Repairs

As most of you know, we have quite a list of repairs for our fifth wheel this year.  I think we have decided to wait until early fall to make our trip up to Elkhart.  It will give us a chance to do a little "saving" for the bill.  With any luck, the diesel prices may also come down after summer is over.....but I'm not holding my breath on that one.  We are comfortable here at the AOK and being in town is a definite plus.  The only thing I'm a little concerned about is our ac unit.  If it should decide to "give it up" in the middle of an Indiana hot and humid heat wave, then we will be forced to head to Elkhart sooner rather than later.....LOL! 

AOK

Thought you might like to see where we will be spending the summer......

As you can see, we have some nice green grass and a fairly good size site.  Our pull through is gravel, but fairly level side to side.  We have been here a little over two weeks now and so far, so good.  The park is fairly quiet, but there is a fair amount of traffic in/out of the park.  I think that is due to the folks that live here full time.   Most of the more permanent and "unsightly" units are to the far back of the park.  We took a walk around and were happy to be up front away from all the trash.  The units back there are very old, unkept, and surrounded with years of "junk".  It really is too bad.  I think this park has potential if they would force people to clean up their areas and do some maintenance on their trailers.  It certainly has a prime location here in Lafayette.  You are close to all the shopping and dining and only an hour away from Indianapolis.  It will be interesting to see if we get any race fans over the race weekend.
Yesterday the sun finally shown and I think today we will again see those bright rays of sunlight......been a loooonnnggg time in coming.  Unfortunately, the rain and clouds will be returning late Saturday.  It seems like this is the exact pattern we had last summer.  A very cool and wet spring and then summer was dry, very hot, and very humid.  Saturday is Triston's (our grandson) birthday party.  I'll be making the cupcakes today.  

Missing Comments and Firefox 4 and Repairs

Woke up this morning and fired up the computer as usual.....checked to see what all you kind folks had to say about my latest blog and "WHAT!!"  O Comments!  I had comments when I went to bed last night, "What the hey is a going on!"  I quickly went to my Gmail and found all the comments were still in my inbox, but they all should have been automatically posted to my blog.  After a little noodling around, I found out that blogger had apparently done some type of maintenance during the "dark of night" and put in some bad code....screwed everything up.  To restore the system they had to go back to an earlier time....before the bad code....and so a lot of us lost comments.  Apparently they are working on fixing all this mess, we shall see.
My other issue this am is getting used to the new look of FireFox.  I have been using FireFox as my web browser for awhile and I really like it.  I know where all the little buttons are.....ya know, the little house for your home page, the little swirly arrow for refresh.  I did the upgrade to FireFox 4 yesterday and now everything is in a different place.....the whole top of my web page looks askew to me now.  I know I will get used to it, but I guess at this point I just don't understand how moving things around made FireFox any better.  I have yet to explore all the new supposed "bells and whistles", but I doubt I will be impressed.  Has not anyone ever heard the phrase, "If it ain't broke don't fix it!".  LOL!
Which reminds me, we have a kitchenaid mixer that is about 30+ years old.  A real work horse.  One year I bought Billy a "new and improved" model....supposed to be bigger and better.  It was a piece of crap!  Right outta the box it had problems and after much debate, we finally did get the manufacturer to send us a new one.  Still the new just couldn't stand up to our old one.  So we kept the old one and gave the new one to our son.  Sadly our old kitchenaid bit the dust a few days ago...we were both really upset because we didn't know what to go to for a replacement.  But it was Billy to the rescue.....he got online and found replacement parts were still available.  He took it apart and found we had a couple of broken gears.  The new parts came yesterday and he made the repair and she is good as new!!!  YEAH! 

