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!!