October 8th 2011 Just Wondering???

Just wondering who has been reading my blog, no one has signed on???

WEEKEND OF OCT. 7-8-9 2011-- HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAN

HELLO
The weekend is going to be beautiful.  Yesterday, Friday Dan was out mulching leaves and by the time he got done, he could of started all over..  Then in the afternoon he washed the trailer and took off all the bugs that he picked up when we went to Appleton.  I had to go to town for a test and my friend went with and stopped and picked up a few groceries.. I just don't care to go to the grocery stores any more...  but it is a necessity I guess.  We came home and went to the Casino for dinner... They have the best WET BURRITO, that I have tasted.  Dan got his birthday tokens and 1/2 of his dinner ...  He was playing the penny machine and won $70.00 for his 70th birthday... What a guy...

Saturday...I went to town for a Indian fest craft show at the church, and while I was gone Dan made his favorite apple cake... His job this afternoon is going through the storage compartments in the trailer and making sure he takes out what we don't need and makes sure we have in there what we do need.  Dan can not sit still not even for an hour, he has to be doing something.. 
Tonight we are having Beef Back Ribs, that he rubbed down with his special seasoning and we will put them in the oven on a low heat and let them bake to perfection.  Can't wait, as they are so good.

Sunday:  HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAN....  I will be making him a great breakfast for his birthday.  Our good friends Ron and Eileen will be over after church to join us for breakfast.  Hopefully I will be able to get him to go for a ride to enjoy this wondering INDIAN SUMMER WEATHER...  If anyone wants to wish Dan a Happy Birthday here is his e-mail......    dhalvo41@yahoo.com


Not much else to tell right now.....  ~~Later~~

October 6th 2011 Chamberlinn Inn to Home -

It was a beautiful crisp morning in Curtis, MI.. I had a restful sleep in my room at the INN, I get the same room every year and it has antique furniture in it and it is cozy.  Got dressed and went down stairs for brakfast and friends Eileen and Kathy  were down there enjoying their coffee..  The breakfast menu was home made hash and poached eggs and toast.  Oh the has was delicious and I think that it was made with left over prime rib... Sat around and waited for the rest to come down and eat.

Afterwards we left and went to the town of Manistique to do some Antique shopping and then went to one of the last Ben Franklins stores and then the Mustard Seed which is a Christian Book Store which has some lovely items and teas and coffee's, then on to St. Vinnies a resale to see what treasures we could find...

We stopped at Clydes Drive in for a Hamburger.... Wow great hamburgers, you don't find many drive-in hamburger joints with hand made hamburgers and malts.. 

The headed home and the colors were beautiful.. I was tired and took a 1/2 hour nap...

October 5, 2011 Annual Red Hat Ladies Luncheon and Sleepover.

Every October for the past 5 years a group of us Ladies go to a Country Inn for a Luncheon and then some of us stay overnight and have a Girls Night Out. The Inn is on Big Manistique Lake in the town of Curtis Michigan.. It is so lovely. This year the weather was so nice that we were able to sit on on the wrap around porch and read, and visit or just enjoy the scenery.

There were 17 ladies in attendence for lunch

After lunch when the ladies that only came for the luncheon left, some of us other ladies that stayed had massages... We all enjoyed them, I was amazed when I was having my feet massaged, I was told then I am fighting off an infection, and I said yes I am.... I was told about reflexology and what your feet can tell you about the rest of your body..  I was just amazed...

Sat on the front porch and enjoyed conversation, and the view of the lake and the colorful leaves.

A great time was had by all....

October 3rd --- Trip to Appleton Wisc

Dan and I left early this morning for Appleton, Wisconsin with our 5th Wheel.  We took it to a Heavy Duty Truck Service/ Repair Center.   This spring/summer we were having problems with the tires wearing badly..After a trip to Elkhart and repairs to the trailer axles and new tires, we headed home and had wear on our new tires...   Long story short, we had our trailer wheels aligned today, and frame and axles looked at. found out the our trailer was seriously out of line. The service tech said that we would of been buying more tires.....   Well it is all properly aligned and Dan and I both will feel safe and at ease traveling south this year...  We hope that this is the end of problems with our 5th wheel... 
Tomorrow, is going to be intersting,  Main Topic....MEDICARE  SUPPLEMENT FOR ME...  I signed up for one...   Stay tuned......

Saturday and Sunday At Home

Saturday was a nice day also and not too cold.  I helped Dan put away his toys in the barns. Not too much news from around here today.. Just busy.

