BEAUTIFUL WEATHER

We could not…

ask for the weather to be any better here…sunny not humid…slight breeze…temps in the 70’s ..love it..below is Knockout roses in front of DD’s house next to the road…they are in first full bloom…they are a ever bearing rose…you get the blooms all summer and you do not have to dead head them…

More Knockout roses on the left and a beautiful tree rose on the right…not sure what they are called..

This is the view out my door …makes you smile  every morning when you step out..along with the sunshine and great weather…

This is what we worked on yesterday..cut out sugar cookie …..we iced them with royal icing using that technique where you out  line the cookie with bead of icing and the when you drop the icing into the body of the cookie it is suppose to fill it in…yeah right Martha ! she makes it look so easy and so do the YouTube videos we watched….I don’t think it is so easy… we will put them in cello bags tie with pink curly ribbon…like we did the other goodies…the C is for the baby's name…,I will say what it is later after birth…just incase it turns out different…don’t think it will tho…

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Today Friday…we will make a few more goodies…thinking on crispy treats dipped in pink chocolate…and I think that will be it…this baby show is like no other that I have ever been to…most different…both mom and dad..are very very sports ordinated (Pittsburgh fans on all accounts) …like big time..so it was decided that a hockey shower would be held and dads would be invited also..I will leave the show at the until it is over then I will let you know just what is was about and how it went….I guess you could say “this isn't your Grandma’s baby shower”.. lol..  I am tying to post everyday as I am able to use daughters Wi-Fi...no extra charge…that’s nice….I would love to go yard saling while I am here but not to sure it will happen…Maggie is having I nice visit also…they have a new kitty since she was here last…Maggie finds her interesting but not wanting to play with Maggie..well better get busy with what ever..thanks for looking and come back soon

blessings to all G&M

PRETTIEST CAMP SITE…

Camp drive way VA…..

This is my drive way camp at my DD’s home…I think it is the prettiest camp site  that we have been in so far…she has the most beautiful roses ever …she got her rose green thumb from my dads mother she was the rose queen in our family…I love the rose tree they are so cool..the other ones are knock out roses…

We have been….

working on making goodies for the baby shower on Sun. .. in pic below we are melting chocolate for dipping pretzel rods..put the chocolate in canning jars and set them in crock pot with water…perfect for melting…this is something new for me..great idea!

Then we worked on truffles …using strawberry cake and white icing…after making the cake and icing balls…we dipped them in chocolate also and put on some sprinkles…

Here is a pic of the finished pretzels..MMmm they are good…we will put them in cello bags tied with pink ribbon since baby is going to be a girl…I will take pix of all finished products at the shower so you can see how pretty they are…going to work on cookies today,,..

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Since I landed in Winchester I have been feeling under the weather…not sure why…not a cold or anything like that…just not feeling right…but yesterday afternoon started to come out of it..have some problems with the rig…I posted about before..so I think on Sat. I will take it out and get air in tires see if that helps …I think it will and then just drive it slow and easy on up to PA and take it from there…there is a place I can take there to have it checked out…today I think we will be working on the cookies..making cut out sugar cookies in baby cut outs…found some at JoAnne’s ..bib, baby buggy, onsies etc.…I will go now and chat later ..thanks for looking and come back soon…blessings to all G&M

AN EVENTFUL DAY…

After the….

sunrise on Monday morning..we left Mayberry Campground headed to VA and my daughter’s home…was a little foggy sunrise…

These roads might look nice and smooth..but let me tell you they are not…The interstates after leaving FL and GA…were a mess…pot  holes some very large..and the roads were rough where repairs had been previously …

When we got of I-81 at Salem VA…I heard this awful noise when hitting and small bump..just your normal road junk /holes….sounded like something was going to fall off the rig..

