Our Trip to Mtn. View

We have had a very busy couple of days. After church Sunday we loaded up, dropped Bailey(our Yorkie) off with my friend Kim, who saved us in a pinch, and headed out of town. Sunday was a nice day here and it made our long drive much easier. Mtn. View is a quaint little town that people like my grandparents love to visit. However a lot of it closes for the winter and the rest closes at dark or on Sundays. We got there after dark, on a Sunday night, and in the winter. So by the time we got a motel room, and changed clothes we made it to the visitation a little later than we had planned. But we did get there and I was so glad. We don't get to see them very often and it was important for Ron to see them at this time and for Mollie to get to meet some of them. We usually go on Memorial Day weekend, but we never knew who we would see. The church feed us a great lunch where we were able to visit with everyone. The pastor did a wonderful job describing Tilda and the service was perfect. The rain that started coming down during the night however complicated the graveside service, since cemetery is on top of a small beautiful mountain. The main road to it was washed out and the one we did take was wet red clay up and down in those mountains. We made it very carefully and it was very scenic. From what I could see in the rain her family had been buried there for almost 100 years. I would like to have spent more time reading the names of all of Ron's relatives that we never had a chance to know. It was 4:30 before we left and it still had not stopped raining and the temperature was dropping. As we crossed the Buffalo River it had at least doubled in size since we saw it on Sunday. We did get home about 8:15 and about five minutes from the house it started to sleet. We were very lucky! After we went to bed we got several inches of snow last night and Mollie and I are at home today as a result. Sadly it is melting as fast as it came. Ron went to work like normal today and Mollie and I will return tomorrow greatful for some extra rest.