Dear friends, Our dream of moving back home is beginning to become more than a dream. The negotiations for the sale are over and agreed to by both parties, so now it is time to get everything in motion. The feeling of coming home is the ultimate joy for my mind and heart. Jack wants […]
Dear Folks, I have begun re-packing kitchen items and winter clothes and other non-essentials to make the trip back to Wellington. Every trip we make back we take stuff. We have so much stuff. Big stuff, little stuff and where did all this stuff come from? I downsized our belongings when we moved to Illinois. I downsized […]
Dear Folks, As I know our time in Illinois is running down, I would like to share some of the sights we have seen and watched grow over our five years of traveling back and forth, and back and forth, and back, oh never mind, you get my drift. We can honestly say we have […]
Hello all, Since we had a beautiful weekend I found it perfect to do some touch-up painting. I repainted the kitchen door a pretty raspberry red. I then moved on to two decorative plaques that will have our house numbers tacked on them. They look so nice. Now what should I do with the front door? […]
Patricia Mycek Sumpter is a displaced Wellingtonian now living in Hoopeston, Ill., though she and her husband Jack plan to return to their hometown to retire. A 1971 graduate of Wellington High School, she worked with her father and husband at Wagner’s wild bird food plant for more than 23 years before the local plant closed and the Sumpters moved to Illinois to continue their employment.