HAD A REALLY FUN SAT…..

And so it was….
so much fun..I went to the Shenango River Water Trail Kickoff Event at my local home park here in PA… Riverside Park
Maggie and I went really early 6:30 am…to find a parking spot for MySweetDream…I was not sure where I would be able to park and be close enough to leave Maggie in rig. We at our breakfast there waiting for things to happen.

Carried Away Recreation…..
Let the hosts set up here at their place along the river…where the geocachers could pull in their kayaks…They rent out kayaks and other water going vessels….

Starting the set up…
Main staging area for food and talking about  kayaking experience on the Shenango River…

Everyone was shuttled….
To Pymatuning State park …to the main damn near Jamestown Pa…. about 10 mile up river….I did not go there so not pic’s of launch….
Waiting for the return down river…
After about 4 hrs. or so people started watching from the bridge waiting for the first to come back….It took a good 4-5 hrs.…being they and to stop and sign log for about 50 or so caches…

This is getting pretty long so…The Rest of the Story …next time
Thanks for looking and come back soon
blessings G&M

BOID’S….& STUFF

Misplaced bird house…
Back in the day (90)’s I use to make these bird houses and attach them to a garden shovel,decorate and sell them for yard and garden…when I stopped making them, I was cleaning out my van one day and put this last one here for a temp spot until later. Well later never happened and the next spring I noticed a pair of chickadee’s and house sparrows were fighting over it…The chickadee’s won and for many years it was their nesting spot…but this year I noticed that the sparrow’s had taken over…When Liz was here she was able to get this pic of feeding time….

What was unique about this pic ….we found out when enlarged …was the comical way mama was feeding the baby…guess you could call it “spread eagle” ….pic below shows it all….we were sitting in her car on the street when she got the pic…

In all the years I would see the Mama’s & Papa’s bringing bugs and what ever to the babies…I never seen one…well as it happened to be this year…backing in my RV..put it in a perfect spot to watch feeding time and low and behold I got this pic of a baby…not sure if there was another on in there or not…it was not easy with my slow camera to get him before he ducked back in after getting his meal.

And then there is this guy….
I took this pic at the home park in FL…been meaning to post and ask what it was….I had to crop the pic to get a close up…Judy could you enlighten me on the kinda cute guy…not sure if cute is the right word lol...a face only a mama could love...

And the rest of the story….
Sitting here now waiting for my second meeting with the real estate peeps…should know more today…real estate sales are still stale here in this town…so who know how long this will take…but it is down to the nitty gritty now and I have to get rid of the rest of my belongings…I have not got much done…tail bone, life crap stuff like that…sometimes the life things happen that just suck the peace and joy right out of you…and in my observation of the senior years those are two things that you can’t afford to lose…it seems like you don’t bounce back like you once did… going this afternoon to get some Maggie food…at pet store about 15 mile away…stop and get some Grammy food supplies…that is if the wind dies down a little…
All for now thanks for looking and come back soon…blessings G&M

RANDOM THINGS…

A few random things and pic’s…
Kids Mills covered bridge that Liz and I went to check out while she was here…..

A view of the new bridge from inside the old covered bridge….

Some roses in front of my porch…they should be better than this but they are shaded so might move them….

A pic of me and my son’s middle child…my third grandson…I went to his graduation from high school last week…very proud of Dylan….

And the rest of the story….
So …we are here in northwest PA…and now I remember why I don’t like this part of the country…cool , gray, rainy and nasty…I need sunshine that’s for sure…we might get some on Fri. and Sat….but that could change….I have a real estate agent coming tomorrow…hope to find out info on how much I need to do to get this place on the market…I am thinking some of my ideas are way to much in $$$ to make it worth any more…so will find out ….I do have to get the cosmetic things done for sure…tail bone is still giving me fits…so its slow going…I am not sure how much I can talk about my family on my blog…I know when I started it they didn’t want to much said and no pic’s…I know that most of the blogs I read they talk and show lot of pic’s of family…I have some pic’s I have taken around the yard…some bird pic’s….so think that will be my next blog …since I am not traveling right now…how I wish…oh well…that’s it for now thanks for looking and come back soon
blessings G&M

SHENANGO MINI MINI GTG….

My spot at the Shenango cg….
I know it has been awhile…but been busy and to tired at night to blog…have to figure out a way to have fun, blog and not be tired…This is my site at the gtg I had with Liz…She stopped over here a few days on her way to Good Sam Rally…in NY…glad to have RV visitors… It was on the cool side so I did not but out my outside room…so will just share this photo of the site…Liz and I shared that beautiful white Dogwood tree

Some sights, sites, around the cg…
At this no hook up site…was a tree carve from an old tree stump over looking this part of the lake… they also had a few loose stumps to use as stool seats…around the site…

A nice back in site with a view of the lake.. nice and flat…

Looking down one of the empty loops…it is a tad early and cool for this COE campground to be filled up…but in the summer it is filled most of the time…but some sites for passing thru RV’ers…The sites on the left would be lake side sites…

Here are a few neighbors we saw …and this boat was docked right behind the camp site…lot of the sites you could do this…

This was looking up our loop…you can see just the tip of Liz.s car and the cab of my rig..it was a little on the foggy side the morning I took this…

I have more but will wait for next post..this is getting long enough…check out Liz’s blog for the the things we saw around the area…like I said there is not much to see and do here in this part of northwest PA…until next time thanks for looking and come back soon
blessings G&M
Liz's blog http://wheres-liz-2013.blogspot.com/2013/06/shenango-lake-pa.html?spref=fb

RV WASH & HORSE AND BUGGY…..

