GETTING READY….

Started today ….
Doing outside prep for winter…I will be leaving in about 3 weeks…and time goes fast so thought I better get busy…and besides my garbage pick up ends this week so needed to get it done so they will take it on Thru.Working on trimming my butterfly bushes… Got that done and lawn mowed by 11:30 when it started to pour down rain…

While it was raining…
I worked on the front porch …stacking up the couple lawn chairs  I had there and one little lawn table…after rain..took them to the shed. The one little chair left goes in the RV..and table goes in the house…so I can still sit out there until I leave...and of course Maggie girl’s leash…so she can guard her domain…


Also need …
to finish up the trimming of the rose bushes ..but cant find my gloves…might have to go buy a new pair…the roses really grew “leggy” this summer so going to cut them way back…they should be moved not enough sun by the porch…this pic was taken early in the summer…

Hope to be doing….
some of this..(pic below) soon  (camping)…like on the way back to Florida…I have things to take with me..like a couple pieces of furniture…that might make things tight in the rig…

The rest of the story…
There is more storms and rain on the way…just sitting here in the RV..trying to figure out what to do next…only 1pm and I am tired…need to go get some Maggie food..either today or tomorrow..pet store is in a town 20 min. away so need to make a list of anything else I might need in that area…like getting some things at the Wal-Mart there that our WM does not have…It is nice that my sister is letting me user her van while she is recuperating from hip surg.

Maggie taking a nap…all for now thanks for looking and come back soon…blessings G&M

COUNT DOWN !

One last day for our breakfast camp. At Wickham Park, took one last pic of van. I really thought I wanted this van to camp and travel in. But it was not to long (a couple nights sleeping in it on the way down to FL ) I knew it was not for me at this time. Too small and I really wanted some of the creature comforts that we all are use to. Maybe if it were a class b with a floor plan and the comforts I would be ok with it …not sure B’s are small.  Maggie wanting out lol. I like this van…but sure I will like class C even better.
While we were at the park, ground keepers  was putting up the lighted Christmas decorations. They have a lighted drive thru at Christmas in the park. Really nice.
And what would a lighted Florida park be with out a few flamingos. I love flamingos. Pleasing to the eyes.

So now the real count down begins one day then on the road! Will leave here about 8:15 on Friday morning  to be there at 10 am. Not sure how long it will take , at the very least one hr. But I want to be on time or even early. Played with my camera and figured out how to take videos with it, so now hopefully I will remember more.  All for now thanks for looking and come back soon.

blessings

G&M

MORE UPDATE : HOME

Here are a few more pic's of the park in Winchester. Nice park for dog walking or just taking it easy. There is a geocache hid there but I did not look for it this time. Maybe next time I will.  

A gaggle of geese getting ready for a swim.

Mama and her babies, right click for a closer look they sure are cute.

Well we made it home on Monday. An uneventful trip. Nice easy drive even up and over the mountains. Was a breeze with the Savana. I really love my new wheeles. Cant wait to go camping in it. They are coming to turn on my water at 10 am this morning, cant wait for that either. Then I need to get to the post office, Ins office, WM and get things done there. Got the van all unloaded yesterday now need to get the totes unloaded. Will start working on house this week I hope. It is going to be in the 90's a couple days this week and no a/c here so we will see what happens. Going to get some craft space set up also, want to get started on my mini family recipe mini albums. And have the wedding in a week and a half. So I will be busy. All for now thanks for looking and come back soon

blessing

G&M

BAD BOY BIRD & A CACHE

I now tell Maggie that it is BAD BOY BIRD and that it is "ok" when I tell her things are ok she knows what that means and calms down. Bird is now coming every few hrs or so, maybe he is taking his turn on the nest. Hope he will soon be catching bugs and too busy helping feeding his "kids" to bother the "other" bird in the window ! lol

Found this cache over the weekend. It took me about 15 min to find. My GPS was a little off. Was just about ready to leave and looked one more place from a different angle and there it was.

Close up of the cache.

