2ND DAY -

My site at….
at Wickham Campground was in the over flow area this time….I had to pull in the front way instead of backing in….I think most hook ups are on the driver side of the RV…why a lot of campgrounds put their hook ups on the opposite side for convince is beyond me….

I did like the view out the door at this site…had sun all day tho…if I could have backed in would have shade all day…

Wed. night we had a small pot luck…MM, Sarah and me…the food was delish…just enough for the 3 of us…I made Hawaiian ham and cheese sliders. Sarah made cuke and tomatoe salad and MM made artichoke, olive and pepper salad…and a little fruit…

Sarah enjoying the evening before the rain..

Sarah enjoying the rain…..

And the rest of the story….
We had a very nice day today…took a couple walks …had some visiting time and just took it easy….after the rain started about 6 (we had our pot luck at 5) we all broke up for the rest of the night…Today no rain so far but gray, damp and cool morning…I will pack it up and go back to dads…get ready to leave for ST. Cloud on Friday to the L&S resort… (Linda and Sandy’s place) We are going to do a few fun things over there…no rain and slow warm up will be 80 by Sun. Better get going have a lot to do..so thanks for looking and come back soon
blessings to all G&M

3 DAY GET AWAY…

On the first….
Morning walk a foggy sunrise over one of the ponds…it was more colorful than my camera is showing in the pix below…

Got this pix of the foggy spider webs that dotted the walk way…at times like this wish I had a better camera…I was able to take it on an angle and get it…

And on our….
walk last evening, Sarah, MM, and me…plus the doggies…we saw this pair of Sandhill Cranes….putting on what I think might be a mating dance…it was really fun to watch…she did not seam to impressed at this point…

Here is Sarah and I…lounging at MM site…she doesn’t want her pix taken so you wont see her…

And the rest of the story…
The weather has been great this first day…but this afternoon it might fall apart…rain on the way ..suppose to last until late tomorrow and I will be leaving by then…will take a break and referbish the rig with food and clothing and then head over to the L&S Resort…(Linda/Sandy…for a few days…Sarah is headed there also…so will have a lot to talk about then…later I will post about my site with pic here…going to have a pot luck here at my site for diner..so will have more pix…all for now thanks for looking and come back soon…
blessings  G&M
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WHAT’S UP …. OR….”SUP”…

I like the words…

what ‘s up as apposed to the other…guess that means I am an old lady…I went over to Wickham campground on Thurs. and scored a site two down form MM…in pix below I am sitting at her site waiting for the guy to leave mine…check out is at noon and he waited until then to leave…

I like to wait until check out also…get the most for my $$$ esp. when camping with friends…My over night spot in pic below…did not even put out the awing for such a short time

My neighbor had her rig angled so her patio was right in front of my door…if I was going to stay for a few days …I would have angled my rig so the door was pointing to the back…Like it the pic below…nice view in the back…

Here is….

Sarah …took the pix while we were chatting with MM at her site…no pix of her…she does not want it taken…

So I took a pic of her new port hole ..a decal on her rig…I want to put some “hippy flowers” on the sides of my rig….think that might be my next project…

We didn’t have any pot luck …such a short time for me…today Sat. Linda and Sandy are stopping by for a visit…so think I will be going over later…the place is full according to the rangers …so guess I will wait until Monday and see if I can get something for a couple nites ….we are to have on and off rain the next 4 days….but I don’t hold much stock in that around here…most often it is north of us…any way it is never a wash out for a whole day…I have not been posting much because of the pain in my shoulder and arm it is slowly getting better… leg pain is getting better …as long as I don’t sit to long.. but I still need to find a Doc…I called a couple and they are not taking any new patients…I got a list from a group and most of them are from India ..very hard for me to understand with the hearing problem I have….and the American docs on that list take cash only…geezzz…what’s with that…so I am still looking…anyway this is it for now thanks for looking and come back soon…

blessings to all G&M

RV STORAGE MODS….

I was reading….
Barbara’s blog the other day and she had added some of these storage drawers to her RV…So I thought I might show you some photo’s of the ones I have and use…the one below is in the bedroom and I use it for undies,rolled up T-shirts, etc….this is a five drawer one with wheels….but they are not on at this time

The one below is a three drawer wheeled.. and holds my jewelry making stuff…it rides here bunged to the oven while traveling…then is moved to beside the dinette seat when the slide is out….

And this small three drawer unit sits on the bench beside me….this seat is mine and the other one is Maggie’s seat …and she really does not like others sitting in it…lol… this one I keep desk stuff in the top drawer and crafty stuff in the other two…about these drawers…how I came about getting them…I was wanting them for my art/craft room …and every time I went to a yard sale I would run into one…for $2 or less..and they all were in great shape…I brought them home scrubbed and hosed them off and they were ready to go…I got a total of 9 of them that year…I could not believe how many I was able to score….and now I hardly ever see them..let alone so cheap….

And on another mod note…
Here is another thing I made the other day…when I was a young girl…long time ago…I was in the Girl Scouts..a Brownie…I remember making something called a sit-apon not sure of spelling all these years later…anyway while camping and visiting at campgrounds I often find the picnic table seats wet…so I had this felt backed table cloth…and thought it would make a perfect sit-a-poon…so I made a couple also using white duct tape..they work great…I have more table cloth left so will make more….I folded the table cloth so they are double sided ..