Sunday Oct. 2
It was 28 degrees this morning when we got up at 7:30 am.. Yep it was a bit nippy..I took Herbie out for his Morning walk-about and there was frost on the ground.  he did his business and ran back to the house.  He does not like cold weather.Right now the sun is shining brightly and Dan is out mulching leaves and then we are going to take a ride in the woods.  After he was done we took a color tour of the area. It was nice driving around the woods like we use to..Stopped and had a short visit with neighbors and then came home and Dan grilled Hamburgers.. What a nice day it was....
Later...................

Let's try it again

I am new at this blogging and I went and made up another blog and hopefully it will make me easy to understand...

Well summer is coming to an end and 26 more days we are going to be on the road again heading for Texas, I sure hope that the weather down there cools down a bit.

Our weather here is cool again and we had a nice rain last night along with some loud thunder. Although it was not enough rain to do any good. Our grounds were pretty dry around here. As I look out in the back yard right now the sun is shining and I can see some of the leaves starting to turn a lighter green and in between them are some reds popping though. Just wondering what the color will be like this year??

When we got home this spring it was cold and it took a long time for it to warm up and then it went to super hot, which is something unusable for this. Come July and August there were many days of 90’s and high 90’s..

In June we went down to Elkhart Indiana for a Heartland RV rally. For those that don’t know what I am talking about, Heartland it the manufacturing company of our last 5th wheel. What a great company, they really care about you and the product that you purchased. They have a Heartland Owners RV club and they are a great group of people, just everyday RV’ers. What a great way to meet people who have been down the same roads that we have traveled. When we got back from Elkhart we had a week to recover and then we got ready for a week of camping over the 4th of July.. Our friends from Wisconsin had come on up and we stayed at the Tourist Park, on Lake Superior only 25 miles from our home. Oh we had a great time again..This is the 4th year that they came up and their reservation is going to be in again for 2012... We go to the parade in the morning and then in the evening after dinner we take our lawn chairs and head for the water front park/marina where there is thousands of people who are walking around, eating, drinking and playing chicken poop bingo... Come 11pm when it is pitch dark, then the fireworks go off and this year they were extraordinary, just beautiful.. Munising sure does a wonderful job for the people.. Then we had company come for a few days here and there and it is always nice to see our friends. In August we went to Wisconsin for a Heartland Rally put on by the chapter in Wisconsin.. That was our 1st time going with them and we also met some really nice people. It was held in the Wisconsin Dells area and we have been to the park many times before with other groups. We had fun there and then 2 weeks later we went to a Heartland Rally put on by the Michigan Club... We were near Traverse City and we have never been there before and it was really great to see some of the people that we met in Elkhart and Wisconsin...

I am going to go on the 15th to a Red Hat event where all the Red Hatter’s in the UP try to get together for a day of fun and laughter.... I am sad to tell that I am stepping down as Red Hat Queen for the Munising Area, I had been the Queen for almost 7 years and you know how the ole saying goes; “When things cease to be fun, it is time to step down and walk away.” Yep it has ceased to be fun, I would rather just be a member at large and go to others events.. THE END OF THAT PARAGRAPH..

Then this Saturday we are heading our with our friends from Wisconsin and our neighbors and we are going camping to the Soo Locks for a week. I just love sitting on the river bank listening to the scanner waiting for the ships to come sneaking by... Then we go to Bay Mills Casino campground for overnight before we head for home..

Our trailer then will be washed inside and out and put in the barn until we are ready to load it and head down the road to Texas.

Once we are in Texas our life goes into a different mode... We stay at a resort for 5 months and then we go to the beach, down to the inter-coastal and watch the dolphins, and Dan may do some fishing...We go down to the Valley(Mission area) and we will go over to Progresso Mexico, which is the safest boarder crossing and we don’t really go that far in... we visit our Illinois friends, and other friends that we have down there and then of course we eat out. There are some good Mexican and BBQ’s in Texas.. In Feb we are going on a cruise again, this is our 3rd one that Dan and I have gone on, He just loves those cruises.... Dan and I will go to San Antonio for a overnighter and that might be for our anniversary on the 21st of Dec. We will be married 27 years.. Come Spring time we head out for the hills for a few weeks and then we will make our trek back to the Northwood's of The Upper Peninsula”.

I am in the process of starting a blog and when I get it set up I will send you the address and you can follow us on what we do and where we have been. Dan and I are very fortunate to be able to travel as we do and we wish that all of our friends could do the same and follow behind our tire tracks. Life is good for us, and as long as our health stays good we will continue to do what we do..

This is the last blog that I made on the old blog I had..

It will be nice to hear from you and what you have been doing and plan on doing. We enjoy hearing from you... Even though I sometimes do not answer e-mails all the time, I do think of you and wish you well...

I will continue blogging on from this point forward.. Wish me luck!!!