Monthly Archives: October 2011
Last Day with Good Friends . . .
Today is our last full day here in Elkhart with Nick and Terry, so we decided to make it a play day.
But first Jan wanted to get her hair done, so Nick and I dropped her off at Great Clips, then we headed over to RV Surplus to get a couple of Dometic Cooler Bags.
They’re really neat. Plug it in to a 12V outlet and it quickly cools down to 29 degrees below ambient temperature and keeps everything nice and cool. Great for that picnic or shopping trip.
After picking up Jan and getting back to the park, we got Terry and about noon, headed out.
Our first stop was Fluid Fun, a kayak dealer in Bristol where Nick was looking for a new seat for his Sea Eagle inflatable kayak.
Leaving there we headed out through the countryside toward Shipshewana. The fall foliage is really something up here, and the roads are just lined with red, and yellows, and golds.
Our first stop was Eash Sales where Terry want to look at some of their specialty stoves. After that we walked next door to E & S Sales, the Amish bulk foods store that we visited back in September. It’s always interesting what the Amish have in their carts. In many cases it’s the same junk food we buy.
Our next stop was the Shipshewana Flea Market. Tomorrow is the last day it’s open so only a few stores were open today, but Jan enjoyed the produce stands and bought some Honey Crisp apples.
After leaving the flea market, we spend the next hour just driving out through the countryside, admiring the neat Amish farms and beautiful surroundings
About 5:30 we ended up at El Maguey for an evening of great Mexican food with our friends, Eldy Tompkins and Jeanne Sparks, Dave and Jean Damon, and Al Hesselbart.
This will be our last chance for all of us to get together probably until this time next fall, so it was good to see everyone one last time.
Getting back to the rig, I packed away the outside chairs and some other things since it’s supposed to rain more tonight.
We plan on heading out tomorrow about 10 am for a 230 mile trip down to the Indian Lakes Thousand Trails for 12 days until they close the park down on the 7th and run us out.
We had our usual great time with Nick and Terry, and since we probably won’t see them again until February, we’re really going to miss them.
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Thought for the Day:
“Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.” – Frederick Douglass, August 4, 1857.
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Happy Birthday to my Sweetie . . .
First off, I want to say ‘Happy Birthday’ to my beautiful wife, Jan. I’ve loved you almost since the day I met you, and you’ve made my life complete.
I got up about 9:30 this morning to find a call from the RV/MH Hall of Fame. The accountant was there to do the payroll and was having problems with the program.
Getting down there I found the problem was with the setup of the new copy of the program I had installed. Apparently some settings are kept in the program directory, and not with the data, so we had to go back in and configure the correct check formats to get everything working OK. I ended up staying until about 4:15 fixing up loose ends, and double-checking everything.
On my way home I stopped off at Lowe’s to pick up a 2” wood chisel to help me get the rest of the carpet up. When we leave here Wednesday we’ll have 12 days at the Indian Lakes Thousand Trails Preserve in Ohio, and I hope to make some more headway on the floor. We’ll see.
About 5:15 pm, Nick and Terry, and Jan and I headed over to King Wha, our great local Chinese restaurant, where we met Al Hesselbart and Dave and Jean Damon for dinner. Another night of great food and good conversation.
I’m more and more impressed by the 4G speeds on my new Droid Charge . . . when it’s working.
Not my phone, it’s working great. But the 4G has only been turned on in this area since last Thursday, and apparently they’re still working out the kinks. Within a 15 minute period, I’ve had 4G, 3G, 1X, 4G, 3G, 4G, all sitting in the same chair.
But when it’s working, it screams. This evening at dinner, I checked with Speedtest.net and was showing 20 Mbps down and 10 Mbps up. Then Jan took my phone away and said it was impolite to play with it at the table. Awwwwh! No fair. Nick was playing with his.
Four years ago, the last time we had broadband in a Sticks & Bricks, I had 5 Mbps and thought that was fast. But 20, WOW!
Wanted to give you a sneak peek at one of Landon’s Christmas presents. Hopefully he doesn’t read the blog and won’t see it.
We saw this rocking horse yesterday at Sam’s Club and just had to get it. Besides rocking, if you squeeze his ears, he whinnies and his head and tail move back and forth.
Tomorrow is our last full day here in Elkhart, and we plan on spending it driving around through the Amish countryside around Shipshewana, and then end up back at El Maguey for Jan’s birthday dinner.
Tomorrow will also be our last chance to spend any time with Nick and Terry until probably next March so we want to make the most of it.
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Thought for the Day:
"Always yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again. " — Robert A. Heinlein
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