Twig furniture and wedding cakes and Akio and a cowboy and.....

.... a long string of interesting and varied visitors today. Some folks from Ponca City OK with an enormous truckload of twig furniture which he made himself and was selling at a festival in Grove this weekend (he's going to give me a bench for Afton Station's front porch!).... a couple from Drumright OK who make wedding cakes and do wedding photography.....full-time RVers from Maryland ..... a cowboy and his wife from Westville OK ..... a family from Missouri ....a couple from Ames IA ..... a couple from Vinita OK ..... three local Afton folks who had never been in the Station before ..... a guy on a motorcycle from Columbus OH ..... and then, at the very end of the day, our Japanese friend Akio Takeuchi and his wife Yasuko. "Akkey" and Yasuko are annual travelers on Route 66, and although he speaks very little English, he has written two books, "The Tropic of Route 66" and "The Mother Road: The Native Road of America" which are popular best-seller among Route 66 fans. Read about them here: The Route 66 Pulse - Online Newspaper. It was so nice to see them, since although I've visited with them at several festivals, they've never been able to pay a visit to Afton Station. Not just a truck full of twigs. That's very nice twig furniture, and lots of it!
Here I am with Akkey and Yasoko.
They really loved the pressed penny machine!

It was a great Mother's Day. My daughter called and we had a nice long chat. She sent me a book I've been wanting to read, The Red Letter Diary: Amazon.com: The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal (P.S.): Lily Koppel: Books. Many of our visitors today were out for Mothers Day drives, and it was a pretty nice day for it. And one of the best things of all is that Ron M. is back from his travels in California and on Arizona Route 66, so it was great to have him back at the Station today!