Here are a couple of pic's for my son. His name. WEATHER IN MELBOURNE FL. Cold this morning only 46....but will be mid 70's this afternoon and sunny. What a great day. I am getting ready to go north in another month. Going to get an oil change in the truck this week and checking a few other things. Got to get my AAA back in service. Diverticulitis is not totally healed yet, and I think I rushed putting more fiber in my diet, this is really hard to deal with. Maybe if I had not let it go so long it would be better. So anyway I am back on soft diet, and low fiber again. But I am definitely feeling better than I have in almost a year. That makes me think I will be getting more painting done in the house this year. I really cant wait to get home for awhile! I will not be moving to Florida permanently. So I will be keeping my home in PA at least for now. I still want to travel around esp. in the winter. I will gladly be a snow bird lol. As long as dad is in good shape I will be doing summers in PA. Not sure about an RV at this time , but I am working toward a van. All for now thanks for looking and come back soon

blessings Donna

WHAT'S NEW (not much)

Since landing in Florida in Sept. not much has been going on. Still going to physical therapy for my feet, that finally are getting better. Hope soon to be doing walking exercise again. A week or so ago Maggie and I took a road trip. Looking for camp grounds for future fun. Found this county park about 40 min away. County park so you don't have to pay to have a look around.Some residents at the park. One ugly bird, or a couple lolThis is one of the water sites in the park. The park is along the inter coastal waterway in Brevard Co. Tents or RV's can camp next to the water. Reservations or first come. Weekend are busy and need res. Couple of tenter's next to RV's. This is real nice park. Not to big don't know how many sites there are. I talked to this man for awhile, he is fishing off the dock. He and his wife come here often. If I remember right they are from northern FL. Had a very nice talk. He did not make his reservations soon enough for the week end and did not get a water front spot. Here is a geocache next to our motel on the way down. Typical fence post cache. I have not been caching much yet, do to feet, only park & grabs that I can drive right up to. This is the cache.
Well feet are getting better, I go to doc on Monday to get casted for orthodox I have the general run of the mill in my shoe now and they do help. Daughter and son in law coming for Christmas will be glad to see family, miss my northern family. Will be doing some road trips and caching soon, so I will be posting more. I have been posting on my other blog http://redapplejunction.blogspot.com because I have been doing craft / art work, cause I can sit and do it. Doing some swaps and making Christmas presents. I had this post all made up yesterday and hit the wrong button and deleted everything. So here it is again, but forgot half what I said in the first one. All for now thanks for looking and come back soon
Blessing
G&M

FLEA MARKET SET UP

On Sunday I set up at a local flea market trying to get rid of more stuff. I unloaded one more tote full. It was a little slow too hot I think. And look who come along and set up beside me! And of course I had to give them some of my hard earned money!

More of what I had to sell.Flea market must be doing good they put up this large building last year. Cost more to set up in it.More peeps set up.

I will be glad when this is all over with, the older I get the less I like doing it and it's hard on the old body. Been hot here and I haven't done alot on the house. But I guess not hurry at this time. I want to take a few road trips this summer. One for sure at the end of July or first of Aug. Will be meeting up with my DD and SIl at a craft show she is doing. Will stay at a camp ground. I would also like to go maybe to Lake Erie since I only live an hr away. Have not been caching much lately either.

All for now thanks for looking and come back soon

Blessings

Donna

UPDATE

BOXES TO ROOT THRU
Went to the flea market on memorial day, it was a mess! With all the rain, mud everywhere. I should not have taken Maggie! She was mud up to her belly. Every thing in these boxes was 25 cents. I found $1 worth of things that i could not live with out. lol lOVE THE BLUE PLATES

MAGGIE HIDING IN ROSES

Here is my roses this year. I cut them way back last Nov. before I left for Fl. This year they seem to have a million buds on them. You can see little Maggie on the porch.

SEE CUTE LITTLE FACE KNOCK OUT ROSES

Have not been doing much since I got back. Have mostly been sick with a cold and my back. legs, and feet have been hurting. I think that riding for hrs, even tho I tried to cut down on this, is cause me problems now, I am getting better so I will be getting more done. Son got tub and new vanity in, I have to finish painting etc.

MORE Weather finally got nice, when the heat wave left. But we are having thunder storm right now.

You can check what the art goings on are by checking my other blog Red Apple Junction link is on the side bar.

Well that's it for now , if anything interesting happens I will add to this post.

Thanks for looking and come back soon

Blessings

G&M

HOME IN PA & A CACHE

WHERE IS THE CACHE

THE CACHE
WEATHER IN GREENVILLE PA Temp 70 with rain on and off all day, mostly cloudy, not what this old lady is use to!

We spent the weekend in Va with my daughter and family, then came on up to Pa on Monday. Not hard driving at all. I have been sick since I got here. Think I got a cold from my SIL, the first one I have had in five years. I go out of my way to try and stay away from colds, and other such nasties. So do to that I have not got much done around here. My son has to come and finish up the bath room. He has been working a lot at his new job at Home Depot, so it is slow going.

