Steve's Visit...March 1, 2 and 3, 2019

I found it hard to believe that I didn't take one photo of Steve the entire weekend.  This is one I took at Christmas.

Our entire weekend was centered around Steve...except for the time when our new mattress arrived and was set up by the delivery men.

Before Steve arrived, Tom made a strawberry pie for the three of us for supper.  The strawberries were brought up from Florida by the Newton FFA students as a money making project.  They brought back memories of the years Tom and I had gone to Florida and watched the Strawberry Festival parade with my sister.

The next morning, Steve and I walked at Charleston Falls.  Instead to walking to the falls, we walked to Cedar Pond.  Steve told me he hadn't seen any Red-winged blackbirds yet this year and I knew we would see some at the the pond.  We heard them singing before the pond was in sight.

Back home again, I made oven beef stew while we waited for the new mattress to arrive.  It arrived about 11:30, exactly when we were told to expect it.  Because the delivery team was so prompt we were able to leave right after lunch for the expedition Tom had planned.

As you might guess, it involved Steve's favorite subject...trains.

We didn't have much luck seeing trains but we did find a diamond, an intersection of two railroad lines in a tiny town, Quincy, Ohio.  Tom drove us around in the area and he showed us an old railroad trestle which we think is still in use.

 The trestle over the road and the flood plain of the Great Miami River.

A view of the trestle crossing the Great Miami River

The supports of the bridge which raise the trestle above the floodplain.

As we headed back toward home, Tom stopped in Sidney so Steve could see the railroad viaduct.  Steve said  his dad had taken him to see it one time.

We were close to the viaduct in time to see the rear end of a train.  Steve was disappointed that he didn't see the engine.

The next morning I fried French Toast and for dessert! we had strawberry shortcake.  Tom made the shortcake biscuit from his mother's recipe.

Then our friend, Pat, Steve, Tom and I drove down to Cheviot to see The Drama Workshop's production of  Love, Loss and What I Wore.

It was different from most plays.  Five actresses presented 28 brief sketches centered around the title's theme.  Each scene required the actresses to transform to different characters so they had a continuing challenge.  Among the scenes were those centering on prom gowns, the little black dress, shoes, nothing to wear.  It wasn't a play especially interesting to Steve but he got to see his theater friends.

The weather on the trip down was windy and snowy.  When we left the theater there was snow cover and snow continuing to fall.  Because we had an hour and a half drive north, we didn't take Steve to supper as we usually do.  We dropped him off at his apartment, stopped at the McDonald's Drive Through for sandwiches and headed toward home.  Snow and poor visibility plagued us but we made it safely back.