Wow.

Conner and I arrived at Church early because we had to take Michaela to her 9:30 Sunday School meeting. Church would not begin until 10:30. I said Conner, let's just go outside and walk around for a while. It's a beautiful day. So, we took a stroll. Through the gravel parking lot and alongside the treeline we walked and looked at trees and dirt and talked and then we walked around the graveyard a little bit.

As we walk along Conner picks up some silk flowers that have scattered about and returns them to their rightful place. We see gravestones with dates on them from the 18oo's. Some of the gravestones are so small and old you can no longer read the dates. We see family names like Jennings and Cammack on several headstones. I notice one in particular, Jesse Jennings, she was buried next to her husband and I considered their life together and what it may have been like. Conner and I continued our morning stroll around the church grounds. So, now we've made a big circle and we are back to the old meeting house and everyone is arriving for the Sunday morning meeting. It was wonderful and beautiful and very moving. After church everyone is heading out to Syracuse to drop all the kids off at camp for a week. So, Conner and I saw them off and headed to the Kia. We had to stop off at WIll and Casey's house to drop off an end table that Tim and Heather had given them but wouldn't fit in their trunk. They live in Noblesville so we dropped off the table and then we decided we were hungry and we headed to McDonalds.

We drive by McDonald's and it is far too crowded so Conner suggests Jim Dandy's it's just down the road and it's that one place where daddy played guitar and got a free breakfast. I said, "sure thing, let's do it." We walk in the front doors and I tell Conner we can sit at the bar or in a booth. He chooses the bar. The bar seats eight people and it's horse shoe shaped. We sit down and there is a couple to our left and a man on our right and they are chatting with one another. I say Conner, what will you order? He say's He want's the #5. The couple on our left is an older couple and they are dressed nicely and the woman say's. I couldn't help over hear that your name is Conner and I wondered if you knew that this is Conner street. And he says oh yes, He knows and we talk about William Conner and Conner William and she says that maybe one day our Conner will too be a famous man from Hamilton County. I said, yes. Yes, in deed. I tell her that we are having breakfast together because Conner's sister left for camp this morning and we thought it would be nice to have a meal together. She asks where did she go to camp and I say Syracuse, Indiana at Quaker Haven Camp. She says to me, Oh! My family, for the last three generations attended Hinkle creek Friends Church here in Noblesville. We live in Fishers or we would attend there as well. It's a lovely place and much of my family is buried there. I said, "what is your family name?'" She say's "Jennings." I say, "Why,that's incredible, Conner and I walked those grounds just this very morning before church." I then ask her. "What was your grandmother or Great Grandmother's name? She say's well, my great Grandmothers name was Jesse Jennings.