So when we got off and turned left ..look what I saw….went down the road a bit stopped at WM to warm up my lunch before going in the RV repair…well geny came on but no power…was plugged in so check breakers they were ok ..so I just ate cold food…

Then went back to the Snyder’s ..everyone was out to lunch so had to wait…looked at a few rigs like the red on below…I kind of like the color …(I like red)…but they all were locked so did not get to look inside

Well one of the noise problems was that I did not put the antenna down properly …got that figured out and fixed..they thought that was the whole noise problem…I did not think so..but they wanted to check the geny even tho I said I would take care of it when it got to my daughters…but the did it anyway…and turned out there is a breaker on the geny and I did not know that or I forgot about…that problem taken care of… they did all this without charge…and I was back on the road…and it was soon clear that I still had a problem with ugly noise…sometime was worse than others… got to Winchester I pulled into a plaza waiting on my sil to come get the rig and back it into their driveway…I could have done it but feel better with him doing it…he said after driving it ..might be my shocks…and my tires are a little low….  So I really don’t know what to do..will get tires filled…should I go to Camping World see what the problem is or drive it to Greenville and have the RV place check it there….

thanks for looking and come back soon..

blessings to all …G&M

LEAVING SESQUICENTENNIAL….

June 1

We spent …

two days at this quiet peaceful park..and I was ready to move on…woke up happy and ready to go…First stop up was breakfast….I have not eaten out one time yet… so it is Sun. and time to splurge…ate at Micky D’s…

I love McD eggs, sausage & hotcakes breakfast.

we parked at the Carolina Wings that was beside McD’s…if they would have been open I would have had an order to go….anyway behind the wings store there are a few long parking places for RV’s and truckers…there were a couple there when I parked…I think you are welcome to over night here…this is at exit 27 on I-77 going north in SC….

Well……..

This happened later on in the afternoon…I made a couple other stops to walk around … then I stopped at Mooresville SC..near Lake Norman…I decided to splurge even more …got hungry and saw this place and Italian sound really good about that time…

So in I went …very nice clean place…music playing if I had not known better I would have thought a piano playing singer was there…my table…

My food…

More of my food… I took a box full of food with me ….my lunch tomorrow…

And then to walk it off…went to my fav. store Jo-Annes and new to me store beside it…then looked to see what time it was..it was getting late and I wanted to make it to Mt. Airy…and was thinking of staying at the Wal Mart beside these two store…but after check driving distance from here to Winchester it was way to long so left drove the hr. to Mt Airy….Mayberry Camp Ground…

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I think I need one of those machines that you can dictate messages to….I think of all kinds of things to bring to my b l o g …but by the time comes to write it…I have forgot half of it…one thing I was thinking about today was Lake Norman…Mooresville is by the lake…if you look at the the NC map you can see that it is a very large lake with many many skagley (not sure if that is a word) fingers all over many many miles…I have always wanted to explore this lake…it would take much time…it also reminds me of my brother…they have many bass tournaments at Lake Norman I watch them on TV…my brother was a bass fisherman and did a lot of FLW bass tournaments… but he never made to this lake…I went to a couple of them with him and my sis in law sometimes she would go with him.…so seeing the lake today made me kinda sad…as he passed at age 62 …in 2012…any way that was one thing I was wanting to post about today…I will take a break for now and see if I can remember anything else …lol  I drove about 185 miles and it took me almost all day…10:30 until 4:00…well cant think of anything else at this time so will be on my way…thanks for looking and come back soon…blessings to all G&M

OF DUCKS AND GEESE…

Sesquicentennial St Park…

What is a hike…I have no hiking boots…climbed no cliffs..or mountains…but we did walk on a hiking trail…the trail around the lake..a 2 mile walk…or hike…any way when we started out seen this little duckling playing around in the water close to the bank…mama was standing the grass watching …when we got closer she jumped in the water with him…this was the only baby she had…kinda made me sad wondering what happened to the rest of the brood…

on up the lake I seen a group of girls feeding ducks and geese…when we walked up there I seen this mama duck with 16 ducklings…I counted them but could never get them all in ma pic…I wondered if she took some away from the other mama…seemed like a lot of babies for one mama to me…

