10/12/18 -  On 10/6, Daniel, Mary Ann and I left for Sugarcreek, Ohio to visit their son Raphael and his family.  We had a nice trip and met Raphael and his family and Lemuel (Daniel's son) and his family at a restaurant for dinner.  We had a good evening.

10/7, Daniel, Raphael and Lemuel left for Cincinnati, Ohio to attend a Bengals game since that was one of Daniel's Christmas presents.  They had a great time since the Bengals won the game.  In the meantime, we took the rest of the families to the park so the children could play.  Regina (Raphael's wife) made a great dinner of chili, salad and bread.  The guys came home around 8:30pm and by a little after 9:00pm Lemuel and his family left for home which is in Washington, D. C.  They travel at night since they have a 10 month old little girl and she is able to sleep most of the way.  We got a text that they were home at a little after 2:00am.

10/8, Daniel and Raphael had plans to trim some trees and bushes around their back yard.  They  had a good start on the trimming when Daniel got stung by a yellow jacket.  Since he is highly allergic to any type of sting, we were looking for an epi pen but did not have one.  Regina had some benadryl  so we gave that to Daniel and then all he wanted to do was sleep which was probably good but that ended the tree trimming except Raphael decided to see if he could have the nest and destroy it.  He had to actually saw down the part of the stump and bush to get to the nest.  We then did alot of spraying so kill all of them.  We also learned that a cousin of ours had passed away and Daniel had worked with this gentleman for almost 10 years so really wanted to attend the funeral but we did not have any information.

10/9, Daniel was feeling much better and since we did not have any information regarding the funeral in Plain City, Ohio, we decided to head back to Delaware.  We did some shopping of fudge, cheese and bologna before leaving the area.  I then discovered I had left my jacket at Raphael's house and since we were driving by there on our way out, Regina met us at the car.  We were soon on the way.  I am not sure how far we got toward Pittsburgh when I got information from my facebook about the funeral.  We stopped off the side of the road, made some phone calls to Delaware to see if we could just turn around and head for Plain City.  It was soon determined that we would do that.  I then called Uncle Allen and his wife Connie to see if we could stay at their place and that we would be in town late afternoon.  We had planned to take them out for dinner but instead they already had plans for a senior citizen dinner at the church and of course we got invited.  So they had a carry in dinner and a young couple share their honeymoon vacation trip to France, Italy and Switzerland.  They did a hiking tour and it should was interesting.  Back to Uncle Allen's and off to bed.

10/10, Connie had to work so Mary Ann made a cherry delight dessert for her since she was suppose to take something for the lunch after the funeral, Daniel and I took their recycling up to the township for pick up.  We then took Uncle Allen out for lunch.  The visiting hours were from 2-4 pm and 6-8 pm and Daniel and I decided to go to both since there would be different people at the different times.  We were able to visit with a lot of relatives and friends.  Connie had made some chili so we had that for dinner.