Lake Orion, Michigan

 From the year that she was ten years old, Trish grew up in Lake Orion, Michigan.  Today her mother, Betty, still lives in that same house at age ninety-three.  Her three brothers still live nearby also.

For the past three days we have gotten to be in Lake Orion for a family visit.

We got to explore the house and yard again with all of the contained memories.  We also got to ride around town and play “that’s where so-and-so used to be.”  One day we even went out to Cook’s Dairy, an old favorite place for her, and had huge cups of ice cream for lunch.

Trish’s mother has for a long time enjoyed tatting.  When she visited us at Ocracoke two summers ago, she was beginning a tatting project.  Now it is finished and we had a chance to admire her lovely handiwork and be assured that one was made for Trish.

That gave Trish a chance to show her mom what she was working on. They got to examine and admire the paper-piecing quilt that is traveling with us as it moves toward getting finished.  It made her mom remember how much she used to enjoy sewing .

We also got to both go out and stay in for meals together with brothers Jerry, Wayne, and Doug and with Wayne’s wife Marsha.  It was a good time.