OOPS

I didn't get to finish before it posted.

We won't be doing any CAV builds for Habitat in 2021 until HFHI gives us the go ahead which will probably be in the late Spring or early summer.  This is really putting a crunch in a lot of peoples plans for the Fall and Winter, however we are just taking it one day at a time.

More later.

OH THE THINGS THAT HAVE HAPPENED SINCE MARCH 2020

 When COVID 19 hit we were in Americus, Georgi and of course one of the hottest spots to begin with was Albany Georgia, 30 miles from Americus.

We were instructed by HFHI to close down all the current builds and send people home.

We left Americus, went to Jekell Island  to see Mary & David Vandeveld and then headed back to Virginia.

Basically since March 27 we were confined to home.  Larry did most of the trips into the grocery as he felt I was more at risk than he was since I have the heart issues.

It was very hard not to be able to see our children and grandchildren until May but we did zoom calls with both families from here in Virginia and Indiana.

Larry mostly but I did help some got lots of projects done here as we were never home long enough to do them.

In mid July we did go to Indiana to get the refrigerator in the MH fixed and then on to Indianapolis to see Ally's family and actually got to see Noah graduate and help with his OPEN HOUSE. We had to sit in the car and watch it on our phone and Ipad and then afterwards make family pictures.

After leaving there we went to Frankfort Ky and did some more of the Bourbon Trail.

Back in Virginia we have enjoyed visiting with Bry and family at their house on the weekends out by the pool.

Attended a bridal shower for Madison who is getting married in November.

In the meantime we have had some upsets with me being back in AFIB and am going to have a pacemaker and Larry has prostate cancer.    We will be traveling to Brunswick Ga. in mid October to see doctors there to determine his course of treatment.

Catching up from September 2019 until March 1, 2020

I really don't know where to start..

After we got home from our September trip to Georgia I had a new doctor check out my bad knee and he schedule surgery within two weeks.

He told Larry after surgery that it was one of the worst knees he had replace in years.
Therapy was a piece of cake compared to the pain I had been suffering for a lot of years .I had people come in three days a week for therapy at home for about a month and then I went to outpatient therapy for another month. The doctor said it will take about a year for it to be completely healed byt I am doing great and just take my time not to do too much because if I do I pay for it the next day.


We stayed at home for Thanksgiving enjoying it with Bryant and Julie, Madie & Lance (who are getting married in  November..   Taylor, and Anthony and their daughter, Charlie  went to his Grandmothers near Gettysburg.

We went to Indianapolis Indiana to spend Christmas with Ally, Doug and the Grands.
One of the best visits we had.  Got to go the Zoo for Christmas at the zoo and Doug was taking care of me and pushed me in a wheelchair all around because it had not been but 2 months since surgery and I couldn't walk that well.  Enjoyed church on Christmas Eve and then Christmas Day everyone stayed in their PJ's and enjoyed a BIG breakfast and then Soups, snacks, movies, etc.

Our wonderful friend Judy Switalski from Michigan came down on Thursday and stayed until Saturday morning.

Next day we got to see two basketball games that Noah was playing in.  On the first game he broke two school records.   Most points in one game was 46 and he scored 48   and  10 of them were 3 pointers.

We left on Sunday morning and spent the night  and arrived home on Sunday and spent the afternoon with friends celebrating Christmas.

January we finally got to celebrate Christmas with Bryant and family because they had gone to Georgia to Julie's Mom for Christmas.

January 14th we left and went to Goldsburg N.C. and taught  a 2 day safety course for Habitat.
After that we arrived in Americus, Georgia on January 19th .

It has been a different year for us in regards to Habitat .

In early January Larry was asked to help with houses in Plains Ga. which is Present Carters hometown while we were here doing Habitat for Humanity .
After some searching and praying we decided to tackle that project with the help of our CAV's .
This has allowed us to personally meet and have dinner with President and Mrs. Carter. Never in a million years did we think we would do this.   Of course my Mother and my Uncle Lamar are probably having a fit in Heaven as both of them were stanch Democrats but neither of them liked Carter as Georgia Governor and would not did not vote for him.

Another major change is that the U S Construction Dept. of Habitat has decided that there will be NO more 2 day in person safety classes.   This was a huge shock for all of us CAV safety trainers (11).
We have really run this program for about 8 years and all of a sudden they just say we don't need you anymore.

I will still be working with the CAV desk and Larry will continue to be in charge of Americus and hopefully some other builds.


Yesterday our  refrigerator in the motorhome went bad.   We moved everything over to the RV House here in the Campground and then we got 2 small apartment size refrigerator to use until we leave here in 4 weeks.

We have a small one at home which we will put in the MH until we go to Indianapolis in May and go to Shipshewana In. to have it replaced.

That's it for today but will continue later.