Weather...really

Really?  Are we all still talking about the weather?  Seems the weather is still a "hot topic" around blog land.  I know here in Indiana the temps have jumped up into the high 80's and low 90's with very high humidity.  So unusual for the month of May.  I hate having to run the ac, but we just don't have a choice.  Knocking on wood that the ac continues to perform, it has one of those "come and go" noises.  Occasionally it develops a "rattle" sound....most folks we talk to think it is the fan out of balance.  We have added it to our repair list for Elkhart in June.  Unfortunately, we seem to be building quite a repair list.  I'm sure you remember the trouble with our furnace, then there is the recall on one of the frigs, the low water pressure at the bedroom facet, the damage repair from the blown tire, and yes it is time for new tires all round.  To top that off, we would like to replace our 7000lb axles with 8000lb axles.  I'm still waiting on my washer and dryer and then.....well....you get the idea.  I remember explaining to my son once that "money doesn't grow on trees" and one had to be patient and save for all those toys he wanted.  His reply, "I know money doesn't grow on trees, mom.  You just need to go to the bank and push the buttons on the money machine (ATM)."  I then had to explain to him that we had to have money to put into the machine before we could take it out......a concept he still struggles with I think!  LOL!  
I'll leave you with one more thought.....my husband commented the other day that I was an "energy star" wife.  I turned and gave him that "what the heck does that mean" look and his reply, "after a few minutes of inactivity my brain goes to sleep".  I think his complaint is that sometimes it (my brain) is difficult to "wake" back up!

A Great Mother's Day

One of the best Mother's Days I have seen in a very long time.  We spent the day with our son, grandson, and his mom.  After church, Billy and I made the kids dinner.  Billy did his world famous mashed potatoes and I took care of the  chicken with home made noodles and fresh green beans.  Saturday,  I spent most of the day making a pumpkin pie and a coconut cream pie for our dessert.  We also went bowling Saturday evening.  I have not been bowling for probably 20 years.  It should have remained that way.  I managed to slip and fall out there on the lanes.....falling hard on my right knee.  I can't even describe the pain I felt, but it was intense.  I was really afraid I had broken or cracked my knee cap, but thanks I'm sure to all the great milk I like to drink the old bones held up!  I'm sore, but everything seems to be in working order....LOL!   Hope everyone had a super Mother's Day Weekend!

Lafayette

We made it into Lafayette, late yesterday afternoon.  The campground here is called the AOK and used to be a KOA.  Unfortunately, it has seen some hard times.  Amazingly, the place has a ton of rvs here....in fact all the 50 amp sites were all spoken for and we had to settle for a 30.  I really can't imagine what all these folks do here, but it is the only rv park for miles so I guess it is "location, location, location".  The folks that run the place are very nice and at least we do have plenty of grass around for the furballs.  You can tell they have had a ton of rain here and more is on the way.  I just hope we don't get back into that pattern of severe weather.  I am going to miss being at the river property, but the drive back and forth to Lafayette was killing us in both time and diesel money. 
We went over and surprised the kids......our grandson, his mom, and our son....they were not expecting us til Friday.  Took them out for dinner at one of our favorite pizza places and really enjoyed seeing them interact as a family.
Today we have a little shopping to do, but I think most of our time will be spent here at the fiver with our "butts" in our easy chairs.  We are both tired from the last few days of travel.  

Good Morning, Dad

Good Morning, Dad.  As I sit, watching the sunrise across Tuttle Creek Lake, I just can't help but think of you.  I think I get that "early riser" gene from you....LOL!  I can just see you sitting out on your deck this am, sipping your coffee, and contemplating your day.  Know this....Sam is home.  You'd love this COE park we are in....and we have an awesome site.

 This is a large pull through overlooking the lake....not bad...ay!

 Here is a shot of the front of the site.  We have water and electric all for $9.00 a night thanks to Billy's Senior Parks Pass.  You can check it out at this link, Tuttle Creek Cove Park.  The park is almost empty, most folks were pulling out as we came in yesterday.  We will be spending two nights here, so we will be back on the road tomorrow (Tuesday).  Have a good day, Dad....and give everyone there a big old hug from us!