BEFORE & AFTER’S

The before pic…..
This flooring has been on there about 25 years..it is all chipped up and a mess…needed to be changed….

And the after pic….
It sure looks good..but believe me that it was more than a trial to lay…because of crooked 100 year house…the floor was sloping is some areas…poor son..he has laid this lament before and had no trouble…but he got it done and it looks good…

I started this project…
Stripping wall paper in the hall down stairs…will do up stairs next…it need to come down..I put it up over 30 yrs. ago and it now is starting to pull away from the wall in a lot of places…when I put this up I never thought 30 yrs. later I would be scraping it off….

This is what it looks like when I got done…it looks better in the pic than it really is…the wall on the right has a few hair line cracks that need repaired..and on the left needs some dry wall putty where a sewer pipe was replace a few years ago that I never got finished … I will probably paint not paper again…I am to old for that..not so good on a ladder anymore and balancing on stairs etc.

Saved the best before for last….

I love good old home grown PA strawberries…now not to put the FL strawberry down but they don’t hold a candle to these…got these at the farmers market on Sat. while out doing a  little yard saleing….bought them from an Amish lady…

And the after..It was my birthday yesterday so I made this strawberry short cake for myself…I used my grandmothers recipe…I loved her strawberry short cake…she use to tell me stories about back in the day..like during WW2 sometimes when food was scarce she would make big bowls of strawberry short cakes and that would be their dinner sometimes….as a kid…that would have been great… Did not to much yesterday…hope I get out of this lazy daze mood soon…it is getting hot here now so that will not help me much…lol…either to cold or too hot ..never pleases me…lol…

I am not traveling right now so any new RV girls checking out my blog you will need to scroll back in the archives to see some of my adventures…you can also check out the archives on my side bar to the right…Well better see what I can get done before it gets to hot ..thanks for looking and come back soon
blessings G&M

PART TWO…

The landing…
Here come the first of the weary, wet, and tired cacher’s this was a canoe trio that had a very rough trip…they flip about 4 times…and they were looking a little water logged when they got back…Please click on all the pic…to see better….

This is them…click on pic to open and see for your self how wet they are…and the other things was they were so busy trying to stay afloat that they did not get one geocache.!!! It was one wild ride for Sue…

And here come a few more…they all said it was a rough ride but the had so very much fun..some would and some wouldn’t do it again…

Coming ashore…they all had a ball even those that ended up in the water…

The problem with this float was…
It has been raining here for weeks…so the Shenango River is high and running very very fast…so not a good float down a lazy river (which it normally is) looking for and logging geocaches…not to mention the beautiful PA county side along the way…All said and done there were about 20 who did the “float” There are two sections to this cash float this was the first half…total there are 100 geocaches along the river so far…with I think they said were going to do about 50 more that would take them to the Shenango Damn…I don’t know if I will ever have the opportunity to do this float or not…need a kayak first and a partner or partners to do it with…I  know that I would like to …but who knows…Son has been here last 2 days making progress…will finish up new kitchen floor, and another coat of dry wall mud on hole in wall….and hope to get up to the attic…as the garbage goes tomorrow….so all for now thanks for looking and come back soon
blessings G&M ..woof woof

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

BRIDGE CACHE & ERIE EXTENSION CANAL

TYPICAL BRIDGE CACHE

MAGNET CACHE HOLDER WEATHER Sunny and around 60 today nice!

Today's cache is one I found last weekend while caching with the Papillon Princes. If you click on the first pic and make it larger you can see it hiding in there. This is pretty typical of a guard rial or bridge cache around here. They look easy but sometime they are not. I have two that I have been looking at and can't find. This one was on a dirt road, bet you thought there were not any dirt roads left. lol.

Eric commented on yesterday's post and I want to follow up. I should have said it was the Erie Extension Canal. On its way through Mercer Co. PA the EEC went along the Shenango River as stated. I don't know about the Chenango River that Eric was talking about, that might be a different river. There are still to locks you can see , one is in New Hamburg PA, and the other one is in Sharpsville Pa. both in Mercer Co. The one in Sharpsville is Locke # 10. The city made a nice little park there. Google it and find out about it. There is a geocache hid there and that is how I found it, Also there is a Erie Canal Museum in Greenville PA you can goole that too.

J&E I will be looking for those birds!!

Thanks for visiting my blog.

Thats all for now

Happy Caching

G&M