Not much news to write about as Stanwood, Iowa is not a jumping community. We did go into Lisbon Saturday night and listened to son-in-law sing in the band he is in. He really does a great job and even tho it was not are kind of music, we really enjoyed it. Oh, and it was so nice to be in a smoke free bar. Didn't have that stale smoke smell when you got home and didn't have to breath all that smoke all night.

Roger is finishing up the siding job. He has made it all the way around the mobile home and is front side now. He has enough of his free siding to go to front door. Next summer he will have to order enough to finish from the door to other end, only one window there, so it should go smooth. He took out the outside door that was in my office, we didn't use it and no steps in front of it. Don't worry we had put a door in back side of home when we moved in here, so we are still up to code and have two outside doors.

I am keeping up on all the blogs I read and visiting all the places with the blogs that we don't get to go see. Sure wish it was us out there visiting some of those places. But for now, will have to read about it. The walking is going good, still getting out there every morning and doing about 40 minutes. I am still waiting for the feeling that I am feeling better and I "want " to get out there. Sure hope it comes soon, it is so hard to get up and get ready without talking myself out of it. Now instead of telling myself "I am walking to loose weight" I am saying, "I am walking to keep myself healthy and from getting stiff", hope that helps and the weight thing just doesn't work and I never get there. LOL.

I don't think anyone is reading this blog, so guess it is for my benefit to keep account of what I am doing. I you are reading this..............Happy Trails

Happy Anniversary

It is hard to believe, Roger and I have now been married for 22 years. Gosh, how the time flies, it sure doesn't feel like that long. Got phone calls from all three of my daughters and Roger's daughter told him a "Happy" but nothing from Matt and Heather. Right now we are at daughter Sandra's house for an Anniversary dinner. Good to get away from home for the day, and visit with them.

I don't have much other news, the toe is healing and I am back to walking every morning. I am now doing a longer walk. I also got all my sun cathers done and packed for going to Texas. Sure have a lot of them made up, hope I can get some of them sold. Now I am going to start working on getting my list going of things to do and things to pack. Time just seems to slip up on one, even tho you are retired and have all the time, it still slips by.

Till later...............Happy Trails

Ouch, In grown toe nail

I have had an ingrown toe nail for over a year, decided to get something done about it. Went to foot Dr. on Wednesday. He took care of it, so now I am doctoring a sore toe. Haven't gotten back to my morning walks yet, seems every time I put on a shoe, the toe starts to bleed again. Thought I would give it a few days to heal before doing the walking again. I would post a photo of toe, but don't really think you want to see it.

Not much of anything else happening around here. Roger is still waiting for his corners to come into Menards so he can get back to working on the siding. I have been taking it easy (because of toe) so have been working on computer and stringing beads to make my beaded sun catchers. I do attact some of the house work, but other then that it is slow around here. Till later................

Drive safe, save gas and Happy Trails

Family Reuion

We made a one day trip to Clear Lake for a family reuion with Roger's family. Note: I don't have any family around for get togethers like this. It is a 3 hour drive up there and 3 hours back, so it was a very long drive, but we did not want to take the motor home that far.........price of gas you know. I took a few pictures and I am going to try to put these in here ...........remember I am still learning.

We took Keota in and had him groomed, doesn't he look nice. She didn't cut it as short as we like, I guess that is there way of getting you to come back sooner. But he did get all the other nessisary things done, nails, ears, etc. (don't ask what the etc. is......you don't want to know).

Roger is still working on the siding, it is really hot out today, so he has been staying inside. Me, I am still working on my lap top, learning all the new cool things. I did decide I need more RAM so am going to work on getting that done. I also have not started with the Google Earth I want to download and play around with that. I really need to get a few suncatchers made today, decided to make them all up while home this summer and take them with me to Texas. I have a table at our park when they have their craft sales every month. I sell (or try to) my suncatchers and some of the small crocheted items I make. Not much, just a little extra spending cash.

Drive Safe...........Happy Trails

Still learning

I'm sending this again, as my link did not work, I hope I have it fixed now.


Ok, I am going to play with this to see what happens when I load a photo. This one is the siding job that my hubby and his brother are working on. I had to tease them that it looked like they got the siding from one of those houses in Cedar Rapids that had gone thru the flood. Truth is Roger got it from some guy in Iowa City last summer and it has been sitting in a pile outside all winter...........guess what it is a little dirty.

Here is hubby Roger on swing and his brother Larry resting on our deck. They have been putting siding on house. Notice our dog, Keota is resting too. LOL

This is going to take some getting use to. One has to put the last photo on first is telling a story as they are always posted to the top of the page. I did cut and copy my information i typed and put it above the photo.

I have spent many hours watching vidios from a web site I learned about while at the Safari and FMCA rallies. The couple travel in their RV and give siminars on different subjects. You can check them out here and see for yourself what I have been doing. I am so excited about all this knowledge............hehehe. I have downloaded Picasa to edit my photos (free from google) and downloaded Photo Story 3 (free from Micosoft) I still want to learn Google Earth but think I should learn some of this stuff first. This blog will give me a place to try some of this new stuff I am learning. Let me know what you think????

Till later..............Happy Trails

Home Again

We left St.Paul (rally) yesterday morning about 8:30, took us over a half hour to make it to I-94 as it was bumper to bumper motor homes all the way and that was two lanes. Wow was I glad to hit the interstate. We made a few stops on way home, stopped in Clear Lake to get fuel, but it was really high so didn't fill it up. Didn't stop to see brother in law, Larry as they are in OK. Then we had to stop in Janesville to get banana. That sounds wird, but they have good ones and they are cheeper than at the store. Next stop was Flying J in Evensdale for fuel, topped it off. We stopped at Walmart in Marion for food and then at Sqaw Creek Park to empty holding tank. Got home at 6pm. It was a light rain while we were unloading the RV, but most of everything we needed unloaded.

I spent today getting caught up on laundry and putting things away and of course on the internet. It isn't really a very interesting blog, but such is life. One has to do what one has to do. LOL. Keota seems happy to be home, now to find time to give him a bath and hair cut....or maybe I will try to find a groomer that can take him.

Till later.........drive safe.........and...............Happy Trails

Last day at rally

Not alot happening today, to tell you the truth, it was a wind down day for us. Rog did go over to vendors and bought a few more things. Went to the Safari happy hour and watched them sell the remaining pop and booz they had in truck. Fun to watch everyone gobble up the bargins.

Dawn called me today, she didn't know we were gone. Talked to her about them getting back into their house in Palo. The whole town had water, she said only about 20 families living in town right now........almost like a gost town. For those of you that don't know..........Palo is just outside Cedar Rapids and got hit hard like CR did. I drove bus with Dawn as well as trained school bus drivers with her. She said one of the CR schools will not be opening this year and it is a mess trying to find out where all the families are that were affected by the flood. Transportation has to know this so they can get those kids on bus routes for this coming school year that starts in about a month. Makes me glad I am retired...........as it sounds like it is going to be a mess.

We are leaving tomorrow for home........there are some 3000 of us leaving so the it should be fun getting out of here. I haven't figured out a route yet, but don't think that a problem. Will be making a stop at Wally World to pick up supplies for home as well as stopping to dump holding tanks. Keota is going to be happy to get home, think he is tired of being left in motor home during the day. He needs a bath and another hair cut..........so guess that is at the top of my 'to do's.'

Speaking of 'to do's', I was showed how to modify T shirts so I am really looking forward to trying it when I get home. Can't believe how fast this summer has gone. It won't be long before we will be making plans for our trip to Texas.

Once again, safe travels and Happy Trails to all of you.