Barbara A. Parkhurst 1934-2011

2008 at their house near Olathe

Ron and Barbe in the pool for the housing complex

Barbe making sure that Deane serves the meat correctly at gourmet dinner.

At a gourmet dinner at the lake in 2007.  This is the smile and relaxed look that we remember the most.

With Carol E. at Barb and Deane's 50th Wedding Celebration in Overland Park, KS in 2010.

Barbe was born Aug 22, 1934 in Chicago and died Oct 3, 2011 in Olathe, KS due to complications from reoccurring lung cancer.

We have been friends with Barbe and Deanne for 34 years and have enjoyed many, many dinners together in that time.

We will miss you Barbe but you will be in our hearts forever.

Rae and Sis

While I went to ReStore in Camdenton, Sis came down to "help" with Rae.  The little munckin really keys on the camera!!

I really like the little and big fingers shots.

Friday Night Football - Homecoming

The stands and sidelines were packed on the Eldon side so I set up my chair on the Warsaw Wildcats sidelines which was almost empty.  They did have a few in the stands on the visitor's side.

The band as it was entering the field before the game.  I liked the large flag.

Seranading the Eldon crowd.  Tried to catch the flags in motion.

Yes, I did watch the football game, which Eldon won 48 to 12 (I think).  Of course Lee didn't get to play until I left early in the fourth quarter.  I listened to the radio broadcast and he was mentioned twice as having tackled the Warsaw runner.  Way to go Lee!!  My camera is a real "dud", as at night the picture is taken about 15 seconds AFTER you push the button.  Had to anticipate the action.  Missed a really good shot right in front of me with a gang tackle headed right at me!!  Darn.

BABY TIME

We had the "difficult" task of watching baby Rae on Wednesday afternoon while mommy Erin was at a "conference".  She loves to watch things move.

And her bottle.  We thought of Sara and Max as we were putting the frozen breast milk into the freezer for future use.

Such little fingers.

I think we are happy but am not really sure!!

Yep, even old gramps got a chance to hold her.

We put a pillow under her feet so she could make the jump up work better.

After some fussing and getting tooooo tired, Ron held her snuggly to his chest and walked around the house humming a tune and she finally conked.

There may be more pictures when we get back to downloading the camera.

Eldon Turkey Festival -- Quilts

Quilts in the order she took them.  They were displayed in the community center large room.  Enjoy.

I think these must be ties??

Eldon Turkey Days -- Tractors

Carol was too late for the band (check out Kristi's blog) so she took a few photos of tractors for Max, Lucas, Ayden and Alec!!  And any one else who is young at heart.

There were red and green and blue and yellow tractors.

And a black automobile by Henry Ford.

Apple Pie Time in Missouri!!

The Nazarene church in Eldon makes and sells pies to generate funds for Missions projects.  The set up is quite efficient and requires 40-50 volunteers per session.  In the garage where the church buses and tractor are normally housed, are the tables for peeling the apples.  The gentleman in white hat takes the peels and cores and feeds his hogs.  He is turning a "peeler" and the gentleman across is cutting into pie sized pieces and checking for bad spots.

My "partner" is in the black hat.  The peeler I borrow from Jay is just visible in the bottom right corner.  Behind to left are empty boxes which hold 1 and 1/9 bushel of apples or 80-90 apples.

The lady in the kitchen with the maroon apron is the "pie chef".    She has been running the operation for several years.   She also volunteers at Eldon Food Pantry Thrift Store on Wednesdays so I sometimes work with her there, too.

From 1-5 a crew comes in and makes the crust "balls" on the round platter in foreground.  These are then rolled into the bottom crust and placed in the aluminum pie pans by several "holy rollers" including Louise in the yellow blouse on left side of table.  The whole assembly operation is set up in their activities center which also has basket ball court, etc.

The bottom crusts go to the filling area where 4 cups of apple slices are added then topped with butter, sugar, cinnamon & ??.

The filled pies are staged awaiting top crust.  The top crust crew was too small this evening, as the table is normally not this full.

The dough balls are rolled into upper crusts and placed on the filled pies.  I think they crimp and vent the pies here, too.

They then package and place into freezer or into boxes for immediate dispersal to advance sales customers who can bake them or freeze them.  The gentleman in front is taping the directions for baking onto the plastic covers (they use #1 PETE containers which are recyclable!)  In a 2 hour shift (6-8pm) they complete about 400 pies. Target total is over 3500 pies(oopss  make that 5000-5500 pies)!!   Pies sell for $7 each or 6 for $35.  They are REALLY GOOD!!

Sara and Wem, I thought of you making 400 lunches for a fund raiser at MTC.