Monthly Archives: September 2011
Happy 18th Birthday . . .
to our beautiful granddaughter,
Piper Jean White!
It’s hard to believe how fast she grew up. And not only beautiful, but really smart too. Just starting her senior year in High School, she’s been taking college-level AP courses since she was a Junior.
I seem to be fighting off a cold or something so I didn’t get up until almost 11 this morning after not going to bed until 2 am and then tossing and turning all night. But after hot coffee and a cinnamon swirl bagel, I felt back among the living.
A little later Al Hesselbart of the RV Motor Home Hall of Fame came by to visit and ask about some problems they were having with their computer network. I told him I’d run by there this afternoon and take a look at their problems. While Al was still here, Dennis Hill of the RV Driving School came to chat. He and his wife Carol did the Alaska thing this summer and will be at Nick Russell’s Gypsy Journal Rally in Celina, OH later this month.
After Jan fixed lunch I headed over to the RV Museum about 1:30 and spent a couple of hours looking over their setup. I’ll probably go back tomorrow.
A little after 6, Nick and Terry, Tom and Barb Westerfield, Jim and Chris Guld of Geeks on Tour, and Jan and I headed over to North China Buffet for dinner. The more, the merrier. And as usual when you get this many RV’er’s together, loudness and hilarity will ensue.
Getting back a little after 8 pm we put in a Happy Birthday call to Piper, but she was probably at work so we left a voicemail. We really look forward to seeing her and her parents in November.
A few minutes later I went outside to get these shots of the sunset. I don’t know why, but Elkhart has some really great sunsets.
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Thought for the Day:
"Many a beautiful theory has been felled by a single ugly fact." – Albert Einstein
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Cold Weather and Old Friends . . .
We awaken to temps in the 40’s this morning, a sure sign Fall is here, and it never got out of the 60’s all day. You know Winter is on the way when Jan digs her sweat pants out from under the sofa. And we turned our heated mattress pad on for the first time in several months.
With a big mug of hot coffee to warm us up, we talked about how much Landon is growing and how much he will change before we see him again at Thanksgiving.
About 11:30 Jan fixed us a lunch of leftover pizza from Mancino’s a couple of nights ago. Pizza, and Italian food in general, always seem to improve as leftovers.
A little after 12:30 Nick Russell called and said to come over because Mike and Elaine Loscher had come by to visit. They’re in the area having their coach repainted by Michele at Phoenix Commercial Paint right up the road just into Michigan. They’ve been staying in a motel for the last couple of weeks while Michele is working her magic on their rig. They still have another week or so to go, so they’re really getting anxious.
After sitting around and talking for several hours we all decided it was time for dinner so we headed out to King Wha, a great local Chinese place that always makes us feel at home.
We got home a little before 6pm, just in time to greet Tom and Barb Westerfield as they were getting parked. They’re passing through for a couple of days, also to have some work done at Michele’s. In this case, by her sister, who specializes in awning repair. One of their large slide toppers tore and they want to have it repaired or replaced.
Just as we were getting back to the rig, our daughter Brandi called to check in, and of course, talk about Landon and the fun time they all had this weekend.
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Thought of the Day:
A good landing is one you can walk away from.
A great landing is one in which you can use the airplane again!
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