Busy, Busy Busy

It has been several weeks since we last wote. Thanks to Heidi for aleting you to our safe arrival in Satsuma.

During the last week of September we were really busy, getting ready to come to Florida. Lakeside and the Vikings were done by the middle of the month. While shutting down Ripley, we managed to have our early Christmas at Heidi's on the 24th, our last physicals with Dr Bodkin on the27th, had my broken tooth crowned on the 28th, had a trailer tire repaired, and then endured what seemed like 10 days of cold and rain to load the trailer and car. We got everthing together and left Ripley about 11:00 Wenesday morning, the 6th of October. After about 3 hours of travel in the rain, it stopped, and we haven't seen any since. Nothing but warmer weather and sunshine.

No problems on the road, we stopped at lexington, Kentucky. The next morning we completed the trip to Clinton, Tennessee, which is about 25 miles North of Knoxville. We went to the motel, we had reserved and left Ki-Ki and some of our stuff at the motel. (as I am writing this, I am monitoring the Jaquar- Titan game. It is now 17-0, in favor of the Titans and Trent Edwards, formerly of the Bills is now quarterbacking for Jacksonville)

After checking in at the motel we went to the Appalachia Museum, where hundreds of school children were enjoying the music and special events. We were surprised when we uncovered the trailer and then the Criket to find a full grown yellow cat sitting on the Criket. With Heidi's help we learned there was a vet right across the street. We had them check for a chip but no luck. Anyway , we still have that cat which has turned out to be a nice animal. I guess we are adopting it.

After 3 nice days, of music and sunshine we left Sunday afternoon about 3;00 and headed towards Augusta, Georgia, winding up in Newberry S. Carolina. Monday we went to Augusta to visit Ricks specialty vehicles, where Crikets are made and sold. It was very interesting and informative. It turns out that Rick was at a video shoot with Jim Kelly of the Bills. Rick had customized a Criket which was sold/auctioned to benefit Jims Camp Fund. Jim also had one customized for Jill. We have a picture of the one that was sold/auctioned and it was very nicely done. On the way out of Augustus, we had and overheating caliper on the right front. We stopped at a transmission place and they went overboard to replace the caliper, at a reasonable price and sent us on our way. This delayed us enough so that we arrived here about 9:00 that night.

We have things together, water on, hot water on, phone on, and part of the reason for the timing of this update, was the lack of internet. It was supposed to have been on Wed, but was not completed until last night. I love AT &T. Now I can catch up on paying bills, etc. Heidi gave us her old I-Phone 3 and we have been enjoying it. Soon we will try to send pictures.

One of the boat trailer tires was flat and we are struggling to get it fixed so we can get the boat into the water so we can catch some shrimp while they are still running.

Today, we went to see the orthopedic surgeon and he was surprised at how good I was, physically. He took x-rays and said the plastic piece was holding up very well, and depending on how things go, I might be able to go a long time without having surgery. So we are going to exercise it with water aoerbics, and riding the stationary bike. and see what happens after 4 weeks. We have been careful not to cause a problem requiring a quick trip for surgery. So we shall see what happens.

We had fish at Alfies last Saturday, with Jane , Norma and Buford. Janice could not join us but eventually we will get together.

Hopefully, our reports will be more timely in the future, and we try to include pictures. See you all soon.