Saturday, August 20, 2016

 I have been very lazy about bringing this up to date so I am going to try and catch up since June 6, 2016.
 I think I told you what we were going to do but have not updated.

We had a great visit in Holland with lots of old friends and then returned to Indianapolis on Friday June 17, I think was the date.   Ally and Noah were going to leave to go to Louisville Ky for the weekend for BASKETBALL of course and we were going to keep the girls and grizzly.
Friday night we had just a busy night of taking Bella to a swim and slumber party however she didnt want to stay overnight so we pickup her up about 9 pm.   Then we proceeded to the motorhome with all three girls and the dog for Sophia's first night of sleeping in the MH.,    Everything went great and everyone slept good.
Saturday we just had a lazy morning of watching  Finding Nemo and then just played outside most of the day.    Papa made them a sprinkler system of PVC pipe to run through.,   Our second night in the MH was a little more eventful as Grizzly wanted to steal Papa's socks and gloves.   Had to get up a couple of time to get him straight. Sophia was a little stinker wanting to sleep on a couch by herself and then changed her mind but Papa made her stick to her first decision.
Sunday we went shopping for a little while at Kohls and played outside again and then Mom, Dad and Noah got home.
I was and still am having major back issues so I wasn't doing a whole lot of anything.,
Monday was just a normal day with gymnastics, basketball practice etc.
We were going to leave on Tuesday morning but had an issue with the tow car so long story short we took it to the Ford place and $600 later find out we can't tow it without dropping the drive shaft. The transfer case motor had gone bad. We finally got it back on Thursday and headed out around noon and spent the night in Charleston WV in our favorite Wal Mart.
Got home Friday afternoon after driving in all that rain which has caused major flooding in WV but we were far enough North that it didn't bother us.
Chris and Jessica had LOTS of company and a week of celebrating his 40th birthday. They included so in all the activities of eating etc.   One of the couples was from Maine and they brought wonderful fireworks so on the Saturday of the 4th weekend we had a great display.    Sunday we all collapsed and Monday we spent with Bryant and Julie and family for his 50th birthday.

Tuesday morning July 5th we left at 6:15 am and drove straight thru to Greer SC to Bill and Deb Dorris house to buy their 2011 Jeep Liberty which had been their tow car. They sold their MH and got a 5th wheel. We decided not to put anymore money into the Explorer.
On the way back at the Flying J we had a low air pressure problem and spent about 5 hours in the parking lot with someone working on the BUS,  Got that fixed and made it home on Friday. Then Larry decided there might be another problem so on Monday we went up to Burdette's house in order to get the bus to Carter Cat EARLY the next morning.   Ok as oh now the BUS is running great and should be as we have spent about $1500 dollars on it but honestly it hasn't cost us that much over the years.

Next was a trip to Tennessee to meet Ally and her three girls for a week.   Sophia and Ally stayed in a cabin in the campground and we were in MH and the girls were at a gymnastics camp.   It was fun but I was having a terrible time with the back.

Now we are home and I have had two epidurals in my back and may have some relief but not much.  Not sure what the next step is.   I have spinal stenos  and a bluging disc.

We did go to Duncansville Pa for four days to Paula and Rick Parkers to meet up with Jeff and Sharon Lawrence and Beth and Don Hickman.  Had a good time.   They were kind enough to get me a wheelchair so I could go with them on tours.  I walked some but just could not do all of it.
We went to the Flight 93 memorial, Johnstown Flood Museum and the Horseshoe Curve railroad and a museum in Altoona.

We are home now until next weekend when we go to Williamsburg with the ODC group .
Seeing Doctor again on Wednesday hopefully with some answers.


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