cool! The vegetation of the forest floor is just starting to grow, it is covered in places with a low growing plant with little white flowers, will wait a few days and take some pics. There are a large variety of trees, walnut, chestnut, hickory, ponderosa pine (we think), oak, dogwood, and others I don’t know what they are. Some interesting grasses also, will have to spend some time learning what they are. This plant is 10' tall. I cut some off to add to my dried flower bouquet which sits on my desk in our little home, some of which I collected while in Ohio.

This place was a Girl Scout camp at one time complete with a swimming pool, before that it appears to have been some kind of farm. There is a large barn plus other smaller buildings some set in the trees, others close to the barn. The barn is a very large two story, with remnants of automatic feeders and watering equipment. The feeders were hooked to a large silo type bin, a very sophisticated system in its day. The small buildings are constructed of concrete block, all had water, and electricity hooked up. One building away out in the bush had a big shallow sink with three taps hanging over the sink, cupboards and was only screened in, can’t figure out what it would have been used for at all. Mennonites populate the area around Dave. There is a woodcraft shop (owned by a Mennonite) within walking distance so Woody made a visit, he was very impressed with their artisanship. He came home with a real nice cutting board, it is too pretty to use, constructed with walnut, ash, and maple. All in all this is very nice place to spend time. We will in the coming days take in some the sites that are not further than a comfortable days drive. Dave offered to care for Oreo if we wanted to trek further, Dave loves her and she returns the love. One evening after Dave had been playing ball with Oreo, I let her out for her last potty call. She grabbed the ball, ran out, went straight over to Dave’s and bumped the door with her nose! Dave’s cat (Binx) was all snuggled up with Dave, Binx immediately popped up his head, alerting Dave, Dave then heard the bumping noise, went to the door and there was Oreo, ball in her mouth! He told her no he wouldn’t come out to play and sent her home. We did not know this until Dave told us the story the next morning. Dave found the ball by his door in the morning.







Woody spent some more time working on his project after we had dinner (Woody cooked dinner) I did the dishes, then went for a nice evening walk, topped the evening off chatting with friends in our favourite chatroom.







A couple of views from our walk around Dave's place.








An interesting pretty plant, the leaves are all fury like an African Violet. Will watch to see if it blooms before we leave. Thanks Heather for naming this plant. It is called Lamb's Eear.