6 October 2013: Sunday, John Webers visits, Nick & Granny on way to Delaware ...

http://www.auburnheights.org/
Auburn Heights Mansion or Marshall Steam Museum is where Goose and I went, thanks to the largesse of volunteer ticket taker, one Kathy (Webers) Beck. What a terrific find. Had no idea that such a wondrous place existed of a fabled mansion and all those steam cars, one of the largest collections in the world, and we got to mean the only son, 89 years young, who still works on the place 3-4 hours a day with the engines and who greeted us, unaffectedly and charmingly, on the 2nd floor of his boyhood home, where he grew up playing with 3 cousins, same age, who were like his siblings. 

Mom gets a rehearsed kiss from Goose (aka, John Webers) after I missed

the initial smooch. 

Gooser dropped by to see his favorite older couple, my parents

during a visit to Delaware to see his sister and his father, who is

in a care home and does not recognize him. 

Goose posing with his favorite older couple, my mother and father, in the former's bedroom on the day of his visit, Sunday, October 6, 2013. He is visiting his sister and also his father, who is in a care facility and does not recognize him, although he does know Kathy, who sees him far more often and can get him to shower, which he hates, before going to Mass on Saturday evening.

This is the photo blog for one John de Gooser Webers with this pic from Steamin' Days at the Marshall Museum and Auburn Heights Preserve for the largest collection of Stanley Steamer automobiles and of course, this miniature train:

While Goose and I were at the Mansion in Auburn Heights, Nick was driving Granny north to Delaware to be with her daughter Jan (she will stay at John's place, the old childhood home of the Thisell's when they moved to Newark 50 some odd years ago), and they arrived when I called Mom and she said they were pulling up to the house as we spoke. What timing! It was about 8 p.m. and the traffic jams in Richmond and D.C. really slowed them down, but they got here, safe and sound and I grabbed this photo, a true grabber of the initial hug of Mom to grandson: