September 13,2008

Today we visited with Ernie and Bernice Maples. Ernie and I worked together for Sears. They have a beautiful home on a nice little farm north of Lexington. Ernie keeps busy with a wonderful garden, fruit trees and ten acres of grass to mow. Bernice stills works for one of the horse farms nearby. Both are in good health and enjoy keeping active.

We had the opportunity to visit with their sons, Todd and Eric also. Both remodel and refurbish homes, barns and various buildings in the surrounding area.

Eric is on the left and Todd is on the right.

It was fun talking of the good old days when Ernie raised tobacco. He would let me help strip and put it in hands for market. Ernie still has his tobacco base but no longer grows any. We had a great afternoon and evening. Ernie and Bernice still believe strongly in sharing so when we left we had fresh picked pears, peaches and tomatoes.