All Packed up!!

 After many, many days we are finally packed up!!!  What a mess it was!

We have been parked at Glenn and Cathy's house in Fond du Lac for the past week.  Nice quiet spot in front of his garage. We are going to store all our stuff inside the house so it is safe from critters and then parking the home on the side of the garage and covering it for 2 years.  I already miss it!!

We finished!!!! Covered and ready a for a long nap. Fun was had in Fond du Lac.  There was coyote killing, fabulous fish fry at cousin Jessies house, cribbage, food, shopping, and just fun.

We are in Waukesha Wisconsin now staying/visiting with Dicks family and plan to go to Fountain City in a couple days to stay/visit with some of my family.  We plan to see as many friends and family as we can before we go.  We think everyone will come visit but are just not sure.  We are letting them know that we just might die in a hurricane so they better come visit.

Life is still good and we are so looking forward to this new adventure!!

**Gracious words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones**

Wisconsin......we have arrived!!

We made it out alive from the wind storm on the Texas/Oklahoma border.  What a hellish thing that was.  Who on earth chooses to live in such an environment where this happens all the time??  Crazy people, that's who!!!  We traveled on to Kansas City Missouri and spent a couple of nights at our Sister-in-laws brother Steve's house.  We had a great visit and stayed three nights in his driveway. 

 Steve and his son Jake were very hospitable and we had a great time eating KC BBQ, visiting  a couple breweries, playing cards and disc golf.  He says we can return but I think he was just being nice!😅😅

Dick had a great time playing with Jakes dog as well.  I believe he had his dog fix for the next 20 years.  We know how much it upsets our youngest daughter how we take pictures of our knees so.....here's another just for you Roni!!

We are now planted out side of Dick's mothers house in Waukesha gathering boxes, totes and suit cases to pack all our stuff in.  Hopefully the coppers won't come and hassle us about a giant trailer on the city streets of Waukesha.  We head to Fond du lac, WI this Friday to set the trailer up and really get down to the business of packing and storing.  

Until next time....here is a funny!!!

 

 

 

Tumbleweeds, scary cross bones guy & super high winds!!!

We almost died today driving through the Texas pan handle! Tumbleweeds everywhere!!! I would imagine these can do some serious injury to a hitchhiker.  Good thing we can afford a car.

We stopped for the night at a picnic area that is sandwiched between a railroad track and hwy 54 just south of the Texas/Oklahoma border. I guess Dick was tired and thought this a great place to rest his eyeballs. Well we stayed to long and then to long turned into hell!!! Oh my gosh!!!! We seriously are almost about to die as I write!  The winds are totally rocking the camper beyond any thing I have experienced & the sound of sand and tumbleweeds hitting the trailer is super freaky as are the rattling noises all over.  The sign below is for sure us!  I hope we live to see grandbaby #4!!!

It is dark now and the tumbleweeds look like little ghosts in the headlights of passing cars. We are awaiting the arrival of the creepy guy in a red Chevy who left his skull and crossbones coffee cup and his pack of Marlboro cigarettes on the picnic table during the light hours but took a picture of our camper as he left. He is most likely going to get his friends to come back and kill us and take all of our pancake mix because that is a pretty coveted recipe. Truly that guy creeped me out so much I hid my ID and all money 💰.  I hope his cigs and coffee cup blew away. I am sure we will find out in the morning. Nighty night. Keep smiling!

Albuquerque

We are leaving Albuquerque tomorrow and making our way to Wisconsin!  We had an awesome time visiting with two of our daughters, Charlotte and Veronica and their husbands Steve and Dan for a few days.  We are so happy we got to see them before we take off to Water Island but are super sad we won't be able to see Alex, Andy and our three grand kids, Brennan, Stephen and Lily before we go!😢😢😢

We did lots of fun stuff and ate way to much food. We hiked around a bit and saw some petroglyphs, some awesome carved trees, we went to an amazing frozen pop shop, took a tram to a really high mountain, saw a porcupine in a tree, and visited a few breweries too. 

There were certainly some pretty interesting individuals that we encountered as well.  There were some really awesome cars that were bouncing all over the place and jacked up so high on one side you would have thought the people were going to fall out. 

I cried like a little baby when we said fair well!!

More adventures as we work our way to Wisconsin to pack up our home!!

Change of plans

 Virgin Islands Campground

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Check it out and like the page to see what we are up to for the next 2 years!!  

