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!

Onsted, MI

We made it to our sons place and are with Randy, Kristi & DEVYN!!!!! We arrived Thursday afternoon after having our homes axles straightened and adjusted in Elkhart as one tire was wearing excessively. We also stopped in White Pigeon, Mi at Quadra Manufacturing to have some warranty work done on the hydraulic leveling system, Big Foot. It would always level the 5W but sometimes it would take 2 or 3 tries. The black box was replaced. We are staying in their house as we haven't set the 5W up yet. I think tomorrow I'll park it by the barn and plug into 20a service so we can run the fridge on AC rather than propane. We have been having a good time with Devyn. We are being put to work here! The last I remember work was a four letter word.

Elkhart, IN

We arrived in Elkhart early in the afternoon and are at the Elkhart CG. We have heard a lot about it but it's just a CG that's overpriced at $31 a night in our opinion. We are here so we can have the trailers axles checked and aligned tomorrow morning.