three weeks to go

Three weeks from now, we will be on the road to Florida, via Norris , Tennessee. We are presently working to close down the Vikings and Lakeside. Today, Ray got back on his mower and stayed on, so my career as a professional lawn mower is ended, after 3 weeks. It is good that Ray is sufficiently healed to resume more normal life. Today, after learning I was not needed to mow, we went to the vikings and took down the awning. When we got back to Ripley, we worked on some maintenance items on the motorhome. Tomorrow, the boat comes home from the lake, the catwalk comes out, and the camper gets shut down for the winter. We have already shut down the water.

We have been so busy, it has been hard to keep up, with what we did.. Last Thursday, I had part two of my root canal, plus a filling on the other side, so for a while I had novacaine numbness on both sides of my mouth. Then Laura had a mammogram, which I hear are always lots of fun. The report on that was very good, no lumps or problems encountered.

Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, we took little trips to Amherst. Sunday, we went to the Viking Trailer Association meeting and then picked up Lester and Sue and went to Uncle G's in Pendleton. The Mohr kids knew this place as Cappys, when they were young. Presently they have musical entertainment and sell lots of ice cream. The NFFC group had free ice cream.

Back to the Viking Trailer Association. Who decided to use the name "Trailer"? wouldn"t "Camper or Camping" sound better?

Monday, we went to Rizzos in amherst for Laura to join the North Amherst Ladies Aux for their annual Dinner. We were supposed to spend the night at Dereks' , but he was coming down with something, possibly Swine flu, so we redirected back to Ripley. We could have stayed with several people, but chose to go back to Ripley. Tuesday, we went back to Amherst to meet Jean and Mike Caputi and Dick and Elaine Weber for Brunch. Jeannie and Elaine and Laura all drove school bus for years, and shared many memories. Oh and Laura had a pap smear. We picked up some parts for the motorhome, and met Jerry and Alison, Shawn and Cheyenne at Burger King.

Shawn is in Middle School, Cheyenne is doing well, Charlotte is really enjoying Kindergarten. They are all growing up. More later