Doesn't this place sound so tropical!!!  This is a glamping campground on a small island (Water Island) just off of St. Thomas and we happened to stumble across this and thought.......what the hell, lets apply!!!  Guess who they called and interviewed???? US!!!  Guess we are going to manage a GLAMPGROUND!!  We are totally not beach people, but we know we will enjoy the constant warm tropical temps between 75 and 80 with the cool breeze, sunshine and awesome sunset views from the house that is provided for us up on a hill overlooking St. Thomas!!

Who's gonna come visit us there??  Flights are pretty cheap & we know the new managers are awesome.

I am almost certain that there will be many a death story with hurricanes, lizards, snakes, flying roaches, & I am sure the sea turtles will be the size of dinosaurs and bite my feet off when I go swimming (OK maybe not, because I heard they were VEG eaters) but anyhow I gotta say that if a f$#@ing toad stuck to my chair in Texas scared the crap out of me, I can only imagine what a big ugly iguana will do to my heart!!

We will be heading to Wisconsin in a couple of days to settle a bunch of stuff and to store our truck & our home on wheels!!  Moving on to tropical adventures!!!

You never know which door will lead to your dreams,  until you have the courage to walk through it!!

Moooving on!!

Our time here in Texas is winding down.  Although we have had a great time....It is time to move on.  The Care Center has been an amazing place to volunteer.  We have been so lucky to have gained so much  knowledge from the residents who have had years of travel and experience.  We will miss all the residents and if passing by Livingston in the future, we will stop in!!

These last days have been busy with spring cleaning, gardening, and moving lot of stuff from one place to another.   I think you should also know that I almost died from some poisonous thing that was in the seed heads I was splitting or the dirt that I was digging.  I had to be put on some serious steroid to get rid of the itch/rash.  All better now but it was touch and go there for a second!!!

Alaska was calling this year and wanted us up there but we chose to wait until next year.  Canada is being stupid and we are not vacinated and have no intent to do so and they may or may not let us in even with employment/volunteer paperwork.  OH WELL!!  Next year is fine with us.  

There are so many people in this life style that plan, plan, plan, and get dissapointed if things don't work out.  We plan a little, but rarely make reservations and just go with the flow.  We figure that when one door closes, another one opens!!

California here we come.  Redwood trees and the Pacific Ocean are calling.  Kamp Klamath in Klamath, CA is where we will be for the summer volunteering at what looks like an awesome place.  

Kamp Klamath

If anyone is in the area.....come visit us.

In route to California we will get to visit two of our 3 daughters!  Always exciting to see family.  Charley/Steve & Roni/Dan will be in Albuquerque, NM where we plan to spend 4 days galavanting around the area eating all kind of good food and hopefully finding some good beer.  We don't have to be to the Camp in California until May 1st, so we will have some other adventures along the way and hopefully have some pictures.  We haven't been taking to many little adventure here since we have been busy, busy, busy & I know you all miss my nature pictures!  I probably should take more pictures of my near death experiences too so you will all beleive how terribly dangerous it is out hear in retirement land!!

                 Hope you all have a great Easter and somebody makes you these cute pancakes!!

 When life feels too big to handle, go outside.  

Everything looks smaller when you're standing under the sky!!

The Great Storm of 21'

It has been quite chilly here in Texas!!  People are totally freaking out as they should.  There are slick roads and busted waterlines everywhere.  Lets not forget about the millions without power.  Coming from a nothern state it is amazing to watch how things are handled in a region that has no clue what cold is all about.  This place will be a plumbers dream for the next month or so fixing all the stuff.   

Some of the residents at the CARE Center forgot what cold was as well and there are water leaks and frozen stuff everywhere.  I guess the honey do list for us the next couple of days is set.

Today Dick and I went home in the afternoon and from total tiredness we took naps only to wake up and missed the meal delivery duty.  Every resident has had most of their meals delivered and all the take volunteers take turns driving the cart around with the prepared lunchs and dinners.  OOPS!  Some one covered for Dick and all is still good so there are no residents out there almost dieing of starvation.

Then there is the mail sorting.  Man you could hurt your back with this sack.  Just another duty.  I did this one time the 1st week and it was an aweful job since I didn't know any body yet.  It would be much simpiler now but the guys seem to take over this job and leave the phones to the gals!!

Not a bad fix in a pinch for ice is this recipe below!!

This is also another product you can by at tractor supply or farm and barn stores to use instead of salt/sand!

Well thats about it for today.  We are feeling old taking care of the old but we love it and will write more if an when we have free time.  That may be in April!!  We shall see!!

**Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much**

Luke16:10