May 16, 2021

Good morning everyone, today is May 16, Sunday 2021. I see it is bright out but I can’t be sure if the sun is shinning, yesterday proved to be a beautiful day, I hope today is the same. Well I went to the farm yesterday for the first time this season, they had some beautiful greens which I bought and enjoyed for lunch, some I have never had before. Now this whole farm is a historical site and the farmhouse a museum, so as Rocco ran around the grounds and found children to run with I went to look at the house. It just so happens they were open and had a display of farming in Cedar Grove over the last 200years. So I love any museum so o went in. The docent said I could take a tour if I wanted or look by myself, I chose the latter. There were photos there that brought great memories to me, Taylor’s Dairy, best ice cream I ever had and the always had a big jar of pink bubble gum that was also good, I dislike gum immensely, but for me to remember it, I guess I didn’t always dislike it. To go there was always an outing sitting by the brook with my chocolate mint chip cone. As I was standing in the front room one of the women said this is such a great example of a 18 th century home , I agreed and remarked it was much brighter than I remember, she said you have been her before,so of course that was my invitational to tell all I knew. I said I grew up across the street in the early 50’s, she asked what it was like then, I told her there were no offices across the street just farmland all around. Even where my house stands and I showed her was a mushroom farm before. So she asked how I came to be in the house I said Mr. Morgan took me in, she said you knew Courtney Morgan, by this time other docents were listening to the story. I continued how he wa such a tall man and very imposing and how he explained I could have whatever I wanted but you have to pay for it, she remarked he was teaching you, she asked how old I was at the time, I said maybe 7, 60 years ago. They all enjoyed the story,however I didn’t mention I had taken a pumpkin, after all these years I was still embarrassed of that action and didn’t want them to think less of me. So I guess I really did learn a lesson that day.