We were asked to assist in a very important event this summer at the N.P.A.C. Center called Learn To Laugh.  This was a gathering of many different arts putting on workshops to support performing arts in schools.   Jingle Jack made his debut!  Quite a ham!!!         We've been enjoying times with the Thomas Edison adult reading  program.  They have gotten quite creative and storyboard with us to create their own books!  Here they are acting out one of their books using the  piggly puppets.    We sure had fun at the First Assemblies of God in Lima, OH August 24.  We were blessed to help dedicate their new youth room that they added!  Here we are singing our new and original song...Bury My Bones In The Backyard!!! This was a special day. We started at the YWCA  distributing dinners for Easter.  visited on of the local nursing homes and then found ourselves eating dinner dressed as clowns at the Wilder family benefit. _______________________________      Grace went to the Master Gardener plant sale early. Then we met up at the Parks And Recreations fishing derby at the Reservoir.  Volunteered at the Manna Outreach Ministries.  . ________________________ The Peony Festival was fun.  It was windy and hot Friday night, and we had an amp blow out.  We still made it through the show!  The kids who were there seemed to have a good time.  We capped it off with a great parade entry.  The weather was much more cooperative. _______________________________ We were blessed to be invited to help with the Dupont Church of Brethren VBS.  It was doggie-diggity fun.  Here we are doing our first major performance of the Character Traits / Fruits of the Spirit.  Our friend Jerry made a great tree...future clown??? _______________________ We were blessed to have our family join us for the 4th of July parade.  It was a beautiful day, and we even won an award for our entry! ______________________

Nationwide Childrens Hospital Columbus Ohio it takes so little to bring smile We sure were blessed when we went around Christmas caroling!  We went to 3 nursing homes, the Adult Daycare and the Senior Center.  These people are just fantastic!!! Giving out holiday turkey dinners is one of our favorite outreaches.  Here we are with one of the ladies who lives at the YWCA, and we found a couple of other needy families. Times are getting tough for a lot of folks. Once again we had fun with the kids at Wesley U.M.C. at their summer outreach.  They had all kinds of games and fun stuff.  We tied some balloons and painted faces! The Chamber Of Commerce asked us to join in the fun at the City's 2nd annual Ribfest.  We brought out a new character, Milton C. (Chops) Pigglesmith.  He was protesting with a sign that said, "Eat more cow!"  Cow-a-belle did NOT agree We were invited to New Hope Church in Decatur, IN for a VBS program!  We did our skit about the Fruits of the Spirit, and boy-oh-boy was it FUN!!! _______________________ We enjoyed working with the YWCA summer program teaching creativity doing a play, singing songs and having a freestyle dance war.   ____________________________________ The Lion's Club of Lima, OH invited us to do a show for The Starlight Club.  They are a visually impaired group that the Lions are associated with.  (See our friend pictured on the HOME page.)  We then visited a foster home and entertained some of the children before visiting children in St. Rita's Hospital.  We had  our treat at the Kewpie Restaurant.  _______________________________    We had a great weekend for Mothers' Day.  Saturday  we had a tea at Wesley United Methodist Church that was barrels of fun!  After that we went to Franklin   Elementary's carnival where we ate and did some  balloon animals.  On Sunday we went to St. Mark's    Lutheran Church for another tea.  It was a lot of fun.    Everybody wore a hat, even the pastor at St. Mark's! Van Wert Manor picture day Jill joined us to visit her mother and others at the nursing home. We took pictures with them!