Where's Funkstown?

June 22 – It’s getting harder to know what day of the week it is since we work on the weekends and are off Mondays and Tuesdays.  I actually stayed til 2:30 today talking to Susanna and visitors.  We had 22 by the time I left, so that was a busy day.  No mice today!  Bill was waiting and wondering where I was when I got home.  He did some cleaning on the RV but I’m not sure what else.  He had me drop him off at Lock 38 again and rode his bike the 3 miles home, so at least he got some good exercise.

 

There were no movies of interest showing so we weren’t in a real hurry to leave.  On the way we picked up our first mail packet.  There were the usual magazines and West Orange Times and a couple of bills but several sympathy cards about Xena that were really nice. We were especially touched by the one from our vet, Dr. Lauren Prather.  She’s the best!  I had a letter from the daughter of my old friend Vera from my Florida Center Bank days.  I had sent Vera a postcard as I have always done when we travel and her daughter got it and wrote to let me know Vera had died May 20 and she didn’t have a phone number for me.  That was really difficult for me to read.  Vera was one of the sweetest, kindest people I have ever known and it broke my heart to hear of her death.  I still have and use recipes she gave me over 30 years ago and every time I make one I will always have such great memories of her and what a wonderful lady she was.

 

Now, for the the good things in our mail packet. There was a belated Mother’s Day gift card to the Blue Moon Café here in Shepherdstown from Kam and she also sent a gift card to Bill for Father’s Day for Fandango, so we can order movie tickets.  Very nice!  He received many nice thank you cards from students he had sent graduation cards to and was pleased to hear from them.  Hand written thank you notes I think are a thing of the past but they mean a lot more than a text message ever could.

 

On our trek today we went first to Funkstown, which originally was Jerusalem but when it was incorporated in the early 1800’s the name was changed.  Not even close, so not sure what happened.  Anyway, it’s basically a suburb of Hagerstown and the main street is a lovely quaint street with the typical stone and brick homes of the 1800’s.

 

Then we drove through Hagerstown to see the giant Coke bottle on top of the coke plant.  I tried to stage a photo of the bottle on top of Bill’s head but we didn’t’ have the right heights to do it.  Then just up the street a bit was the giant Rocking Chair on the top of a furniture company.  My first thought was of Edith Ann, my favorite Lily Tomlin character, sitting in the giant rocker on the porch rocking and talking her baby talk.

 

Well that was the sight seeing for the day.  The rest was a bit of shopping and dinner at TGI Friday’s.  Kam sent some discount coupons for there and we happened to have a $25 gift card. So there was one right at the shopping center.  The service was good, the food was good and for us, the price was excellent!  Bill knew we had a coupon also for a soft serve ice cream place so he made sure we made a final stop there on the way home.  He had Dirty Turtle custard and I had fat free sugar free yogurt.  I had to attempt making up for dinner!

 

No good stuff on TV tonight so nothing else to report!