Friends to Friends

July 13th, 2012 Friday sunny and 90*

Ken and Kathy left this morning on their way to Syracuse New York for their next vending show. We had a wonderful time with them and they got a chance to do some needed maintenance on their Rv. They pulled out about 10am this morning and shortly thereafter we headed to Tiffin Ohio to meet up with Terry and Dale for the weekend. Time to do a little preplanning for the Alaska trip next year. We are in a campground called Walnut Grove. Not a bad campground but electric is low on voltage probably due to age and number of people using AC.

They really need some rain here, there are huge cracks in the ground!

Here till Sunday then we head home and Terry and Dale head to Vermont for a FMCA rally.

 

We are holding our mascots Bingo and Bongo for our North to Alaska Journey.

Visitors from.......

July,8th Sunday

Our friends Ken and Kathy came for their annual pass through visit, fortunately due to a car show they vend at being scheduled early they missed the bad weather we had or else would have been right in the middle of it! They arrived late Sunday afternoon and got setup just in time to take them to one of our favorite pizza places Beppo Uno in Piqua. 

Monday, Ken was busy washing and installing solar panels and fortunately it was a pretty nice day for doing so as the temperature was only in the 80's. After a long day of work for him we finished the day off at........you guessed it DQ for a refreshing blizzard!

Just TOO warm!

 July 7th, 2012 Saturday

It's hot today so inside is best place to be. Spent 4 hours early this morning working on an archery deck at the Sportsmans club. 

Jessica turns teenager!

July 2nd, 2012 Monday

Today our grand daughter Jessica turns 13, time sure flies and from a beautiful baby to a beautiful teenager she has grown. Bill had a party for her so we could all celebrate the event. 

Hapy birthday sweetheart, we love you!

 

Stormy times!

June 29, 2012 Friday

Hot weather always seems to summon up bad weather hence the case this Friday night.   About 4:10pm the lights began flickering and 10 minutes later it was ON! Cold fronts are almost always accompanied by gusty windys but this time the winds just didn't let up. I stood out back protected from the direct gusts by our house watching 60 foot trees bend 45 degrees. Went inside and saw a large evergreen tree of the neighbors roll across their yard, seemed like a long time but was probably only 8-10 minutes. When it passed and the rain stopped a hell of a mess was left all over town. Fortunately we did not have any damage to our property but did have lots of limbs to pick up and trash from other people's yards. Once we were able to drive around town we found that all the streets were blocked by fallen trees and the Subway down the street had the roof blown off of it. The lumber store beside our building had half the roof blown off of it and lots of property damage for other people. My surveillance camera caught the neighbors tree falling and in the background you could see the storm rolling in, almost look like a tornado. The power pole at the Subway was snapped off at the top and a part of the roof was stuck in the side of the dollar store.

   We had the grand daughters Tabby and Jessie for the night so we made a camping night out of it, we stayed in the RV and cooked out on the grill and later had a campfire and made smores. We did not get our electric back until Sunday morning about 4 o'clock. We were fortunate enough to have the RV with a generator so we took it to the house and plugged in our refrigerator and freezer so the food would not spoil unfortunately most of our neighbors were not so lucky to have a generator.

The video from my surveillance cameras, I posted on Facebook on the local news channels site and they played my video on TV. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcU1eMB0-9s