SUMMER AT TIMASHAMIE CAMPGROUND

I can't believe that it has been three weeks since I have posted a Blog! How time flies when you are having fun?? We have been keeping busy here at home as well. This morning Gary is busy putting in a new commode since the old one quit working yesterday. Yesterday he also had to get a new receptacle for his 50' extension cord as the two air conditioners had melted the old one. We wondered what the problem was when the power kept going off and then coming back on after a few minutes. I guess it was too far from the electric source for the both air conditioners. So now we just use one conditioner at a time! It was a good thing that we found the problem!! Last week it was caulking around windows where water must have come in. Not a lot, but the carpet was damp! Hopefully that problem is solved also. I still say that a motorhome is more maintenance than a regular house!! In between some of these fixes, we have had time to go to a couple concerts. One was to hear the Glick family again. They are from Wooster and were singing and playing at a church in Cortland OH. They each played several instruments and sang and are very enjoyable. One of the girls learned to yodel when the family lived in Wyoming nine years when they were growing up. The other daughter has made a three week trip into China to deliver Bibles printed in Chinese since the last time that we saw them. It was interesting talking with her about it after their program. Of the group that went, she was the one who got stopped!! A scary thing, but she said that she would not be afraid if it were to happen to her again. They let her keep a couple Bibles for her own use and confiscated the rest to be picked up on their way back out. The rest in the group delivered theirs safely. So it was a wonderful experience for her and she would do it again! I did not take a picture of them this year, as I had taken many last year when we went to hear them two times. But the music and Word was the important thing! The other concert that we went to was a Hawaiian one with dancers at the band shell in Waterworth Memorial Park in Salem. My battery on the camera died half way through the evening, but thanks to our friends, Bob and Eugenia, we have pictures of the flame twirlers to show you. They also were enjoyable. I believe that Bob Sebo of Salem was responsible for bringing them in to Salem.

We have also been trying to catch up on our visiting! Ray and Donna brought their motorhome out to Timashamie and spent a night.

They also brought their dog, Cooper, and a lot of firewood. Cooper sure made Gary and I realize that children are easier to raise!! It just takes longer.

So we still have firewood stacked up. I am sure that it will last us as long as we are here. After all, with temps in the 90's, who wants a fire??

Then Eugenia and Bob invited us for dinner one evening after Eugenia and I had spent the day scrapbooking. Much accomplished, talk and scrap booking! She showed me their pictures of their Italy trip. Just gorgeous. I had to enjoy them as we will never get there!! We have enough to see right here in the good old USA.

And Dick and Jane invited us another evening.

This was so enjoyable, no cooking for me!! Now I just need to pick a time to reciprocate to all. Dick sent us home with a bicycle for our grandson, and he sure has been buzzing around here on it. I told him that he needs to slow down since he does not have a helmet here. His mom will have our heads, if he gets hurt!! Thanks again, Dick and Jane!!

Gary has also finished a couple other projects inside here and has one more to go. Since we have not had TV in the living area since June of '09 except when we had cable connections (which was not often), we changed out the TV. He took out the big old analog TV up front over the dash and put a shelf inside of the cabinet. Then he mounted a 22 inch flat screen TV on the front of the cabinet door. The door was made from one side of a cabinet in the bedroom that he had taken out right when we bought the motorhome. (We made much better use of the bedroom space without that cabinet.) He will use the other side on his next project, my desk. The Formica top and cabinet doors have been ordered for the desk also. Yipee! It will give me so much more space for scrapbooking!

Then in the bedroom Gary thought of a way to store blankets, off season clothes and his engineering books, hidden from view!! It makes a much better floor level for getting in to bed and he is so glad not to have to look at that STUFF all of the time!! He built a raised floor (9 inches) with three four foot floor panels that lift for access to the storage.

He got the idea from when he built a box on my side of the bed for me to step up on. We hid shoes away in it!!

Now you can see the finished project and it is all covered with carpet. It looks good and is so handy even for reaching the cabinets over head also!! And the only weight that it added is the wood as the STUFF was already there!!

My next project is getting rid of the day/night shades! Friends of ours were out for a picnic last Sunday evening and Patti and Esther took measurements for new curtains and/or drapes for both the living area and the bedroom! Our husbands patiently waited outside with a snack tray while we were inside in the heat! Thanks, Randy and Bill for being so patient!! Gary had already had his share of heat when he cooked burgers over a hot camp fire. He even singed his arms! But we sure enjoyed the food and the visit. We need to do it again before we hit the road going west. And I forgot to use the camera again, as usual. Next time!

I just finished this in time!! The commode is finished so we can relax now. Or maybe I will go to Walgreen and copy photos??? Hopefully, it will not take so long for the next Blog. Check back with us and have a wonderful summer!!