The rest of today’s story…
Today Sunday…decided to say at the house today and get more things done…did 5 loads of laundry and cleaned up some yesterday..put roast in crock pot…and trimmed up a hedge along the side yard this morning …think I will play with some crafty stuff the rest of the day… so no more work …talked to my sister and she had some bad luck when she got home…she fell and pulled tendon in here knee and broke her shoulder…she doesn’t have to go the surg. routine just let everything heal on its own…if knee bothers her to much down the road…she might have surg. on it then…sending prayers her way…we have had some cool nights here but beautiful sunny warm days…the best weather ever…well all for now thanks for looking and come back soon…
blessings to all G&M

ALONG THE TRAIL….

On one of the two…
nice days we had at Hillsborough GTG…Soos and I went on a hike on one of the cool trails there…

At some points along the trail they had board walks over the more swampy areas….

After reading great blogs like Liz’s with all the wonderful photos …I have been trying to look at things like nature with a different eye…loved the moss and roots of this tree…

So while walking this trail with Soos I tried to capture some of the things I saw…look at the tiny ferns growing on this mossy tree….

And seen this downed mossy tree with green moss and a large fungi growing there…it truly was beautiful …but with my cheap-o camera I can not get the true beauty of it….this pix seems a little blurry..bummer…

And on another downed log…I found this orange/pumpkin colored moss…or is it called algae ….

And found this really neat Keebler tree…( a Keebler tree is an old interesting tree with nooks and crannies where elves live…

I really liked these exposed roots along the river…

Anyway I am trying to look at things in a new light…a new way of looking at life…took my sis to the airport yesterday..sad to see her leave….also got my jury duty deferred until I can see a doctor and get excuse…there is no way I can sit for more than 20 or 30 min at a time…need some other medical stuff done so guess it is time to find a doc…also going to change my eating habits…maybe if I announce it here I can do a better job than what I have been doing…I really would love to go Vegan…have been researching about better nutrition and eating healthy…I feel at my age I need to do this…get Cholesterol, HDL and LDL where they should be…Got my hair cut…thought I could go with long hair…NOT…made me look l like an old hag…so off it came….A little front coming thru thus AM and then back to some sun shine….may take the RV and go over to Wickham …that is when the laundry is all done…thanks for looking and come back soon
blessings to all G&M

SOME CLEANING….

I did some cleaning the other…

day…I could not put off any longer…have not cleaned the outside of my rig since I left PA…did it just before…the awnings were both a moldy mess..so got the ladders out and went to work…

I could not figure out what to use on them…so ended up using Clorox Clean Up….and it worked great…forgot before pix but you can see in this pix how clean it got…I am happy with it…

Next I moved on to the tires…ever since I lost the two back hubcaps I have been fussing over the mess the wheels looked with out them…and right now to get the right ones from Chevy …well it is not in my budget…so found my self some degreaser and went to work on them…here is a almost before pix…I just started on the second one when I realized no before pix was taken…but this can show how black and greasy they were…

And when I got finished with it…I was very pleased with the results of this project also…as you can see in the after pix below….

Take a look at this moldy mess also…ugly..before pix…

This was a problem getting clean…I finally used the Clorox on it also…but had to be very careful about not getting it on the body of the rig..not wanting to remove any more of the wax finish on it…so that work to a point…but would not take it all off…so got the idea from my sister to use MrClean Magic Eraser…that worked but a whole lot of hard labor..so will work on that part little bit at a time…I was also wondering if that strip could be replaced…

looks pretty good all cleaned up

So got it all spiffed up just so it can rain on it! But it needed it…Today my sis is leaving for parts north…looks like weather will hold until she gets there…then Sat. another snow storm is headed her way…I will be spending more time at Wickham Park with Sarah and MM and who ever else stops by…it has been a whirl wind 3 weeks with my sister here…I need a rest LoL..So this is it for now..thanks for looking and come back soon

blessings to all G&M

THE LAST OF HILSSBOROUGH….?

I think this will…..

pretty much sum up my trip to the GTG..this was the first day (pix below) left to right my sis Nancy..Cathy (Barbie’s friend) and Barbie..they were there only for an afternoon…it was nice meeting them…esp. Barbie ..one more forum member to check of my list…!! Hope she will be able to join in some GTG’s soon…

And this was….

Mine and Nancy’s last pot luck…we all went to Sarah’s site…right to left Carol, Sarah, siting Nan, and Sandy…you notice that Nan is not eating…some girls went to the wine tasting again then to Fred’s buffet …so they were shall we say stuffed…

More at Sarah’s from the back this time….lol..

There might be some more pix on my camera but I have not check them yet….so a few more might show up….I am so far behind on my blog its not funny…so much going on with my sister visiting and everything else…I am to tired at night to post and to busy during the day to post…not sure how I will get caught up but I will soon…I am sure it will not be in right order of what and when…I did go to the court house and will not have jury duty for awhile..so that is off my back for a few months so this is it for now be back soon …thanks for looking and come back soon..blessings to all G&M