Went down home yesterday to Mom & Dad's house in Perryville.  It was such a warm day (close to 70), that I wanted to just drive around and see the country and take some pictures.  (Wouldn't you know it; I forgot to charge my camera, and after several pics, it went dead).  We drove Mom & Dad down to Grandpa's farm outside of Uniontown.  I haven't been down there for a year.   Everything is falling down on the farm.  Tin is missing from the roof of the house and windows have broken out. Boards are falling off the barn.  There are so many trees down from the storm earlier this year.  The chicken house is falling in, and the smoke house has completely collapsed.  It's sad to see it look that way, but since Grandpa died last year, there's no reason to try to keep it up.  I didn't even want to go inside the house.  I'm afraid of how it looks on the inside. 

Mom & Dad are going to kill me for including this pic.  I wanted them to sit on this rock in the woods pasture so I could take their picture.  I snapped this one, and then my camera battery went dead.  After making them crawl up onto that rock, I couldn't even get a decent pic.

Then we drove by our old house - the homeplace - in Uniontown.  It certainly doesn't look the way it did when Mom & Dad lived there, and the neighboring places are really grown up.  The town looks really old and depressed. 

On the way back to Perryville, we decided to drive back to Crosstown to see how they were rebuilding after the tornado.  Then we drove to Menfro (there's nothing there anymore), through Farrar, Brazeau, and back through Frohna.  We stopped by the Saxon Lutheran Memorial - that place is amazing (http://www.saxonlutheranmemorial.com/), before heading back to Perryville.  We had dinner with Mom & Dad, and then came home to St Louis.  It was a memorable day with Mom & Dad.

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