Celebrating Carmen's Birthday in Indiana

Bill and Cheryl invited us to the farm to have a hot dog roast on Friday night before the football game and then have a hayride on Saturday night and then have a family pork chop BBQ on Sunday afternoon after Dustin and Heather's first child Charlie was dedicated at Nappanee Missionary Church.

Those plans were adjusted by a Tornado, so we had a lot of extra time on Saturday.

I replaced a hard drive that was damaged due to the power outage and the phases of power restoration on a farm and Carmen washed Ben's steer.

Becca played with the goat.

When Jackie was Becca's age and Carmen's age, she cleaned the pig stalls in the pig barn that stood on the concrete foundation that now serves as a parking area in the background of Carmen's picture.

By Sunday afternoon, the tornado cleanup in Nappanee was well underway and four generations of the Mattern and Etsinger families plus three generations of Eby and McMillan families gathered in New Paris to consume a good portion of 55 pork chops cooked on the half barrels that crashed the hard drive on Saturday. (long story, involves a PTO generator and a welder)