Delco Park

Walking my dog is a daily event. There are times when walking around the neighborhood gets old so recently I've been changing up our routine.

On a gorgeous, sunny September afternoon, Hunter and I took off for Delco Park. Just briefly, Delco holds a big place in the city of Kettering's history: Charles F. Kettering was one of the founders of Delco, which stood for Dayton Engineering Laboratories Co. The company was sold to United Motors Corp in 1916 and eventually sold, under the new name of Delco Light, to General Motors in 1918 after United Motors Corp. and Chevrolet Motor Co. merged into General Motors. In 1995, Virginia Kettering convinced GM to donate the land to the city.

For Hunter, this trip to Delco was a walk in the park and for me, a walk down memory lane. Hubs and I spent quite a few years at the Delco soccer fields in the blistering heat or the freezing cold, varying degrees of rain showers/storms, and also plenty of gorgeous days cheering for our favorite soccer players! There were the early morning games when a walk across the road to Krispy Kreme for donuts and coffee was the course of action and well-timed phone calls to bring the thermos of Bloody Marys were known to happen, too. Grandparents sat on the sideline to cheer for their grandkids, family dogs came along, the siblings of the soccer players became buddies. Good times, good friends, good memories!