Love my old faithful ladder…
I have had this ladder for over 30 years…it is a RD Werner ladder…I live about 3 mile from their old plant where they made them…got it at a bargain price…take note that it is a step ladder that turns into a 12ft. extension ladder…this would be a great ladder to take in the RV..but it is heavy and awkward for me to use…will see…

RV..horse and buggy….
now that is quite a combo…different mods of transportation as you can get…the last I did any washing of the RV I only got 1/2 of the front done…so today I  finished of that and did the whole drivers side…going to take a trip to WM later then will pull it up so I can was the other side….

In the pic above…this is a site you see all the time around my house…we live in an area of many small Amish communities…they even have a horse barn at WM where they can hitch up the horse and buggy and shop…this guy and his horse were passing by while I was washing the RV….I took care of many Amish ladies coming to the hospital to have babies when I worked in the OB Dept. There were a couple mid wives around in those days but most came to the hospital…You can drive on any back road around here and see Amish houses….guess that’s all for now thanks for looking and come back soon…Blessings G&M

PS..for any that are interested…about cutting the memory foam…I used a electric knife to cut mine for the bed in the van…worked great like cutting butter…

MY RODDY BUSH IS DYING…??

Not sure what is going on….

When I came home last week I noticed that my  rhododendron bush was not looking up to par…this is a front view of it….all looks well from here…just starting to bloom…

But looking at the side view from the porch it is not well at all…the middle did not bloom and the leaves are yellow and dying off…it is that way the whole way thru the middle of the bush…pic below…

Close up of the leaves in pic below… they are small and yellow…and you can look right thru the bush…it has always been full and thick…could not even see into it at all…let alone thru it…..It is a very old bush…well over 50 years…it would be larger but I do keep it trimmed back or it would be clear out on the street and over my house…

The city has been…..

running new water lines on the east side and while I was gone the did that on my street..and right in front of the roddy they dug up my side walk…I was wondering they hit a root or two and damage it….hmmmmm….not happy at all about this ….this bush is really great and blooms all over every year,..lot of peeps come by each year to look ….

And here is the rest of the story…

Again my work schedule has been held back…while pumping gas yesterday I tried to step over the hose …lost my balance and fell…my hip and tail bone hit the cement plat form the gas pump sits on and ….OUCH!!!!!  been lying around with ice yesterday and today…no pic of that fun time…wanted to mention a tip about the memory foam…I used an electric knife to cut it when I needed for my bed in the van…it was a fish filet knife …only because that is what I had…it works great like cutting butter…so that’s it for now thanks for looking and come back soon …blessings G&M

NOT MUCH GOING ON THIS HOLIDAY..

Had this post yesterday….
Had it almost done and puff…it went…grrrr....was in no mood to do it again ...so had to wait until today….I did go to my sisters had made the rhubarb pie..and the Hawaiian sandwiches…ham, cheese, mustard sauce, Hawaiian rolls , and bake…they are addictive…had them last week and DD house….

Lets play…..
Maggie a couple years ago …wanting to play..I think Maggie is really glad to be here…she is zooming all over the place running around grabbing toys…most of the time when  she is not sleeping…sometimes just running from room to room for no apparent reason except for the joy of it….

Look who is causing the most fuss…..
That would be the Papillon Princes…at my DDs bay window..one day we went out and came home looking at this from the drive way…DDs dog Joey…


DD’s and SIL... TravelTrailer….
We have stayed in their TT a couple times while visiting them…no more…have our own….

And the rest of the story…..
You can tell that not much is going on around here in the cold weather by the old pic’s in the post…hope the last of that will be over with today…I did get a little heater from my sis…and it worked great in the bedroom…at least I could sleep…Found a leak in my kitchen faucet this morning…I think it has been a slow leak for some time…by the mess I found…now have the fan blowing under the sink to dry up the flooring…It was warmer in the RV than in the house so we spent time out there last evening watching TV…can get 9 stations with out even putting up my antenna…ate breakfast out there and watched the news this AM…have not seen a lot of news in the past 4 weeks..and I use to be a news junkie…looks like that habit is broken…hope use sis’s car today and look for a hubcap and some local junk yards…and go sign up for a couple days camping and Shenango Damn… it is less than 10 miles from my house...hope to meet up with Liz ….from Women RV forum and camp out for a couple days.…so that’s it for now….thanks for looking and come back soon. blessings G&M