May in Michigan

                                   Judy had her second hip replaced 4/26 at St Joe's in Ypsilanti.

                                                          You know who these folk are!

 Randy replaced a weed hill with a rock wall in the back yard.  He gets his money's worth from the John Deere.

 

       Our home in the front pasture down the hill from Randy & Devyn's home.

 

Planting the new garden.

 

Fixing  broken pool pipes from this winters freeze, also added new unions so it will not happen again.

 

Our favorite soccer player in action.

After a week at Indian Creek CG we moved 16 miles to Randy's pasture.  We made a few ruts but didn't come close to getting stuck.  After we set up and had a rest we picked Devyn up after school, Randy has taken her to soccer practice this evening and it's raining pretty good right now.

WOW WEE Ranch action

                                                          Fixing the security night light.

                                Cleaning the flower beds prior to redoing & improving them.

With the horses gone the front pasture can now get some use as a garden.  One of Randy's friends still had his tiller attached so he stoipped by to grind up some sod.

Indian Creek CG Tecumseh, MI

We made the 160 mile trip to Tecumseh and Indian Creek.  We were concerned about pulling into Randy's pasture and getting stuck again si we decided to wait.

We picked up from school our favorite reason for returning to Michigan after dropping the trailer which we'll set up later.  We are enjoying time with Randy & Devyn.

 Wednesday night a little after 10pm we were watching TV during a thunder storm when lightening struck a tree 150 feet from us.  It was VERY loud.  Judy jumped out of her chair and screamed while Patches clung to the ceiling.  The next day we spotted the damaged tree.

John Deere is a friend of mine

You saw our campsite "before" picture in yesterdays blog, here's todays "after" picture.  Pla-Mor doesn't have any paved or gravel sites so I asked for the highest and driest site they had.  Even so with the overnight rain we were stuck.  First time in 6 years I got to use four wheel drive and all it did was dig in the front tires along with the rear tires.  The first tractor couldn't get us out but a larger John Deere did the job.  As you can see we plowed out.  Those ruts are well over 6" deep.

We made the 160 miles to Tecumseh and we managed to get a campsite.......we are the only people in the campground.  There are some units stored here but it's too early in the season for mid week campers.  The campground opened yesterday.  Notice this campground has packed gravel roads and sites?

Here's one of the reasons we are back in MI so early this year.  We picked Devyn up when school got out and we had a good visit and supper with her and Randy.  Devyn won the rummy game. 

Amish area, a ton of cheese & our HitchHiker had a touch up

 

Some sights from around Amish country.  Monday morning has the be laundry day at every Amish residence.  Clothes line after clothes line as we drove the back roads.  We passed 3 schools within 5 miles and the kids were all playing baseball in their long dresses and the boys were wearing knit hats.  I was impressed by lots of bicycles around the school houses, the teacher had a buggy.

We stopped at an Amish bulk food store, when they say bulk they REALLY mean it!   A one ton chuck of cheese!

We were impressed with how fast Mikes Custom Painting removed the Canadian map and painted the area white, beige, burgundy then 4 coats of clear.  They started at 8am and were done painting by 10:30.  We picked our HitchHiker up at 2:30 pm so it had 4 hours to cure.  Brad and Mike use a fast drying paint obviously and the correction looks very good.  We then towed 3 miles to Pla-Mor campground for the night.  It's going to rain tonight and we were tired.  I had to use four wheel drive for the first time in 6 years to start moving forward after stopping in the grass to let Judy out as the 4 rear tires just spun in the soft damp grass.  Tomorrow we'll be in Tecumseh.

Bremen, IN

We put 340 miles behind us today and arrived at Mikes Custom Painting in Bremen, IN.  We are set up in their parking lot with 30a power.  Kewl.....as Devyn would say.  we have an appointment in the morning so they can remove a Canadian map and paint the slide as they were suppose to last year.  Three days of solid towing in enough for these two senior citizens.  It is in the high 60s and sunny.  It's not suppose to last much longer but sure would be nice if it did.