I have decided to be a bit more daring this year and have joined two KAL for toys on Ravelry and have also joined the Christmas Ornament Swap sponsored by Natural-Suburbia blog.  She gave me a photo for the "sidebar on my blog" but I don't know how to do that yet, so I'll put a copy here for now.

Delia arrived in West Chester, PA 9/15 on the exact day the Post Office said she would.
“Hello, would you like to get out of that box?”

Delia reached up, and Tisk lay down and they locked arms. Gus held onto Tisk’s legs very tight and pulled, but that didn’t work.

Finally, Gus decided that it might just be best if he pushed the box over on it’s side. Once the tumbling had stopped the girls introduced them selves and Delia showed off the things she had brought with her. Ummmm. .. lovely chocolates. Thank you, Robyn. Everyone decided to have a rest and think up some ideas for adventures overnight.

Tisk the stay at home doll goes on an adventure with Gus the Teddy.
Tisk decided to take advantage of the last dance practice of the season to go to visit Greenbank Mill in Delaware. Gus had been many times before so he acted as guide.
First they sat on the old mill stone displayed outside the door of the mill. It was a beautiful sunny day.

Gus took Tisk to look down into where the mill race water used to be. He expained that the last really big rain storm had broken the damn upstream and the mill has no water right now. The Army Corps of Engineers controls what folks can build or repair on the Red Clay Creek and the Historical Society and they are still negotiating what they are permitted to do these days. Very long meetings and lots of dollars needed. As you can see, Gus can be very long winded but Tisk likes to listen.

Then Gus sent Tisk on a guided tour while he spent some time studying the engineering of the big mill wheel. He remembers when there were turtles in the mill race, and geese and lots of time spent watching the mill wheel turn.


Then they walked over the steel bridge and across the road to visit the Willmington & Western Railroad http://www.wwrr.com historic railroad. The conductor was very nice and took Tisk and Gus to have their picture taken by the excursion train that was getting ready to go out. Later we took some pictures of the train as it passed the mill.


Then Tisk and Gus went back inside the mill building to watch the dancers practice. That’s our handsome Mister in the middle there, dancing with the lady in the colorful pants. heheheh they call her Patches! Tisk decided she was not ready to dance just yet but she might like a pair of those pants !!

Later in the evening, we went to the Brandywine Creek State Park where some folks were having a Revolutionary War Reenactment. Our Mister George was going to call a dance for the participants. Tisk got her picture taken with our hostess Lynn King and two of the younger park rangers but the dance didn’t start till sunset and we couldn’t get any pictures. They didn’t have any event T-shirts in Tisk’s size.

It was a lovely day. Tisk is looking forward to taking visitors to other dance events during the year to come.