Ohio!

OK, so I decided to drive the 30 hours to Ohio, yet again.  My daughter had some items she wanted from her condo, in Ohio, I wanted to bring my bike and golf clubs and other things so.....  The morning drive is tough with a rising sun in my eyes but it doesn't last long and eventually....

....I am in Ohio and in my beloved woods to continue to cut down more dead ash trees.  I have no idea how many I have cut in the last few years but has to be around 100.

It's a dirty job.  On this day, the temp was around 80 with high humidity but wearing shorts is a problem as the chips gather in my boots.

Then I checked out my grandson, Anthony at soccer practice.  The kid has a real motor and a fast runner.

Back to the woods where I usually have to hack a path through the thicket to reach a dead tree.

A front will move through this evening so thinking the remaining leaves would be removed from both the live and dead ash trees, I walked around and painted the "for sure" dead ones.

A visit to my daughter's house to play with Anthony.  Thinking he had already had lunch, we grabbed a couple of popsicles.  He revealed he had not yet had lunch and then begged me not to tell his mom.  I'm probably a bad influence on him as I agreed and told him we left the wrappers in the garage so he ought to remove the evidence.  Above he comes running back, having hidden the wrappers.

There is a ravine running behind their house so I took him there to teach him some bouldering skills.  Then....

....we dug a deep hole.  He's a fun kid for sure.

I drove to Zanesville to visit my 101 year old mother, who continues to live an independent life.  I passed the Longaberger Basket which used to be the corporate headquarters for the company by the same name.

Then another grandson visit where we competed in free throw shooting.  He wins because he demands he take far more shots than I. But it was a close match, lol.