Onsted, MI

Well, 2 weeks have gone by and what have we been doing? We went to Monroe and had supper one evening with my sister Bev & Judy's sister Jean. We have taken Devyn to soccor practice. We have traveled to Leslie and had lunch with two fellow HitchHiker owners. We have washed and kept clean the truck. Today we washed the trailer in preparation of leaving Wednesday. We have created a little monster, Devyn loves to play rummy and Mexican Train. She has been spending many nights sleeping in the trailer with us.

We dug out Dick's RC airplane and Randy did an excellent job of flying for several minutes until a tree cut the flight short. Kristi has been taking pictures, include Amy & Chris' new daughter Sidney. We have gone to the Lake Association picnic, visited with several lake friends at their place or out to eat with them. And, of course, a little work around here. We are looking forward to leaving Wednesday for Kansas.

Onsted, MI

Well, what's been going on lately? Jody & Bruce were here for a week. We picked them up late Friday night and dropped them off at an airport motel the next Friday night for an early Saturday return flight. We didn't do anything special, just relaxed and tinkered about at Randy & Kristi's place. Bruce got to do some staining and polyurethane work on some shelves we are making. We also took down several more trees and burnt the brush and cut the trunks for fire wood. The ladies all had a pedicure and went school shopping for Devyn and themselves. We also celebrated Thanksgiving with Zola & Trish one day, we had a real good turkey dinner. We celebrated every ones birthday because we were together. I hope the doctor had a little break from the action at the U of South Alabama Hospital.

This weekend Randy and I took down two large pine trees next to the house, he's getting good at dropping them where he wants them to go. Judy had an ambulance stop by to see what all the smoke was from.

Stump pulling, is it work or fun?

I get to drive the tractor while Randy does the work. Sounds like a good plan to me! I'd estimate we have 40 or 50 more small trees to go.

Turkeyville Ron & Lois

Well, I'm certainly not meaning Ron & Lois are turkeys.....they took us there so perhaps we are the turkeys! We haven't seen them since we left the Rio Grand Valley in January. GREAT to see HitchHiker RV friends!! We went to Turkeyville and had a real good turkey lunch and visit. I don't know which I enjoyed more....Ron & Lois or the turkey? We spent a couple hours chatting and talking about what we've been up to and where we'll be this winter. Ron & Lois are work camping in La Feria at VIP from November thru March where we spent time with them last winter. Maybe we'll be back again in March? We will see them next in Montgomery, TX at the HitchHiker rally. Hey Ron.......you look REAL serious in that one pic, did I stiff you with the bill?

Another major milestone today......we signed up for social security.....we'll finally start to get some of our $$$$ back we've been paying in for decades!!

MOM....he's working me to death!!!!!

A week has gone by and I can't remember what we did! Today he, Randy, was a slave driver making me work with him rearranging his corral; removing posts, installing posts, installing gates, new boards.....of course he did the hard work. Last night we went to Blissfield and took a ride on the dinner train. It was a 3 hour SLOOOOW ride with a real nice meal and a murder mystery......the clown did it! Judy spent the week playing with Devyn, we spend lots of time playing rummy and Mexican Train with her. Kristi's parents came over Wednesday evening with her aunt & uncle AND they brought a real nice supper with them for all of us. We had pizza with Don & Zola Friday night. Judy & Devyn played lots of Sorry. Yesterday afternoon Judy's sister Margaret and her daughter Trisha stopped by and we all went out for lunch at CoCo Nuts. Last Sunday we got together with Don & Zola and Al & Joan to play poker and ate at Jerry's Pub.

Onsted, MI

We have been back in MI over a week and a half and have been visiting with friends and taking care of some dental and eyeglass appointments. The highlight, besides working with Randy on his home (HA HA) has been our time with Randy, Kristi and especially Devyn. She's growing and really maturing. She said she wanted to run around the perimeter of their 13 or 14 acres so we all made bets how long it would take her. Times ranged from 8 to 15 minutes. Judy and I followed her in the Gator......she did it in less than 6 minutes! We are trying to see if we can get her to China in time for the Olympics. Randy has been working on upgrading electrical service in the barn to 100 amps and getting water to us. The work is progressing very well and now it's up to the electrical inspector and Consumers Power to finish up. I expect we'll go from 20a to 30a with water in a week or two. The weather has been very good allowing us to be comfortable with open windows and a fan but when we get 30a we can use an A/C if we want.

The pictures are of Nick & Dollars (Kristi's two horses) buddies....the fainting goats; Boo, Anne & Remington. Remy loves green apples more than the other goats or horses. Once you get him started on them he doesn't want to stop eating them. The goats crawl under the fence to get to the apples and good grass but don't wander off, they always crawl back under the fence to home. Devyn and Remy play "catch me if you can" running around the yard.

Home Sweet Home

We have spent the last five nights in Randy & Kristi's home which has four bathrooms and 3 floors, Devyn's bedroom is probably 3 to 5 times larger than our RV home. It was nice but we missed our own home. We moved it again to a nice level spot in front of the barn in what use to the the front pasture. We have removed the electric fence, the poles and cut the field so we could get a level spot close to the barn and power. The kids want to make it a training field for Kristi's horses. We are hooked up to 20amps so can't use the A/C but it's cool and comfortable tonight. We have water in our fresh water tank and are good to go! Home Sweet Home!!

We are enjoying being with Randy & Kristi, helping around the house as Randy's doing some (lots) of remodeling, cutting the grass on the riding mower, and using the tractor and Gator out in the fields.

My only complaint is the high humidity making us uncomfortable and the dang skeeters, they are terrible!

You can see our two neighbors in the pictures, they didn't invite us in for lunch!