I will start working on some things on Monday and work on some art projects. You can keep up with that on my other blog Red Apple Junction. The link is on the side bar here.

The cache is one we found in Fl before we left. It is in an area where there are lot of rocks and stones, large ones too as you can see by the pic. It was not to hard to find the GPS was right on. The second pic is of the cache itself. Looks like a stone but the bottom opens up and the log is in there. Pretty neat.

That's all for now thanks for looking and come back soon

Blessings

Donna

TRIP UP DATE

HAD OUR BREAKFAST HERE :)

PACKED OUR LUNCH

CAMPING HERE



MAGGIE AT OUR SITE.

Weather was great , traffic was great. Good travel day light traffic, and one thing I noticed was that most were traveling at a slower speed than they usually do. I know I did, even when the speed limit was 70 I only did 65, did that the whole way so far. I think everyone is trying to save on gas even the truckers. I stopped every time I got down to half tank and I seen cheap gas. It ranged from $3.65 to 4.00. I did not pay the $4 but I seen the prices.

We left at 6:30 and stopped about 4:oo. made several stops about 6 I would say. Spent an hour for breakfast, at then see there was a geocache only a mile away so of course we had to get that.

So we went 393 miles in about 9 hrs. And I am not tired, my back side does not hurt and my hip and leg does not hurt! I am thinking this is the way to travel! Slow and easy no rush! We found another cache at lunch time. Almost forgot that. To night will be interesting see how Maggie likes the sleeping arrangements. Sitting here at our camp site nice just right not to hot not to cool. We are right next to I-95 so there will be some traffic noise, but I don't think it will bother me. Lunch and supper was left overs from last nite 1/2 BBQ chicken, dad and I went out to our local "Diners,Drive-in's and Dives. ( they were not on that show but should be) Had enough for 2 more meals.

Well thats it for now thanks for looking and come back soon.

Blessings

G&M

REPAIRS & HEADING NORTH

HAD TO GO HERE........... SO HE COULD ......

DO THIS!!!!!!!!

SO WHILE HE WAS AT WORK I WENT HERE..........

AND GOT THESE!!!!!!







AND TREATED MY SELF TO THIS. WHILE WAITING

WEATHER IN MELBOURNE FL.... 84 Great day few clouds mostly sunny.

I heard a small noise, took truck to my new mechanic and he said hole in muffler, I don't do exhaust work! Sent me to Meineke....what a great bunch of guys especially Chirs the guy in pic, fixed muffler and when he found out I was going north , check my oil and tires, and my check engine light. (that is whole other post) I would recommend them highly. So I looked around and saw the clock repair place across the highway. Had to move very fast to get across!! Ask the man if he had any old watch or clock parts he didn't want, he did so I got all those in the pic. I hit the jackpot! I will use them in my art projects. Was having such a good time, I then treated myself to the last pic!!!!

We are heading out early tomorrow morning. Everything is packed so brush teeth, wash face and be gone.
I want to keep a travel blog going with this new puter with a good battery I am sure it will work out so keep checking!

All for now thanks for looking come back soon

Blessings

G&M

ENDEAVOUR : FINAL MISSION

What it looked like on TV

In my back yard!

TV again.

Last of the employee's

WEATHER IN MELBOURNE FL. About 84 today was a great day. Mostly sunny.

I watched the launch on the TV then ran out to the back yard to see it. The first and third pictures are of what was on TV. The second is what I saw in the back yard. It was truly awesome. About 3-5 min after I took this pic the roar caught up with were we are located and it shook the house and rattled the windows. Maggie did not like this at all!! Clear blue sky and sun shine. I could see the shuttle and fuel tank as the sun was reflection off it and made it look like brilliant copper color. Beautiful. It is inspiring to be here in central Florida living this history. I was thinking about all the great history (now) that has happened in my life time. Mostly good stuff but some bad, like the wars etc. Someday I will post about it.

The last pic is what the employee's were doing this morning . That is the last of the thousands and thousands of people that got pink slips. No longer working on our now defunct space program.

This is a sad sad thing for our country.

The gathered in the parking lot and made the shuttle in a circle standing side by side.

I cleaned the cab of the truck vacuum and all. Getting ready for our trip. Leaving on Thur.

That's all for now thanks for looking and come back soon

Blessings

G&M