Monthly Archives: August 2012
Hi Ho, Hi Ho . . .
it’s off to work I go.
First off, Lowell sent this photo of Landon playing at the beach. He certainly seems to be having a good time.
It was really nice to be able to sleep in this morning for the first time in a long while. I actually didn’t get up until 10am. Of course, I didn’t go to bed until almost 2am.
Jan woke up on the 2nd day of a migraine, not as bad as yesterday, but she describes it as a ‘washed out’ feeling. So while she was resting up I headed out about 2pm to start soliciting gifts for door prizes for the upcoming rally.
I always start by hitting places that donated last year. I have a list of who gave what last year, so I know what to ask for at each business.
In the space of a few hours I collected 6 gift certificates with a promise of 6 more in the next several days. Only 1 place that has donated before turned me down, because they said business was so bad.
Getting back to the rig, I worked on some computer stuff before we all headed out to Bob Evans for dinner. And as usual we probably spent more time talking than eating, and we spent plenty of time of eating.
After a great meal we all came back to the park, put our chairs out under the trees, and talked until it got dark and the bugs came out.
A very nice day, indeed.
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Thought for the Day:
"A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled." — Sir Barnett Cocks
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Three States and Two Time Zones . . .
We pulled out of Timber Trails Campground this morning heading for Celina, OH. But we took a detour about 8 miles down the road to stop off at Denny’s to have a last breakfast with Jan’s sister Debbie and her husband Jim.
After a good breakfast and goodbye hugs, we pulled out on I-70E for the 325 mile run to Celina. Except for a long of rough road around Indianapolis, the trip was pretty smooth. One thing is that for the last two mornings, the rig engine has been much quicker to start than the previous mornings, and neither morning did it quit running. But it still isn’t starting quite as quickly.
But on a positive note, the generator worked fine for the 2nd day in a row. So that’s was good.
We got into Celina a little before 4 pm and after getting hugs all around, we got parked and set up. Then it was time to decide the most important item of the day – where we’re going to eat supper.
But it actually turned out to be a pretty easy decision. Since Nick et. al. had checked out China Wok Buffet last night and judged it acceptable for our dining pleasure, we all headed out about 5pm to see if Nick’s evaluation was correct. And by ‘all’, I mean Nick and Terry, Ron and Brenda Spiedel, Mike and Elaine Loscher, and Jan and I. In other words, the usual suspects.
And, also as usual, they put us in a room all by ourselves. I wonder why.
Tomorrow I’ll start making the rounds collecting door prizes for the upcoming rally, most of which will be coupons and discounts from local restaurants.
Oh yeah. Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Central, and Eastern.
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Thought for the Day:
I child-proofed my house, but somehow they keep getting back in.
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