OHIO - RAIN BRINGS RELIEF FROM THE HIGH TEMPS FOR A FEW DAYS

It is raining today again, so I look for indoor projects to keep me busy.  Today it is pictures and Blog and tomorrow it will probably be laundry.  But hope that it is sunny for transporting that!!

One of our first outings when back in Salem Area was the GEMS in the GYM at First Friends Church.  The gym was sure full so I had to be choosy!!  I bypassed these rubber stamps at 50 cents each as "not needed"  Now I wish I had gone ahead and bought some.  But I did pick up the Miche purse and covers.  I have been enjoying making a collection of these which I began while in Wauchula, FL. Now that I have ten covers, I just have to use them!!

Stamps and more stamps!!

 
We used to have a yard golf game that we carried in the motorhome for at least ten years.  But finally gave it to a family with young children (pastor's family) in Mesa, Arizona.  Now our daughter-in-law keeps reminding us that she misses it.  So Gary got busy and made the frame for one and he still needs to find the golf balls.  You can bet that we will leave it with her when it is complete.  At one of their picnics since we have been back, she did have a yard Yahtzee.  I thought it was neat and they sure did use it.  But they use their pool plenty also.  

We have also been doing our usual thrift store shopping.  One of the stores had tons of books and well sorted on shelves!!  So we can keep going back there from now until October.  

This one did not have much of interest to us.

A new store just a few blocks from 
our condo in Boardman. 
The closest one of these that I have seen is in
Mid-Ohio.

This turtle sure looks big enough 
to be nasty.  It was on the road
in front of our campground.

 We also had to stop traffic(? a pick-up going one way  and us going the opposite) for a family of little racoons until they followed the mama across the road.   I also had a deer run across in front of me one late afternoon!  I guess we will have to be on our toes. 

This was the work
underway in the park
when we arrived.  
A lot of clean-up going on!!

The campground is sure looking nice under this caretaker!!  

This is on the street
behind us in the campground.
So cute!!  I want one!!

One of Gary's first jobs after set-up!! 

These are just two of the flower beds at the condo in Boardman.  The lady doing this does it out of love and a need to keep busy.  She sure has a gift!!

I look from our balcony out onto this one. 

Enough for  one Blog so will close this out.  I sure have a rough time with them since Blogger has changed it's format!!!  I hate change like this!!!

You all take care and stay healthy!!

GREAT VISITS in INDIANA

 After leaving Minnesota, we stopped for a couple days in Indiana to visit some.  Unfortunately we did not have enough time to visit with all relatives there.  We will have to do that another time!!

To park for the few days there we arrived at ELKS GOLF CLUB in northern MARION, INDIANA on Wednesday, May 26th and made plans for visiting the next two days and to take care of business there.

Katherine & Ted

  We enjoyed lunch with an RVing friend who we had met in Bushnell,   Florida in 2008.  They had since had to quit traveling because of his   declining health.  To our surprise she had called us to tell us that he had passed away suddenly this past Thanksgiving.  So we felt we needed to visit with Katherine and made this special effort.  On Thursday we had lunch with her at the Fried Egg Restaurant in Wabash, Indiana.  After a lovely lunch she took me for a stop at Walmart across the street to get a few things that I needed.  Then our visit continued in her lovely sunroom watching her many birds that visit her bird feeders.  She followed that with Chocolate Pie before we had to head back to the Golf Club.  Katherine, it was lovely and we look forward to the next time!!

Katherine and Audrey 

Then Friday we planned the day around surprising and visiting with Audrey's sister who had moved into Assisted Living last summer. 

Audrey's sister, Pearl Jean

She was very surprised, and it took her a minute or two to realize who we were as we had not mentioned that we would stop.  We took her out to lunch at Eugeni's Restaurant.  They gave such huge sandwiches that we had to take more then half with us for another meal time!! After that we went on across the county to visit another cousin, Jeanne, and her husband, Norbert. I wanted to reimburse Jeanne for a barrister's bookcase that she bought for me at an Estate Sale in Florida.  She had called me about finding it our first day traveling north for the summer.  We will have to get the bookcase from them our next trip to Florida.

Unknown to us Jeanne had also contacted their daughter, Nicole, and son-in-law, Ron, and another cousin, David, to join us for the visit and for dessert!!  Gary's biggest interest was in seeing Norbert's woodworking shop!!  He does some beautiful carving!! So it was a lovely visit!! 

David (sure not interested in our picture taking,
and Ron & Nicole.

Gary, Jeanne, Norbert and David

Ron, Nicole, Pearl Jean, Audrey and Gary 

We were pretty well hemmed in at the ELKS.  Just praying that the rain had not caused the ground to be too wet to drive over.  We are pretty heavy so that is always a concern.  But all went well!!

Our six hours on the road Saturday took us all the way to the Church Camp in Berlin Center where we will be for the summer.  We went to our home church, First Friends in Salem on Sunday and then to a Memorial Day picnic at Richard and Lynn's on Monday.  We don't have much more planned yet.  But I can guarantee that the calendar will fill up.  Both of us do have eat-out plans for this evening with each of our friends.  And Gary went for his annual blood test at the VA Clinic this morning.  We try to catch up on all of our medical check-ups while up north. So time marches on!!