It has raining off and on for almost
six weeks. Mostly on, and I'm fine with
it, except was hoping it would not be raining between 5:30 and 7:30 last night.
Yesterday was quite a busy day for
members of our community. Fortunately it was a nice day. The fire trucks could be heard all day as
they offered rides to youth. At least
that’s what I heard. After we returned
home from the breakfast, we pretty much stayed put until about 5:30 and then
headed toward downtown Myrtle Creek.
The community puts on a light parade
the 2nd Saturday of each December; they’ve been doing it for over 35
years now. The parade starts in Riddle
and goes up to Old Pacific Highway up to Riverside, down Neal, Division and end
at Main Street - - or so I thought.
Last year we had watched it from the
corner of Neal Lane and Riverside – though I had planned on standing on Neal
across from Jenny – where Jaime caught the bus.
But Roland had met a group that said we could come join them. It was cold last year, and raining. Sometime later that night, the rain turned
into snow. We haven’t had snow this year
like we did last year.
This year we live within walking
distance of Old Pacific Highway, and thought we could just go down there to see
the parade about 6:00 or so. But the brethren
that was just put in as new counselor in the bishopric invited all the members
to come to his state farm office on Main Street to see the parade. I was surprised by the amount of people that
had driven up from Riddle where the parade started. In fact, I think the
majority of people that were there had driven much of the same distance as the
parade itself. There were at least two
families there that had moved to Myrtle Creek since last December and had never
seen the parade before.
I must say that it had been a great day
starting out the breakfast with so many awesome ward family members and ending
the day visiting with many of those same family friends. And I will see them again today.
I wish my family were here to
experience this same joy.
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