With these duck were a few geese with their babies milling around…babies are soooo cute…

I turned and walked down the paved path to start our walk around the lake…the first few hundred feet is a paved sidewalk…

Just before you cross the bridge are a group of very old and large Live Oak trees…my pic does not do these majestic trees justice

Then were you see those people in the background of the pic..there is this water fall…I could hear it all the way to where I was standing…so went over to take a look see…beautiful …I think it is a man made water fall…actually there is another one just below it

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I will post more pic of our hike/walk in the next post..I think this pooped Maggie out …she came home and slept most of the morning away…I did some chores …got the sewing machine out and did some crazy quit block making…it was very gray and dreary out not a very pleasant day to be out side…but later it did clear up so we went for another walk thru the campground…I said yesterday that the camp sites were  not so great…but after walking around and looking up close …I could see that I was wrong about most of them…when I was driving around looking for a spot..I did not see them well not sure why ..but it did teach me a lesson..get of the rig and look…I did take some pic so will post about them and the rest next time…going to finish packing up and get moving down the road.. so this is it for now…thanks for looking and come back soon..

blessings to all G&M

DAY 3

We left camp…

Wal Mart around 9am….looking for a nice State Park to camp in for a couple days…ended up at Sesquicentennial State Park..I stayed here on my way back to Florida last fall…Below is a pic our pull thru site and  of Maggie checking out the site and looking for squirrels…

and again the picnic table is way to far for me to use and to heavy for me to move…it would be nice to eat out there with out having to carry my food so far…

In this pic is the view out the door..nice carpet of pine needles…keeps the dirt down…the sites mostly not level (changed my mind about sites will show pix and post about it)…there are a few tho that you can wiggle around and find a level part.. that is what I did with this one…this is I piney forest on hills…with roots all over the place…a few sites for larger rigs…most for small and tents ….I will take more pix tomorrow…

Maggie pic of the day…so you know about how big she is…she weights just under 10lbs and stands at the shoulder just under 12 in…she is small just the right size for a show dog…some day I will tell you her story and how I got her…maybe for her birthday in July…

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we left I-95 at I-26 heading in land to I-77 heading north…I use to go up 95 the whole way to VA …but I really hate that highway…a few years ago I took I –81out of Winchester VA (my daughter and family live in Winchester)  heading south to Florida… then hit 77 to 26 then 95 on down to Melbourne…this driving is so much better than the I-95 race track..it is a little more hilly …but being from PA this is not much of a problem for me…so this is the route I take now when traveling back and forth….some day I will take it easy and see the USA on the secondary roads slow and easy taking my time and enjoy…I do enjoy my trips now because it gets me out and on the road…and I love the campgrounds esp. the State Parks….my fav at this point…Tomorrow I want to walk one of the trails … might be doing this in the AM before it gets to hot…thanks for looking and come back soon…blessings to all G&M

DAY 2

Was a very uneventful…

travel day…and it was hot…We left Walkabout camp ground about 10am again…late starts but we are in no hurry…stopped at a FlyingJ a short distance away for gas…Then we stopped at  a WM for lunch and bought some food to last for a couple days…as that my plan was to stay at a state park this night and maybe stay 2 days…but I got tired along the way and only made it to Walterboro SC…so we spent the night at the WM there…I have stayed here before…

Lunch and WM stop to replenish supplies

This sign….

is posted all over the parking lot…but they still let you over night here….under this sign is a geocache…

As you can see in the pic below…welcome to over night…there were 6 rigs and about 4 trucks that stayed the night…last year when I stayed here there were over a doz. rigs…

Maggie pic of the day…sleeping with her eyes open as we traveled yesterday…

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Really not to much to tell…and that is a good thing when one travels…we left about 10 or so and stopped at about 3…the roads in southern part of SC…are a big pot hole mess..must have been the hard winter they had…so today I am headed to a state park hope being the weekend I can get a spot for 2 days…if not camp WM again…anyway I need to get on the road…thanks for looking and come back soon…blessings to all G&M