A NITE OUT ..YARD SALE… A FLOOD….

A nite out with…..

these great bunch of girls…these are a few of the women I use to work with at the hospital..worked there for 25 yrs…I seen one of them at WM and she said there was a GTG at local restaurant at 6 come on down…I had so much fun…but then we always had fun times….we all worked on OB…thanks for the fun at dinner girls…!!!

The OB girls…

And of course had to get a food pic..below is my order…had enough to take home for the next day…

And another flood….

This is the third flood we have had this summer at least since I have been back.. 4 in this time..they could have had more before I got here…this pic below was a river running down my side and back yard…it looks like it just lying there but it was a raging river…my shovel sitting there I was trying to dig out my dead butterfly bushes..but I will have to ask son to do it…I could not do it…

River in the back yard…

After the dinner with the girls I took a ride around the park where the Shenango river flows…and it was over the banks…it looked like earlier in the afternoon the whole park was flooded…but it had receded some what by the time I got there…the pic below..the river is really behind that tree that is leaning way over all most falling down…the rest of water in fore ground is over flow…

River over the banks….

Below more of the river over flowing…the river is way in the back of the pic…

Below a pic of ducky’s playing around in the water….the water that they are in is not the river but more over the banks river….

A cute flock of ducky's…

And the rest of the story…

I have been very, very busy…getting the house worked on…but mostly getting the rest of stuff ready for the yard sale…I did have it this last weekend…the whole neighborhood had one and I joined …tons of peeps showed up and it was a great sale…I decided to extend it on Sunday and glad I did…got rid of everything but 5 or 6 small boxes that I will donate to the Good Shepard Center…at the last on Sunday I gave a lot away cheap to a couple flea market guys. …then I put rest out to the curb and put up a free sign and it was all gone in about 45 min. I am so excited to get this last, very last yard sale out of my hair..I really see the light at the end of the tunnel now!!!!!! I only have about 3 weeks left before heading south…but I will get it all done and get the house on the market …I really wish there would have been more time to spend with family…but btween all different work hrs. for them it was hard to GTG… still have a little time maybe we can work something out….well I still have a lot to do …so  better get at it..thanks for looking and and come back soon

Blessings to all …G&M

 

CATCHING UP….

After leaving the campground…

We went to the pet food store to get Maggie some food and stopped at Jo-Anne’s…Went in the Giant Eagle grocery store deli and picked up a couple things for lunch…and headed back to Greenville …But not before stopping at Shenango Lake again….

Parked at the lake again…

This time we parked on the other side of the causeway….we ran across this flock of geese flapping it up on the lake…I am not sure what they were doing out there maybe having a gang fight…lol

Flapping geese….

Below is a pic of the causeway ( they are repairing it)…I tried to keep the cranes and other work stuff out of the pic..That strip of land and trees underneath the bridge is the campground…

Causeway and campground ….

Below a view out the door where we ate our lunch…after eating we did a little walking around here and down by the lake….

We walked down to the boat launch … there is a fishing area there also…it is fixed so that the handicap can fish from it..

Maggie pic of the day…she likes the to sleep with her head on a small pillow…

Let me sleep please…

And the rest of the story….

Well I am down to the nitty gritty of having the last big blow out yard sale..this is it the last one…after 6 years of fixing and down sizing I see the light at the end of the tunnel..you have know idea what a relief this is…and I am sure you all are sick of hearing about it…lol…talked to son this morning and he will come and help me get the big stuff out to the yard…what else is going on…have an appointment with the dermatologist on the 21st to finish of this squamous on my arm..will be glad to have that behind me…on my down time after working on house and yard sale stuff I do some quilt block making..I will make a post on my other b log about this…well that’s it for now…thanks for looking and come back soon

blessings to all G&M

 

2nd camping day….

We spent most of the time….

doing this…if we were not exploring or walking with the fur babies…relaxing under the apple trees between our sites…with fur babies…Maggie wants her own chair after seeing Thistles chair…her rug is not good enough now!  think Harley the Bark Ranger has his own chair also…so looks like Maggie girl will be getting one…lol

On Sat. we went for a day adventure…

We started out going to the flea market at the Andover Ohio drive in theater…it is only about 20 miles from the CG…maybe less….Liz found a great like new “birdie scope” at the market…here she is below trying it out at the CG after we got back…we were looking for something to focus on that would not fly away while she figured out the settings…I spotted a water tower up by the ranger station…it looked like there was something black on top of it…so she put the scope on it and the black dot looked like a bird..so we were focusing on it for awhile and we decided it was a fake bird…looked like the shape of a hawk…maybe put there to keep out osprey or eagles from building a nest there?….she tried to take a pic thru the scope but did not work…Sorry forgot to take pic at the flea market….

Then we headed ….

Pymatuning State Park…since we were in Ohio we started on the Ohio side of the damn..it spans the two states…we just kind of rode around the water area and did not get out to explore much in Ohio…where we were was only a small part of the lake…

Pic above is the old main gate house…PA side

When we got to the PA side of the lake…we checked out a couple areas…I didn’t take pics but Liz did and maybe she will post on her b l o g about it…when we got to the  main damn area there was festival going on so we went across the damn and checked out the other side…where the damn lets out the water that feeds the Shenago river…

When we arrived …we just missed a tour of the gate house…I was sorry to miss that…I have lived here all my life and never seen the gate house open to the public…

Fisher people across from the gate house

Below is a pic of a pontoon boat from the festival give free rides…we did not go to the festival..to many people for the dogs and just as we were checking out the gate house they started shooting a canon…loud noise …the babies were afraid…so we left..it was time anyway…was a long day…

Below is the area where the water is being let out…to form the river…I guess you could call it the head waters….

And the rest of the story…

I have not been line much because it seems like I am losing a lot of my GB’s from my Verizon internet…I have gone round and round with them…to no avail…they are no help at all…and after reading a lot of on line complaints …looks like it could be faulty Jetpack..but they will not admit to that…when I get back to FL I will be looking  into finding  another provider..Getting a lot done on the house….inside…I will take a few pics and make a post soon…have a health issue…found a couple spots on my left fore arm and hand went to the dermatologist they did biopsy's …have to wait a week to find out…l really enjoyed my weekend camping trip…hope to do some more…but my time in PA is running short…over half gone already…I told the doc I had to leave by mid Sept. so need to get what ever treatment going right away…well that’s it for now thanks for looking and come back soon…blessings to all G&M

Baby Charley pic…