Planning the Year

Planning the Year

You’ll see in the sidebar the big trip for this year. We will be spending the whole month of September traveling from home to Los Angeles and back. We are excited. I’ve planned the itinerary, mapped the route, and found our lodgings. Jim has even made some of the reservations. Now, if only he can get his knee surgery done in time to be recovered by then. He’s got a torn ACL and Meniscus. How soon they do the surgery depends on the doctor’s schedule. Then it will probably take six weeks to heal enough for him to drive and hike. We may need to adjust our travel plans somewhat if things don’t go well.

2013 Pearson Family Reunion
2013 Pearson Family Reunion

In the meantime, we’ll be heading back to Ohio for our annual family reunion in June. The plans are all made for that. Then there’s another trip to Ohio later this summer for the dedication of a bench honoring Jim’s Air Force unit. Those are definitely on the calendar. Plus a July trip to Holiday World for Damion and Elaina’s birthdays which should have ample photographic possibilities. At some point, I’ll be going to Charlotte as well, since my youngest grandson has expressed interest in visiting one last summer before he becomes too involved in the working world. Those are the ones that are, at least, tentatively on the schedule.

I’m thinking of asking one of my granddaughters who is going to New York with a friend to do a guest post. She plans to be a professional photographer and I’m sure she’ll get some interesting shots. We’ll also be going to festivals and other summer activities. Be sure to check in from time to time and leave some comments on the photos.

Family Reunion trip…

Family Reunion trip…

2013 Pearson Family Retunion-webWell, this post is a bit later than I had planned, but here it is! We all had a great time attending the 2013 Pearson Family Reunion in Springfield, Ohio. As you can see from this group photo we had a pretty good turn out this year and hope for an even better one next year.

We decided that it will be in Springfield, Ohio again next year, but at a new location which is yet to be decided. The date has also been set so those that want to mark their calendars the next reunion will be on June 22, 2014 beginning at 1pm.

Xavier, Damion and Elaina
Xavier, Damion and Elaina

It was great to visit with cousins and Aunt Jean to catch up on a lot of what everyone has been up to since we last got together! Everyone got to meet their newest cousins from Kentucky, Xavier, Elaina and Damion! Hope more of the family can make it next year as we all had a great time and plan for an even better time next year.

Off to the Pearson Family Reunion…

Off to the Pearson Family Reunion…

Moses and Marie Pearson at the farm on Satler Rd.
Moses and Marie Pearson at the farm on Satler Rd.

Well this morning April, myself, David, our brother, Chrystal, Aprils daughter, and three of my great-great kids, Elaina, Damion and Xaiver are off on a long weekend roadtrip to our annual family reunion. This year it’s at Springfield, Ohio which is centrally located for most of the family that lives in Ohio.

Family reunions are always a great way to catchup with what’s going on in everyone’s life and I always look forward to them. Hopefully this year we’ll have a good turnout from my grandfather Moses and grandmother Marie Pearson’s descendents. They had 15 kids, our dad, John Alexander Pearson being one of them.

Of course we’re also looking forward to visiting two different Renaissance Festivals that will be happening this weekend close to Springfield. One at George Rogers Clark park that is during the Colonial Times and the other being at Harveysburg, Ohio. Should be a fun weekend and we’ll post some pictures and updates as the weekend progresses!

2013 Pennington Folk Festival

2013 Pennington Folk Festival

Anyone that knows Kentucky music or thumbpicking has heard of Eddie Pennington. This past weekend they had their annual festival in Princeton, Ky where Eddie lives and I took a short road trip, about 30 miles, on Saturday to hear Eddie and his family play. Of course I wasn’t disappointed as I’ve been a fan of him and his music ever since I attended my first concert in the woods at his farm. We at the paper have done several stories on him and so we’ve know each other probably almost as long as the 17 years I’ve been working for The Messenger Newspaper in Madisonville, Ky.

Anyway, I made my way there yesterday afternoon and shot several video clips with my Nikon D800 that I’ve strung together into a 30 min video that I’ve posted below that I thought our viewers would enjoy.